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GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Practice Question 34: Storage Transfer Service S3

Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer · Test 4 · question 4 of 10

Cloud Storagemedium

A company must copy 50 TB of data from an Amazon S3 bucket to Cloud Storage, and then keep the bucket synchronized with a nightly transfer. The team wants a managed service that handles scheduling, retries, and integrity checks.

Which option should you choose?

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Answer:

  • A. Storage Transfer Service with an S3 source, a Cloud Storage sink, and a recurring schedule

Storage Transfer Service is a managed service for moving large amounts of data from other clouds (such as Amazon S3), on-premises storage, or other Cloud Storage buckets into Cloud Storage. It supports one time and recurring schedules, retries on failure, and verifies data integrity.

Option B can copy the data, but you would build and monitor the retries, scheduling, and checks yourself. Option C is wrong because Transfer Appliance is a physical device for moving on-premises data, and it is not shipped to another cloud provider. Option D is for loading data into BigQuery from supported sources, not for copying objects into a bucket.

Reference: Storage Transfer Service overview

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