Free IAPP CIPM Exam Questions

Question 1

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.

What should you do first to ascertain additional information about the loss of data?

A : terview the person reporting the incident following a standard protocol

B : ll the police to investigate even if you are unsure a crime occurred

C : vestigate the background of the person reporting the incident

D : eck company records of the latest backups to see what data may be recoverable

Answer: A

Question 2

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

A : Kennedy-Hatch Disclosure Act of 1997

B : Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999

C : PCLA, or the federal Superprivacy Act of 2001

D : Financial Portability and Accountability Act of 2006.

Answer: B

Question 3

Which term describes a piece of personal data that alone may not identify an individual?

A : Unbundled data

B : A singularity

C : Non-aggregated infopoint

D : A single attribute

Answer: D

Question 4

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 step in the system development process did Manasa skip?

A : Obtain express written consent from users of the Handy Helper regarding marketing

B : Work with Sanjay to review any necessary privacy requirements to be built into the product.

C : Certify that the Handy Helper meets the requirements of the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework

D : Build the artificial intelligence feature so that users would not have to input sensitive information into the Handy Helper

Answer: B

Question 5

SCENARIO

Please use the following to answer the next question:

Perhaps Jack Kelly should have stayed in the U.S. He enjoys a formidable reputation inside the company,

Special Handling Shipping, for his work in reforming certain "rogue" offices. Last year, news broke that a police

sting operation had revealed a drug ring operating in the Providence, Rhode Island office in the United States.

Video from the office's video surveillance cameras leaked to news operations showed a drug exchange

between Special Handling staff and undercover officers.

In the wake of this incident, Kelly had been sent to Providence to change the "hands off" culture that upper

management believed had let the criminal elements conduct their illicit transactions. After a few weeks under

Kelly's direction, the office became a model of efficiency and customer service. Kelly monitored his workers'

activities using the same cameras that had recorded the illegal conduct of their former co-workers.

Now Kelly has been charged with turning around the office in Cork, Ireland, another trouble spot. The company

has received numerous reports of the staff leaving the office unattended. When Kelly arrived, he found that

even when present, the staff often spent their days socializing or conducting personal business on their mobile

phones. Again, he observed their behaviors using surveillance cameras. He issued written reprimands to six

staff members based on the first day of video alone.

Much to Kelly's surprise and chagrin, he and the company are now under investigation by the Data Protection

Commissioner of Ireland for allegedly violating the privacy rights of employees. Kelly was told that the

company's license for the cameras listed facility security as their main use, but he does not know why this

matters. He has pointed out to his superiors that the company's training programs on privacy protection and

data collection mention nothing about surveillance video.

You are a privacy protection consultant, hired by the company to assess this incident, report on the legal and

compliance issues, and recommend next steps.

What should you advise this company regarding the status of security cameras at their offices in the United

States?

A : security cameras at facilities that are now without them

B : t policies about the purpose and use of the security cameras

C : duce the number of security cameras located inside the building.

D : trict access to surveillance video taken by the security cameras and destroy the recordings after a designated period of time

Answer: B