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Google Professional Data Engineer Actual Exam Questions

307 Questions120 Minutes70% Passing Score▣ Updated: Sep 2026

Question 243 of 307

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Your team is building a data lake platform on Google Cloud. As a part of the data foundation design, you are planning to store all the raw data in Cloud Storage. You are expecting to ingest approximately 25 GB of data a day and your billing department is worried about the increasing cost of storing old data. The current business requirements are:

• The old data can be deleted anytime.
• There is no predefined access pattern of the old data.
• The old data should be available instantly when accessed.
• There should not be any charges for data retrieval.

What should you do to optimize for cost?
ACreate the bucket with the Autoclass storage class feature.
BCreate an Object Lifecycle Management policy to modify the storage class for data older than 30 days to nearline, 90 days to coldline, and 365 days to archive storage class. Delete old data as needed.
CCreate an Object Lifecycle Management policy to modify the storage class for data older than 30 days to coldline, 90 days to nearline, and 365 days to archive storage class. Delete old data as needed.
DCreate an Object Lifecycle Management policy to modify the storage class for data older than 30 days to nearline, 45 days to coldline, and 60 days to archive storage class. Delete old data as needed.
Correct Answer: A

Create the bucket with the Autoclass storage class feature.

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