CompTIA A+ Core 2 (220-1102) — Question 126

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? (Choose two.)

Answer options

• A. Standard formatting
• B. Drilling
• C. Erasing
• D. Recycling
• E. Incinerating
• F. Low-level formatting

Correct answer: B, E

Explanation

Drilling and incinerating are the best methods to ensure that hard drives are completely destroyed and data is unrecoverable. Standard formatting, erasing, and low-level formatting do not adequately eliminate data, as they can often be reversed, making them ineffective for secure data destruction.