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220-1202 · Question #135

220-1202 Question #135: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

The correct answer is E: Drilling. Drilling physically destroys the hard drive platters, making data recovery impossible, and is an effective at-home method for ensuring data is unrecoverable.

Submitted by mike_84· Mar 30, 2026Security

Question

A user wants to dispose of a failed hard drive in a way that ensures the data is unrecoverable. Which of the following is the best at-home method?

Options

  • AStandard formatting
  • BLow-level formatting
  • CShredding
  • DDegaussing
  • EDrilling

Explanation

Drilling physically destroys the hard drive platters, making data recovery impossible, and is an effective at-home method for ensuring data is unrecoverable.

Topics

#Data destruction#Hard drive disposal#Data sanitization

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