You receive an overnight package to your data center. The invoice describes an encrypted hard drive containing contents of a physician's office that is part of your healthcare network. There are…

The correct answer is D. Destroy. Degaussing is a data sanitization technique that uses a powerful magnetic field to erase data from magnetic storage media, rendering it unreadable and unrecoverable. In the data lifecycle management framework (Create → Store → Use → Share → Archive → Destroy), degaussing is…

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You receive an overnight package to your data center. The invoice describes an encrypted hard drive containing contents of a physician's office that is part of your healthcare network. There are directions for you to degauss the media and transfer it to the radiology department. Which phase in data lifecycle management would you consider the data?

Options

AArchive
BStore
CShare
DDestroy

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A
7% (2)
B
14% (4)
C
4% (1)
D
75% (21)

Explanation

Degaussing is a data sanitization technique that uses a powerful magnetic field to erase data from magnetic storage media, rendering it unreadable and unrecoverable. In the data lifecycle management framework (Create → Store → Use → Share → Archive → Destroy), degaussing is explicitly a destruction-phase activity. The instruction to degauss the drive before transferring the physical hardware places this scenario squarely in the 'Destroy' phase - the data itself is being permanently eliminated, even though the physical media may continue to be used for another purpose.

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#Data Lifecycle Management#Data Destruction Methods#Protected Health Information (PHI)#Secure Disposal

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