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SY0-701 · Question #841
Which of the following actions should be performed on end-of-life equipment before it is discarded?
The correct answer is C. Decommissioning. Decommissioning formally retires the equipment by removing it from operational use, securely wiping or destroying any stored data, and updating asset inventories - ensuring sensitive information isn’t left on discarded hardware.
Submitted by luis.pe· Mar 6, 2026Security Operations
Question
Which of the following actions should be performed on end-of-life equipment before it is discarded?
Options
- AIsolation
- BPatching
- CDecommissioning
- DMonitoring
How the community answered
(36 responses)- A6% (2)
- C92% (33)
- D3% (1)
Explanation
Decommissioning formally retires the equipment by removing it from operational use, securely wiping or destroying any stored data, and updating asset inventories - ensuring sensitive information isn’t left on discarded hardware.
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