ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) Practice Question

The cloud data life-cycle defines six high-level phases: create, store, use, share, archive, and destroy. Data that have fulfilled their primary business purpose and are retained only to satisfy legal, regulatory, or business-record requirements are considered to be in the archive phase. In this phase, information is kept in long-term, often lower-cost storage; it is normally read only, rarely accessed, and not subject to ongoing modification. In the scenario, the PII is moved out of the production database into cold storage where it is retained for compliance reporting but is no longer edited, matching the characteristics of the archive phase.
The store phase refers to data that are actively maintained for operational use; the use phase applies while applications are processing or updating the data; and the share phase involves distributing data to other parties or systems. None of these fit the described read-only, long-term retention state as accurately as the archive phase.