Which term describes data moved to archive storage to prevent overwriting?

• A. Data at Rest
• B. Long-Term Retention
• C. Short-Term Retention
• D. Data Removal

Answer: (C)

Archiving data is a way to separate older or infrequently accessed information from the active systems, so daily operations don’t risk overwriting it. The option that best matches keeping data in an archive for a defined, limited period to prevent overwriting during normal use is short-term retention. If the goal were to keep data for a very long time, long-term retention would be used; if the goal were simply to describe where data resides, you’d talk about data at rest; and if the goal were to delete data, that would be data removal. So the short-term retention choice fits the idea of moving data into an archive for a temporary, protective window before the data is eventually overwritten or deleted.