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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 5 years for regulatory reasons. They are rarely accessed—perhaps once a year during an audit—but when they are needed, they must be available immediately. 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 5 years for regulatory reasons. They are rarely accessed—perhaps once a year during an audit—but when they are needed, they must be available immediately. 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 ('once a year') to the corresponding GCP 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 accessed less than once a year. A key differentiator of Google Cloud Storage is that all storage classes, including Archive, offer immediate (millisecond) access to data, unlike competitors where archive retrieval takes hours.
Common mistakes
Avoiding Archive because of the 'available immediately' requirement. In AWS (Glacier), retrieval takes hours. In GCP, Archive storage has the same latency as Standard storage.
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