Free IAPP CIPP-E Exam Questions

Question 1

What should a controller do after a data subject opts out of a direct marketing activity?

A : thout exception, securely delete all personal data relating to the data subject.

B : thout undue delay, provide information to the data subject on the action that will be taken.

C : frain from processing personal data relating to the data subject for the relevant type of communication.

D : ke reasonable steps to inform third-party recipients that the data subject's personal data should be deleted and no longer processed.

Answer: C

Question 2

Through a combination of hardware failure and human error, the decryption key for a bank’s customer account transaction database has been lost. An investigation has determined that this was not the result of hacking or malfeasance, simply an unfortunate combination of circumstances. Which of the following accurately indicates the nature of this incident?

A : A data breach has not occurred because the loss was not the result of hacking.

B : A data breach has not occurred because no data was exposed to any unauthorized individual.

C : A data breach has occurred because the loss of the key has resulted in the data no longer being accessible.

D : A data breach has occurred because the loss of the key has resulted in the loss of confidentiality or integrity of the data.

Answer: D

Question 3

SCENARIO

Please use the following to answer the next question:

Anna and Frank both work at Granchester University. Anna is a lawyer responsible for data protection, while Frank is a lecturer in the engineering department. The University maintains a number of types of records:

Student records, including names, student numbers, home addresses, pre-university information, university attendance and performance records, details of special educational needs and financial information.

Staff records, including autobiographical materials (such as curricula, professional contact files, student evaluations and other relevant teaching files).

Alumni records, including birthplaces, years of birth, dates of matriculation and conferrals of degrees. These records are available to former students after registering through Granchester's Alumni portal.

Department for Education records, showing how certain demographic groups (such as first-generation students) could be expected, on average, to progress. These records do not contain names or identification numbers.

Under their security policy, the University encrypts all of its personal data records in transit and at rest.

In order to improve his teaching, Frank wants to investigate how his engineering students perform in relational to Department for Education expectations. He has attended one of Anna's data protection training courses and knows that he should use no more personal data than necessary to accomplish his goal. He creates a program that will only export some student data: previous schools attended, grades originally obtained, grades currently obtained and first time university attended. He wants to keep the records at the individual student level. Mindful of Anna's training, Frank runs the student numbers through an algorithm to transform them into different reference numbers. He uses the same algorithm on each occasion so that he can update each record over time.

One of Anna's tasks is to complete the record of processing activities, as required by the GDPR. After receiving her email reminder, as required by the GDPR. After receiving her email reminder, Frank informs Anna about his performance database.

Ann explains to Frank that, as well as minimizing personal data, the University has to check that this new use of existing data is permissible. She also suspects that, under the GDPR, a risk analysis may have to be carried out before the data processing can take place. Anna arranges to discuss this further with Frank after she has done some additional research.

Frank wants to be able to work on his analysis in his spare time, so he transfers it to his home laptop (which is not encrypted). Unfortunately, when Frank takes the laptop into the University he loses it on the train. Frank has to see Anna that day to discuss compatible processing. He knows that he needs to report security incidents, so he decides to tell Anna about his lost laptop at the same time.

Before Anna determines whether Frank's performance database is permissible, what additional information does she need?

A : re information about Frank's data protection training.

B : re information about the extent of the information loss.

C : re information about the algorithm Frank used to mask student numbers.

D : re information about what students have been told and how the research will be used.

Answer: D

Question 4

SCENARIO

Please use the following to answer the next question: Joe started the Gummy Bear Company in 2000 from his home in Vermont, USA. Today, it is a multi-billion-dollar candy company operating in every continent. All of the company's IT servers are located in Vermont. This year Joe hires his son Ben to join the company and head up Project Big, which is a major marketing strategy to triple gross revenue in just 5 years. Ben graduated with a PhD in computer software from a top university. Ben decided to join his father's company, but is also secretly working on launching a new global online dating website company called Ben Knows Best. Ben is aware that the Gummy Bear Company has millions of customers and believes that many of them might also be interested in finding their perfect match. For Project Big, Ben redesigns the company's online web portal and requires customers in the European Union and elsewhere to provide additional personal information in order to remain a customer.

Project Ben begins collecting data about customers' philosophical beliefs, political opinions and marital status. If a customer identifies as single, Ben then copies all of that customer's personal data onto a separate database for Ben Knows Best. Ben believes that he is not doing anything wrong, because he explicitly asks each customer to give their consent by requiring them to check a box before accepting their

information. As Project Big is an important project, the company also hires a first year college student named Sam, who is studying computer science to help Ben out. Ben calls out and Sam comes across the Ben Knows Best database. Sam is planning on going to Ireland over Spring Beak with 10 of his friends, so he copies all of the customer information of people that reside in Ireland so that he and his friends can contact people when they are in Ireland. Joe also hires his best friend's daughter, Alice, who just graduated from law school in the U.S., to be the company's new General Counsel. Alice has heard about the GDPR, so she does some research on it. Alice approaches Joe and informs him that she has drafted up Binding Corporate Rules for everyone in the company to follow, as it is important for the company to have in place a legal mechanism to transfer data internally from the company's operations in the European Union to the U.S.

Joe believes that Alice is doing a great job, and informs her that she will also be in-charge of handling a major lawsuit that has been brought against the company in federal court in the U.S. To prepare for the lawsuit, Alice instructs the company's IT department to make copies of the computer hard drives from the entire global sales team, including the European Union, and send everything to her so that she can review everyone's information. Alice believes that Joe will be happy that she did the first level review, as it will save the company a lot of money that would otherwise be paid to its outside law firm. In preparing the company for its impending lawsuit, Alice's instruction to the company's IT

Department violated Article 5 of the GDPR because the company failed to first do what?

A : nd out consent forms to all of its employees.

B : nimize the amount of data collected for the lawsuit.

C : form all of its employees about the lawsuit.

D : crypt the data from all of its employees.

Answer: B

Question 5

Many businesses print their employees' photographs on building passes, so that employees can be identified by security staff. This is notwithstanding the fact that facial images potentially qualify as biometric data under the GOPR. Why would such practice be permitted?

A : cause use of biometric data to confirm the unique identification of data subjects benefits from an exemption.

B : Because photographs qualify as biometric data only when they undergo a "specific technical processing".

C : cause employees are deemed to have given their explicit consent when they agree to be photographed by their employer.

D : cause photographic ID is a physical security measure which is "necessary for reasons of substantial public interest".

Answer: B