What should be recommended to avoid timeouts during the export process?

Universal Containers is setting up an external Business Intelligence (BI) system and wants to extract 1,000,000 Contact records.

What should be recommended to avoid timeouts during the export process?
A . Use the SOAP API to export data.
B. Utilize the Bulk API to export the data.
C. Use GZIP compression to export the data.
D. Schedule a Batch Apex job to export the data.

Answer: B