Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer — Question 312

You have 15 TB of data in your on-premises data center that you want to transfer to Google Cloud. Your data changes weekly and is stored in a POSIX-compliant source. The network operations team has granted you 500 Mbps bandwidth to the public internet. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to reliably transfer your data to Google Cloud on a weekly basis. What should you do?

Answer options

• A. Use Cloud Scheduler to trigger the gsutil command. Use the -m parameter for optimal parallelism.
• B. Use Transfer Appliance to migrate your data into a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster, and then configure a weekly transfer job.
• C. Install Storage Transfer Service for on-premises data in your data center, and then configure a weekly transfer job.
• D. Install Storage Transfer Service for on-premises data on a Google Cloud virtual machine, and then configure a weekly transfer job.

Correct answer: C

Explanation

The correct answer is C because the Storage Transfer Service for on-premises data is specifically designed to handle the transfer from local environments to Google Cloud, accommodating the need for a reliable weekly transfer. Options A and D do not directly address the requirement for on-premises data transfer, and option B introduces unnecessary complexity by involving Google Kubernetes Engine, which is not required for this task.