ACEDS STUDY GUIDE 2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔A 250 GB collection of raw data has been delivered to you. After processing, which
included meta-data extraction and de-duplication, the review dataset is 325 GB. The
client wants to know why the collection size has increased.
After investigation, what is the likely appropriate response to the client?
A) The accounting departing has a large number of spreadsheets with more than 5,000
pages per worksheet.
B) The research department has a large number of compressed files containing folders
of multiple file types and varying sizes.
C) The marketing department has a large number of image files embedded in
presentation slides.
D) The legal department has a large number of legal documents in excess of 100
pages. - ✔✔B
✔✔During an investigation, a regulatory agency has requested that a law firm prepare a
production of ESI in the following way: "All file types are to be produced as TIFF images
with metadata and extracted text, and Excel and PowerPoint files are to be provided in
native format."
The best way for the law firm to comply with the agency's request is to:
A) Produce all documents in TIFF image format with a load file and request an
exemption to the native file production.
B) Produce all documents in native form without a load file since the native files would
be a more complete production.
C) Produce all documents in TIFF image format with a load file, a data file, and
extracted text, with links to the native Excel and PowerPoint files.
D) Locate all *.docx and *.pptx file extensions and link those files manually to the TIFF
production. - ✔✔C
✔✔A famous plaintiff was involved in a car accident in China when a shipping
company's truck struck the vehicle she was traveling in. The plaintiff injured her legs in
the accident, and she is now on the road to recovery back in the U.S. In a lawsuit filed
against the shipping company, the celebrity plaintiff alleged that the accident caused her
physical injury and emotional distress.
What should the plaintiff's attorney advise the plaintiff?
A) Take down social media photos depicting the plaintiff having fun water skiing.
B) Close all social media accounts and delete all social media posts.
C) Be careful when posting to social media and provide the attorney access to each
account.
D) Only post pictures showing her injuries. - ✔✔C
✔✔After the final production and the day before the discovery cutoff date of a case, an
attorney received a package from a key custodian that had been delivered to the
mailroom of the firm but had sat without delivery to that attorney for two weeks. The
, package held a small USB drive. The attorney immediately sent the USB drive out for
processing. The following day, the documents were ready and the attorney did a quick
review to see that some documents were responsive to discovery requests by the
opposing party and some emails were privileged and would need redaction. The
attorney is concerned that reviewing these new documents will push the review past the
discovery cutoff date and cost too much.
The best way for the attorney to proceed in these circumstances is to:
A) Send the original USB drive to the opposing party's attorney next day delivery.
B) Send a copy of the original USB drive to the opposing party's attorn - ✔✔C
✔✔In the midst of a pending lawsuit, two custodians wanted to communicate quickly
with each other without the substance of their communications leaving a record.
What communication method is least likely to allow the content of the communication to
be recovered?
A) A phone call
B) A Zoom call
C) Sharing unsent emails in the Drafts folder of a Gmail account
D) Encrypted email - ✔✔A
✔✔A party in litigation is faced with reviewing a large number of potentially responsive
documents. An analysis of the documents reveals a significant number of near-
duplicates. The party seeks to apply bulk coding in this review.
Which attribute is NOT associated with bulk coding of near-duplicates in a large-scale
document review set?
A) Efficiency in the review process
B) Consistency in coding exact duplicates or near-duplicates
C) Certainty that each document is reviewed by an attorney
D) Reduction in volume of materials to be reviewed by each reviewer - ✔✔C
✔✔Your client has been named as a defendant in a products liability lawsuit. After you
have issued a legal hold notice, interviewed the recipients of the notice, and met and
conferred, you have agreed that the relevant time period for the case is between
January 1, 2010, and the date the complaint was filed on July 1, 2013. You have also
agreed to collect, review, and produce documents and materials from 25 current
employees.
After preparing a budget that includes 30 to 40 GB of data per custodian from active
and local storage, the IT representatives inform you that, in 2011, all of the custodians'
workstations were replaced with new computers. Archived PST files were not
transferred to the new computer systems. As a matter of standard practice, they have
retained the hard drives from each of the identified custodians' former workstations.
What impact, if any, will the existence of the retained hard drives from the for - ✔✔A
✔✔In a filed putative class action, potentially affecting the majority of a responding
party's operations and records, the responding party is currently preparing documents
for review. But due to the size of the collection, and because the responding party
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔A 250 GB collection of raw data has been delivered to you. After processing, which
included meta-data extraction and de-duplication, the review dataset is 325 GB. The
client wants to know why the collection size has increased.
After investigation, what is the likely appropriate response to the client?
A) The accounting departing has a large number of spreadsheets with more than 5,000
pages per worksheet.
B) The research department has a large number of compressed files containing folders
of multiple file types and varying sizes.
C) The marketing department has a large number of image files embedded in
presentation slides.
D) The legal department has a large number of legal documents in excess of 100
pages. - ✔✔B
✔✔During an investigation, a regulatory agency has requested that a law firm prepare a
production of ESI in the following way: "All file types are to be produced as TIFF images
with metadata and extracted text, and Excel and PowerPoint files are to be provided in
native format."
The best way for the law firm to comply with the agency's request is to:
A) Produce all documents in TIFF image format with a load file and request an
exemption to the native file production.
B) Produce all documents in native form without a load file since the native files would
be a more complete production.
C) Produce all documents in TIFF image format with a load file, a data file, and
extracted text, with links to the native Excel and PowerPoint files.
D) Locate all *.docx and *.pptx file extensions and link those files manually to the TIFF
production. - ✔✔C
✔✔A famous plaintiff was involved in a car accident in China when a shipping
company's truck struck the vehicle she was traveling in. The plaintiff injured her legs in
the accident, and she is now on the road to recovery back in the U.S. In a lawsuit filed
against the shipping company, the celebrity plaintiff alleged that the accident caused her
physical injury and emotional distress.
What should the plaintiff's attorney advise the plaintiff?
A) Take down social media photos depicting the plaintiff having fun water skiing.
B) Close all social media accounts and delete all social media posts.
C) Be careful when posting to social media and provide the attorney access to each
account.
D) Only post pictures showing her injuries. - ✔✔C
✔✔After the final production and the day before the discovery cutoff date of a case, an
attorney received a package from a key custodian that had been delivered to the
mailroom of the firm but had sat without delivery to that attorney for two weeks. The
, package held a small USB drive. The attorney immediately sent the USB drive out for
processing. The following day, the documents were ready and the attorney did a quick
review to see that some documents were responsive to discovery requests by the
opposing party and some emails were privileged and would need redaction. The
attorney is concerned that reviewing these new documents will push the review past the
discovery cutoff date and cost too much.
The best way for the attorney to proceed in these circumstances is to:
A) Send the original USB drive to the opposing party's attorney next day delivery.
B) Send a copy of the original USB drive to the opposing party's attorn - ✔✔C
✔✔In the midst of a pending lawsuit, two custodians wanted to communicate quickly
with each other without the substance of their communications leaving a record.
What communication method is least likely to allow the content of the communication to
be recovered?
A) A phone call
B) A Zoom call
C) Sharing unsent emails in the Drafts folder of a Gmail account
D) Encrypted email - ✔✔A
✔✔A party in litigation is faced with reviewing a large number of potentially responsive
documents. An analysis of the documents reveals a significant number of near-
duplicates. The party seeks to apply bulk coding in this review.
Which attribute is NOT associated with bulk coding of near-duplicates in a large-scale
document review set?
A) Efficiency in the review process
B) Consistency in coding exact duplicates or near-duplicates
C) Certainty that each document is reviewed by an attorney
D) Reduction in volume of materials to be reviewed by each reviewer - ✔✔C
✔✔Your client has been named as a defendant in a products liability lawsuit. After you
have issued a legal hold notice, interviewed the recipients of the notice, and met and
conferred, you have agreed that the relevant time period for the case is between
January 1, 2010, and the date the complaint was filed on July 1, 2013. You have also
agreed to collect, review, and produce documents and materials from 25 current
employees.
After preparing a budget that includes 30 to 40 GB of data per custodian from active
and local storage, the IT representatives inform you that, in 2011, all of the custodians'
workstations were replaced with new computers. Archived PST files were not
transferred to the new computer systems. As a matter of standard practice, they have
retained the hard drives from each of the identified custodians' former workstations.
What impact, if any, will the existence of the retained hard drives from the for - ✔✔A
✔✔In a filed putative class action, potentially affecting the majority of a responding
party's operations and records, the responding party is currently preparing documents
for review. But due to the size of the collection, and because the responding party
