CIPM Online Practice Questions and Answers
Read the following steps:
Perform frequent data back-ups.
Perform test restorations to verify integrity of backed-up data. Maintain backed-up data offline or on separate servers.
These steps can help an organization recover from what?
A. Phishing attacks
B. Authorization errors
C. Ransomware attacks
D. Stolen encryption keys
In regards to the collection of personal data conducted by an organization, what must the data subject be allowed to do?
A. Evaluate the qualifications of a third-party processor before any data is transferred to that processor.
B. Obtain a guarantee of prompt notification in instances involving unauthorized access of the data.
C. Set a time-limit as to how long the personal data may be stored by the organization.
D. Challenge the authenticity of the personal data and have it corrected if needed.
SCENARIO Please use the following to answer the next QUESTION: As the Director of data protection for Consolidated Records Corporation, you are justifiably pleased with your accomplishments so far. Your hiring was precipitated by warnings from regulatory agencies following a series of relatively minor
data breaches that could easily have been worse. However, you have not had a reportable incident for the three years that you have been with the company. In fact, you consider your program a model that others in the data storage industry
may note in their own program development.
You started the program at Consolidated from a jumbled mix of policies and procedures and worked toward coherence across departments and throughout operations. You were aided along the way by the program's sponsor, the vice
president of operations, as well as by a Privacy Team that started from a clear understanding of the need for change.
Initially, your work was greeted with little confidence or enthusiasm by the company's "old guard" among both the executive team and frontline personnel working with data and interfacing with clients. Through the use of metrics that showed the costs not only of the breaches that had occurred, but also projections of the costs that easily could occur
given the current state of operations, you soon had the leaders and key decision-makers largely on your side. Many of the other employees were more resistant, but face-to-face meetings with each department and the development of a baseline privacy training program achieved sufficient "buy-in" to begin putting the proper procedures into place. Now, privacy protection is an accepted component of all current operations involving personal or protected data and must be part of the end product of any process of technological development. While your approach is not systematic, it is
fairly effective.
You are left contemplating:
What must be done to maintain the program and develop it beyond just a data breach prevention program? How can you build on your success?
What are the next action steps?
What practice would afford the Director the most rigorous way to check on the program's compliance with laws, regulations and industry best practices?
A. Auditing.
B. Monitoring.
C. Assessment.
D. Forensics.
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 security controls are missing from the Eureka program?
A. Storage of medical data in the cloud is not permissible under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
B. Data access is not limited to those who "need to know" for their role
C. Collection of data without a defined purpose might violate the fairness principle
D. Encryption of the data at rest prevents European users from having the right of access and the right of portability of their data
SCENARIO
Please use the following to answer the next QUESTION:
Manasa is a product manager at Omnipresent Omnimedia, where she is responsible for leading the development of the company's flagship product, the Handy Helper. The Handy Helper is an application that can be used in the home to manage family calendars, do online shopping, and schedule doctor appointments. After having had a successful launch in the United States, the Handy Helper is about to be made available for purchase worldwide. The packaging and user guide for the Handy Helper indicate that it is a "privacy friendly" product suitable for the whole family, including children, but does not provide any further detail or privacy notice. In order to use the application, a family creates a single account, and the primary user has access to all information about the other users. Upon start up, the primary user must check a box consenting to receive marketing emails from Omnipresent Omnimedia and selected marketing partners in order to be able to use the application.
Sanjay, the head of privacy at Omnipresent Omnimedia, was working on an agreement with a European distributor of Handy Helper when he fielded many Questions about the product from the distributor. Sanjay needed to look more closely at the product in order to be able to answer the Questions as he was not involved in the product development process.
In speaking with the product team, he learned that the Handy Helper collected and stored all of a user's sensitive medical information for the medical appointment scheduler. In fact, all of the user's information is stored by Handy Helper for the additional purpose of creating additional products and to analyze usage of the
product. This data is all stored in the cloud and is encrypted both during transmission and at rest.
Consistent with the CEO's philosophy that great new product ideas can come from anyone, all Omnipresent Omnimedia employees have access to user data under a program called Eureka. Omnipresent Omnimedia is hoping that at some point in the future, the data will reveal insights that could be used to create a fully automated application that runs on artificial intelligence, but as of yet, Eureka is not well-defined and is considered a long-term goal.
What can Sanjay do to minimize the risks of offering the product in Europe?
A. Sanjay should advise the distributor that Omnipresent Omnimedia has certified to the Privacy Shield Framework and there should be no issues.
B. Sanjay should work with Manasa to review and remediate the Handy Helper as a gating item before it is released.
C. Sanjay should document the data life cycle of the data collected by the Handy Helper.
D. Sanjay should write a privacy policy to include with the Handy Helper user guide.
An organization's internal audit team should do all of the following EXCEPT?
A. Implement processes to correct audit failures.
B. Verify that technical measures are in place.
C. Review how operations work in practice.
D. Ensure policies are being adhered to.
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.
In order to determine the best course of action, how should this incident most productively be viewed?
A. As the accidental loss of personal property containing data that must be restored.
B. As a potential compromise of personal information through unauthorized access.
C. As an incident that requires the abrupt initiation of a notification campaign.
D. As the premeditated theft of company data, until shown otherwise.
What are you doing if you succumb to "overgeneralization" when analyzing data from metrics?
A. Using data that is too broad to capture specific meanings.
B. Possessing too many types of data to perform a valid analysis.
C. Using limited data in an attempt to support broad conclusions.
D. Trying to use several measurements to gauge one aspect of a program.
All of the following are components of a data collection notice EXCEPT identification of?
A. Data subject rights.
B. How the data is processed securely.
C. Potential uses of personal information in the future.
D. The metadata which could be generated from collection of the information.
Post-liquidation, a company that has acquired assets would require separate consent from a data subject if personally identifiable data were being retained for which purpose?
A. For tax purposes.
B. For analytical purposes.
C. To be able to ensure payment of pension funds.
D. To secure employment benefits for former employees.