CCSP Legal, Risk, and Compliance Practice Question
A cloud provider's data center is located in Country A, but the customer's data is subject to litigation in Country B. The court in Country B orders the cloud provider to produce data. The cloud provider refuses, citing Country A's laws that prohibit disclosure. This situation best illustrates which challenge in eDiscovery?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Jurisdiction issues
Jurisdictional issues arise when data is stored in multiple legal jurisdictions, and courts in one country may not have authority over data in another, leading to conflicts of law.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Data portability
Why it's wrong here
Portability concerns moving data between providers or environments without lock-in; here the conflict is a court order colliding with local disclosure law, not migration. Portability would be the issue if the customer needed to relocate workloads or data to another platform.
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Jurisdiction issues
Why this is correct
Two sovereign legal regimes impose conflicting obligations: Country B compels production while Country A prohibits disclosure. This clash of laws governing the same data is a jurisdiction issue, exactly the eDiscovery challenge the stem describes when the provider refuses the court order.
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Data preservation
Why it's wrong here
Preservation concerns keeping data intact and unaltered once litigation is reasonably anticipated; the provider here is refusing production, not losing or destroying evidence. Preservation would be the issue if retention policies or automated deletion risked spoliation.
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Forensic soundness
Why it's wrong here
Forensic soundness concerns whether evidence is collected and handled so its integrity is admissible, involving chain of custody and validated tooling. The scenario turns on conflicting legal obligations to disclose, not on whether the data was captured reliably.
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