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Google PCA Practice Question: Managing Implementation and Ensuring Solution and Operations Reliability
A company uses Cloud Storage to store backup files. They need to retain backups for 7 years and must be able to recover deleted or overwritten files within that period. Which Cloud Storage feature should they enable?
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Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Object versioning
Object versioning keeps multiple versions of an object, allowing recovery from deletion or overwrite. Object retention policies prevent deletion but do not allow recovery of overwritten versions. Lifecycle management is for automation. Uniform bucket-level access is for permissions.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Object retention policy
Why it's wrong here
Retention policy prevents deletion but does not preserve overwritten versions.
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Lifecycle management
Why it's wrong here
Lifecycle management automates transitions and deletions, not recovery.
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Object versioning
Why this is correct
Versioning keeps all versions, allowing recovery of deleted or overwritten objects.
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Uniform bucket-level access
Why it's wrong here
This is for IAM, not version recovery.
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