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Questions 1

SCENARIO

Please use the following to answer the next QUESTION:

Natalia, CFO of the Nationwide Grill restaurant chain, had never seen her fellow executives so anxious. Last week, a data processing firm used by the company reported that its system may have been hacked, and customer data such as names, addresses, and birthdays may have been compromised. Although the attempt was proven unsuccessful, the scare has prompted several Nationwide Grill executives to Question the company's privacy program at today's meeting.

Alice, a vice president, said that the incident could have opened the door to lawsuits, potentially damaging Nationwide Grill's market position. The Chief Information Officer (CIO), Brendan, tried to assure her that even if there had been an actual breach, the chances of a successful suit against the company were slim. But Alice remained unconvinced.

Spencer – a former CEO and currently a senior advisor – said that he had always warned against the use of contractors for data processing. At the very least, he argued, they should be held contractually liable for telling customers about any security incidents. In his view, Nationwide Grill should not be forced to soil the company name for a problem it did not cause.

One of the business development (BD) executives, Haley, then spoke, imploring everyone to see reason.

"Breaches can happen, despite organizations' best efforts," she remarked. "Reasonable preparedness is key." She reminded everyone of the incident seven years ago when the large grocery chain Tinkerton's had its financial information compromised after a large order of Nationwide Grill frozen dinners. As a long-time BD executive with a solid understanding of Tinkerton's's corporate culture, built up through many years of cultivating relationships, Haley was able to successfully manage the company's incident response.

Spencer replied that acting with reason means allowing security to be handled by the security functions within the company – not BD staff. In a similar way, he said, Human Resources (HR) needs to do a better job training employees to prevent incidents. He pointed out that Nationwide Grill employees are overwhelmed with posters, emails, and memos from both HR and the ethics department related to the company's privacy program. Both the volume and the duplication of information means that it is often ignored altogether.

Spencer said, "The company needs to dedicate itself to its privacy program and set regular in-person trainings for all staff once a month."

Alice responded that the suggestion, while well-meaning, is not practical. With many locations, local HR departments need to have flexibility with their training schedules. Silently, Natalia agreed.

The senior advisor, Spencer, has a misconception regarding?

Options:

A.  

The amount of responsibility that a data controller retains.

B.  

The appropriate role of an organization's security department.

C.  

The degree to which training can lessen the number of security incidents.

D.  

The role of Human Resources employees in an organization's privacy program.

Discussion 0
Questions 2

What is one obligation that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) imposes on data processors?

Options:

A.  

To honor all data access requests from data subjects.

B.  

To inform data subjects about the identity and contact details of the controller.

C.  

To implement appropriate technical and organizational measures that ensure an appropriate level of security.

D.  

To carry out data protection impact assessments in cases where processing is likely to result in high risk to the rights and freedoms of individuals.

Discussion 0
Questions 3

SCENARIO

Please use the following to answer the next QUESTION:

Ben works in the IT department of IgNight, Inc., a company that designs lighting solutions for its clients. Although IgNight's customer base consists primarily of offices in the US, some individuals have been so impressed by the unique aesthetic and energy-saving design of the light fixtures that they have requested

IgNight's installations in their homes across the globe.

One Sunday morning, while using his work laptop to purchase tickets for an upcoming music festival, Ben happens to notice some unusual user activity on company files. From a cursory review, all the data still appears to be where it is meant to be but he can't shake off the feeling that something is not right. He knows that it is a possibility that this could be a colleague performing unscheduled maintenance, but he recalls an email from his company's security team reminding employees to be on alert for attacks from a known group of malicious actors specifically targeting the industry.

Ben is a diligent employee and wants to make sure that he protects the company but he does not want to bother his hard-working colleagues on the weekend. He is going to discuss the matter with this manager first thing in the morning but wants to be prepared so he can demonstrate his knowledge in this area and plead his case for a promotion.

To determine the steps to follow, what would be the most appropriate internal guide for Ben to review?

Options:

A.  

Incident Response Plan.

B.  

Code of Business Conduct.

C.  

IT Systems and Operations Handbook.

D.  

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plan.

Discussion 0
Questions 4

(All of the following would typically be included in an organization's business continuity plan (BCP) or disaster recovery plan (DRP) EXCEPT?)

Options:

A.  

Recovery time objectives.

B.  

Emergency response guidelines.

C.  

A statement of organizational responsibilities.

D.  

A retention schedule for storage and destruction of information.

Discussion 0
Questions 5

K a privacy professional wants to show that an organization's privacy program is working as intended, the professional should?

Options:

A.  

Collect feedback from customers about the privacy program.

B.  

Carry out a personal data breach tabletop exercise.

C.  

Collect and analyze privacy program metrics.

D.  

Review privacy policies.

Discussion 0
Questions 6

SCENARIO

Please use the following to answer the next QUESTION:

You lead the privacy office for a company that handles information from individuals living in several countries throughout Europe and the Americas. You begin that morning’s privacy review when a contracts officer sends you a message asking for a phone call. The message lacks clarity and detail, but you presume that data was lost.

When you contact the contracts officer, he tells you that he received a letter in the mail from a vendor stating that the vendor improperly shared information about your customers. He called the vendor and confirmed that your company recently surveyed exactly 2000 individuals about their most recent healthcare experience and sent those surveys to the vendor to transcribe it into a database, but the vendor forgot to encrypt the database as promised in the contract. As a result, the vendor has lost control of the data.

The vendor is extremely apologetic and offers to take responsibility for sending out the notifications. They tell you they set aside 2000 stamped postcards because that should reduce the time it takes to get the notice in the mail. One side is limited to their logo, but the other side is blank and they will accept whatever you want to write. You put their offer on hold and begin to develop the text around the space constraints. You are content to let the vendor’s logo be associated with the notification.

The notification explains that your company recently hired a vendor to store information about their most recent experience at St. Sebastian Hospital’s Clinic for Infectious Diseases. The vendor did not encrypt the information and no longer has control of it. All 2000 affected individuals are invited to sign-up for email notifications about their information. They simply need to go to your company’s website and watch a quick advertisement, then provide their name, email address, and month and year of birth.

You email the incident-response council for their buy-in before 9 a.m. If anything goes wrong in this situation, you want to diffuse the blame across your colleagues. Over the next eight hours, everyone emails their comments back and forth. The consultant who leads the incident-response team notes that it is his first day with the company, but he has been in other industries for 45 years and will do his best. One of the three lawyers on the council causes the conversation to veer off course, but it eventually gets back on track. At the end of the day, they vote to proceed with the notification you wrote and use the vendor’s postcards.

Shortly after the vendor mails the postcards, you learn the data was on a server that was stolen, and make the decision to have your company offer credit monitoring services. A quick internet search finds a credit monitoring company with a convincing name: Credit Under Lock and Key (CRUDLOK). Your sales rep has never handled a contract for 2000 people, but develops a proposal in about a day which says CRUDLOK will:

1.Send an enrollment invitation to everyone the day after the contract is signed.

2.Enroll someone with just their first name and the last-4 of their national identifier.

3.Monitor each enrollee’s credit for two years from the date of enrollment.

4.Send a monthly email with their credit rating and offers for credit-related services at market rates.

5.Charge your company 20% of the cost of any credit restoration.

You execute the contract and the enrollment invitations are emailed to the 2000 individuals. Three days later you sit down and document all that went well and all that could have gone better. You put it in a file to reference the next time an incident occurs.

Regarding the notification, which of the following would be the greatest concern?

Options:

A.  

Informing the affected individuals that data from other individuals may have also been affected.

B.  

Collecting more personally identifiable information than necessary to provide updates to the affected individuals.

C.  

Using a postcard with the logo of the vendor who make the mistake instead of your company’s logo.

D.  

Trusting a vendor to send out a notice when they already failed once by not encrypting the database.

Discussion 0
Questions 7

SCENARIO

Please use the following to answer the next QUESTION:

Your organization, the Chicago (U.S.)-based Society for Urban Greenspace, has used the same vendor to operate all aspects of an online store for several years. As a small nonprofit, the Society cannot afford the higher-priced options, but you have been relatively satisfied with this budget vendor, Shopping Cart Saver (SCS). Yes, there have been some issues. Twice, people who purchased items from the store have had their credit card information used fraudulently subsequent to transactions on your site, but in neither case did the investigation reveal with certainty that the Society’s store had been hacked. The thefts could have been employee-related.

Just as disconcerting was an incident where the organization discovered that SCS had sold information it had collected from customers to third parties. However, as Jason Roland, your SCS account representative, points out, it took only a phone call from you to clarify expectations and the “misunderstanding” has not occurred again.

As an information-technology program manager with the Society, the role of the privacy professional is only one of many you play. In all matters, however, you must consider the financial bottom line. While these problems with privacy protection have been significant, the additional revenues of sales of items such as shirts and coffee cups from the store have been significant. The Society’s operating budget is slim, and all sources of revenue are essential.

Now a new challenge has arisen. Jason called to say that starting in two weeks, the customer data from the store would now be stored on a data cloud. “The good news,” he says, “is that we have found a low-cost provider in Finland, where the data would also be held. So, while there may be a small charge to pass through to you, it won’t be exorbitant, especially considering the advantages of a cloud.”

Lately, you have been hearing about cloud computing and you know it’s fast becoming the new paradigm for various applications. However, you have heard mixed reviews about the potential impacts on privacy protection. You begin to research and discover that a number of the leading cloud service providers have signed a letter of intent to work together on shared conventions and technologies for privacy protection. You make a note to find out if Jason’s Finnish provider is signing on.

What is the best way to prevent the Finnish vendor from transferring data to another party?

Options:

A.  

Restrict the vendor to using company security controls

B.  

Offer company resources to assist with the processing

C.  

Include transfer prohibitions in the vendor contract

D.  

Lock the data down in its current location

Discussion 0
Questions 8

Which of the following is a physical control that can limit privacy risk?

Options:

A.  

Keypad or biometric access.

B.  

user access reviews.

C.  

Encryption.

D.  

Tokenization.

Discussion 0
Questions 9

What is the main function of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Privacy Framework?

Options:

A.  

Managing the data flows from parties outside the region.

B.  

Establishing legal requirements for privacy protection in the region.

C.  

Promoting privacy protection technologies developed in the region.

D.  

Promoting consumer trust and business confidence in cross-border data flows.

Discussion 0
Questions 10

SCENARIO

Please use the following to answer the next QUESTION:

Henry Home Furnishings has built high-end furniture for nearly forty years. However, the new owner, Anton, has found some degree of disorganization after touring the company headquarters. His uncle Henry had always focused on production – not data processing – and Anton is concerned. In several storage rooms, he has found paper files, disks, and old computers that appear to contain the personal data of current and former employees and customers. Anton knows that a single break-in could irrevocably damage the company's

relationship with its loyal customers. He intends to set a goal of guaranteed zero loss of personal information.

To this end, Anton originally planned to place restrictions on who was admitted to the physical premises of the company. However, Kenneth – his uncle's vice president and longtime confidante – wants to hold off on Anton's idea in favor of converting any paper records held at the company to electronic storage. Kenneth believes this process would only take one or two years. Anton likes this idea; he envisions a password- protected system that only he and Kenneth can access.

Anton also plans to divest the company of most of its subsidiaries. Not only will this make his job easier, but it will simplify the management of the stored data. The heads of subsidiaries like the art gallery and kitchenware store down the street will be responsible for their own information management. Then, any unneeded subsidiary data still in Anton's possession can be destroyed within the next few years.

After learning of a recent security incident, Anton realizes that another crucial step will be notifying customers. Kenneth insists that two lost hard drives in Question are not cause for concern; all of the data was encrypted and not sensitive in nature. Anton does not want to take any chances, however. He intends on sending notice letters to all employees and customers to be safe.

Anton must also check for compliance with all legislative, regulatory, and market requirements related to privacy protection. Kenneth oversaw the development of the company's online presence about ten years ago, but Anton is not confident about his understanding of recent online marketing laws. Anton is assigning another trusted employee with a law background the task of the compliance assessment. After a thorough analysis, Anton knows the company should be safe for another five years, at which time he can order another check.

Documentation of this analysis will show auditors due diligence.

Anton has started down a long road toward improved management of the company, but he knows the effort is worth it. Anton wants his uncle's legacy to continue for many years to come.

Which important principle of Data Lifecycle Management (DLM) will most likely be compromised if Anton executes his plan to limit data access to himself and Kenneth?

Options:

A.  

Practicing data minimalism.

B.  

Ensuring data retrievability.

C.  

Implementing clear policies.

D.  

Ensuring adequacy of infrastructure.

Discussion 0
Questions 11

Which of the following indicates you have developed the right privacy framework for your organization?

Options:

A.  

It includes a privacy assessment of each major system.

B.  

It improves the consistency of the privacy program.

C.  

It works at a different type of organization.

D.  

It identifies all key stakeholders by name.

Discussion 0
Questions 12

SCENARIO

Please use the following to answer the next QUESTION:

Henry Home Furnishings has built high-end furniture for nearly forty years. However, the new owner, Anton, has found some degree of disorganization after touring the company headquarters. His uncle Henry had always focused on production – not data processing – and Anton is concerned. In several storage rooms, he has found paper files, disks, and old computers that appear to contain the personal data of current and former employees and customers. Anton knows that a single break-in could irrevocably damage the company's relationship with its loyal customers. He intends to set a goal of guaranteed zero loss of personal information.

To this end, Anton originally planned to place restrictions on who was admitted to the physical premises of the company. However, Kenneth – his uncle's vice president and longtime confidante – wants to hold off on Anton's idea in favor of converting any paper records held at the company to electronic storage. Kenneth believes this process would only take one or two years. Anton likes this idea; he envisions a password- protected system that only he and Kenneth can access.

Anton also plans to divest the company of most of its subsidiaries. Not only will this make his job easier, but it will simplify the management of the stored data. The heads of subsidiaries like the art gallery and kitchenware store down the street will be responsible for their own information management. Then, any unneeded

subsidiary data still in Anton's possession can be destroyed within the next few years.

After learning of a recent security incident, Anton realizes that another crucial step will be notifying customers. Kenneth insists that two lost hard drives in Question are not cause for concern; all of the data was encrypted and not sensitive in nature. Anton does not want to take any chances, however. He intends on sending notice letters to all employees and customers to be safe.

Anton must also check for compliance with all legislative, regulatory, and market requirements related to privacy protection. Kenneth oversaw the development of the company's online presence about ten years ago, but Anton is not confident about his understanding of recent online marketing laws. Anton is assigning another trusted employee with a law background the task of the compliance assessment. After a thorough analysis, Anton knows the company should be safe for another five years, at which time he can order another check.

Documentation of this analysis will show auditors due diligence.

Anton has started down a long road toward improved management of the company, but he knows the effort is worth it. Anton wants his uncle's legacy to continue for many years to come.

What would the company's legal team most likely recommend to Anton regarding his planned communication with customers?

Options:

A.  

To send consistent communication.

B.  

To shift to electronic communication.

C.  

To delay communications until local authorities are informed.

D.  

To consider under what circumstances communication is necessary.

Discussion 0
Questions 13

SCENARIO

Please use the following to answer the next QUESTION:

Penny has recently joined Ace Space, a company that sells homeware accessories online, as its new privacy officer. The company is based in California but thanks to some great publicity from a social media influencer last year, the company has received an influx of sales from the EU and has set up a regional office in Ireland to support this expansion. To become familiar with Ace Space’s practices and assess what her privacy priorities will be, Penny has set up meetings with a number of colleagues to hear about the work that they have been doing and their compliance efforts.

Penny’s colleague in Marketing is excited by the new sales and the company’s plans, but is also concerned that Penny may curtail some of the growth opportunities he has planned. He tells her “I heard someone in the breakroom talking about some new privacy laws but I really don’t think it affects us. We’re just a small company. I mean we just sell accessories online, so what’s the real risk?” He has also told her that he works with a number of small companies that help him get projects completed in a hurry. “We’ve got to meet our deadlines otherwise we lose money. I just sign the contracts and get Jim in finance to push through the payment. Reviewing the contracts takes time that we just don’t have.”

In her meeting with a member of the IT team, Penny has learned that although Ace Space has taken a number of precautions to protect its website from malicious activity, it has not taken the same level of care of its physical files or internal infrastructure. Penny’s colleague in IT has told her that a former employee lost an encrypted USB key with financial data on it when he left. The company nearly lost access to their customer database last year after they fell victim to a phishing attack. Penny is told by her IT colleague that the IT team “didn’t know what to do or who should do what. We hadn’t been trained on it but we’re a small team though, so

it worked out OK in the end.” Penny is concerned that these issues will compromise Ace Space’s privacy and data protection.

Penny is aware that the company has solid plans to grow its international sales and will be working closely with the CEO to give the organization a data “shake up”. Her mission is to cultivate a strong privacy culture within the company.

Penny has a meeting with Ace Space’s CEO today and has been asked to give her first impressions and an overview of her next steps.

To establish the current baseline of Ace Space’s privacy maturity, Penny should consider all of the following factors EXCEPT?

Options:

A.  

Ace Space’s documented procedures

B.  

Ace Space’s employee training program

C.  

Ace Space’s vendor engagement protocols

D.  

Ace Space’s content sharing practices on social media

Discussion 0
Questions 14

An online retailer detects an incident involving customer shopping history but no keys have been compromised. The Privacy Offce is most concerned when it also involves?

Options:

A.  

Internal unique personal identifiers.

B.  

Plain text personal identifiers.

C.  

Hashed mobile identifiers.

D.  

No personal identifiers.

Discussion 0
Questions 15

Under which circumstances would people who work in human resources be considered a secondary audience for privacy metrics?

Options:

A.  

They do not receive training on privacy issues

B.  

They do not interface with the financial office

C.  

They do not have privacy policy as their main task

D.  

They do not have frequent interactions with the public

Discussion 0
Questions 16

(The best way for an organization to stay aware of changes made by vendors that may then impact the organization’s privacy practices is to?)

Options:

A.  

Enforce relevant notification obligations under the data processing agreements with vendors.

B.  

Include data definitions in each technology vendor contract.

C.  

Employ controls for vendor access to shared data.

D.  

Conduct periodic vendor technology privacy impact assessments

Discussion 0
Questions 17

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) specifies fines that may be levied against data controllers for certain infringements. Which of the following will be subject to administrative fines of up to 10 000 000 EUR, or in the case of an undertaking, up to 2% of the total worldwide annual turnover of the preceding financial year?

Options:

A.  

Failure to demonstrate that consent was given by the data subject to the processing of their personal data where it is used as the basis for processing

B.  

Failure to implement technical and organizational measures to ensure data protection is enshrined by design and default

C.  

Failure to process personal information in a manner compatible with its original purpose

D.  

Failure to provide the means for a data subject to rectify inaccuracies in personal data

Discussion 0
Questions 18

SCENARIO

Please use the following to answer the next question:

Liam is the newly appointed information technology (IT) compliance manager at Mesa, a USbased outdoor clothing brand with a global E-commerce presence. During his second week, he is contacted by the company’s IT audit manager, who informs him that the auditing team will be conducting a review of Mesa’s privacy compliance risk in a month.

A bit nervous about the audit, Liam asks his boss what his predecessor had completed related to privacy compliance before leaving the company. Liam is told that a consent management tool had been added to the website and they commissioned a privacy risk evaluation from a small consulting firm last year that determined that their risk exposure was relatively low given their current control environment. After reading the consultant’s report, Liam realized that the scope of the assessment was limited to breach notification laws in the US and the Payment Card Industry’s Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).

Not wanting to let down his new team, Liam kept his concerns about the report to himself and figured he could try to put some additional controls into place before the audit. Having some privacy compliance experience in his last role, Liam thought he might start by having discussions with the E-commerce and marketing teams.

The E-commerce Director informed him that they were still using the cookie consent tool forcibly placed on the home screen by the CIO, but could not understand the point since their office was not located in California or Europe. The marketing director touted his department’s success with purchasing email lists and taking a shotgun approach to direct marketing. Both directors highlighted their tracking tools on the website to enhance customer experience while learning more about where else the customer had shopped. The more people Liam met with, the more it became apparent that privacy awareness and the general control environment at Mesa needed help.

With three weeks before the audit, Liam updated Mesa's Privacy Notice himself, which was taken and revised from a competitor’s website. He also wrote policies and procedures outlining the roles and responsibilities for privacy within Mesa and distributed the document to all departments he knew of with access to personal information.

During this time. Liam also filled the backlog of data subject requests for deletion that had been sent to him by the customer service manager. Liam worked with application owners to remove these individual's information and order history from the customer relationship management (CRM) tool, the enterprise resource planning (ERP). the data warehouse and the email server.

At the audit kick-off meeting. Liam explained to his boss and her team that there may still be some room for improvement, but he thought the risk had been mitigated to an appropriate level based on the work he had done thus far.

After the audit had been completed, the audit manager and Liam met to discuss her team’s findings, and much to his dismay. Liam was told that none of the work he had completed prior to the audit followed best practices for governance and risk mitigation. In fact, his actions only opened the company up to additional risk and scrutiny. Based on these findings. Liam worked with external counsel and an established privacy consultant to develop a remediation plan.

All of the key phases of an audit have occurred with Liam's involvement in the situation EXCEPT?

Options:

A.  

Prepare.

B.  

Audit.

C.  

Report.

D.  

Follow-up.

Discussion 0
Questions 19

Incipia Corporation just trained the last of its 300 employees on their new privacy policies and procedures.

If Incipia wanted to analyze the effectiveness of the training over the next 6 months, which form of trend analysis should they use?

Options:

A.  

Cyclical.

B.  

Irregular.

C.  

Statistical.

D.  

Standard variance.

Discussion 0
Questions 20

Which of the following is a common disadvantage of a third-party audit?

Options:

A.  

It identifies weaknesses of internal controls.

B.  

It lends credibility to an internal audit program.

C.  

It requires a learning curve about the organization.

D.  

It provides a level of unbiased, expert recommendations.

Discussion 0
Questions 21

Which of the following is TRUE about a PIA (Privacy Impact Analysis)?

Options:

A.  

Any project that involves the use of personal data requires a PIA

B.  

A Data Protection Impact Analysis (DPIA) process includes a PIA

C.  

The PIA must be conducted at the early stages of the project lifecycle

D.  

The results from a previous information audit can be leveraged in a PIA process

Discussion 0
Questions 22

Which of the documents below assists the Privacy Manager in identifying and responding to a request from an individual about what personal information the organization holds about then with whom the information is shared?

Options:

A.  

Risk register

B.  

Privacy policy

C.  

Records retention schedule

D.  

Personal information inventory

Discussion 0
Questions 23

What should be the first major goal of a company developing a new privacy program?

Options:

A.  

To survey potential funding sources for privacy team resources.

B.  

To schedule conversations with executives of affected departments.

C.  

To identify potential third-party processors of the organization's information.

D.  

To create Data Lifecycle Management policies and procedures to limit data collection.

Discussion 0
Questions 24

SCENARIO

Please use the following to answer the next QUESTION:

Amira is thrilled about the sudden expansion of NatGen. As the joint Chief Executive Officer (CEO) with her long-time business partner Sadie, Amira has watched the company grow into a major competitor in the green energy market. The current line of products includes wind turbines, solar energy panels, and equipment for geothermal systems. A talented team of developers means that NatGen's line of products will only continue to grow.

With the expansion, Amira and Sadie have received advice from new senior staff members brought on to help manage the company's growth. One recent suggestion has been to combine the legal and security functions of the company to ensure observance of privacy laws and the company's own privacy policy. This sounds overly complicated to Amira, who wants departments to be able to use, collect, store, and dispose of customer data in ways that will best suit their needs. She does not want administrative oversight and complex structuring to get in the way of people doing innovative work.

Sadie has a similar outlook. The new Chief Information Officer (CIO) has proposed what Sadie believes is an unnecessarily long timetable for designing a new privacy program. She has assured him that NatGen will use the best possible equipment for electronic storage of customer and employee data. She simply needs a list of equipment and an estimate of its cost. But the CIO insists that many issues are necessary to consider before the company gets to that stage.

Regardless, Sadie and Amira insist on giving employees space to do their jobs. Both CEOs want to entrust the monitoring of employee policy compliance to low-level managers. Amira and Sadie believe these managers can adjust the company privacy policy according to what works best for their particular departments. NatGen's CEOs know that flexible interpretations of the privacy policy in the name of promoting green energy would be highly unlikely to raise any concerns with their customer base, as long as the data is always used in course of normal business activities.

Perhaps what has been most perplexing to Sadie and Amira has been the CIO's recommendation to institute a

privacy compliance hotline. Sadie and Amira have relented on this point, but they hope to compromise by allowing employees to take turns handling reports of privacy policy violations. The implementation will be easy because the employees need no special preparation. They will simply have to document any concerns they hear.

Sadie and Amira are aware that it will be challenging to stay true to their principles and guard against corporate culture strangling creativity and employee morale. They hope that all senior staff will see the benefit of trying a unique approach.

What is the most likely reason the Chief Information Officer (CIO) believes that generating a list of needed IT equipment is NOT adequate?

Options:

A.  

The company needs to have policies and procedures in place to guide the purchasing decisions.

B.  

The privacy notice for customers and the Business Continuity Plan (BCP) still need to be reviewed.

C.  

Staff members across departments need time to review technical information concerning any new databases.

D.  

Senior staff members need to first commit to adopting a minimum number of Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs).

Discussion 0
Questions 25

Under the GDPR, what obligation does a data controller or processor have after appointing a data protection officer (DPO)?

Options:

A.  

To submit for approval to the DPO a code of conduct to govern organizational practices and demonstrate compliance with data protection principles.

B.  

To provide resources necessary to carry out the defined tasks of the DPO and to maintain their expert knowledge.

C.  

To ensure that the DPO acts as the sole point of contact for individuals' questions about their personal data.

D.  

To ensure that the DPO receives sufficient instructions regarding the exercise of their defined tasks.

Discussion 0
Questions 26

If done correctly, how can a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) create a win/win scenario for organizations and individuals?

Options:

A.  

By quickly identifying potentially problematic data attributes and reducing the risk exposure.

B.  

By allowing Data Controllers to solicit feedback from individuals about how they feel about the potential data processing.

C.  

By enabling Data Controllers to be proactive in their analysis of processing activities and ensuring compliance with the law.

D.  

By better informing about the risks associated with the processing activity and improving the organization's transparency with individuals.

Discussion 0
Questions 27

SCENARIO

Please use the following to answer the next QUESTION:

For 15 years, Albert has worked at Treasure Box – a mail order company in the United States (U.S.) that used to sell decorative candles around the world, but has recently decided to limit its shipments to customers in the 48 contiguous states. Despite his years of experience, Albert is often overlooked for managerial positions. His frustration about not being promoted, coupled with his recent interest in issues of privacy protection, have motivated Albert to be an agent of positive change.

He will soon interview for a newly advertised position, and during the interview, Albert plans on making executives aware of lapses in the company’s privacy program. He feels certain he will be rewarded with a promotion for preventing negative consequences resulting from the company’s outdated policies and procedures.

For example, Albert has learned about the AICPA (American Institute of Certified Public Accountans)/CICA (Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants) Privacy Maturity Model (PMM). Albert thinks the model is a useful way to measure Treasure Box’s ability to protect personal data. Albert has noticed that Treasure Box fails to meet the requirements of the highest level of maturity of this model; at his interview, Albert will pledge to assist the company with meeting this level in order to provide customers with the most rigorous security available.

Albert does want to show a positive outlook during his interview. He intends to praise the company’s commitment to the security of customer and employee personal data against external threats. However, Albert worries about the high turnover rate within the company, particularly in the area of direct phone marketing. He sees many unfamiliar faces every day who are hired to do the marketing, and he often hears complaints in the lunch room regarding long hours and low pay, as well as what seems to be flagrant disregard for company procedures.

In addition, Treasure Box has had two recent security incidents. The company has responded to the incidents with internal audits and updates to security safeguards. However, profits still seem to be affected and anecdotal evidence indicates that many people still harbor mistrust. Albert wants to help the company recover. He knows there is at least one incident the public in unaware of, although Albert does not know the details. He believes the company’s insistence on keeping the incident a secret could be a further detriment to its reputation. One further way that Albert wants to help Treasure Box regain its stature is by creating a toll-free number for customers, as well as a more efficient procedure for responding to customer concerns by postal mail.

In addition to his suggestions for improvement, Albert believes that his knowledge of the company’s recent business maneuvers will also impress the interviewers. For example, Albert is aware of the company’s intention to acquire a medical supply company in the coming weeks.

With his forward thinking, Albert hopes to convince the managers who will be interviewing him that he is right for the job.

Based on Albert’s observations regarding recent security incidents, which of the following should he suggest as a priority for Treasure Box?

Options:

A.  

Appointing an internal ombudsman to address employee complaints regarding hours and pay.

B.  

Using a third-party auditor to address privacy protection issues not recognized by the prior internal audits.

C.  

Working with the Human Resources department to make screening procedures for potential employees more rigorous.

D.  

Evaluating the company’s ability to handle personal health information if the plan to acquire the medical supply company goes forward

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Questions 28

SCENARIO

Please use the following to answer the next QUESTION:

Martin Briseño is the director of human resources at the Canyon City location of the U.S. hotel chain Pacific Suites. In 1998, Briseño decided to change the hotel’s on-the-job mentoring model to a standardized training program for employees who were progressing from line positions into supervisory positions. He developed a curriculum comprising a series of lessons, scenarios, and assessments, which was delivered in-person to small groups. Interest in the training increased, leading Briseño to work with corporate HR specialists and software engineers to offer the program in an online format. The online program saved the cost of a trainer and allowed participants to work through the material at their own pace.

Upon hearing about the success of Briseño’s program, Pacific Suites corporate Vice President Maryanne Silva-Hayes expanded the training and offered it company-wide. Employees who completed the program received certification as a Pacific Suites Hospitality Supervisor. By 2001, the program had grown to provide

industry-wide training. Personnel at hotels across the country could sign up and pay to take the course online. As the program became increasingly profitable, Pacific Suites developed an offshoot business, Pacific Hospitality Training (PHT). The sole focus of PHT was developing and marketing a variety of online courses and course progressions providing a number of professional certifications in the hospitality industry.

By setting up a user account with PHT, course participants could access an information library, sign up for courses, and take end-of-course certification tests. When a user opened a new account, all information was saved by default, including the user’s name, date of birth, contact information, credit card information, employer, and job title. The registration page offered an opt-out choice that users could click to not have their credit card numbers saved. Once a user name and password were established, users could return to check their course status, review and reprint their certifications, and sign up and pay for new courses. Between 2002 and 2008, PHT issued more than 700,000 professional certifications.

PHT’s profits declined in 2009 and 2010, the victim of industry downsizing and increased competition from e- learning providers. By 2011, Pacific Suites was out of the online certification business and PHT was dissolved. The training program’s systems and records remained in Pacific Suites’ digital archives, un-accessed and unused. Briseño and Silva-Hayes moved on to work for other companies, and there was no plan for handling the archived data after the program ended. After PHT was dissolved, Pacific Suites executives turned their attention to crucial day-to-day operations. They planned to deal with the PHT materials once resources allowed.

In 2012, the Pacific Suites computer network was hacked. Malware installed on the online reservation system exposed the credit card information of hundreds of hotel guests. While targeting the financial data on the reservation site, hackers also discovered the archived training course data and registration accounts of Pacific Hospitality Training’s customers. The result of the hack was the exfiltration of the credit card numbers of recent hotel guests and the exfiltration of the PHT database with all its contents.

A Pacific Suites systems analyst discovered the information security breach in a routine scan of activity reports. Pacific Suites quickly notified credit card companies and recent hotel guests of the breach, attempting to prevent serious harm. Technical security engineers faced a challenge in dealing with the PHT data.

PHT course administrators and the IT engineers did not have a system for tracking, cataloguing, and storing information. Pacific Suites has procedures in place for data access and storage, but those procedures were not implemented when PHT was formed. When the PHT database was acquired by Pacific Suites, it had no owner or oversight. By the time technical security engineers determined what private information was compromised, at least 8,000 credit card holders were potential victims of fraudulent activity.

What must Pacific Suite’s primary focus be as it manages this security breach?

Options:

A.  

Minimizing the amount of harm to the affected individuals

B.  

Investigating the cause and assigning responsibility

C.  

Determining whether the affected individuals should be notified

D.  

Maintaining operations and preventing publicity

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Questions 29

(Which of the following should be your first step when conducting an internal privacy audit focused on identifying cross-border data transfers in cloud environments?)

Options:

A.  

Map the data and the locations where it is processed.

B.  

Review the data inventory.

C.  

Enable encryption of the data in transit by default.

D.  

Review the list of the cloud providers and their location.

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Questions 30

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), what are the obligations of a processor that engages a sub-processor?

Options:

A.  

The processor must give the controller prior written notice and perform a preliminary audit of the sub-processor.

B.  

The processor must Obtain the controllers specifiC written authorization and provide annual reports on the sub-processor'S performance.

C.  

The processor must receive a written agreement that the sub-processor will be fully liable to the controller for the performance of its obligations in relation to the personal data concerned.

D.  

The processor must obtain the consent of the controller and ensure the sub-processor complies with data processing obligations that are equivalent to those that apply to the processor.

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Questions 31

(All of the following are the responsibilities of the privacy professional EXCEPT?)

Options:

A.  

Monitoring compliance with data protection laws and regulations.

B.  

Conducting privacy impact assessments (PIA).

C.  

Defining the organization's data strategy.

D.  

Ensuring privacy audits are regularly conducted.

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Questions 32

When devising effective employee policies to address a particular issue, which of the following should be included in the first draft?

Options:

A.  

Rationale for the policy.

B.  

Points of contact for the employee.

C.  

Roles and responsibilities of the different groups of individuals.

D.  

Explanation of how the policy is applied within the organization.

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Questions 33

Which of the following is an example of Privacy by Design (PbD)?

Options:

A.  

A company hires a professional to structure a privacy program that anticipates the increasing demands of new laws.

B.  

The human resources group develops a training program for employees to become certified in privacy policy.

C.  

A labor union insists that the details of employers' data protection methods be documented in a new contract.

D.  

The information technology group uses privacy considerations to inform the development of new networking software.

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Questions 34

What is the function of the privacy operational life cycle?

Options:

A.  

It establishes initial plans for privacy protection and implementation

B.  

It allows the organization to respond to ever-changing privacy demands

C.  

It ensures that outdated privacy policies are retired on a set schedule

D.  

It allows privacy policies to mature to a fixed form

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Questions 35

SCENARIO

Please use the following to answer the next QUESTION:

Penny has recently joined Ace Space, a company that sells homeware accessories online, as its new privacy officer. The company is based in California but thanks to some great publicity from a social media influencer last year, the company has received an influx of sales from the EU and has set up a regional office in Ireland to support this expansion. To become familiar with Ace Space’s practices and assess what her privacy priorities will be, Penny has set up meetings with a number of colleagues to hear about the work that they have been doing and their compliance efforts.

Penny’s colleague in Marketing is excited by the new sales and the company’s plans, but is also concerned that Penny may curtail some of the growth opportunities he has planned. He tells her “I heard someone in the breakroom talking about some new privacy laws but I really don’t think it affects us. We’re just a small company. I mean we just sell accessories online, so what’s the real risk?” He has also told her that he works with a number of small companies that help him get projects completed in a hurry. “We’ve got to meet our deadlines otherwise we lose money. I just sign the contracts and get Jim in finance to push through the payment. Reviewing the contracts takes time that we just don’t have.”

In her meeting with a member of the IT team, Penny has learned that although Ace Space has taken a number of precautions to protect its website from malicious activity, it has not taken the same level of care of its physical files or internal infrastructure. Penny’s colleague in IT has told her that a former employee lost an encrypted USB key with financial data on it when he left. The company nearly lost access to their customer database last year after they fell victim to a phishing attack. Penny is told by her IT colleague that the IT team “didn’t know what to do or who should do what. We hadn’t been trained on it but we’re a small team though, so it worked out OK in the end.” Penny is concerned that these issues will compromise Ace Space’s privacy and data protection.

Penny is aware that the company has solid plans to grow its international sales and will be working closely with the CEO to give the organization a data “shake up”. Her mission is to cultivate a strong privacy culture within the company.

Penny has a meeting with Ace Space’s CEO today and has been asked to give her first impressions and an overview of her next steps.

To help Penny and her CEO with their objectives, what would be the most helpful approach to address her IT concerns?

Options:

A.  

Roll out an encryption policy

B.  

Undertake a tabletop exercise

C.  

Ensure inventory of IT assets is maintained

D.  

Host a town hall discussion for all IT employees

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Questions 36

What is the best way to understand the location, use and importance of personal data within an organization?

Options:

A.  

By analyzing the data inventory.

B.  

By testing the security of data systems.

C.  

By evaluating methods for collecting data.

D.  

By interviewing employees tasked with data entry.

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Questions 37

What United States federal law requires financial institutions to declare their personal data collection practices?

Options:

A.  

The Kennedy-Hatch Disclosure Act of 1997.

B.  

The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999.

C.  

SUPCLA, or the federal Superprivacy Act of 2001.

D.  

The Financial Portability and Accountability Act of 2006.

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Questions 38

All of the following would be recommended for effective identity access management (IAM) EXCEPT?

Options:

A.  

User responsibility.

B.  

Demographics.

C.  

Biometrics.

D.  

Credentials.

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Questions 39

Which of the following is the most likely way an independent privacy organization might work to promote sound privacy practices?

Options:

A.  

By developing principles for self-regulation.

B.  

By enacting new legislation.

C.  

By completing on-site audits.

D.  

By issuing penalties for violations of rules.

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Questions 40

A minimum requirement for carrying out a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) would include?

Options:

A.  

Processing on a large scale of special categories of data.

B.  

Monitoring of a publicly accessible area on a large scale.

C.  

Assessment of the necessity and proportionality.

D.  

Assessment of security measures.

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Questions 41

SCENARIO

Please use the following to answer the next question:

Liam is the newly appointed information technology (IT) compliance manager at Mesa, a USbased outdoor clothing brand with a global E-commerce presence. During his second week, he is contacted by the company’s IT audit manager, who informs him that the auditing team will be conducting a review of Mesa’s privacy compliance risk in a month.

A bit nervous about the audit, Liam asks his boss what his predecessor had completed related to privacy compliance before leaving the company. Liam is told that a consent management tool had been added to the website and they commissioned a privacy risk evaluation from a small consulting firm last year that determined that their risk exposure was relatively low given their current control environment. After reading the consultant’s report, Liam realized that the scope of the assessment was limited to breach notification laws in the US and the Payment Card Industry’s Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).

Not wanting to let down his new team, Liam kept his concerns about the report to himself and figured he could try to put some additional controls into place before the audit. Having some privacy compliance experience in his last role, Liam thought he might start by having discussions with the E-commerce and marketing teams.

The E-commerce Director informed him that they were still using the cookie consent tool forcibly placed on the home screen by the CIO, but could not understand the point since their office was not located in California or Europe. The marketing director touted his department’s success with purchasing email lists and taking a shotgun approach to direct marketing. Both directors highlighted their tracking tools on the website to enhance customer experience while learning more about where else the customer had shopped. The more people Liam met with, the more it became apparent that privacy awareness and the general control environment at Mesa needed help.

With three weeks before the audit, Liam updated Mesa's Privacy Notice himself, which was taken and revised from a competitor’s website. He also wrote policies and procedures outlining the roles and responsibilities for privacy within Mesa and distributed the document to all departments he knew of with access to personal information.

During this time. Liam also filled the backlog of data subject requests for deletion that had been sent to him by the customer service manager. Liam worked with application owners to remove these individual's information and order history from the customer relationship management (CRM) tool, the enterprise resource planning (ERP). the data warehouse and the email server.

At the audit kick-off meeting. Liam explained to his boss and her team that there may still be some room for improvement, but he thought the risk had been mitigated to an appropriate level based on the work he had done thus far.

After the audit had been completed, the audit manager and Liam met to discuss her team’s findings, and much to his dismay. Liam was told that none of the work he had completed prior to the audit followed best practices for governance and risk mitigation. In fact, his actions only opened the company up to additional risk and scrutiny. Based on these findings. Liam worked with external counsel and an established privacy consultant to develop a remediation plan.

Given the feedback provided to Liam after the audit, what maturity level would the audit team most likely have assigned to Mesa’s privacy policies and procedures if they use the Privacy Maturity Model (PMM)?

Options:

A.  

Repeatable.

B.  

Ad-hoc.

C.  

Defined.

D.  

Managed.

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Questions 42

What is the main reason to begin with 3-5 key metrics during the program development process?

Options:

A.  

To avoid undue financial costs.

B.  

To keep the focus on the main organizational objectives.

C.  

To minimize selective data use.

D.  

To keep the process limited to as few people as possible.

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Questions 43

All of the following are access control measures required by the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) EXCEPT?

Options:

A.  

Restrict physical access to cardholder data.

B.  

Update antivirus software before granting access.

C.  

Assign a unique ID to each person with computer access.

D.  

Restrict access to cardholder data by business need-to-know.

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Questions 44

Which is TRUE about the scope and authority of data protection oversight authorities?

Options:

A.  

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) of Canada has the right to impose financial sanctions onviolators.

B.  

All authority in the European Union rests with the Data Protection Commission (DPC).

C.  

No one agency officially oversees the enforcement of privacy regulations in the United States.

D.  

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Privacy Frameworks require all member nations to designate a national data protection authority.

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Questions 45

Your marketing team wants to know why they need a check box for their SMS opt-in. You explain it is part of the consumer's right to?

Options:

A.  

Request correction.

B.  

Raise complaints.

C.  

Have access.

D.  

Be informed.

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Questions 46

SCENARIO

Please use the following to answer the next QUESTION:

Natalia, CFO of the Nationwide Grill restaurant chain, had never seen her fellow executives so anxious. Last week, a data processing firm used by the company reported that its system may have been hacked, and customer data such as names, addresses, and birthdays may have been compromised. Although the attempt was proven unsuccessful, the scare has prompted several Nationwide Grill executives to Question the company's privacy program at today's meeting.

Alice, a vice president, said that the incident could have opened the door to lawsuits, potentially damaging Nationwide Grill's market position. The Chief Information Officer (CIO), Brendan, tried to assure her that even if there had been an actual breach, the chances of a successful suit against the company were slim. But Alice remained unconvinced.

Spencer – a former CEO and currently a senior advisor – said that he had always warned against the use of contractors for data processing. At the very least, he argued, they should be held contractually liable for telling customers about any security incidents. In his view, Nationwide Grill should not be forced to soil the company name for a problem it did not cause.

One of the business development (BD) executives, Haley, then spoke, imploring everyone to see reason. "Breaches can happen, despite organizations' best efforts," she remarked. "Reasonable preparedness is key." She reminded everyone of the incident seven years ago when the large grocery chain Tinkerton's had its financial information compromised after a large order of Nationwide Grill frozen dinners. As a long-time BD executive with a solid understanding of Tinkerton's's corporate culture, built up through many years of cultivating relationships, Haley was able to successfully manage the company's incident response.

Spencer replied that acting with reason means allowing security to be handled by the security functions within the company – not BD staff. In a similar way, he said, Human Resources (HR) needs to do a better job training employees to prevent incidents. He pointed out that Nationwide Grill employees are overwhelmed with posters, emails, and memos from both HR and the ethics department related to the company's privacy program. Both the volume and the duplication of information means that it is often ignored altogether.

Spencer said, "The company needs to dedicate itself to its privacy program and set regular in-person trainings for all staff once a month."

Alice responded that the suggestion, while well-meaning, is not practical. With many locations, local HR departments need to have flexibility with their training schedules. Silently, Natalia agreed.

Based on the scenario, Nationwide Grill needs to create better employee awareness of the company's privacy program by doing what?

Options:

A.  

Varying the modes of communication.

B.  

Communicating to the staff more often.

C.  

Improving inter-departmental cooperation.

D.  

Requiring acknowledgment of company memos.

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Questions 47

While trying to e-mail her manager, an employee has e-mailed a list of all the company's customers, including their bank details, to an employee with the same name at a different company. Which of the following would be the first stage in the incident response plan under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)?

Options:

A.  

Notification to data subjects.

B.  

Containment of impact of breach.

C.  

Remediation offers to data subjects.

D.  

Notification to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).

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Questions 48

In a sample metric template, what does “target” mean?

Options:

A.  

The suggested volume of data to collect

B.  

The percentage of completion

C.  

The threshold for a satisfactory rating

D.  

The frequency at which the data is sampled

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Questions 49

Which of the following is NOT an important factor to consider when developing a data retention policy?

Options:

A.  

Technology resource.

B.  

Business requirement.

C.  

Organizational culture.

D.  

Compliance requirement

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Questions 50

SCENARIO

Please use the following to answer the next QUESTION:

As they company’s new chief executive officer, Thomas Goddard wants to be known as a leader in data protection. Goddard recently served as the chief financial officer of Hoopy.com, a pioneer in online video viewing with millions of users around the world. Unfortunately, Hoopy is infamous within privacy protection circles for its ethically Questionable practices, including unauthorized sales of personal data to marketers. Hoopy also was the target of credit card data theft that made headlines around the world, as at least two million credit card numbers were thought to have been pilfered despite the company’s claims that “appropriate” data protection safeguards were in place. The scandal affected the company’s business as competitors were quick to market an increased level of protection while offering similar entertainment and media content. Within three weeks after the scandal broke, Hoopy founder and CEO Maxwell Martin, Goddard’s mentor, was forced to step down.

Goddard, however, seems to have landed on his feet, securing the CEO position at your company, Medialite, which is just emerging from its start-up phase. He sold the company’s board and investors on his vision of Medialite building its brand partly on the basis of industry-leading data protection standards and procedures. He may have been a key part of a lapsed or even rogue organization in matters of privacy but now he claims to be reformed and a true believer in privacy protection. In his first week on the job, he calls you into his office and explains that your primary work responsibility is to bring his vision for privacy to life. But you also detect some reservations. “We want Medialite to have absolutely the highest standards,” he says. “In fact, I want us to be able to say that we are the clear industry leader in privacy and data protection. However, I also need to be a responsible steward of the company’s finances. So, while I want the best solutions across the board, they also need to be cost effective.”

You are told to report back in a week’s time with your recommendations. Charged with this ambiguous mission, you depart the executive suite, already considering your next steps.

The company has achieved a level of privacy protection that established new best practices for the industry. What is a logical next step to help ensure a high level of protection?

Options:

A.  

Brainstorm methods for developing an enhanced privacy framework

B.  

Develop a strong marketing strategy to communicate the company’s privacy practices

C.  

Focus on improving the incident response plan in preparation for any breaks in protection

D.  

Shift attention to privacy for emerging technologies as the company begins to use them

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Questions 51

Which of the following is TRUE about the Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) process as required under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)?

Options:

A.  

The DPIA result must be reported to the corresponding supervisory authority.

B.  

The DPIA report must be published to demonstrate the transparency of the data processing.

C.  

The DPIA must include a description of the proposed processing operation and its purpose.

D.  

The DPIA is required if the processing activity entails risk to the rights and freedoms of an EU individual.

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Questions 52

The first step an organization should take when considering the use of a third-party's AI-based resume ranking tool is to?

Options:

A.  

Secure stakeholder buy-in and approval to ensure the tool meets the organization's requirements.

B.  

Conduct an assessment of the tool's impact both on privacy and on conformity with applicable AI regulation.

C.  

Distribute a notice to the candidates whose resumes the tool will assess to ensure they understand and consent to the use of the tool.

D.  

Secure appropriate contractual concessions to ensure that the developer is primarily responsible for any violation of applicable privacy law.

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Questions 53

SCENARIO

Please use the following to answer the next QUESTION:

Henry Home Furnishings has built high-end furniture for nearly forty years. However, the new owner, Anton, has found some degree of disorganization after touring the company headquarters. His uncle Henry had always focused on production – not data processing – and Anton is concerned. In several storage rooms, he has found paper files, disks, and old computers that appear to contain the personal data of current and former employees and customers. Anton knows that a single break-in could irrevocably damage the company's relationship with its loyal customers. He intends to set a goal of guaranteed zero loss of personal information.

To this end, Anton originally planned to place restrictions on who was admitted to the physical premises of the company. However, Kenneth – his uncle's vice president and longtime confidante – wants to hold off on Anton's idea in favor of converting any paper records held at the company to electronic storage. Kenneth believes this process would only take one or two years. Anton likes this idea; he envisions a password- protected system that only he and Kenneth can access.

Anton also plans to divest the company of most of its subsidiaries. Not only will this make his job easier, but it will simplify the management of the stored data. The heads of subsidiaries like the art gallery and kitchenware store down the street will be responsible for their own information management. Then, any unneeded subsidiary data still in Anton's possession can be destroyed within the next few years.

After learning of a recent security incident, Anton realizes that another crucial step will be notifying customers. Kenneth insists that two lost hard drives in Question are not cause for concern; all of the data was encrypted and not sensitive in nature. Anton does not want to take any chances, however. He intends on sending notice letters to all employees and customers to be safe.

Anton must also check for compliance with all legislative, regulatory, and market requirements related to privacy protection. Kenneth oversaw the development of the company's online presence about ten years ago, but Anton is not confident about his understanding of recent online marketing laws. Anton is assigning another trusted employee with a law background the task of the compliance assessment. After a thorough analysis, Anton knows the company should be safe for another five years, at which time he can order another check.

Documentation of this analysis will show auditors due diligence.

Anton has started down a long road toward improved management of the company, but he knows the effort is worth it. Anton wants his uncle's legacy to continue for many years to come.

To improve the facility's system of data security, Anton should consider following through with the plan for which of the following?

Options:

A.  

Customer communication.

B.  

Employee access to electronic storage.

C.  

Employee advisement regarding legal matters.

D.  

Controlled access at the company headquarters.

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Questions 54

SCENARIO

Please use the following to answer the next QUESTION:

Manasa is a product manager at Omnipresent Omnimedia, where she is responsible for leading the development of the company's flagship product, the Handy Helper. The Handy Helper is an application that can be used in the home to manage family calendars, do online shopping, and schedule doctor appointments. After having had a successful launch in the United States, the Handy Helper is about to be made available for purchase worldwide.

The packaging and user guide for the Handy Helper indicate that it is a "privacy friendly" product suitable for the whole family, including children, but does not provide any further detail or privacy notice. In order to use the application, a family creates a single account, and the primary user has access to all information about the other users. Upon start up, the primary user must check a box consenting to receive marketing emails from Omnipresent Omnimedia and selected marketing partners in order to be able to use the application.

Sanjay, the head of privacy at Omnipresent Omnimedia, was working on an agreement with a European distributor of Handy Helper when he fielded many Questions about the product from the distributor. Sanjay needed to look more closely at the product in order to be able to answer the Questions as he was not involved in the product development process.

In speaking with the product team, he learned that the Handy Helper collected and stored all of a user's sensitive medical information for the medical appointment scheduler. In fact, all of the user's information is stored by Handy Helper for the additional purpose of creating additional products and to analyze usage of the

product. This data is all stored in the cloud and is encrypted both during transmission and at rest.

Consistent with the CEO's philosophy that great new product ideas can come from anyone, all Omnipresent Omnimedia employees have access to user data under a program called Eureka. Omnipresent Omnimedia is hoping that at some point in the future, the data will reveal insights that could be used to create a fully automated application that runs on artificial intelligence, but as of yet, Eureka is not well-defined and is considered a long-term goal.

What can Sanjay do to minimize the risks of offering the product in Europe?

Options:

A.  

Sanjay should advise the distributor that Omnipresent Omnimedia has certified to the Privacy Shield Framework and there should be no issues.

B.  

Sanjay should work with Manasa to review and remediate the Handy Helper as a gating item before it is released.

C.  

Sanjay should document the data life cycle of the data collected by the Handy Helper.

D.  

Sanjay should write a privacy policy to include with the Handy Helper user guide.

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Questions 55

With whom would it be best for a privacy professional in an organization to consult regarding Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs)?

Options:

A.  

A specialist focused on AI.

B.  

An independent privacy technology advocate.

C.  

An engineer who designs information security technology products.

D.  

An information technologist specializing in information privacy technology.

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Questions 56

A privacy maturity model provides all of the following EXCEPT?

Options:

A.  

A standard reference to assess a privacy program's current level of development.

B.  

A way to highlight what functions a company lacks for proper program management.

C.  

A way to guarantee that a company is compliant with applicable laws and regulations.

D.  

An example of the methods and practices necessary to evaluate a company’s level of risk.

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Questions 57

In regards to the collection of personal data conducted by an organization, what must the data subject be allowed to do?

Options:

A.  

Evaluate the qualifications of a third-party processor before any data is transferred to that processor.

B.  

Obtain a guarantee of prompt notification in instances involving unauthorized access of the data.

C.  

Set a time-limit as to how long the personal data may be stored by the organization.

D.  

Challenge the authenticity of the personal data and have it corrected if needed.

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Questions 58

(What is the main function of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Privacy Framework?)

Options:

A.  

Managing the data flows from parties outside the region.

B.  

Establishing legal requirements for privacy protection in the region.

C.  

Promoting privacy protection technologies developed in the region.

D.  

Promoting consumer trust and business confidence in cross-border data flows

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Questions 59

All of the following would be answered through the creation of a data inventory EXCEPT?

Options:

A.  

Where the data is located.

B.  

How the data is protected.

C.  

How the data is being used.

D.  

What the format of the data is.

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Questions 60

Which of the following is NOT a type of privacy program metric?

Options:

A.  

Business enablement metrics.

B.  

Data enhancement metrics.

C.  

Value creation metrics.

D.  

Commercial metrics.

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Questions 61

“Respond” in the privacy operational lifecycle includes which of the following?

Options:

A.  

Information security practices and functional area integration.

B.  

Privacy awareness training and compliance monitoring.

C.  

Communication to stakeholders and alignment to laws.

D.  

Information requests and privacy rights requests.

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Questions 62

All of the following are accurate regarding the use of technical security controls EXCEPT?

Options:

A.  

Technical security controls are part of a data governance strategy.

B.  

Technical security controls deployed for one jurisdiction often satisfy another jurisdiction.

C.  

Most privacy legislation lists the types of technical security controls that must be implemented.

D.  

A person with security knowledge should be involved with the deployment of technical security controls.

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Questions 63

SCENARIO

Please use the following to answer the next QUESTION:

As the Director of data protection for Consolidated Records Corporation, you are justifiably pleased with your

accomplishments so far. Your hiring was precipitated by warnings from regulatory agencies following a series of relatively minor data breaches that could easily have been worse. However, you have not had a reportable incident for the three years that you have been with the company. In fact, you consider your program a model that others in the data storage industry may note in their own program development.

You started the program at Consolidated from a jumbled mix of policies and procedures and worked toward coherence across departments and throughout operations. You were aided along the way by the program's sponsor, the vice president of operations, as well as by a Privacy Team that started from a clear understanding of the need for change.

Initially, your work was greeted with little confidence or enthusiasm by the company's "old guard" among both the executive team and frontline personnel working with data and interfacing with clients. Through the use of metrics that showed the costs not only of the breaches that had occurred, but also projections of the costs that easily could occur given the current state of operations, you soon had the leaders and key decision-makers largely on your side. Many of the other employees were more resistant, but face-to-face meetings with each department and the development of a baseline privacy training program achieved sufficient "buy-in" to begin putting the proper procedures into place.

Now, privacy protection is an accepted component of all current operations involving personal or protected data and must be part of the end product of any process of technological development. While your approach is not systematic, it is fairly effective.

You are left contemplating:

What must be done to maintain the program and develop it beyond just a data breach prevention program? How can you build on your success?

What are the next action steps?

What stage of the privacy operational life cycle best describes Consolidated's current privacy program?

Options:

A.  

Assess.

B.  

Protect.

C.  

Respond.

D.  

Sustain.

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Questions 64

What is the main purpose of a privacy program audit?

Options:

A.  

To mitigate the effects of a privacy breach.

B.  

To justify a privacy department budget increase.

C.  

To make decisions on privacy staff roles and responsibilities.

D.  

To ensure the adequacy of data protection procedures.

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Questions 65

Privacy/security questionnaires are used primarily to do what?

Options:

A.  

Map data flows.

B.  

Assess vendor risk.

C.  

Determine access controls.

D.  

Comply with contractual requirements.

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Questions 66

SCENARIO

Please use the following to answer the next question

You were recently hired by InStyte Date Corp as a privacy manager to help InStyle Data Corp become compliant with a new data protection law

The law mandates that businesses have reasonable and appropriate security measures in place to protect personal data. Violations of that mandate are heavily fined and the legislators have stated that they will aggressively pursue companies that don t comply with the new law

You are paved with a security manager and tasked with reviewing InStyle Data Corp s current state and advising the business how it can meet the "reasonable and appropriate security" requirement InStyle Data Corp has grown rapidly and has not kept a data inventory or completed a data mapping InStyte Data Corp has also developed security-related policies ad hoc and many have never been implemented The various teams involved in the creation and testing of InStyle Data Corp s products experience significant turnover and do not have well defined roles There's little documentation addressing what personal data is processed by which product and for what purpose

Work needs to begin on this project immediately so that InStyle Data Corp can become compliant by the time the law goes into effect. You and you partner discover that InStyle Data Corp regularly sends files containing sensitive personal data back to its customers through email sometimes using InStyle Data Corp employees personal email accounts. You also team that InStyle Data Corp s privacy and information security teams are not informed of new personal data flows, new products developed by InStyte Data Corp that process personal data, or updates to existing InStyle Data Corp products that may change what or how the personal data is processed until after the product or update has gone have.

Through a review of InStyle Date Corp’s test and development environment logs, you discover InStyle Data Corp sometimes gives login credentials to any InStyle Data Corp employee or contractor who requests them. The test environment only contains dummy data but the development environment contains personal data including Social Security Numbers, hearth ^formation and financial information All credentialed InStyle Data Corp employees and contractors have the ability to after and delete personal data in both environments regardless of their role or what project they are working on.

You and your partner provide a gap assessment citing the issues you spotted, along with recommended remedial actions and a method to measure implementation InStyle Data Corp implements all of the recommended security controls You review the processes roles, controls and measures taken to appropriately protect the personal data at every stop However, you realize there is no plan for monitoring and nothing in place addressing sanctions for violations of the updated policies and procedures InStyle Data Corp pushes back, stating they do not have the resources for such monitoring.

Having completed the gap assessment, you and your partner need to first undertake a thorough review of?

Options:

A.  

Data life cyde

B.  

Security policies.

C.  

System development life cycle.

D.  

Privacy Impact (PIA).

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Questions 67

SCENARIO

Please use the following to answer the next QUESTION:

As the Director of data protection for Consolidated Records Corporation, you are justifiably pleased with your accomplishments so far. Your hiring was precipitated by warnings from regulatory agencies following a series of relatively minor data breaches that could easily have been worse. However, you have not had a reportable incident for the three years that you have been with the company. In fact, you consider your program a model that others in the data storage industry may note in their own program development.

You started the program at Consolidated from a jumbled mix of policies and procedures and worked toward coherence across departments and throughout operations. You were aided along the way by the program's sponsor, the vice president of operations, as well as by a Privacy Team that started from a clear understanding of the need for change.

Initially, your work was greeted with little confidence or enthusiasm by the company's "old guard" among both

the executive team and frontline personnel working with data and interfacing with clients. Through the use of metrics that showed the costs not only of the breaches that had occurred, but also projections of the costs that easily could occur given the current state of operations, you soon had the leaders and key decision-makers largely on your side. Many of the other employees were more resistant, but face-to-face meetings with each department and the development of a baseline privacy training program achieved sufficient "buy-in" to begin putting the proper procedures into place.

Now, privacy protection is an accepted component of all current operations involving personal or protected data and must be part of the end product of any process of technological development. While your approach is not systematic, it is fairly effective.

You are left contemplating:

What must be done to maintain the program and develop it beyond just a data breach prevention program? How can you build on your success?

What are the next action steps?

What practice would afford the Director the most rigorous way to check on the program's compliance with laws, regulations and industry best practices?

Options:

A.  

Auditing.

B.  

Monitoring.

C.  

Assessment.

D.  

Forensics.

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Questions 68

Which most accurately describes the reasons an organization will conduct a PIA?

Options:

A.  

To assess an organization's compliance with applicable laws, regulations, standards, and internal procedures.

B.  

To establish an inventory of its data processing activities in compliance with Article 30 of the GDPR.

C.  

To identify and reduce the privacy risks to individuals at the commencement of a project.

D.  

To analyze the impact of an incident response and determine next steps.

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Questions 69

What is one reason the European Union has enacted more comprehensive privacy laws than the United States?

Options:

A.  

To ensure adequate enforcement of existing laws.

B.  

To ensure there is adequate funding for enforcement.

C.  

To allow separate industries to set privacy standards.

D.  

To allow the free movement of data between member countries.

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Questions 70

Which of the following is NOT a type of privacy program metric?

Options:

A.  

Business enablement metrics.

B.  

Data enhancement metrics.

C.  

Value creation metrics.

D.  

Risk-reduction metrics.

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Questions 71

(MULTI-SELECT – Which of the following are technical data controls?)

Options:

A.  

Firewall.

B.  

Encryption.

C.  

Data minimization.

D.  

Pseudonymization.

E.  

Multifactor authentication.

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Questions 72

(As the data protection officer for the growing company. Vision 4634. what would be the most cost-effective way to monitor changes in laws and regulations?)

Options:

A.  

Regularly engage regulators.

B.  

Hire a well-known external law firm.

C.  

Attend workshops and interact with other professionals.

D.  

Subscribe to mailing lists that report on regulatory changes.

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Questions 73

SCENARIO

Please use the following to answer the next QUESTION:

Martin Briseño is the director of human resources at the Canyon City location of the U.S. hotel chain Pacific Suites. In 1998, Briseño decided to change the hotel’s on-the-job mentoring model to a standardized training program for employees who were progressing from line positions into supervisory positions. He developed a curriculum comprising a series of lessons, scenarios, and assessments, which was delivered in-person to small groups. Interest in the training increased, leading Briseño to work with corporate HR specialists and software engineers to offer the program in an online format. The online program saved the cost of a trainer and allowed participants to work through the material at their own pace.

Upon hearing about the success of Briseño’s program, Pacific Suites corporate Vice President Maryanne Silva-Hayes expanded the training and offered it company-wide. Employees who completed the program received certification as a Pacific Suites Hospitality Supervisor. By 2001, the program had grown to provide industry-wide training. Personnel at hotels across the country could sign up and pay to take the course online. As the program became increasingly profitable, Pacific Suites developed an offshoot business, Pacific Hospitality Training (PHT). The sole focus of PHT was developing and marketing a variety of online courses and course progressions providing a number of professional certifications in the hospitality industry.

By setting up a user account with PHT, course participants could access an information library, sign up for courses, and take end-of-course certification tests. When a user opened a new account, all information was saved by default, including the user’s name, date of birth, contact information, credit card information, employer, and job title. The registration page offered an opt-out choice that users could click to not have their credit card numbers saved. Once a user name and password were established, users could return to check their course status, review and reprint their certifications, and sign up and pay for new courses. Between 2002 and 2008, PHT issued more than 700,000 professional certifications.

PHT’s profits declined in 2009 and 2010, the victim of industry downsizing and increased competition from e- learning providers. By 2011, Pacific Suites was out of the online certification business and PHT was dissolved. The training program’s systems and records remained in Pacific Suites’ digital archives, un-accessed and unused. Briseño and Silva-Hayes moved on to work for other companies, and there was no plan for handling the archived data after the program ended. After PHT was dissolved, Pacific Suites executives turned their attention to crucial day-to-day operations. They planned to deal with the PHT materials once resources allowed.

In 2012, the Pacific Suites computer network was hacked. Malware installed on the online reservation system exposed the credit card information of hundreds of hotel guests. While targeting the financial data on the reservation site, hackers also discovered the archived training course data and registration accounts of Pacific Hospitality Training’s customers. The result of the hack was the exfiltration of the credit card numbers of recent hotel guests and the exfiltration of the PHT database with all its contents.

A Pacific Suites systems analyst discovered the information security breach in a routine scan of activity reports. Pacific Suites quickly notified credit card companies and recent hotel guests of the breach, attempting to prevent serious harm. Technical security engineers faced a challenge in dealing with the PHT data.

PHT course administrators and the IT engineers did not have a system for tracking, cataloguing, and storing information. Pacific Suites has procedures in place for data access and storage, but those procedures were not implemented when PHT was formed. When the PHT database was acquired by Pacific Suites, it had no owner or oversight. By the time technical security engineers determined what private information was compromised, at least 8,000 credit card holders were potential victims of fraudulent activity.

How would a strong data life cycle management policy have helped prevent the breach?

Options:

A.  

Information would have been ranked according to importance and stored in separate locations

B.  

The most sensitive information would have been immediately erased and destroyed

C.  

The most important information would have been regularly assessed and tested for security

D.  

Information would have been categorized and assigned a deadline for destruction

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Questions 74

SCENARIO

Please use the following lo answer the next question:

The board risk committee of your organization is particularly concerned not only by the number and frequency of data breaches reported to it over the past 12 months, but also the inconsistency in responses and poor incident response turnaround times.

Upon reviewing the current incident response plan (IRP), it was discovered that while the business continuity plan (BCP> had been updated on time, the IRP, linked to BCP. was last updated over three years ago.

The board risk committee has noted this as high risk especially since company policy is to review and update policies and plans annually. Consequently, the newly appointed data protection officer (DPO) was requested to provide a paper on how she would remediate the situation.

As a seasoned data privacy professional, you have been requested to assist the new DPO.

Your first recommendation in addressing the board risk committee's concerns is to?

Options:

A.  

Integrate the IRP into the BCP so it is not a stand-alone document.

B.  

Conduct a table-top exercise based on the version of the IRP that is currently on record.

C.  

Focus on training and awareness sessions in order to familiarize relevant staff with current policies and procedures.

D.  

Update the IRP with the applicable emergency contact information, policies and procedures, as well as timelines and action steps.

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Questions 75

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which situation would be LEAST likely to require a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA)?

Options:

A.  

A health clinic processing its patients’ genetic and health data

B.  

The use of a camera system to monitor driving behavior on highways

C.  

A Human Resources department using a tool to monitor its employees’ internet activity

D.  

An online magazine using a mailing list to send a generic daily digest to marketing emails

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Questions 76

All of the following changes will likely trigger a data inventory update EXCEPT?

Options:

A.  

Outsourcing the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) function.

B.  

Acquisition of a new subsidiary.

C.  

Onboarding of a new vendor.

D.  

Passage of a new privacy regulation.

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Questions 77

SCENARIO

Please use the following to answer the next QUESTION:

Perhaps Jack Kelly should have stayed in the U.S. He enjoys a formidable reputation inside the company, Special Handling Shipping, for his work in reforming certain "rogue" offices. Last year, news broke that a police sting operation had revealed a drug ring operating in the Providence, Rhode Island office in the United States. Video from the office's video surveillance cameras leaked to news operations showed a drug exchange between Special Handling staff and undercover officers.

In the wake of this incident, Kelly had been sent to Providence to change the "hands off" culture that upper management believed had let the criminal elements conduct their illicit transactions. After a few weeks under Kelly's direction, the office became a model of efficiency and customer service. Kelly monitored his workers' activities using the same cameras that had recorded the illegal conduct of their former co-workers.

Now Kelly has been charged with turning around the office in Cork, Ireland, another trouble spot. The company has received numerous reports of the staff leaving the office unattended. When Kelly arrived, he found that even when present, the staff often spent their days socializing or conducting personal business on their mobile phones. Again, he observed their behaviors using surveillance cameras. He issued written reprimands to six staff members based on the first day of video alone.

Much to Kelly's surprise and chagrin, he and the company are now under investigation by the Data Protection Commissioner of Ireland for allegedly violating the privacy rights of employees. Kelly was told that the company's license for the cameras listed facility security as their main use, but he does not know why this matters. He has pointed out to his superiors that the company's training programs on privacy protection and data collection mention nothing about surveillance video.

You are a privacy protection consultant, hired by the company to assess this incident, report on the legal and compliance issues, and recommend next steps.

Knowing that the regulator is now investigating, what would be the best step to take?

Options:

A.  

Consult an attorney experienced in privacy law and litigation.

B.  

Use your background and knowledge to set a course of action.

C.  

If you know the organization is guilty, advise it to accept the punishment.

D.  

Negotiate the terms of a settlement before formal legal action takes place.

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Questions 78

A systems audit uncovered a shared drive folder containing sensitive employee data with no access controls and therefore was available for all employees to view. What is the first step to mitigate further risks?

Options:

A.  

Notify all employees whose information was contained in the file.

B.  

Check access logs to see who accessed the folder.

C.  

Notify legal counsel of a privacy incident.

D.  

Restrict access to the folder.

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Questions 79

(A business resiliency metric measures an organization's ability to?)

Options:

A.  

Reform policies after negative audit outcomes.

B.  

Gain new business through privacy initiatives.

C.  

Maintain continuous operations during crises.

D.  

Adhere to changes in privacy legislation.

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Questions 80

What is a key feature of the privacy metric template adapted from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)?

Options:

A.  

It provides suggestions about how to collect and measure data.

B.  

It can be tailored to an organization's particular needs.

C.  

It is updated annually to reflect changes in government policy.

D.  

It is focused on organizations that do business internationally.

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Questions 81

When a data breach incident has occurred. the first priority is to determine?

Options:

A.  

Who caused the breach.

B.  

How the breach occurred.

C.  

How to contain the breach.

D.  

When the breach occurred.

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Questions 82

Rationalizing requirements in order to comply with the various privacy requirements required by applicable law and regulation does NOT include which of the following?

Options:

A.  

Harmonizing shared obligations and privacy rights across varying legislation and/or regulators.

B.  

Implementing a solution that significantly addresses shared obligations and privacy rights.

C.  

Applying the strictest standard for obligations and privacy rights that doesn't violate privacy laws elsewhere.

D.  

Addressing requirements that fall outside the common obligations and rights (outliers) on a case-by-case basis.

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