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. During the use phase, data is actively processed to generate value-operations such as read, update, calculate, transform, or analyze occur while the data is in active use by applications or users. In the scenario, the team is executing scripts that transform raw customer records by aggregating them and stripping out personally identifiable information. These activities constitute processing of data to extract insights, which is characteristic of the use phase.

The other options describe different phases:

• Create refers to the initial generation or collection of data, not subsequent transformation.
• Store is the passive saving of data without active manipulation.
• Share involves distributing data or its derivatives to other parties; while the results are eventually forwarded, the question focuses on the aggregation work itself, which is part of use.