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:

Standard Storage

Nearline Storage

Coldline Storage

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

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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