Exam 220-1102 Topic 3 Question 541 Discussion

Actual exam question for CompTIA's 220-1102 exam
Question #: 541
Topic #: 3
A company is retiring old workstations and needs a certificate of destruction for all hard drives. Which of the following would be BEST to perform on the hard drives to ensure the data is unrecoverable? (Select TWO).

Suggested Answer: B,E Vote an answer

Explanation
Drilling and incinerating are physical destruction methods that make the data on hard drives unrecoverable.
Standard formatting, erasing and low-level formatting are logical methods that can be reversed with data recovery tools. Recycling is not a destruction method at all. Verified References:
https://www.comptia.org/blog/what-is-a-certificate-of-destruction https://www.comptia.org/certifications/a

by Jerome at Jan 11, 2025, 06:41 AM

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