What is the primary trade-off between hot and cold storage?

Hot storage is only for object data, while cold storage is only for block data.

Cold storage is more reliable than hot storage.

Hot storage has higher performance but higher cost; cold storage has lower cost but lower performance.

Hot storage is less secure than cold storage.

A research lab needs to upload 500 GB of scientific datasets from an on-premises server to a cloud object storage bucket. The upload must complete as quickly as possible, and the lab has limited bandwidth. The datasets are text-heavy and contain a lot of repeated patterns. Which action should the lab take to minimize the upload time?

Compress the datasets before uploading

Enable deduplication on the object storage bucket

Upload the data in parallel without compression

Use block storage instead of object storage

Which factor most directly affects the performance of a cloud storage service?

The number of users in the organization

The storage service's marketing name

The color of the storage service icon

How does a content delivery network (CDN) improve data delivery reliability?

By encrypting all data with a stronger algorithm

By reducing the number of copies of content

By storing all content on a single powerful server

By distributing content across multiple edge locations, so if one fails, others can serve the content

A company runs a batch processing job every night that generates 2 TB of temporary data. The data is only needed for 12 hours during the job, then it is deleted. The company wants to minimize storage costs. Which storage approach is most cost-effective?

Store the data in cold storage during the job

Provision a fixed 2 TB block storage volume and keep it always available

Use capacity on demand to provision storage only during the job and release it after

Store the data in object storage with a CDN

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A company runs a batch processing job every night that generates 2 TB of temporary data. The data is only needed for 12 hours during the job, then it is deleted. The company wants to minimize storage costs. Which storage approach is most cost-effective?
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