CompTIA
220-1102 · Question #236
A company is retiring old workstations and needs a certificate of destruction for all hard drives. Which of the following would be BEST to perform on the hard drives to ensure the data is…
The correct answer is B. Drilling E. Incinerating. Drilling the hard drive will physically destroy the platters, making it impossible to read the data. Incinerating burns the hard drive at a high temperature, also making it impossible to recover any
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Question
A company is retiring old workstations and needs a certificate of destruction for all hard drives. Which of the following would be BEST to perform on the hard drives to ensure the data is unrecoverable? (Choose two.)
Options
- AStandard formatting
- BDrilling
- CErasing
- DRecycling
- EIncinerating
- FLow-level formatting
How the community answered
(38 responses)- A16% (6)
- B68% (26)
- C8% (3)
- D5% (2)
- F3% (1)
Explanation
Drilling the hard drive will physically destroy the platters, making it impossible to read the data. Incinerating burns the hard drive at a high temperature, also making it impossible to recover any
Topics
#Data destruction#Hard drive security#Physical destruction#Secure data disposal
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