GCP-ADP Data Preparation And Ingestion Practice Question

Which THREE of the following are valid GCS storage classes?

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Nearline

Standard, Nearline, and Coldline are valid GCS storage classes.

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Warmline
Why it's wrong here
Not a valid class name.
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Nearline
Why this is correct
Valid class.
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Hotline
Why it's wrong here
Not a valid class name.
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Coldline
Why this is correct
Valid class.
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Standard
Why this is correct
Valid class.

Quick reference

AWS S3 Storage Class Comparison

Storage Class	Min Duration	Retrieval	Use Case
S3 Standard	None	Immediate	Frequently accessed data
S3 Standard-IA	30 days	Immediate	Infrequent access, rapid retrieval
S3 One Zone-IA	30 days	Immediate	Non-critical infrequent data
S3 Intelligent-Tiering	None	Immediate–hours	Unknown or changing access patterns
S3 Glacier Instant	90 days	Milliseconds	Archive with instant retrieval
S3 Glacier Flexible	90 days	Minutes–hours	Archive, flexible retrieval
S3 Glacier Deep Archive	180 days	Hours	Long-term compliance archive

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