Question 1

Your company needs to store petabytes of compliance logs. These logs must be kept for 7 years for regulatory reasons. It is highly unlikely that these logs will ever be accessed, but if an audit occurs, the data must be retrievable within a few hours. You want to minimize storage costs.

Which Cloud Storage class should you choose?

Accepted Answer

Match the access frequency ('highly unlikely to be accessed', 'kept for 7 years') with the lowest cost storage tier.

Question 2

What mistakes do candidates make on this GCP ACE question?

Accepted Answer

Choosing Coldline. While Coldline is cheap, Archive is the absolute cheapest for data accessed less than once a year.

How to approach this question

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Practice the full GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Exam 6

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