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CAS-001 Question #118: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

The correct answer is B: The company backup logs and archives. The correct answer is B. Before responding to the legal subpoena, the security administrator should check backup logs and archives. The email server only holds one year of active records, but the subpoena requests three years. Backup systems (tape backups, off-site archives, emai

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The security administrator at a company has received a subpoena for the release of all the email received and sent by the company Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the past three years. The security administrator is only able to find one year's worth of email records on the server and is now concerned about the possible legal implications of not complying with the request. Which of the following should the security administrator check BEFORE responding to the request?

Options

  • AThe company data privacy policies
  • BThe company backup logs and archives
  • CThe company data retention policies and guidelines
  • DThe company data retention procedures

Explanation

The correct answer is B. Before responding to the legal subpoena, the security administrator should check backup logs and archives. The email server only holds one year of active records, but the subpoena requests three years. Backup systems (tape backups, off-site archives, email archiving solutions) may contain the missing two years of email records. Responding to a subpoena without checking all available sources could result in an incomplete and potentially non-compliant response. Option C (data retention policies) tells you how long data should be kept, but the immediate action is to locate the data. Option A (privacy policies) is less relevant here. Option D (retention procedures) describes how data is managed, not where existing data can be found. The practical first step is to search backups and archives.

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