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GCP ACE · Question 15 · Domain 2.3: Planning and configuring data storage options
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?
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?
Answer options:
A.
Standard Storage
B.
Nearline Storage
C.
Coldline Storage
D.
Archive Storage
How to approach this question
Match the access frequency ('highly unlikely to be accessed', 'kept for 7 years') with the lowest cost storage tier.
Full Answer
D.Archive Storage✓ Correct
Archive Storage
Archive Storage is the most cost-effective storage class for long-term data retention where data is accessed less than once a year. It is ideal for regulatory compliance, backup, and disaster recovery. Unlike some other cloud providers' archive tiers, Google Cloud Archive Storage provides millisecond latency for data retrieval, easily meeting the requirement to retrieve data within a few hours.
Common mistakes
Choosing Coldline. While Coldline is cheap, Archive is the absolute cheapest for data accessed less than once a year.
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