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GCP PCA · Question 21 · Domain 1: Designing and Planning a Cloud Solution Architecture
A media company needs to store 500TB of video archives. The data is accessed roughly once every 2 years for historical documentaries. Retrieval time must be under 12 hours. Which Cloud Storage class is most cost-effective?
A media company needs to store 500TB of video archives. The data is accessed roughly once every 2 years for historical documentaries. Retrieval time must be under 12 hours. Which Cloud Storage class is most cost-effective?
Answer options:
A.
Standard Storage
B.
Nearline Storage
C.
Coldline Storage
D.
Archive Storage
How to approach this question
Match access frequency to storage class.
Full Answer
D.Archive Storage✓ Correct
Archive Storage
Archive storage is the most cost-effective option for data accessed less than once a year. Unlike AWS Glacier, GCP Archive storage still provides millisecond retrieval times.
Common mistakes
Confusing Coldline (quarterly) with Archive (yearly).
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