The human resources department notified you of a legal investigation that was started for an employee in the finance department. You need to ensure that this employee's Google Drive data is…

Question

Options

• AChange the Vault default retention rule to one year instead of five.
• BPlace the employee into a separate organizational unit (OU). Create a custom one-year retention
• CCreate a hold in Vault for the employee's Drive.
• DConfirm that the Vault default retention rule is set for five years.

• A
  5% (3)
• B
  8% (5)
• C
  72% (46)
• D
  16% (10)

Explanation

A Google Vault hold is the correct tool for legal preservation. A hold prevents any data covered by it from being deleted - by the user, by retention rules, or by any automated process - for as long as the hold remains in place. This is distinct from retention rules, which define how long data is kept before it can be purged. Even though the default retention rule is five years, a user could still delete their own files and have them purged after the retention window; a hold blocks this entirely. Option A is wrong because shortening the retention rule to one year would reduce, not increase, protection. Option B (separate OU with custom rule) uses retention, not a hold - the user could still delete files. Option D (confirming the 5-year rule) provides no legal-hold guarantee. Vault holds are the industry-standard mechanism for litigation preservation.

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