220-802 · Question #150
A technician would like to dispose of a hard drive that is no longer needed. According to company policy, all contents on the disk should be deleted before disposal. Which of the following OS…
The correct answer is D. FORMAT. The FORMAT command erases all data on a drive and prepares it with a new file system, satisfying a policy requirement to delete all disk contents before disposal.
Question
A technician would like to dispose of a hard drive that is no longer needed. According to company policy, all contents on the disk should be deleted before disposal. Which of the following OS command line tools should be used?
Options
- ACHKDSK
- BDEL
- CSCANDSK
- DFORMAT
How the community answered
(45 responses)- A4% (2)
- B4% (2)
- C2% (1)
- D89% (40)
Why each option
The FORMAT command erases all data on a drive and prepares it with a new file system, satisfying a policy requirement to delete all disk contents before disposal.
CHKDSK scans the disk for file system errors and bad sectors but does not delete any data or prepare the drive for disposal.
DEL deletes individual files or groups of files but leaves the file system intact and does not wipe the entire disk as required by disposal policy.
SCANDSK is not a valid Windows OS command - it does not exist as a command-line tool in modern Windows environments.
The FORMAT command overwrites the file system structures and, with the full format option, can overwrite data sectors on the drive, effectively deleting all contents and making the disk ready for disposal. It is a built-in OS tool that can be used from the command line and directly addresses the policy requirement of removing all data before the drive leaves the organization.
Concept tested: Disk data removal using FORMAT before disposal
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/format
Topics
Community Discussion
No community discussion yet for this question.