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Provided By: IAPP
- Exam: Certified Information Privacy Manager
- Certification: Certified Information Privacy Manager
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Total Questions: 278
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Updated On: Jun 15, 2026
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Question 1
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Please use the following to answer the next question:
Today is your first day at a fast growing international real estate firm headquartered in New York, with offices in Canada and Germany. You are the firm's first ever privacy officer.
While touring the office to meet your new colleagues and learn the layout of the office, you notice piles of printing jobs left on the printer in the copy room. You also note a recycle bin and garbage can near the printers. With a quick glance, you see a completed loan application form print out with applicant name, social security number and home address lying in the recycle bin. You make a note to follow up immediately.
You are then introduced to the head of IT who gives you a warm welcome and explains his star project this year - enterprise CRM (Customer Relationship Management) mobility. He is very proud that he is leading this innovation that allows firm-wide employees to access the existing CRM database remotely from anywhere on the Internet. The business value of this mobility initiative is significant. Since he doesn't have internal web development expertise, he outsourced the development work to a small IT firm in New York that has just successfully delivered another IT initiative for the company.
After the tour you start working on a plan based on your observations. One immediate action is to schedule a meeting with the head of IT to discuss the CRM mobility project.
While reviewing the contract with the firm the CRM mobility project was outsourced to, all of the following should be mandatory EXCEPT?
Answer: D
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Question 2
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SCENARIOPlease use the following to answer the next question:Jonathan recently joined a healthcare payment processing solutions company as a senior privacy manager.One morning, Jonathan awakens to several emails informing him that an individual cloud server failed due to aflood in its server room, damaging its hardware and destroying all the data the company had stored on thatdrive. Jonathan was not aware that the company had this particular cloud account or that any data was beingstored there because it was not included in the data mapping or data inventory provided to him by hispredecessor. Jonathan's predecessor conducted a data inventory and mapping exercise 4 years ago andupdated it on an annual basis.Renee works in the sales department and tells Jonathan that she doesn't think that account had been usedsince the company moved to a bigger cloud vendor three years ago. She also advised him that the account wasmostly used by Human Resources (HR) and Accounts Payable (AP). Jonathan speaks to both departments andlearns that each had met with his predecessor multiple times and explained they saved sensitive personal dataon that drive, including health and financial related personal data and "other stuff." Jonathan also learns that thedata stored in that account was not backed up pursuant to company policy. Jonathan asks his IT departmentwho had access to that particular account and learns that there were no access controls in place, making theaccount available to anyone in the company, despite the purported sensitivity of the data being stored there.Jonathan is panicking as the data can't be recovered, and he can't determine exactly what data was saved onthat account or to whom it belongs. Two days later, the company receives 32 data subject access requests andAccounts Payable confirms Jonathan's worry that these data subjects' personal data was likely stored on thisaccount. He searches for the company's data subject access request policy, but later learns it doesn't exist.Based on the scenario above, what is the most appropriate next step Jonathan should take?
Answer: A
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Question 3
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You would like to better understand how your organization can demonstrate compliance with international privacy standards and identify gaps for remediation. What steps could you take to achieve this objective?
Answer: D
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You would like to better understand how your organization can demonstrate compliance with international privacy standards and identify gaps for remediation. What steps could you take to achieve this objective?
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Question 4
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All of the following changes will likely trigger a data inventory update EXCEPT?
Answer: A
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All of the following changes will likely trigger a data inventory update EXCEPT?
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Question 5
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SCENARIOPlease use the following to answer the next question:As the Director of data protection for Consolidated Records Corporation, you are justifiably pleased with youraccomplishments so far. Your hiring was precipitated by warnings from regulatory agencies following a series ofrelatively minor data breaches that could easily have been worse. However, you have not had a reportableincident for the three years that you have been with the company. In fact, you consider your program a modelthat 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 towardcoherence across departments and throughout operations. You were aided along the way by the program'ssponsor, the vice president of operations, as well as by a Privacy Team that started from a clear understandingof the need for change.Initially, your work was greeted with little confidence or enthusiasm by the company's "old guard" among boththe executive team and frontline personnel working with data and interfacing with clients. Through the use ofmetrics that showed the costs not only of the breaches that had occurred, but also projections of the costs thateasily could occur given the current state of operations, you soon had the leaders and key decision-makerslargely on your side. Many of the other employees were more resistant, but face-to-face meetings with eachdepartment and the development of a baseline privacy training program achieved sufficient "buy-in" to beginputting the proper procedures into place.Now, privacy protection is an accepted component of all current operations involving personal or protected dataand must be part of the end product of any process of technological development. While your approach is notsystematic, 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 stage of the privacy operational life cycle best describes the company's current privacy program?
Answer: D
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