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Questions 1

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

Discussion 0
Questions 2

When developing a privacy program and selecting a program sponsor or "champion" the least important consideration should be that they?

Options:

A.  

Are a part of the organization's top management

B.  

Have the authority to approve policy and provide funding.

C.  

Will be an effective advocate and understand the importance of privacy.

D.  

Have accountability for the organization's privacy and/or information security, risk, compliance or legal decisions.

Discussion 0
Questions 3

A "right to erasure" request could be rejected if the processing of personal data is for?

Options:

A.  

An outdated original purpose.

B.  

Compliance with legal obligation.

C.  

The offer of information society services.

D.  

The establishment of personal legal claims.

Discussion 0
Questions 4

A start-up tech company is developing its privacy policies and processes.

Which policy is most important to ensure the organization is successful at processing consumer health information?

Options:

A.  

The employee notice.

B.  

The consumer health data policy.

C.  

The privacy impact assessment (PIA).

D.  

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy notice.

Discussion 0
Questions 5

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.

If this were a data breach, how is it likely to be categorized?

Options:

A.  

Availability Breach.

B.  

Authenticity Breach.

C.  

Confidentiality Breach.

D.  

Integrity Breach.

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

Which of the following best supports implementing controls to bring privacy policies into effect?

Options:

A.  

The internal audit department establishing the audit controls which test for policy effectiveness.

B.  

The legal department or outside counsel conducting a thorough review of the privacy program and policies.

C.  

The Chief Information Officer as part of the Senior Management Team creating enterprise privacy policies to ensure controls are available.

D.  

The information technology (IT) group supporting and enhancing the privacy program and privacy policy by developing processes and controls.

Discussion 0
Questions 8

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.

What key error related to program governance did Liam make prior to the audit kick-off meeting?

Options:

A.  

He did not properly escalate his concerns and develop a remediation plan with leadership support.

B.  

He met with stakeholders in marketing and E-commerce without the auditors.

C.  

He did not conduct a data inventory assessment prior to adopting the policy.

D.  

He asked stakeholders to delete customer data out of the CRM tool.

Discussion 0
Questions 9

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 10

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.

In the Information Technology engineers had originally set the default for customer credit card information to “Do Not Save,” this action would have been in line with what concept?

Options:

A.  

Use limitation

B.  

Privacy by Design

C.  

Harm minimization

D.  

Reactive risk management

Discussion 0
Questions 11

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 12

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.

How could the objection to Spencer's training suggestion be addressed?

Options:

A.  

By requiring training only on an as-needed basis.

B.  

By offering alternative delivery methods for trainings.

C.  

By introducing a system of periodic refresher trainings.

D.  

By customizing training based on length of employee tenure.

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.

What is the best way for Penny to understand the location, classification and processing purpose of the personal data Ace Space has?

Options:

A.  

Analyze the data inventory to map data flows

B.  

Audit all vendors’ privacy practices and safeguards

C.  

Conduct a Privacy Impact Assessment for the company

D.  

Review all cloud contracts to identify the location of data servers used

Discussion 0
Questions 14

Which will best assist you in quickly identifying weaknesses in your network and storage?

Options:

A.  

Running vulnerability scanning tools.

B.  

Reviewing your privacy program metrics.

C.  

Reviewing your role-based access controls.

D.  

Establishing a complaint-monitoring process.

Discussion 0
Questions 15

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

Discussion 0
Questions 16

An organization can use Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) to?

Options:

A.  

Replace current technical controls.

B.  

Strengthen existing privacy controls.

C.  

Ensure compliance with local privacy regulations.

D.  

Produce data for the privacy professional to interpret.

Discussion 0
Questions 17

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

Discussion 0
Questions 18

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

Discussion 0
Questions 19

According to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the requirements of a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) include that it?

Options:

A.  

Be reported to the corresponding supervisory authority.

B.  

Publish the report to demonstrate the transparency of the data processing.

C.  

Provide a description of the proposed processing operation and its purpose.

D.  

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

Discussion 0
Questions 20

Formosa International operates in 20 different countries including the United States and France. What organizational approach would make complying with a number of different regulations easier?

Options:

A.  

Data mapping.

B.  

Fair Information Practices.

C.  

Rationalizing requirements.

D.  

Decentralized privacy management.

Discussion 0
Questions 21

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.

Going forward, what is the best way for IgNight to prepare its IT team to manage these kind of security events?

Options:

A.  

Tabletop exercises.

B.  

Update its data inventory.

C.  

IT security awareness training.

D.  

Share communications relating to scheduled maintenance.

Discussion 0
Questions 22

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.

What is one important factor that Albert fails to consider regarding Treasure Box’s response to their recent security incident?

Options:

A.  

Who has access to the data

B.  

What the nature of the data is

C.  

How data at the company is collected

D.  

How long data at the company is kept

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Questions 23

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 analytic can be used to track the financial viability of the program as it develops?

Options:

A.  

Cost basis.

B.  

Gap analysis.

C.  

Return to investment.

D.  

Breach impact modeling.

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Questions 24

The theft of proprietary information could have best been prevented by?

Options:

A.  

Doing criminal background checks on all contractors.

B.  

Having requests for access reviewed by the privacy office.

C.  

Escalating access requests for approval by the appropriate data custodian.

D.  

Requiring multi-factor authentication for contractor access to confidential company data.

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Questions 25

SCENARIO

Please use the following to answer the next QUESTION:

Edufox has hosted an annual convention of users of its famous e-learning software platform, and over time, it has become a grand event. It fills one of the large downtown conference hotels and overflows into the others, with several thousand attendees enjoying three days of presentations, panel discussions and networking. The convention is the centerpiece of the company's product rollout schedule and a great training opportunity for current users. The sales force also encourages prospective clients to attend to get a better sense of the ways in which the system can be customized to meet diverse needs and understand that when they buy into this system, they are joining a community that feels like family.

This year's conference is only three weeks away, and you have just heard news of a new initiative supporting it: a smartphone app for attendees. The app will support late registration, highlight the featured presentations and provide a mobile version of the conference program. It also links to a restaurant reservation system with the best cuisine in the areas featured. "It's going to be great," the developer, Deidre Hoffman, tells you, "if, that is, we actually get it working!" She laughs nervously but explains that because of the tight time frame she'd been given to build the app, she outsourced the job to a local firm. "It's just three young people," she says, "but they do great work." She describes some of the other apps they have built. When asked how they were selected for this job, Deidre shrugs. "They do good work, so I chose them."

Deidre is a terrific employee with a strong track record. That's why she's been charged to deliver this rushed project. You're sure she has the best interests of the company at heart, and you don't doubt that she's under pressure to meet a deadline that cannot be pushed back. However, you have concerns about the app's handling of personal data and its security safeguards. Over lunch in the break room, you start to talk to her about it, but she quickly tries to reassure you, "I'm sure with your help we can fix any security issues if we have to, but I doubt there'll be any. These people build apps for a living, and they know what they're doing. You worry too much, but that's why you're so good at your job!"

Which is the best first step in understanding the data security practices of a potential vendor?

Options:

A.  

Requiring the vendor to complete a questionnaire assessing International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 27001 compliance.

B.  

Conducting a physical audit of the vendor's facilities.

C.  

Conducting a penetration test of the vendor's data security structure.

D.  

Examining investigation records of any breaches the vendor has experienced.

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Questions 26

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

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Questions 27

SCENARIO

Please use the following lo answer the next question:

You are the privacy manager within the privacy office of a National Forest Parks and Recreation Department. While having lunch with a colleague from the IT division, you learn that the IT director has put out a request for proposal (RFP) which calls for a system that collects the personal data of park attendees.

You consult with a few other colleagues in IT and learn that the RFP is worded such that it leaves it to the vendors to demonstrate what information they would collect from people who enter parks anywhere in the country, either in a vehicle or on foot. A partial list of the information collected includes:

• personal identifiers such as name, address, age, gender;

• vehicle registration information:

• facial images of park attendees;

• health information (e.g.. physical disabilities, use of mobility devices)

The stated purpose of the RFP is to:

"Improve the National Forest. Parks, and Recreation Department's ability to track and monitor service usage thereby Increasing the robustness of our customer data and to improve service offerings.''

Companies have already started submitting proposals for software solutions that address these information gathering practices. There is only one week left before the RFP closes.

The IT department has put together an RFP evaluation team but no one from the privacy office has been a Dart of the RFP ud to this point. This occurred deposite the fact….

All of the following are appropriate for the privacy office in developing a privacy assessment metric EXCEPT?

Options:

A.  

Clarifying what data fields are to be collected, including use cases for all purposes.

B.  

Canceling this RFP and re-issuing it after thorough consultation with your office.

C.  

Obtaining a list of vendors and the services they are offering in response to the RFP requirements.

D.  

Extending the deadline for the RFP giving your office more time to assess the privacy needs of the program.

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Questions 28

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 29

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 30

Which of the following is NOT typically a function of a Privacy Officer?

Options:

A.  

Managing an organization's information security infrastructure.

B.  

Serving as an interdepartmental liaison for privacy concerns.

C.  

Monitoring an organization's compliance with privacy laws.

D.  

Responding to information access requests from the public.

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Questions 31

When building a data privacy program, what is a good starting point to understand the scope of privacy program needs?

Options:

A.  

Perform Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs).

B.  

Perform Risk Assessments

C.  

Complete a Data Inventory.

D.  

Review Audits.

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Questions 32

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 33

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 34

Which is the best way to view an organization’s privacy framework?

Options:

A.  

As an industry benchmark that can apply to many organizations

B.  

As a fixed structure that directs changes in the organization

C.  

As an aspirational goal that improves the organization

D.  

As a living structure that aligns to changes in the organization

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Questions 35

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 36

SCENARIO

Please use the following to answer the next QUESTION:

It's just what you were afraid of. Without consulting you, the information technology director at your organization launched a new initiative to encourage employees to use personal devices for conducting business. The initiative made purchasing a new, high-specification laptop computer an attractive option, with discounted laptops paid for as a payroll deduction spread over a year of paychecks. The organization is also paying the sales taxes. It's a great deal, and after a month, more than half the organization's employees have signed on and acquired new laptops. Walking through the facility, you see them happily customizing and comparing notes on their new computers, and at the end of the day, most take their laptops with them, potentially carrying personal data to their homes or other unknown locations. It's enough to give you data- protection nightmares, and you've pointed out to the information technology Director and many others in the organization the potential hazards of this new practice, including the inevitability of eventual data loss or theft.

Today you have in your office a representative of the organization's marketing department who shares with you, reluctantly, a story with potentially serious consequences. The night before, straight from work, with laptop in hand, he went to the Bull and Horn Pub to play billiards with his friends. A fine night of sport and socializing began, with the laptop "safely" tucked on a bench, beneath his jacket. Later that night, when it was time to depart, he retrieved the jacket, but the laptop was gone. It was not beneath the bench or on another bench nearby. The waitstaff had not seen it. His friends were not playing a joke on him. After a sleepless night, he confirmed it this morning, stopping by the pub to talk to the cleanup crew. They had not found it. The laptop was missing. Stolen, it seems. He looks at you, embarrassed and upset.

You ask him if the laptop contains any personal data from clients, and, sadly, he nods his head, yes. He believes it contains files on about 100 clients, including names, addresses and governmental identification numbers. He sighs and places his head in his hands in despair.

From a business standpoint, what is the most productive way to view employee use of personal equipment for work-related tasks?

Options:

A.  

The use of personal equipment is a cost-effective measure that leads to no greater security risks than are always present in a modern organization.

B.  

Any computer or other equipment is company property whenever it is used for company business.

C.  

While the company may not own the equipment, it is required to protect the business-related data on any equipment used by its employees.

D.  

The use of personal equipment must be reduced as it leads to inevitable security risks.

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Questions 37

Which of the following information must be provided by the data controller when complying with GDPR “right to be informed” requirements?

Options:

A.  

The purpose of personal data processing.

B.  

The data subject’s right to withdraw consent

C.  

The contact details of the Data Protection Officer (DPO).

D.  

The name of any organizations with whom personal data was shared.

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Questions 38

SCENARIO

Please use the following to answer the next QUESTION:

Richard McAdams recently graduated law school and decided to return to the small town of Lexington, Virginia to help run his aging grandfather's law practice. The elder McAdams desired a limited, lighter role in the practice, with the hope that his grandson would eventually take over when he fully retires. In addition to hiring Richard, Mr. McAdams employs two paralegals, an administrative assistant, and a part-time IT specialist who handles all of their basic networking needs. He plans to hire more employees once Richard gets settled and assesses the office's strategies for growth.

Immediately upon arrival, Richard was amazed at the amount of work that needed to done in order to modernize the office, mostly in regard to the handling of clients' personal data. His first goal is to digitize all the records kept in file cabinets, as many of the documents contain personally identifiable financial and medical data. Also, Richard has noticed the massive amount of copying by the administrative assistant throughout the day, a practice that not only adds daily to the number of files in the file cabinets, but may create security issues unless a formal policy is firmly in place Richard is also concerned with the overuse of the communal copier/ printer located in plain view of clients who frequent the building. Yet another area of concern is the use of the same fax machine by all of the employees. Richard hopes to reduce its use dramatically in order to ensure that personal data receives the utmost security and protection, and eventually move toward a strict Internet faxing policy by the year's end.

Richard expressed his concerns to his grandfather, who agreed, that updating data storage, data security, and an overall approach to increasing the protection of personal data in all facets is necessary Mr. McAdams granted him the freedom and authority to do so. Now Richard is not only beginning a career as an attorney, but also functioning as the privacy officer of the small firm. Richard plans to meet with the IT employee the following day, to get insight into how the office computer system is currently set-up and managed.

Which of the following policy statements needs additional instructions in order to further protect the personal data of their clients?

Options:

A.  

All faxes sent from the office must be documented and the phone number used must be double checked to ensure a safe arrival.

B.  

All unused copies, prints, and faxes must be discarded in a designated recycling bin located near the work station and emptied daily.

C.  

Before any copiers, printers, or fax machines are replaced or resold, the hard drives of these devices must be deleted before leaving the office.

D.  

When sending a print job containing personal data, the user must not leave the information visible on the computer screen following the print command and must retrieve the printed document immediately.

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Questions 39

If your organization has a recurring issue with colleagues not reporting personal data breaches, all of the following are advisable to do EXCEPT?

Options:

A.  

Review reporting activity on breaches to understand when incidents are being reported and when they are not to improve communication and training.

B.  

Improve communication to reinforce to everyone that breaches must be reported and how they should be reported.

C.  

Provide role-specific training to areas where breaches are happening so they are more aware.

D.  

Distribute a phishing exercise to all employees to test their ability to recognize a threat attempt.

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Questions 40

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.

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Questions 41

Under the European Data Protection Board (EDPB). which processing operation would require a DPIA?

Options:

A.  

An online newspaper using its subscriber list to email a daily newsletter.

B.  

A healthcare clinic that processes personal data of its patients in its billing system.

C.  

A hospital processing patient's genetic and health data in its hospital information system.

D.  

An online store displaying advertisements based on items viewed or purchased on its own website.

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Questions 42

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 43

A Human Resources director at a company reported that a laptop containing employee payroll data was lost on the train. Which action should the company take IMMEDIATELY?

Options:

A.  

Report the theft to law enforcement

B.  

Wipe the hard drive remotely

C.  

Report the theft to the senior management

D.  

Perform a multi-factor risk analysis

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Questions 44

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.

Based on the scenario, what additional change will increase the effectiveness of the privacy compliance hotline?

Options:

A.  

Outsourcing the hotline.

B.  

A system for staff education.

C.  

Strict communication channels.

D.  

An ethics complaint department.

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Questions 45

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which of the following situations would LEAST likely require a controller to notify a data subject?

Options:

A.  

An encrypted USB key with sensitive personal data is stolen

B.  

A direct marketing email is sent with recipients visible in the ‘cc’ field

C.  

Personal data of a group of individuals is erroneously sent to the wrong mailing list

D.  

A hacker publishes usernames, phone numbers and purchase history online after a cyber-attack

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Questions 46

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?

How can Consolidated's privacy training program best be further developed?

Options:

A.  

Through targeted curricula designed for specific departments.

B.  

By adopting e-learning to reduce the need for instructors.

C.  

By using industry standard off-the-shelf programs.

D.  

Through a review of recent data breaches.

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Questions 47

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 48

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.

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Questions 49

A company's human resources (HR) group is working with their information security team lo tag data within their systems as ''special data" or "sensitive data" What is the most probable reason for the group to do so?

Options:

A.  

To ensure the data is fully controlled and used for only authorized purposes.

B.  

To apply the organization's data deletion standard.

C.  

To create a robust record of processing activities.

D.  

To prepare for an upcoming regulatory audit under GDPR.

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Questions 50

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 51

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 52

After an incident, all of the following are potential objectives for improvements to the way an organization handles breach management EXCEPT?

Options:

A.  

Contacting regulators.

B.  

Reviewing lessons learned.

C.  

Ensuring appropriate privacy/security funding.

D.  

Getting commitment from stakeholders related to any process updates.

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Questions 53

SCENARIO

Please use the following to answer the next QUESTION:

Richard McAdams recently graduated law school and decided to return to the small town of Lexington, Virginia to help run his aging grandfather's law practice. The elder McAdams desired a limited, lighter role in the practice, with the hope that his grandson would eventually take over when he fully retires. In addition to hiring Richard, Mr. McAdams employs two paralegals, an administrative assistant, and a part-time IT specialist who handles all of their basic networking needs. He plans to hire more employees once Richard gets settled and assesses the office's strategies for growth.

Immediately upon arrival, Richard was amazed at the amount of work that needed to done in order to modernize the office, mostly in regard to the handling of clients' personal data. His first goal is to digitize all the records kept in file cabinets, as many of the documents contain personally identifiable financial and medical data. Also, Richard has noticed the massive amount of copying by the administrative assistant throughout the day, a practice that not only adds daily to the number of files in the file cabinets, but may create security issues unless a formal policy is firmly in place Richard is also concerned with the overuse of the communal copier/ printer located in plain view of clients who frequent the building. Yet another area of concern is the use of the same fax machine by all of the employees. Richard hopes to reduce its use dramatically in order to ensure that personal data receives the utmost security and protection, and eventually move toward a strict Internet faxing policy by the year's end.

Richard expressed his concerns to his grandfather, who agreed, that updating data storage, data security, and an overall approach to increasing the protection of personal data in all facets is necessary Mr. McAdams granted him the freedom and authority to do so. Now Richard is not only beginning a career as an attorney, but also functioning as the privacy officer of the small firm. Richard plans to meet with the IT employee the following day, to get insight into how the office computer system is currently set-up and managed.

As Richard begins to research more about Data Lifecycle Management (DLM), he discovers that the law office can lower the risk of a data breach by doing what?

Options:

A.  

Prioritizing the data by order of importance.

B.  

Minimizing the time it takes to retrieve the sensitive data.

C.  

Reducing the volume and the type of data that is stored in its system.

D.  

Increasing the number of experienced staff to code and categorize the incoming data.

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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 element of the Privacy by Design (PbD) framework might the Handy Helper violate?

Options:

A.  

Failure to obtain opt-in consent to marketing.

B.  

Failure to observe data localization requirements.

C.  

Failure to implement the least privilege access standard.

D.  

Failure to integrate privacy throughout the system development life cycle.

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Questions 55

SCENARIO

Please use the following to answer the next QUESTION:

Edufox has hosted an annual convention of users of its famous e-learning software platform, and over time, it has become a grand event. It fills one of the large downtown conference hotels and overflows into the others, with several thousand attendees enjoying three days of presentations, panel discussions and networking. The convention is the centerpiece of the company's product rollout schedule and a great training opportunity for current users. The sales force also encourages prospective clients to attend to get a better sense of the ways in which the system can be customized to meet diverse needs and understand that when they buy into this system, they are joining a community that feels like family.

This year's conference is only three weeks away, and you have just heard news of a new initiative supporting it: a smartphone app for attendees. The app will support late registration, highlight the featured presentations and provide a mobile version of the conference program. It also links to a restaurant reservation system with the best cuisine in the areas featured. "It's going to be great," the developer, Deidre Hoffman, tells you, "if, that is, we actually get it working!" She laughs nervously but explains that because of the tight time frame she'd been given to build the app, she outsourced the job to a local firm. "It's just three young people," she says, "but they do great work." She describes some of the other apps they have built. When asked how they were selected for this job, Deidre shrugs. "They do good work, so I chose them."

Deidre is a terrific employee with a strong track record. That's why she's been charged to deliver this rushed project. You're sure she has the best interests of the company at heart, and you don't doubt that she's under pressure to meet a deadline that cannot be pushed back. However, you have concerns about the app's handling of personal data and its security safeguards. Over lunch in the break room, you start to talk to her about it, but she quickly tries to reassure you, "I'm sure with your help we can fix any security issues if we have to, but I doubt there'll be any. These people build apps for a living, and they know what they're doing. You worry too much, but that's why you're so good at your job!"

You want to point out that normal protocols have NOT been followed in this matter. Which process in particular has been neglected?

Options:

A.  

Forensic inquiry.

B.  

Data mapping.

C.  

Privacy breach prevention.

D.  

Vendor due diligence vetting.

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Questions 56

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.

Why do Mesa's E-commerce and marketing efforts need to be compliant with the GDPR?

Options:

A.  

Mesa is US-based.

B.  

Mesa uses mailing lists and engages in direct marketing.

C.  

Mesa uses automated systems and tools to process personal data.

D.  

Mesa has a global E-commerce presence and may have customers in Europe.

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Questions 57

In a mobile app for purchasing and selling concert tickets, users are prompted to create a personalized profile prior to engaging in transactions. Once registered, users can securely access their profiles within the app, empowering them to manage and modify personal data as needed.

Which foundational Privacy by Design (PbD) principle does this feature follow?

Options:

A.  

Proactive, not reactive; preventative, not remedial.

B.  

Full functionality — positive-sum, not zero-sum.

C.  

Respect for user privacy - keep it user-centric.

D.  

End-to-end security — full life cycle protection.

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Questions 58

PbD is the framework that?

Options:

A.  

Dictates the design of the system development life cycle.

B.  

Establishes risk-based expectations for privacy management.

C.  

Embeds privacy into the design of technology, systems and practices.

D.  

Guides organizations in designing, implementing and managing privacy programs in line with privacy laws and best practices.

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Questions 59

Your company wants to convert paper records that contain customer personal information into electronic form, upload the records into a new third-party marketing tool and then merge the customer personal information in the marketing tool with information from other applications.

As the Privacy Officer, which of the following should you complete to effectively make these changes?

Options:

A.  

A Record of Authority.

B.  

A Personal Data Inventory.

C.  

A Privacy Threshold Analysis (PTA).

D.  

A Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA).

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Questions 60

For an organization that has just experienced a data breach, what might be the least relevant metric for a company's privacy and governance team?

Options:

A.  

The number of security patches applied to company devices.

B.  

The number of privacy rights requests that have been exercised.

C.  

The number of Privacy Impact Assessments that have been completed.

D.  

The number of employees who have completed data awareness training.

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Questions 61

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 62

What is the main purpose in notifying data subjects of a data breach?

Options:

A.  

To avoid financial penalties and legal liability

B.  

To enable regulators to understand trends and developments that may shape the law

C.  

To ensure organizations have accountability for the sufficiency of their security measures

D.  

To allow i ndividuals to take any actions required to protect the mselves from possible consequences

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Questions 63

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 64

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 65

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.

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Questions 66

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 67

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 of Anton's plans for improving the data management of the company is most unachievable?

Options:

A.  

His initiative to achieve regulatory compliance.

B.  

His intention to transition to electronic storage.

C.  

His objective for zero loss of personal information.

D.  

His intention to send notice letters to customers and employees.

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Questions 68

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 69

SCENARIO

Please use the following to answer the next QUESTION:

John is the new privacy officer at the prestigious international law firm – A&M LLP. A&M LLP is very proud of its reputation in the practice areas of Trusts & Estates and Merger & Acquisition in both U.S. and Europe.

During lunch with a colleague from the Information Technology department, John heard that the Head of IT, Derrick, is about to outsource the firm's email continuity service to their existing email security vendor – MessageSafe. Being successful as an email hygiene vendor, MessageSafe is expanding its business by leasing cloud infrastructure from Cloud Inc. to host email continuity service for A&M LLP.

John is very concerned about this initiative. He recalled that MessageSafe was in the news six months ago due to a security breach. Immediately, John did a quick research of MessageSafe's previous breach and learned that the breach was caused by an unintentional mistake by an IT administrator. He scheduled a meeting with Derrick to address his concerns.

At the meeting, Derrick emphasized that email is the primary method for the firm's lawyers to communicate with clients, thus it is critical to have the email continuity service to avoid any possible email downtime. Derrick has been using the anti-spam service provided by MessageSafe for five years and is very happy with the quality of service provided by MessageSafe. In addition to the significant discount offered by MessageSafe, Derrick emphasized that he can also speed up the onboarding process since the firm already has a service contract in place with MessageSafe. The existing on-premises email continuity solution is about to reach its end of life very soon and he doesn't have the time or resource to look for another solution. Furthermore, the off- premises email continuity service will only be turned on when the email service at A&M LLP's primary and secondary data centers are both down, and the email messages stored at MessageSafe site for continuity service will be automatically deleted after 30 days.

Which of the following is a TRUE statement about the relationship among the organizations?

Options:

A.  

Cloud Inc. must notify A&M LLP of a data breach immediately.

B.  

MessageSafe is liable if Cloud Inc. fails to protect data from A&M LLP.

C.  

Cloud Inc. should enter into a data processor agreement with A&M LLP.

D.  

A&M LLP's service contract must be amended to list Cloud Inc. as a sub-processor.

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Questions 70

A marketing team regularly exports spreadsheets to use (or analysis including customer name, birthdate and home address. These spreadsheets are routinely shared between members of various teams via email even with employees that do not need such granular data.

What is the best way to lower overall risk?

Options:

A.  

Set up security measures in the company's email client to prevent spreadsheets with customer information from accidentally being sent to external recipients.

B.  

Anonymize exportable data by creating categories of information, like age range and geographic region.

C.  

Allow the free exchange of information to continue but require spreadsheets be password protected.

D.  

Allow only certain users to export customer data from the database.

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Questions 71

What is the key factor that lays the foundation for all other elements of a privacy program?

Options:

A.  

The applicable privacy regulations

B.  

The structure of a privacy team

C.  

A privacy mission statement

D.  

A responsible internal stakeholder

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Questions 72

In which situation would a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) be the least likely to be required?

Options:

A.  

If a company created a credit-scoring platform five years ago.

B.  

If a health-care professional or lawyer processed personal data from a patient's file.

C.  

If a social media company created a new product compiling personal data to generate user profiles.

D.  

If an after-school club processed children's data to determine which children might have food allergies.

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