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GCP Professional Cloud Architect Practice Question

Your security team must retain 500 TB of Compute Engine audit logs for 12 months to meet compliance. Investigators typically retrieve the entire dataset about six times per year and expect millisecond-level access when they do. Which Cloud Storage class minimizes total storage and retrieval cost while satisfying the access pattern and performance requirements?

Standard Storage
Coldline Storage
Archive Storage
Nearline Storage

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Nearline Storage is designed for data that is accessed less than once per month yet must remain immediately available when needed. In this scenario the logs are read roughly every two months (six times per year), fitting comfortably within Nearline's target access frequency. Nearline offers lower storage pricing than Standard while avoiding the higher per-GB retrieval fees that make Coldline and Archive more expensive for data read multiple times a year. Standard Storage would unnecessarily increase monthly storage costs, whereas Coldline and Archive would incur higher retrieval charges, offsetting any savings from their lower storage rates. Therefore, Nearline Storage provides the lowest total cost without compromising the required millisecond-level access latency.

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