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Google PCA Practice Question: Managing Implementation and Ensuring Solution and Operations Reliability
Your organization stores critical financial data in Cloud Storage. You need to ensure that if an object is deleted or overwritten, you can recover it within 30 days. What feature should you enable?
Answer choices
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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Enable object versioning on the bucket
Cloud Storage offers object versioning and retention policies to protect data. Versioning keeps non-current versions of objects, allowing recovery from accidental deletion or overwrites. Object retention policies (e.g., retention policy or hold) prevent deletion or modification for a specified period, but versioning is the primary mechanism to recover from deletion.
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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Set a retention policy with a 30-day retention period
Why it's wrong here
Retention policies prevent deletion but do not recover overwritten objects.
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Configure lifecycle management to delete objects after 30 days
Why it's wrong here
Lifecycle management deletes objects, not recover.
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Enable object versioning on the bucket
Why this is correct
Versioning retains non-current versions, enabling recovery.
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Enable Bucket Lock with a retention policy
Why it's wrong here
Bucket Lock enforces retention, but does not provide versioning.
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Introduction to Google Cloud Platform
Key term
Data
Data is raw, unprocessed information, like numbers, words, or measurements, that can be stored, processed, and analyzed by computers.
Key term
Cloud storage
Cloud storage is a service that lets you save data on remote servers accessed over the internet instead of on your computer's hard drive.
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