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    PracticeGCP Associate Cloud Engineer (ACE)GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Exam 4Question 15
    Easy1 markMultiple Choice
    Domain 2.3: Planning and configuring data storage optionsDomain 2.3Cloud StorageStorage Classes

    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 but are rarely accessed (perhaps once a year in the event of an audit). When 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 (once a year) to the storage class.

    Full Answer

    D.Archive Storage✓ Correct
    Archive Storage is the lowest-cost option for data archiving, online backup, and disaster recovery. It is intended for data accessed less than once a year. Unlike AWS Glacier, GCP Archive storage has no retrieval delay (milliseconds access), though retrieval costs are high.

    Common mistakes

    Assuming Archive storage takes hours to retrieve data (confusing it with AWS Glacier).
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