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    PracticeAWS Solutions Architect Professional (SAP-C02)AWS Solutions Architect Professional SAP-C02 Practice Exam 4Question 22
    Medium1 markMultiple Choice
    Domain 2.2: Business ContinuityS3StorageComplianceCost Optimization

    AWS SAP-C02 · Question 22 · Domain 2.2: Business Continuity

    A company is designing a new document management system on AWS. Documents uploaded to Amazon S3 must be retained for 7 years for compliance. During the first 30 days, documents are accessed frequently. After 30 days, they are rarely accessed but must be retrievable within minutes. After 1 year, they are almost never accessed and a retrieval time of 12 hours is acceptable. Documents must not be deleted before 7 years. Which combination of actions meets these requirements MOST cost-effectively? (Select THREE)

    Answer options:

    A.

    Store newly uploaded documents in the S3 Standard storage class.

    B.

    Create an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition objects to S3 Standard-IA after 30 days, and to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 365 days.

    C.

    Enable S3 Object Lock in Compliance mode with a retention period of 7 years.

    D.

    Create an S3 Lifecycle policy to transition objects to S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval after 30 days.

    E.

    Enable S3 Object Lock in Governance mode with a retention period of 7 years.

    F.

    Use S3 Intelligent-Tiering for the entire lifecycle.

    How to approach this question

    Map the access patterns to S3 storage classes and the retention requirement to Object Lock modes.

    Full Answer

    S3 Standard is for frequent access. Standard-IA provides fast retrieval for infrequent access. Glacier Deep Archive is the cheapest for long-term archiving (12-hour retrieval). Object Lock Compliance mode guarantees immutability.

    Common mistakes

    Choosing Glacier Flexible Retrieval for the 30-day tier, missing the 'within minutes' requirement.
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