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PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-ARCHITECT · Question #350

A financial services company is decommissioning one of its on-premises data centers. As part of this initiative, the company needs to perform a one-time migration of 500 ТВ of historical transaction…

The correct answer is D. Order a Transfer Appliance, copy the data to the appliance using your high-speed local network. A Transfer Appliance is designed for large, one-time offline migrations when network bandwidth is limited or shared with critical operations. Copying 500 TB locally avoids saturating the 1 Gbps internet link, reliably meets the 60-day deadline, and provides a secure, controlled…

Submitted by skyler.x· Mar 30, 2026Managing implementation

Question

A financial services company is decommissioning one of its on-premises data centers. As part of this initiative, the company needs to perform a one-time migration of 500 ТВ of historical transaction archives to a Cloud Storage bucket for long-term retention. The data center's internet egress is 1 Gbps, which is shared with critical business operations. You must complete the secure data transfer within a 60-day window to meet the decommissioning deadline. What should you do?

Options

  • AProvision a Partner Interconnect connection with a 10 Gbps capacity to accelerate the data
  • BWrite a script that uses the gcloud storage cp --parallel command to upload the data in chunks
  • CUse Storage Transfer Service to create an agent-based transfer job that moves the data from the
  • DOrder a Transfer Appliance, copy the data to the appliance using your high-speed local network,

How the community answered

(23 responses)
  • A
    17% (4)
  • B
    4% (1)
  • C
    4% (1)
  • D
    74% (17)

Explanation

A Transfer Appliance is designed for large, one-time offline migrations when network bandwidth is limited or shared with critical operations. Copying 500 TB locally avoids saturating the 1 Gbps internet link, reliably meets the 60-day deadline, and provides a secure, controlled transfer path into the Cloud Storage bucket.

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#Transfer Appliance#large-scale data migration#offline transfer#storage transfer

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