Free IAPP CIPP-E Exam Questions

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Question 1

What is the primary purpose of Convention 108+, which amends the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data?

A : To issue updated guidelines for data transfers from the EU to third-country signatories to the Convention.

B : To modify the process for third countries to obtain an adequacy decision from the European Commission.

C : To strengthen data protection in line with the European and international regulatory framework.

D : To establish new data subject rights and safeguards for consumers in the EU member states.

Answer: C

Question 2

An employee of company ABCD has just noticed a memory stick containing records of client data, including their names, addresses and full contact details has disappeared. The data on the stick is unencrypted and in clear text. It is uncertain what has happened to the stick at this stage, but it likely was lost during the travel of an employee. What should the company do?

A : tify as soon as possible the data protection supervisory authority that a data breach may have taken place.

B : unch an investigation and if nothing is found within one month, notify the data protection supervisory authority.

C : voke the "disproportionate effort" exception under Article 33 to postpone notifying data subjects until more information can be gathered.

D : mediately notify all the customers of the company that their information has been accessed by an unauthorized person.

Answer: A

Question 3

Which of the following is NOT recognized as being a common characteristic of cloud-computing services?

A : service's infrastructure is shared among the supplier's customers and can be located in a number of countries.

B : supplier determines the location, security measures, and service standards applicable to the processing.

C : supplier allows customer data to be transferred around the infrastructure according to capacity.

D : supplier assumes the vendor's business risk associated with data processed by the supplier.

Answer: D

Question 4

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 5

A German data subject was the victim of an embarrassing prank 20 years ago. A newspaper website published an article about the prank at the time, and the article is still available on the newspaper's website. Unfortunately, the prank is the top search result when a user searches on the victim's name. The data subject requests that SearchCo delist this result. SearchCo agrees, and instructs its technology team to avoid scanning or indexing the article. What else must SearchCo do?

A : tify the newspaper that its article it is delisting the article.

B : lly erase the URL to the content, as opposed to delist which is mainly based on data subject's name.

C : Identify other controllers who are processing the same information and inform them of the delisting request.

D : Prevent the article from being listed in search results no matter what search terms are entered into the search engine.

Answer: A

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Total 320 Questions | Updated On: Feb 19, 2026

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