A company is subject to a regulation that requires financial transaction records to be retained for 7 years. After 7 years, the records must be permanently deleted. They store these records as objects in Cloud Storage. Which configuration should they implement to automate this requirement?

Use a Cloud Function to archive objects to Coldline storage after 7 years.

Set a retention policy on the bucket for 7 years and then remove it.

Use an Object Lifecycle Management rule to delete objects older than 7 years.

Create a new bucket each year and manually delete the oldest bucket after 7 years.

What is the default encryption state for data stored in Cloud Storage?

Data is not encrypted unless you use customer-managed keys

Data is encrypted only if you enable encryption

Data is encrypted at rest by default

Data is encrypted only in transit

To minimize latency for a Compute Engine VM accessing a Cloud Storage bucket, what should be ensured?

The bucket is set to Coldline storage class

The VM and bucket are in the same region

The VM uses a larger machine type

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A company is subject to a regulation that requires financial transaction records to be retained for 7 years. After 7 years, the records must be permanently deleted. They store these records as objects in Cloud Storage. Which configuration should they implement to automate this requirement?
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A company must retain financial records for 7 years to comply with regulations. Which Cloud Storage feature can enforce this retention period?
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What is the default encryption state for data stored in Cloud Storage?
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To minimize latency for a Compute Engine VM accessing a Cloud Storage bucket, what should be ensured?
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A company wants to protect data in a Cloud Storage bucket from accidental deletion. Which feature should be enabled?
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A company is subject to a regulation that requires financial transaction records to be retained for 7 years. After 7 years, the records must be permanently deleted. They store these records as objects in Cloud Storage. Which configuration should they implement to automate this requirement?

A company must retain financial records for 7 years to comply with regulations. Which Cloud Storage feature can enforce this retention period?

What is the default encryption state for data stored in Cloud Storage?

To minimize latency for a Compute Engine VM accessing a Cloud Storage bucket, what should be ensured?

A company wants to protect data in a Cloud Storage bucket from accidental deletion. Which feature should be enabled?

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