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Actual exam question from Google's Associate Cloud Engineer

Question #: 107
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You are building an archival solution for your data warehouse and have selected Cloud Storage to archive your data. Your users need to be able to access this archived data once a quarter for some regulatory requirements. You want to select a cost-efficient option. Which storage option should you use?

A. Cold Storage
B. Nearline Storage
C. Regional Storage
D. Multi-Regional Storage

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳️

by droogie at June 13, 2020, 6:32 p.m.

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Teegongkia

Highly Voted 4 years, 12 months ago

Took ACE last week and the exact question came out. I go with B as i felt A is a trick answer. There is no Cold Storage in GCP.

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ssankar

4 years, 11 months ago

Hello Teegongkia , is the questions are still valid ?? Thanks

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BenAji

4 years, 2 months ago

Cold data tiering refers to the storage of less frequently, or sporadically accessed data in low cost media such as HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) and cloud storage options including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) that are managed separately from the SAP HANA database, but still accessible at any time. blogs.sap.com/2018/12/03/what-is-sap-hana-cold-data-tiering/

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droogie

Highly Voted 5 years, 1 month ago

This one is confusing. First, there's no 'Cold' storage. It's Coldline. Nearline Storage is ideal for data you plan to read or modify on average once per month or less.Coldline Storage is ideal for data you plan to read or modify at most once a quarter. https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/storage-classes So with the misspelling of 'Cold' and these guys accessing it every 90 days, I'm leaning towards Nearline

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TAvenger

4 years, 4 months ago

I believe the question is old, when Regional and Multi-Regional were also storage classes of the GCS. Before changes: (Multi-Region, Regional, Nearline, Coldline) After recent changes we have - Storage Classes (Standard, Nearline, Coldline, Archive) - Storage Locations (Regional, Dual-region, Multi-Region) It's tricky for exam because we don't to answer according to old version or new version. For the latest version, costs for 1Gb for storing (3 month) + retrieval Nearline: 0.01 * 3 + 0.01 = 0.04 Coldline: 0.004 * 3 + 0.02 = 0.032 Coldline is more cost effective. If "Cold" means Coldline (not Archive) the asnwer is A If "Cold" means Archive the answer is B I hope that "Cold" means Coldline. I would try wirh A

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ri_unhou119

4 years, 2 months ago

A： Google Cloud doc: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/storage-classes#coldline

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obeythefist

3 years, 4 months ago

Yes, but the question says the data will be accessed once per quarter, Google's documentation tells us that Coldline is most suitable for data accessed less than once per quarter. This direct part of the question tells us how we must answer.

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Eshkrkrkr

4 years, 8 months ago

It's a typo. Google wouldn't force to consume knowledge that is a non-best practice from Google. Asnwer is A.

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lxgywil

4 years, 2 months ago

For Google, these exams are just another business.

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DickDastardly

4 years, 4 months ago

"Cold" is not a typo. I took the exam today and the answers appeared exactly as listed here.

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sarahf

4 years, 7 months ago

At the page for data archiving (https://cloud.google.com/storage/archival) the first paragraph says: "Coldline is also ideal for cold storage—data your business expects to touch less than once a quarter." So there is such thing as Cold storage according to Google. Also at (https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/storage-classes#archive) they talk about Cold storage: "Cold data storage - Archived data, such as data stored for legal or regulatory reasons, can be stored at low cost as Archive Storage, yet still be available if you need it."

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sanhoo

4 years, 1 month ago

Thanks for bringing this up. Really helpfull.

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sanhoo

4 years, 1 month ago

This line indicates that cold storage term is used for - archival / coldline "With low latency and a consistent API across Cloud Storage, Archive and Coldline introduce cold storage you can actually use" https://cloud.google.com/storage/archival

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yodaforce

Most Recent 3 months, 4 weeks ago

Selected Answer: A

Once a Quarter. Coldline

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velrisan

6 months, 3 weeks ago

Selected Answer: A

Is A. Why is not B?. Because is meant for data that is accessed about once a month.

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Moin23

7 months ago

Selected Answer: A

Cold data storage - Archived data, such as data stored for legal or regulatory reasons, can be stored at low cost as Archive storage, yet still be available if you need it. Disaster recovery - In the event of a disaster recovery event, recovery time is key. Cloud Storage provides low latency access to data stored as Archive storage. https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/storage-classes#:~:text=Cold%20data%20storage%20%2D%20Archived%20data,available%20if%20you%20need%20it.

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denno22

9 months, 3 weeks ago

Selected Answer: B

There is no such thing as Cold Storage, only Coldline storage. Nearline storage is ideal for data you plan to read or modify on average once per month or less. For example, if you want to continuously add files to Cloud Storage and plan to access those files once a month for analysis, Nearline storage is a great choice. https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/storage-classes

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ccpmad

1 year, 1 month ago

Selected Answer: B

For data accessed less than once a year, Archive Ok, once a quarter, is 4 times per year, so Cold Storage is not correct for this

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RVSubbareddy

1 year, 2 months ago

Selected Answer: A

we have to consider it as coldline storage

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Jonassamr

1 year, 2 months ago

Selected Answer: B

i think it's B

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TanTran04

1 year, 3 months ago

Selected Answer: A

once a quarter <=> 90 days => A. Cold Storage

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guru_ji

1 year, 5 months ago

Selected Answer: B

users need to be able to access this archived data once a quarter . B is correct.

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kelliot

1 year, 7 months ago

Selected Answer: A

Nearline - 30 days Coldline - 60 days So, the answer is A

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Rahaf99

1 year, 8 months ago

Selected Answer: A

It actually depends on the company. But in case of this question, you have to follow what google said in the course which is, "Nearline" is when you are accessing once a month when coldline where you want to access the data once every quarter. So its A

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BAofBK

1 year, 8 months ago

Coldline storage option is the answer

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cooldude26

1 year, 8 months ago

Selected Answer: A

Its option A : cold storage Cold data storage - Archived data, such as data stored for legal or regulatory reasons, can be stored at low cost as Archive storage, yet still be available if you need it. https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/storage-classes#archive

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HemrajLodhi

1 year, 8 months ago

Cold Storage is not a correct category, it should be cold line in case if considered as solution

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AdelElagawany

1 year, 9 months ago

Cold data storage = Archive storage as per this: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/storage-classes#archive so I will suggest Nearline storage as the correct answer

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