An organization donates used computer equipment to a non-profit group.

Vendor: APICS
Product: CPIM-8.0
Update on: Sep 18, 2025
Questions: 552

APICS CPIM-8.0 Question Answer

An organization donates used computer equipment to a non-profit group. A system administrator used a degausser on both the magnetic and Solid State Drives (SSD) before delivery. A volunteer at the non-profit group discovered some of the drives still contained readable data and alerted the system administrator. What is the BEST solution to ensure that computer equipment does not contain data before release?

Verify sanitization results by trying to read 100% of the media.

Determine the type of media in the computer and apply the appropriate method of sanitization.

Use cryptographic erasure to ensure data on the media device is erased.

Use a program that will overwrite existing data with a fixed pattern of binary zeroes.