Google Cloud Associate Data Practitioner — Question 78

You need to transfer approximately 300 TB of data from your company's on-premises data center to Cloud Storage. You have 100 Mbps internet bandwidth, and the transfer needs to be completed as quickly as possible. What should you do?

Answer options

• A. Use Cloud Client Libraries to transfer the data over the internet.
• B. Compress the data, upload it to multiple cloud storage providers, and then transfer the data to Cloud Storage.
• C. Request a Transfer Appliance, copy the data to the appliance, and ship it back to Google.
• D. Use the gcloud storage command to transfer the data over the internet.

Correct answer: C

Explanation

The correct answer is C because using a Transfer Appliance allows for the physical shipment of large amounts of data, significantly speeding up the transfer process compared to the limited 100 Mbps internet bandwidth. Options A, B, and D all rely on internet transfer, which would take an impractical amount of time given the data size and bandwidth constraints.