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SK0-005 · Question #260

A technician is decommissioning a server from a production environment. The technician removes the server from the rack but then decides to repurpose the system as a lab server instead of…

The correct answer is B. Wipe the drives. Wiping the drives is the most appropriate step to recycle and reuse the system drives. Wiping the drives means erasing all the data on the drives and overwriting them with random or meaningless data. This can help prevent data leakage, comply with regulations, and prepare the…

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Question

A technician is decommissioning a server from a production environment. The technician removes the server from the rack but then decides to repurpose the system as a lab server instead of decommissioning it. Which of the following is the most appropriate NEXT step to recycle and reuse the system drives?

Options

  • AReinstall the OS.
  • BWipe the drives.
  • CDegauss the drives.
  • DUpdate the IP schema.

How the community answered

(33 responses)
  • A
    6% (2)
  • B
    76% (25)
  • C
    3% (1)
  • D
    15% (5)

Explanation

Wiping the drives is the most appropriate step to recycle and reuse the system drives. Wiping the drives means erasing all the data on the drives and overwriting them with random or meaningless data. This can help prevent data leakage, comply with regulations, and prepare the drives for a new installation or configuration. Wiping the drives is different from deleting or formatting the drives, which only remove the references to the data but not the data itself.

Topics

#Data sanitization#Server repurposing#Data security#Drive preparation

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