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CISSP · Question #1149

A company is enrolled in a hard drive reuse program where decommissioned equipment is sold back to the vendor when it is no longer needed. The vendor pays more money for functioning drives than equipm

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Submitted by minji_kr· Mar 5, 2026Asset Security

Question

A company is enrolled in a hard drive reuse program where decommissioned equipment is sold back to the vendor when it is no longer needed. The vendor pays more money for functioning drives than equipment that is no longer operational. Which method of data sanitization would provide the most secure means of preventing unauthorized data loss, while also receiving the most money from the vendor?

Options

  • APinning
  • BSingle-pass wipe
  • CDegaussing
  • DMulti-pass wipes

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