A government contractor is decommissioning servers that contained classified information. The servers are functional, but the drives are encrypted. Which method should be used to ensure data is unrecoverable and comply with federal regulations?

Reformat the drives and reuse them

Overwrite the drives with a single pass of zeros

Cryptographic erasure by securely deleting the encryption keys

During the decommissioning of a server that contained sensitive customer data, an organization must maintain a chain of custody. What does this ensure?

That the server is kept in a locked room at all times

That every person who handles the server is documented, and the server's location is tracked

That the server is destroyed within 24 hours of decommissioning

That the server is insured against loss or damage

Why is maintaining a chain of custody important for decommissioned assets that contain sensitive data?

It reduces the cost of decommissioning

It speeds up the decommissioning process

It ensures the asset is recycled in an environmentally friendly manner

It provides a documented history of the asset's handling, which can be used to prove that data was not compromised

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Decommissioning SK0-005 Practice Questions (Page 5)

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21application · medium
A government contractor is decommissioning servers that contained classified information. The servers are functional, but the drives are encrypted. Which method should be used to ensure data is unrecoverable and comply with federal regulations?
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22foundation · easy
A server administrator needs to sanitize a solid-state drive (SSD) before reusing it in a less secure environment. The data on the drive is encrypted, and the administrator plans to destroy the encryption keys to make the data unrecoverable. Which data sanitization technique does this describe?
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23foundation · easy
A server technician must destroy a failed hard drive that contains highly sensitive data. The drive's platters are made of a magnetic material. Which media destruction method uses a strong magnetic field to disrupt the magnetic domains on the platters, rendering the data unrecoverable?
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24foundation · easy
During the decommissioning of a server that contained sensitive customer data, an organization must maintain a chain of custody. What does this ensure?
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25foundation · easy
Why is maintaining a chain of custody important for decommissioned assets that contain sensitive data?
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Questions 21–25

A government contractor is decommissioning servers that contained classified information. The servers are functional, but the drives are encrypted. Which method should be used to ensure data is unrecoverable and comply with federal regulations?

A server administrator needs to sanitize a solid-state drive (SSD) before reusing it in a less secure environment. The data on the drive is encrypted, and the administrator plans to destroy the encryption keys to make the data unrecoverable. Which data sanitization technique does this describe?

A server technician must destroy a failed hard drive that contains highly sensitive data. The drive's platters are made of a magnetic material. Which media destruction method uses a strong magnetic field to disrupt the magnetic domains on the platters, rendering the data unrecoverable?

During the decommissioning of a server that contained sensitive customer data, an organization must maintain a chain of custody. What does this ensure?

Why is maintaining a chain of custody important for decommissioned assets that contain sensitive data?

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