Free IAPP CIPM Exam Questions

Question 1

You would like your organization to be independently audited to demonstrate compliance with international

privacy standards and to identify gaps for remediation.

Which type of audit would help you achieve this objective?

A : rst-party audit.

B : cond-party audit.

C : ird-party audit.

D : urth-party audit.

Answer: C

Question 2

SCENARIO -

Please use the following to answer the next question:

Edufox has hosted an annual convention of users of its famous e-learning software platform, and over time, it has become a grand event. It fills one of the large downtown conference hotels and overflows into the others, with several thousand attendees enjoying three days of presentations, panel discussions and networking. The convention is the centerpiece of the company's product rollout schedule and a great training opportunity for current users. The sales force also encourages prospective clients to attend to get a better sense of the ways in which the system can be customized to meet diverse needs and understand that when they buy into this system, they are joining a community that feels like family.

This year's conference is only three weeks away, and you have just heard news of a new initiative supporting it: a smartphone app for attendees. The app will support late registration, highlight the featured presentations and provide a mobile version of the conference program. It also links to a restaurant reservation system with the best cuisine in the areas featured. "It's going to be great," the developer, Deidre Hoffman, tells you, "if, that is, we actually get it working!" She laughs nervously but explains that because of the tight time frame she'd been given to build the app, she outsourced the job to a local firm. "It's just three young people," she says, "but they do great work." She describes some of the other apps they have built. When asked how they were selected for this job, Deidre shrugs. "They do good work, so I chose them."

Deidre is a terrific employee with a strong track record. That's why she's been charged to deliver this rushed project. You're sure she has the best interests of the company at heart, and you don't doubt that she's under pressure to meet a deadline that cannot be pushed back. However, you have concerns about the app's handling of personal data and its security safeguards. Over lunch in the break room, you start to talk to her about it, but she quickly tries to reassure you, "I'm sure with your help we can fix any security issues if we have to, but I doubt there'll be any. These people build apps for a living, and they know what they're doing. You worry too much, but that's why you're so good at your job!"

What safeguard can most efficiently ensure that privacy protection is a dimension of relationships with vendors?

A : Include appropriate language about privacy protection in vendor contracts.

B : Perform a privacy audit on any vendor under consideration

C : Require that a person trained in privacy protection be part of all vendor selection teams

D : Do business only with vendors who are members of privacy trade associations

Answer: A

Question 3

When devising effective employee policies to address a particular issue, which of the following should be included in the first draft?

A : Rationale for the policy.

B : Points of contact for the employee.

C : Roles and responsibilities of the different groups of individuals.

D : Explanation of how the policy is applied within the organization.

Answer: A

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 administrative safeguards should be implemented to protect the collected data while in use by Manasa

and her product management team?

A : Document the data flows for the collected data

B : Conduct a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) to evaluate the risks involved.

C : Implement a policy restricting data access on a "need to know" basis.

D : Limit data transfers to the US by keeping data collected in Europe within a local data center.

Answer: C

Question 5

SCENARIO -

Please use the following to answer the next question:

Your organization, the Chicago (U.S.)-based Society for Urban Greenspace, has used the same vendor to operate all aspects of an online store for several years. As a small nonprofit, the Society cannot afford the higher-priced options, but you have been relatively satisfied with this budget vendor, Shopping Cart Saver (SCS). Yes, there have been some issues. Twice, people who purchased items from the store have had their credit card information used fraudulently subsequent to transactions on your site, but in neither case did the investigation reveal with certainty that the Society’s store had been hacked. The thefts could have been employee-related.

Just as disconcerting was an incident where the organization discovered that SCS had sold information it had collected from customers to third parties. However, as Jason Roland, your SCS account representative, points out, it took only a phone call from you to clarify expectations and the “misunderstanding” has not occurred again.

As an information-technology program manager with the Society, the role of the privacy professional is only one of many you play. In all matters, however, you must consider the financial bottom line. While these problems with privacy protection have been significant, the additional revenues of sales of items such as shirts and coffee cups from the store have been significant. The Society’s operating budget is slim, and all sources of revenue are essential.

Now a new challenge has arisen. Jason called to say that starting in two weeks, the customer data from the store would now be stored on a data cloud. “The good news,” he says, “is that we have found a low-cost provider in Finland, where the data would also be held. So, while there may be a small charge to pass through to you, it won’t be exorbitant, especially considering the advantages of a cloud.”

You begin to research and discover that a number of the leading cloud service providers have signed a letter of intent to work together on shared conventions and technologies for privacy protection. You make a note to find out if Jason’s Finnish provider is signing on.

After conducting research, you discover a primary data protection issue with cloud computing. Which of the following should be your biggest concern?

A : An open programming model that results in easy access

B : An unwillingness of cloud providers to provide security information

C : A lack of vendors in the cloud computing market

D : A reduced resilience of data structures that may lead to data loss.

Answer: D