CIPM Exam 2026 Questions and Answers
Proactive privacy management is accomplished through three tasks - Correct
answer-1) Define your organization's privacy vision and privacy mission
statements 2) Develop privacy strategy 3) Structure your privacy team
This is needed to structure responsibilities with business goals - Correct answer-
Strategic Management
Identifies alignment to organizational vision and defines the privacy leaders for an
organization, along with the resources necessary to execute the vision. - Correct
answer-Strategic Management model
Member of the privacy team who may be responsible for privacy program
framework development, management and reporting within an organization -
Correct answer-Privacy professional
Strategic management of privacy starts by - Correct answer-creating or updating
the company's vision and mission statement based on privacy best practice
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,Privacy best practices - Correct answer-1) Develop vision and mission statement
objectives 2) define privacy program scope 3)identify legal and regulatory
compliance challenges 4) identify organization personal information legal
requirements
This key factor that lays the groundwork for the rest of the privacy program
elements and is typically comprised of a short sentence or two that describe the
purpose and ideas in less than 30 seconds. - Correct answer-Vision or mission
statement
This explains what you do as an organization, not who you are; what the
organization stands for and why what you do an an organization to protect personal
information is done - Correct answer-Mission Statement
What are the steps in the five step metric cycle - Correct answer-Identify, Define,
Select, Collect, Analyze
The first step in the selecting the correct metrics starts by what? - Correct answer-
Identifying the intended metric audience
The primary audience for metrics may include - Correct answer-Legal and privacy
officers, senior leadership; CIO, CSO, PM, Information Systems Owner (ISO),
Information Security Officer (ISO), Others considered users and managers
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, The secondary audience includes those who may not have privacy as a primary
task include - Correct answer-CFO, Training organizations, HR, IG, HIPPA
security officials
The tertiary audiences may be considered, based on the organization's specific or
unique requirements such as who? - Correct answer-External watch dog groups,
Sponsors, Stockholders
The difference between metrics audiences is based on what? - Correct answer-
Level of interest, influence and responsibility to privacy within the business
objectives, laws and regulations, or ownership
Specific to Healthcare metrics, audiences may include whom? - Correct answer-
HIPPA privacy officers, medical interdisciplinary readiness teams (MIRTs), senior
executive staff, covered entity workforce, self assessment tool and risk
analysis/management
What is the second step in the metric life cycle? - Correct answer-Define Reporting
Procedures
A metric owner must be able to do what? - Correct answer-Evangelize the purpose
and intent of that metric to the organization
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Proactive privacy management is accomplished through three tasks - Correct
answer-1) Define your organization's privacy vision and privacy mission
statements 2) Develop privacy strategy 3) Structure your privacy team
This is needed to structure responsibilities with business goals - Correct answer-
Strategic Management
Identifies alignment to organizational vision and defines the privacy leaders for an
organization, along with the resources necessary to execute the vision. - Correct
answer-Strategic Management model
Member of the privacy team who may be responsible for privacy program
framework development, management and reporting within an organization -
Correct answer-Privacy professional
Strategic management of privacy starts by - Correct answer-creating or updating
the company's vision and mission statement based on privacy best practice
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,Privacy best practices - Correct answer-1) Develop vision and mission statement
objectives 2) define privacy program scope 3)identify legal and regulatory
compliance challenges 4) identify organization personal information legal
requirements
This key factor that lays the groundwork for the rest of the privacy program
elements and is typically comprised of a short sentence or two that describe the
purpose and ideas in less than 30 seconds. - Correct answer-Vision or mission
statement
This explains what you do as an organization, not who you are; what the
organization stands for and why what you do an an organization to protect personal
information is done - Correct answer-Mission Statement
What are the steps in the five step metric cycle - Correct answer-Identify, Define,
Select, Collect, Analyze
The first step in the selecting the correct metrics starts by what? - Correct answer-
Identifying the intended metric audience
The primary audience for metrics may include - Correct answer-Legal and privacy
officers, senior leadership; CIO, CSO, PM, Information Systems Owner (ISO),
Information Security Officer (ISO), Others considered users and managers
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, The secondary audience includes those who may not have privacy as a primary
task include - Correct answer-CFO, Training organizations, HR, IG, HIPPA
security officials
The tertiary audiences may be considered, based on the organization's specific or
unique requirements such as who? - Correct answer-External watch dog groups,
Sponsors, Stockholders
The difference between metrics audiences is based on what? - Correct answer-
Level of interest, influence and responsibility to privacy within the business
objectives, laws and regulations, or ownership
Specific to Healthcare metrics, audiences may include whom? - Correct answer-
HIPPA privacy officers, medical interdisciplinary readiness teams (MIRTs), senior
executive staff, covered entity workforce, self assessment tool and risk
analysis/management
What is the second step in the metric life cycle? - Correct answer-Define Reporting
Procedures
A metric owner must be able to do what? - Correct answer-Evangelize the purpose
and intent of that metric to the organization
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