Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer — Practice Exam

A team at Orchard Lane stored 5 TB of quarterly reports in a Coldline bucket and deleted them 20 days later after realizing they were duplicates. What billing effect should they expect?

• A.An early deletion charge, because Coldline has a 90-day minimum storage duration and they are billed as if the objects were stored for the remainder of it
• B.A retrieval charge for each object, because deleting an object counts as reading it
• C.No extra charge, because deletion in any class stops billing immediately
• D.A charge for 365 days of storage, because Coldline has a one-year minimum