20+ practice questions focused on Data Life Cycle Management — one of the most tested topics on the ISACA Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer (CDPSE) (CDPSE) exam. Each question includes a detailed explanation so you learn why the right answer is correct.
Start Data Life Cycle Management PracticeWhen configuring AWS Macie to perform data minimization, which configuration is required to prevent the service from scanning internal metadata fields that do not contain customer PII?
Explanation: AWS Macie uses S3 exclusion rules to filter out specific S3 buckets, objects, or prefixes from being scanned for sensitive data. By defining exclusion rules that target internal metadata fields (e.g., object keys or prefixes that contain system-generated metadata), Macie will skip those fields during its analysis, effectively preventing unnecessary scanning of non-PII data. This directly supports data minimization by limiting the scope of sensitive data discovery to only relevant customer data.
In Collibra, you are mapping a data element to a business term to support data minimization. What is the effect of changing the 'Data Stewardship' workflow status to 'Deprecated'?
Explanation: In Collibra, setting the 'Data Stewardship' workflow status to 'Deprecated' indicates that the data element or business term is no longer in use. This action archives the metadata record, removing it from active search results while preserving it for historical reference. It does not delete physical data or prevent editing by unauthorized users.
While using the Salesforce Data Masking tool, which option should be selected to ensure that production data copied to a sandbox is rendered unusable for unauthorized parties?
Explanation: Anonymization Masking in Salesforce Data Masking replaces sensitive data with anonymized values so that sandbox users cannot identify individuals, rendering the data unusable for unauthorized parties. This is the specific masking type designed to irreversibly obscure production data copied to sandboxes. It satisfies privacy requirements for non-production environments.
In Google Cloud Data Loss Prevention (DLP), which transformation method should be applied to a column containing email addresses to maintain format while ensuring privacy?
Explanation: Format-Preserving Encryption (FPE) encrypts data while preserving its original format, so an email address remains a valid-looking email address after transformation. This satisfies the requirement to maintain format (e.g., for downstream systems that validate email syntax) while ensuring the underlying value is cryptographically protected and reversible only with the key. FPE is specifically designed for this use case in Google Cloud DLP.
A CDPSE practitioner is configuring a data discovery job in OneTrust to identify PII in a structured database. Which setting must be enabled to ensure the tool automatically masks the data upon discovery based on a predefined classification tag?
Explanation: Auto-Masking Rule is the specific OneTrust configuration that applies a masking action (e.g., redaction, tokenization, or hashing) to data elements at the moment of discovery, driven by the classification tag assigned during the scan. Without an auto-masking rule bound to a classification, OneTrust will inventory and tag the PII but leave the underlying values intact. This directly satisfies the requirement to 'automatically mask upon discovery based on a predefined classification tag.'
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