What is the best practice recommendation for the order of priority when applications authenticate to Snowflake?

A company’s client application supports multiple authentication methods, and is using Okta.

What is the best practice recommendation for the order of priority when applications authenticate to Snowflake?
A . 1) OAuth (either Snowflake OAuth or External OAuth)
2) External browser
3) Okta native authentication
4) Key Pair Authentication, mostly used for service account users
5) Password
B. 1) External browser, SSO
2) Key Pair Authentication, mostly used for development environment users
3) Okta native authentication
4) OAuth (ether Snowflake OAuth or External OAuth)
5) Password
C. 1) Okta native authentication
2) Key Pair Authentication, mostly used for production environment users
3) Password
4) OAuth (either Snowflake OAuth or External OAuth)
5) External browser, SSO
D. 1) Password
2) Key Pair Authentication, mostly used for production environment users
3) Okta native authentication
4) OAuth (either Snowflake OAuth or External OAuth)
5) External browser, SSO

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Answer: B