ACEDS LATEST 2026 TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔An attorney at a law firm has requested that the firm's e-discovery team limit the
collection of ESI in a new case to only important documents, which the attorney
explained means word processing documents, which were defined in the request for
production of documents "as any documents ending in *.doc file extension." Later,
during document review, when the word processing documents the attorney expected to
see did not show up in the review set, that attorney asked the e-discovery team to
explain where they were.
Which of the below most likely happened during this collection to the explain this
anomaly?
A) Word processing documents with the file extension *.docx were not collected.
B) There were absolutely no word processing documents in the original data set.
C) All word processing documents were converted to PDF.
D) Someone changed the file extensions of all word processing documents. - ✔✔A
✔✔In a case involving several complex claims and multiple parties, the review is going
to be conducted by attorneys hired through an agency who will have no other role in the
case. Counsel for the producing party will need to create a document to guide the
review, providing rules for the review and setting out the coding scheme for the ESI.
In designing such a coding scheme, there is an inherent tension between which two
goals?
A) Identifying privileged material and identifying relevant material
B) Tagging the documents for various issues and identifying privileged material
C) Identifying relevant material and understanding the issues in the case
D) Efficiency of review and completeness of the tagging - ✔✔D
✔✔A law firm that outsources its e-discovery services to a service provider asked a
production specialist at the vendor to prepare and send a document production to
another law firm that is co-counsel on an active matter for a pre-production quality
check prior to actually producing the documents to opposing counsel. The production
specialist exported the documents and burned the pre-production to a CD-ROM.
Instead of delivering the CD to co-counsel, the vendor production specialist mistakenly
sent the not yet finalized production directly to opposing counsel in the case.
What step below would most likely have saved the service provider from this error?
A) Having a quality control check process on outgoing production deliverables.
B) Preparing pre-printed labels for the transmittal.
C) Putting the production on an FTP site instead of sending physical media.
D) Better training for the production specialist. - ✔✔A
✔✔Following an auto accident in which the defendant was accused of driving over the
speed limit, his attorneys were looking for witnesses to dispute the speeding allegation.
The only other witness was the driver of the other vehicle and she could not say if the
, defendant was speeding at the time of the accident. The attorneys were unable to find
any other witnesses.
As an e-discovery specialist on the case, what below is the best recommendation you
might make to the attorneys to establish the defendant was not speeding?
A) Tell the attorneys to check the computer information systems of the car.
B) Check the defendant's insurance coverage to determine if it matters.
C) Look at the cell phone of the client to create a timeline on the day of the accident
D) Hire an expert to perform an accident reconstruction analysis. - ✔✔D
✔✔After a case is filed against a client, the attorney prepares a litigation hold notice for
employees and individuals who are likely to have relevant documents. In that notice, the
attorney specifies the following:
• The basic elements of the litigation, including the subject matter, parties, and the
relevant time period covered by the claims• That each and every recipient must retain,
and not destroy, any potentially relevant documents
Which statement is true regarding this legal hold notice?
A) It reflects best practice because it covers all of the important elements of a legal hold
notice.
B) It does not reflect best practice because it neither defines relevant types of data nor
specifies that the new instructions supersede the company's document retention
guidelines.
C) It is does not reflect best practice because the client has an obligation to
automatically discontinue all automated purging policies within the c - ✔✔B
✔✔Your company is responding to a request for production regarding ESI hosted on an
intranet server. This server hosts many repositories in the form of document libraries
with a total document size of 300 GB. The smallest repository on this server is about 5
GB in size and one document collection contained almost 20,000 folders.
Which is the most appropriate course of action in planning a forensic collection from this
specific server?
A) The legal team should use native application built-in search features to meet their
production requests since there are well-known procedures for working with document
collections for this server.
B) A collection strategy that involves using Windows native functionality to copy the
document libraries to an external network share should be used.
C) Appropriate third-party tools should be used to export application document libraries
to an external network share, while ensuring that meta - ✔✔C
✔✔A party to litigation received a production of ESI via FedEx on a CD-ROM that
contained 500 PDF files and a load file. After successfully loading the documents to
their e-discovery platform, the case team attempted to search for custodians' names
and company names. The searches yielded no search results.
What is most likely causing the searches to yield no results?
A) The load file did not include the extracted or OCR text.
B) The 500 PDF files were corrupt.
C) The e-discovery platform settings were incorrect.
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✔✔An attorney at a law firm has requested that the firm's e-discovery team limit the
collection of ESI in a new case to only important documents, which the attorney
explained means word processing documents, which were defined in the request for
production of documents "as any documents ending in *.doc file extension." Later,
during document review, when the word processing documents the attorney expected to
see did not show up in the review set, that attorney asked the e-discovery team to
explain where they were.
Which of the below most likely happened during this collection to the explain this
anomaly?
A) Word processing documents with the file extension *.docx were not collected.
B) There were absolutely no word processing documents in the original data set.
C) All word processing documents were converted to PDF.
D) Someone changed the file extensions of all word processing documents. - ✔✔A
✔✔In a case involving several complex claims and multiple parties, the review is going
to be conducted by attorneys hired through an agency who will have no other role in the
case. Counsel for the producing party will need to create a document to guide the
review, providing rules for the review and setting out the coding scheme for the ESI.
In designing such a coding scheme, there is an inherent tension between which two
goals?
A) Identifying privileged material and identifying relevant material
B) Tagging the documents for various issues and identifying privileged material
C) Identifying relevant material and understanding the issues in the case
D) Efficiency of review and completeness of the tagging - ✔✔D
✔✔A law firm that outsources its e-discovery services to a service provider asked a
production specialist at the vendor to prepare and send a document production to
another law firm that is co-counsel on an active matter for a pre-production quality
check prior to actually producing the documents to opposing counsel. The production
specialist exported the documents and burned the pre-production to a CD-ROM.
Instead of delivering the CD to co-counsel, the vendor production specialist mistakenly
sent the not yet finalized production directly to opposing counsel in the case.
What step below would most likely have saved the service provider from this error?
A) Having a quality control check process on outgoing production deliverables.
B) Preparing pre-printed labels for the transmittal.
C) Putting the production on an FTP site instead of sending physical media.
D) Better training for the production specialist. - ✔✔A
✔✔Following an auto accident in which the defendant was accused of driving over the
speed limit, his attorneys were looking for witnesses to dispute the speeding allegation.
The only other witness was the driver of the other vehicle and she could not say if the
, defendant was speeding at the time of the accident. The attorneys were unable to find
any other witnesses.
As an e-discovery specialist on the case, what below is the best recommendation you
might make to the attorneys to establish the defendant was not speeding?
A) Tell the attorneys to check the computer information systems of the car.
B) Check the defendant's insurance coverage to determine if it matters.
C) Look at the cell phone of the client to create a timeline on the day of the accident
D) Hire an expert to perform an accident reconstruction analysis. - ✔✔D
✔✔After a case is filed against a client, the attorney prepares a litigation hold notice for
employees and individuals who are likely to have relevant documents. In that notice, the
attorney specifies the following:
• The basic elements of the litigation, including the subject matter, parties, and the
relevant time period covered by the claims• That each and every recipient must retain,
and not destroy, any potentially relevant documents
Which statement is true regarding this legal hold notice?
A) It reflects best practice because it covers all of the important elements of a legal hold
notice.
B) It does not reflect best practice because it neither defines relevant types of data nor
specifies that the new instructions supersede the company's document retention
guidelines.
C) It is does not reflect best practice because the client has an obligation to
automatically discontinue all automated purging policies within the c - ✔✔B
✔✔Your company is responding to a request for production regarding ESI hosted on an
intranet server. This server hosts many repositories in the form of document libraries
with a total document size of 300 GB. The smallest repository on this server is about 5
GB in size and one document collection contained almost 20,000 folders.
Which is the most appropriate course of action in planning a forensic collection from this
specific server?
A) The legal team should use native application built-in search features to meet their
production requests since there are well-known procedures for working with document
collections for this server.
B) A collection strategy that involves using Windows native functionality to copy the
document libraries to an external network share should be used.
C) Appropriate third-party tools should be used to export application document libraries
to an external network share, while ensuring that meta - ✔✔C
✔✔A party to litigation received a production of ESI via FedEx on a CD-ROM that
contained 500 PDF files and a load file. After successfully loading the documents to
their e-discovery platform, the case team attempted to search for custodians' names
and company names. The searches yielded no search results.
What is most likely causing the searches to yield no results?
A) The load file did not include the extracted or OCR text.
B) The 500 PDF files were corrupt.
C) The e-discovery platform settings were incorrect.
