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CAS-001 · Question #305

An administrator receives a notification from legal that an investigation is being performed on members of the finance department. As a precaution, legal has advised a legal hold on all documents…

The correct answer is A. Data Storage Policy B. Data Retention Policy. A legal hold requires preserving all relevant data indefinitely, which directly conflicts with two policies. (A) Data Storage Policy: organizations typically set storage limits and require cleanup of old files; a legal hold forces retention of data well beyond those quotas…

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Question

An administrator receives a notification from legal that an investigation is being performed on members of the finance department. As a precaution, legal has advised a legal hold on all documents for an unspecified period of time. Which of the following policies will MOST likely be violated? (Select TWO).

Options

  • AData Storage Policy
  • BData Retention Policy
  • CCorporate Confidentiality Policy
  • DData Breach Mitigation Policy
  • ECorporate Privacy Policy

How the community answered

(30 responses)
  • A
    77% (23)
  • C
    3% (1)
  • D
    7% (2)
  • E
    13% (4)

Explanation

A legal hold requires preserving all relevant data indefinitely, which directly conflicts with two policies. (A) Data Storage Policy: organizations typically set storage limits and require cleanup of old files; a legal hold forces retention of data well beyond those quotas, violating storage caps. (B) Data Retention Policy: retention policies define how long data must be kept and, critically, when it must be deleted (e.g., 'delete after 7 years'). A legal hold suspends the deletion schedule, violating the policy's destruction timeline. Option C (Corporate Confidentiality) is not directly violated - the data stays internal. Option D (Data Breach Mitigation) is unrelated to a legal hold. Option E (Corporate Privacy) is not inherently violated by preserving data internally for litigation purposes.

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