ACEDS LATEST ACTUAL 2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔An e-discovery service provider has had several power outages and disruptions to
business operations and the law firm that hired them is frustrated. To vent their
frustration, the law firm has decided to withhold payment from the service provider. The
law firm also made the decision to switch to another service provider. The original
service provider is now threatening to withhold access to the law firm's data.
Technically, the withheld data belongs to the client of the law firm.
What service provider contract elements should be assessed before terminating the
service provider contract?
A) Service level agreements, data return and data ownership terms.
B) Data ownership and attorney work product ownership.
C) Confidentiality and payment terms and conditions.
D) Warranties by the service provider. - ✔✔A
✔✔During a document review, an issue arises where the review manager is
experiencing a high overturn rate during the quality control check of reviewer coding
decisions. More than half of the documents coded responsive by the reviewers are
being changed to non-responsive during quality control.
What is the best action below that the review manager might take to remedy the poor
performance by the review team?
A) Retrain the reviewers on responsiveness, issue, and privilege coding.
B) Provide keyboard shortcuts for the review platform to improve efficiency.
C) Set up a Slack channel to facilitate answering reviewer questions.
D) Reduce the number of documents being quality checked. - ✔✔A
✔✔A partner at a law firm received a document production from an attorney working at
the firm of opposing counsel. The production was sent via email in the form of a
compressed zip file full of native file documents and a load file. The partner who
received the email and production clicked on the zip file, opened the file on her PC, and
started to look at the documents.
By opening the zip file and looking at the files, what risk did the partner take?
A) She exposed her PC to potential infection from a virus.
B) The production documents will be irrevocably changed.
C) The receiving law firm will not have clean copies of the production documents.
D) The production set would need to be prepared again. - ✔✔A
✔✔A senior partner requested one of the firms e-discovery specialists to accompany
her to a meet and confer with opposing counsel to discuss the preservation, collection,
review, and production of ESI in a pending lawsuit. The senior partner had never
worked with ESI and began agreeing to opposing counsel demands that were
technically impossible, like producing a terabyte of data that had not yet been collected
in three days.
, In these circumstances, what is the best way for the e-discovery specialist to resolve the
obvious dilemma presented:
A) Inform everyone present of the technical impossibility by writing the schedule out on
a whiteboard to get the discussion back on track.
B) Discreetly whisper or pass a note to the partner saying, "Urgent. May we take a
break? We need to talk about technical requirements."
C) Get up and walk out of the room, signaling to the partner to follow you.
D) Offer to document the meeting - ✔✔B
✔✔You are charged with organizing and managing a review of ESI for your client. The
goal and first priority of the review is finding as many key documents as fast as
possible, without concern for costs. The client wants to review this information to
determine whether to settle or litigate the matter.
Which organizational option is most likely to meet the goal of the project?
A) Perform a linear review of the documents sorted by date.
B) Perform review, prioritizing the review of assumed key custodians' material first.
C) Use a review tool to group the documents by concept prior to review.
D) Utilize technology assisted legal analytics tools to surface key facts. - ✔✔D
✔✔In a case involving a large volume of ESI, the defendant wants to use Technology-
Assisted Review (TAR) to reduce costs and speed up the review and production of
documents. Opposing counsel has objected and raised the issue to the court. The court
has taken the position that parties are free to review and produce documents using any
methodology they choose provided that the reviewing party is prepared to certify in
good faith that all reasonable steps were taken to produce relevant materials.
What is the best way counsel for the defendant may reduce the possibility that the
requesting party can successfully challenge the production?
A) Be transparent, open-minded, and reveal the TAR review statistics.
B) Disclose the seed set to the requesting party.
C) Explain to opposing counsel the capabilities of TAR software and process.
D) Get the court's prior approval before using TAR. - ✔✔A
✔✔Company A maintains an email backup policy that preserves full backup tapes of
data on the Exchange email server for each month of the most recent year and one
tape as of December 31st for each of the past three years.
Plaintiff Store B sued Company A for breach of a contract entered into four months ago
that was negotiated over a three-month period. Company A's document retention policy
provides that employees should retain all company emails for a period of one year.
Store B has demanded that Company A obtain, review, and produce data from its
backup tapes for each of the past seven months.
Under which condition would Company A be more likely to win cost-shifting from Store
B for searching the seven monthly backup tapes?
A) If Company A can demonstrate that the relevant custodians did not delete any
relevant emails from their Exchange accounts within the past four months
B) If Company A can demonstrate that the Exc - ✔✔B
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✔✔An e-discovery service provider has had several power outages and disruptions to
business operations and the law firm that hired them is frustrated. To vent their
frustration, the law firm has decided to withhold payment from the service provider. The
law firm also made the decision to switch to another service provider. The original
service provider is now threatening to withhold access to the law firm's data.
Technically, the withheld data belongs to the client of the law firm.
What service provider contract elements should be assessed before terminating the
service provider contract?
A) Service level agreements, data return and data ownership terms.
B) Data ownership and attorney work product ownership.
C) Confidentiality and payment terms and conditions.
D) Warranties by the service provider. - ✔✔A
✔✔During a document review, an issue arises where the review manager is
experiencing a high overturn rate during the quality control check of reviewer coding
decisions. More than half of the documents coded responsive by the reviewers are
being changed to non-responsive during quality control.
What is the best action below that the review manager might take to remedy the poor
performance by the review team?
A) Retrain the reviewers on responsiveness, issue, and privilege coding.
B) Provide keyboard shortcuts for the review platform to improve efficiency.
C) Set up a Slack channel to facilitate answering reviewer questions.
D) Reduce the number of documents being quality checked. - ✔✔A
✔✔A partner at a law firm received a document production from an attorney working at
the firm of opposing counsel. The production was sent via email in the form of a
compressed zip file full of native file documents and a load file. The partner who
received the email and production clicked on the zip file, opened the file on her PC, and
started to look at the documents.
By opening the zip file and looking at the files, what risk did the partner take?
A) She exposed her PC to potential infection from a virus.
B) The production documents will be irrevocably changed.
C) The receiving law firm will not have clean copies of the production documents.
D) The production set would need to be prepared again. - ✔✔A
✔✔A senior partner requested one of the firms e-discovery specialists to accompany
her to a meet and confer with opposing counsel to discuss the preservation, collection,
review, and production of ESI in a pending lawsuit. The senior partner had never
worked with ESI and began agreeing to opposing counsel demands that were
technically impossible, like producing a terabyte of data that had not yet been collected
in three days.
, In these circumstances, what is the best way for the e-discovery specialist to resolve the
obvious dilemma presented:
A) Inform everyone present of the technical impossibility by writing the schedule out on
a whiteboard to get the discussion back on track.
B) Discreetly whisper or pass a note to the partner saying, "Urgent. May we take a
break? We need to talk about technical requirements."
C) Get up and walk out of the room, signaling to the partner to follow you.
D) Offer to document the meeting - ✔✔B
✔✔You are charged with organizing and managing a review of ESI for your client. The
goal and first priority of the review is finding as many key documents as fast as
possible, without concern for costs. The client wants to review this information to
determine whether to settle or litigate the matter.
Which organizational option is most likely to meet the goal of the project?
A) Perform a linear review of the documents sorted by date.
B) Perform review, prioritizing the review of assumed key custodians' material first.
C) Use a review tool to group the documents by concept prior to review.
D) Utilize technology assisted legal analytics tools to surface key facts. - ✔✔D
✔✔In a case involving a large volume of ESI, the defendant wants to use Technology-
Assisted Review (TAR) to reduce costs and speed up the review and production of
documents. Opposing counsel has objected and raised the issue to the court. The court
has taken the position that parties are free to review and produce documents using any
methodology they choose provided that the reviewing party is prepared to certify in
good faith that all reasonable steps were taken to produce relevant materials.
What is the best way counsel for the defendant may reduce the possibility that the
requesting party can successfully challenge the production?
A) Be transparent, open-minded, and reveal the TAR review statistics.
B) Disclose the seed set to the requesting party.
C) Explain to opposing counsel the capabilities of TAR software and process.
D) Get the court's prior approval before using TAR. - ✔✔A
✔✔Company A maintains an email backup policy that preserves full backup tapes of
data on the Exchange email server for each month of the most recent year and one
tape as of December 31st for each of the past three years.
Plaintiff Store B sued Company A for breach of a contract entered into four months ago
that was negotiated over a three-month period. Company A's document retention policy
provides that employees should retain all company emails for a period of one year.
Store B has demanded that Company A obtain, review, and produce data from its
backup tapes for each of the past seven months.
Under which condition would Company A be more likely to win cost-shifting from Store
B for searching the seven monthly backup tapes?
A) If Company A can demonstrate that the relevant custodians did not delete any
relevant emails from their Exchange accounts within the past four months
B) If Company A can demonstrate that the Exc - ✔✔B
