Why must data retention policies align with legal and regulatory requirements?

To reduce storage costs by deleting data as soon as possible

To avoid penalties and ensure compliance with laws that mandate retention periods

To simplify the IT infrastructure

To increase the speed of data retrieval

What is the purpose of auditing in the context of data retention?

To provide evidence that retention policies are being followed

To speed up data retrieval from archives

To reduce storage costs by deleting data early

Why is monitoring important in data retention and archiving?

To reduce the number of storage devices

To increase the speed of data access

To verify that retention and archiving practices are followed and compliant

To eliminate the need for data backups

A university research lab generates massive datasets from experiments. The data is actively analyzed for 6 months, then rarely accessed but must be kept for 10 years for reproducibility. The lab has a limited budget. What storage design best balances performance and cost?

Keep all datasets on high-performance storage for the full 10 years to ensure instant access.

Store all datasets on a single low-cost storage tier from the start.

Use tape storage for active analysis and migrate to SSD after 6 months.

Use high-performance parallel file storage for active analysis and migrate datasets to a lower-cost archival tier after 6 months.

What is the primary purpose of a data retention policy?

To specify how long different types of data must be kept to meet legal, regulatory, and business requirements

To determine which employees have access to sensitive data

To encrypt data at rest and in transit

To define the format in which data is stored on physical media

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Domain 3Objective 7

Data Storage, Retention, and Archiving CDPSE Practice Questions (Page 3)

Part of the Data Life Cycle Management domain, which accounts for 23% of the CDPSE exam.

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