IAPP CIPP-E Practice Exams
Last updated on Oct 22,2026- Exam Code: CIPP-E
- Exam Name: Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E)
- Certification Provider: IAPP
- Latest update: Oct 22,2026
How is the retention of communications traffic data for law enforcement purposes addressed by European data protection law?
- A . The ePrivacy Directive allows individual EU member states to engage in such data retention.
- B . The ePrivacy Directive harmonizes EU member states’ rules concerning such data retention.
- C . The Data Retention Directive’s annulment makes such data retention now permissible.
- D . The GDPR allows the retention of such data for the prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences only.
Under Article 58 of the GDPR, which of the following describes a power of supervisory authorities in European Union (EU) member states?
- A . The ability to enact new laws by executive order.
- B . The right to access data for investigative purposes.
- C . The discretion to carry out goals of elected officials within the member state.
- D . The authority to select penalties when a controller is found guilty in a court of law.
SCENARIO
Please use the following to answer the next question:
Javier is a member of the fitness club EVERFIT. This company has branches in many EU member states, but for the purposes of the GDPR maintains its primary establishment in France. Javier lives in Newry, Northern Ireland (part of the U.K.), and commutes across the border to work in Dundalk, Ireland. Two years ago while on a business trip, Javier was photographed while working out at a branch of EVERFIT in Frankfurt, Germany. At the time, Javier gave his consent to being included in the photograph, since he was told that it would be used for promotional purposes only. Since then, the photograph has been used in the club’s U.K. brochures, and it features in the landing page of its U.K. website. However, the fitness club has recently fallen into disrepute due to widespread mistreatment of members at various branches of the club in several EU member states. As a result, Javier no longer feels comfortable with his photograph being publicly associated with the fitness club.
After numerous failed attempts to book an appointment with the manager of the local branch to discuss this matter, Javier sends a letter to EVETFIT requesting that his image be removed from the website and all promotional materials. Months pass and Javier, having received no acknowledgment of his request, becomes very anxious about this matter. After repeatedly failing to contact EVETFIT through alternate channels, he decides to take action against the company.
Javier contacts the U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office (‘ICO’ C the U.K.’s supervisory authority) to lodge a complaint about this matter. The ICO, pursuant to Article 56 (3) of the GDPR, informs the CNIL (i.e. the supervisory authority of EVERFIT’s main establishment) about this matter. Despite the fact that EVERFIT has an establishment in the U.K., the CNIL decides to handle the case in accordance with Article 60 of the GDPR. The CNIL liaises with the ICO, as relevant under the cooperation procedure. In light of issues amongst the supervisory authorities to reach a decision, the European Data Protection Board becomes involved and, pursuant to the consistency mechanism, issues a binding decision.
Additionally, Javier sues EVERFIT for the damages caused as a result of its failure to honor his request to have his photograph removed from the brochure and website.
Under the cooperation mechanism, what should the lead authority (the CNIL) do after it has formed its view on the matter?
- A . Submit a draft decision to other supervisory authorities for their opinion.
- B . Request that the other supervisory authorities provide the lead authority with a draft decision for its consideration.
- C . Submit a draft decision directly to the Commission to ensure the effectiveness of the consistency mechanism.
- D . Request that members of the seconding supervisory authority and the host supervisory authority co-draft a decision.
What are the obligations of a processor that engages a sub-processor?
- A . The processor must give the controller prior written notice and perform a preliminary audit of the sub- processor.
- B . The processor must obtain the controller’s specific written authorization and provide annual reports on the sub-processor’s performance.
- C . The processor must receive a written agreement that the sub-processor will be fully liable to the controller for the performance of its obligations in relation to the personal data concerned.
- D . The processor must obtain the consent of the controller and ensure the sub-processor complies with data processing obligations that are equivalent to those that apply to the processor.
Which of the following is the weakest lawful basis for processing employee personal data?
- A . Processing based on fulfilling an employment contract.
- B . Processing based on employee consent.
- C . Processing based on legitimate interests.
- D . Processing based on legal obligation.
A news website based m (he United Slates reports primarily on North American events The website is accessible to any user regardless of location, as the website operator does not block connections from outside of the U.S. The website offers a pad subscription that requires the creation of a user account; this subscription can only be paid in U.S. dollars.
Which of the following explains why the website operator, who is the responsible for all processing related to account creation and subscriptions, is NOT required to comply with the GDPR?
- A . Payments cannot be made in a European Union currency.
- B . The controller does not have an establishment in the European Union.
- C . The website is not available in several official languages of European Un on Member States
- D . The website cannot block connections from outside the U.S. that use a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to simulate a US location.
Tanya is the Data Protection Officer for Curtains Inc., a GDPR data controller. She has recommended that the company encrypt all personal data at rest.
Which GDPR principle is she following?
- A . Accuracy
- B . Storage Limitation
- C . Integrity and confidentiality
- D . Lawfulness, fairness and transparency
Read the following steps:
✑ Discover which employees are accessing cloud services and from which devices and apps Lock down the data in those apps and devices
✑ Monitor and analyze the apps and devices for compliance
✑ Manage application life cycles
✑ Monitor data sharing
An organization should perform these steps to do which of the following?
- A . Pursue a GDPR-compliant Privacy by Design process.
- B . Institute a GDPR-compliant employee monitoring process.
- C . Maintain a secure Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) program.
- D . Ensure cloud vendors are complying with internal data use policies.
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.
As a result of Sam’s actions, the Gummy Bear Company potentially violated Articles 33 and 34 of the GDPR and will be required to do what?
- A . Notify its Data Protection Authority about the data breach.
- B . Analyze and evaluate the liability for customers in Ireland.
- C . Analyze and evaluate all of its breach notification obligations.
- D . Notify all of its customers that reside in the European Union.
Which of the following countries will continue to enjoy adequacy status under the GDPR, pending any future European Commission decision to the contrary?
- A . Greece
- B . Norway
- C . Australia
- D . Switzerland