CLOUD-DIGITAL-LEADER · Question #333
An organization is looking for a storage solution that will help them serve content to users worldwide. They need a solution that offers a high level of availability. What feature of Cloud Storage wou
The correct answer is A. Multi-regional storage. Cloud Storage's multi-regional storage class replicates data across multiple geographic regions, providing high availability and low-latency access for users worldwide.
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An organization is looking for a storage solution that will help them serve content to users worldwide. They need a solution that offers a high level of availability. What feature of Cloud Storage would they benefit from?
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- AMulti-regional storage
- BGlobal metadata
- CData encryption
- DObject versioning
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(31 responses)- A87% (27)
- B3% (1)
- C6% (2)
- D3% (1)
Why each option
Cloud Storage's multi-regional storage class replicates data across multiple geographic regions, providing high availability and low-latency access for users worldwide.
Multi-regional Cloud Storage stores redundant copies of objects across at least two geographically separated regions within a multi-region boundary. This geographic redundancy ensures that content remains available even if an entire region experiences an outage, and Google's global network serves requests from the location closest to the user, achieving both the high availability and global reach requirements.
Global metadata refers to object-level attributes and is a data management concept, not a storage class or feature that improves geographic availability or fault tolerance.
Data encryption is a security feature that protects data confidentiality at rest and in transit; it does not affect content availability or geographic distribution.
Object versioning preserves previous versions of objects to protect against accidental deletion or overwrites; it is a data integrity and recovery feature, not an availability or geographic distribution feature.
Concept tested: Cloud Storage multi-regional storage for high availability
Source: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/storage-classes
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