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Subtask 1.4: Migration PlanMigrationTransfer ApplianceData Transfer

GCP PCA · Question 24 · Migration Plan

You need to migrate 50 TB of data from an on-premises NAS to Cloud Storage. Your corporate internet connection has 100 Mbps of available bandwidth. The migration must be completed within 2 weeks. Which migration tool should you use?

Answer options:

A.

Storage Transfer Service

B.

gsutil command-line tool

C.

Transfer Appliance

D.

BigQuery Data Transfer Service

How to approach this question

Calculate the transfer time over the network. If it exceeds the deadline, choose a physical transfer method.

Full Answer

C.Transfer Appliance✓ Correct
Network math: 100 Mbps = 12.5 MB/s. 50 TB = 50,000,000 MB. 50,000,000 / 12.5 = 4,000,000 seconds = ~46 days. Since the deadline is 2 weeks, a network transfer is impossible. Google's Transfer Appliance is a physical server shipped to your location to securely capture data offline and physically transport it to a Google data center.

Common mistakes

Choosing Storage Transfer Service without doing the bandwidth math.

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