A pilot measures effective throughput of 200 megabytes per second. Ignoring overhead only for this calculation, how long does transferring 2,000,000 megabytes take?

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A.1,000 seconds
B.100 seconds
C.10,000 seconds, about 2.78 hours
D.200,000 seconds, about 55.56 hours

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10,000 seconds, about 2.78 hours

2,000,000 MB / 200 MB/s = 10,000 s, approximately 2.78 hours. Other values use incorrect division. A production plan must additionally allow for retries, enumeration, changed data, and validation. Source guide: PDF page(s) 69.

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