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GCP ACE · Question 11 · Domain 2.1: Planning and estimating GCP product use
Your company plans to migrate 50 TB of archive data to Cloud Storage. The data will be accessed at most once a year. You need to estimate the cost. Which storage class should you select in the Pricing Calculator to minimize costs?
Your company plans to migrate 50 TB of archive data to Cloud Storage. The data will be accessed at most once a year. You need to estimate the cost. Which storage class should you select in the Pricing Calculator to minimize costs?
Answer options:
A.
Standard Storage
B.
Nearline Storage
C.
Coldline Storage
D.
Archive Storage
How to approach this question
Match the access frequency ('once a year') with the appropriate Cloud Storage class.
Full Answer
D.Archive Storage✓ Correct
Archive Storage is the lowest-cost storage class for data archiving, online backup, and disaster recovery. It is designed for data that is accessed less than once a year. It has the lowest storage cost but the highest data retrieval costs.
Common mistakes
Selecting Coldline, which is meant for data accessed once a quarter.
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