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ACEDS Certification Exam Prep 2026: e-Discovery Mastery & Litigation Support | 95+ Most-tested Q&A | Graded A+ | Guaranteed Pass!1

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ACEDS ACTUAL EXAM 2026: 95 MOST-TESTED
QUESTIONS AND 100% VERIFIED ANSWERS |
GRADED A+ | GUARANTEED PASS!!

A company was recently served with a copyright was recently served with a
copyright infringement lawsuit. in addition, several third parties served the
company with subpoenas seeking the documents that will be produced in the
lawsuit. the company wants to know if it is possible to reduce e-discovery costs by
not reviewing any of the documents and agreeing to a clawback agreement with
opposing counsel. will this agreement help reduce the costs related to e-discovery
by allowing both parties to regain privileged documents after producing?

A. yes, a clawback agreement with the other party is enough to guarantee that
privileged documents will be protected against all parties
B No, a clawback agreement speaks to the inadvertent production of privileged ESI
and should not be relied upon as a method to reduce e-discovery costs.
C. Yes, cutting out review costs will decrease a majority of the e-discovery budget
D. No, revi

- answer-B No, a clawback agreement speaks to the inadvertent production of
privileged ESI and should not be relied upon as a method to reduce e-discovery
costs.

A legal hold is implemented for any one of the following reasons, EXCEPT?

A. whenever litigation is reasonably anticipated
B. when a party receives a complaint
C. as part of litigation readiness planning
D. for actual, imminent or anticipated government investigations

- answer-C. as part of litigation readiness planning

A proper quality control program can include all of the following EXCEPT?
A. QC restrictions to families of documents such as threaded emails.
B. third party review of final data set
C. random reviewers of the team's coding

,D. a second-level review by senior attorneys

- answer-B. third party review of final data set
do not rely on a third party to attest to quality it is your team that is on the hook
legally and financially for any mistakes

A source of ESI not held by any specific person or company that is a party to the
litigation is known as?
A. non-party hosted information
B. non-party information
C. custodial data
D. non-custodial data

- answer-D. non-custodial data

According to the Safe Harbor Protection under Rule 37, it is not permissible to
allow what kind of data management system to continue to operate once a legal
hold is issued?
A. overwriting
B. routine recycling
C. automated deletion systems
D. data held in temporary folders

- answer-C. automated deletion systems

After culling, most workflows call for an initial sample from the collection. This
sample is used for?
A. to code the rest of the documents
B. to teach the system
C. to estimate the yield
D. to refine the prediction scores

- answer-C. to estimate the yield
in many workflows, the purpose of the initial sample is not to teach the system but
rather to estimate the prevalence of responsive documents in the collection

All of the following are 'costs' associated with retaining data that can be minimized
with a reduced data retention policy, EXCEPT?

A. mandatory retention periods

, B. costs of operations staff
C. increased legal liability and e-discovery costs
D. management and maintenance costs

- answer-A. mandatory retention periods

All of the following are challenges of processing data EXCEPT
A. necessitates validation
B. often requires special software for review
C. reduced upfront expenses
D. requires additional time before review

- answer-reduced upfront expenses
document review platform is generally more efficient way to review documents,
there are up-front processing costs associated which will be incurred in order to
prepare the data for loading to the platform. these up-front costs can often become
a hurdle as clients struggle to understand the necessity and the costs can vary
greatly depending upon the amount of data, service provider and/or processing
tools selected

All of the following are goals of project management in the context of an e-
discovery project EXCEPT:
A. planning the project
B. controlling resources
C. negotiating with opposing counsel
D. motivating the team

- answer-C. negotiating with opposing counsel

All of the following are shared network resources EXCEPT
A. sharepoint servers
B. mail servers
C. file servers
D. configuration servers

- answer-D. configuration servers
configuration servers are generally only accessed by a few people versus the entire
network. configuration sets the procedures, protocols, inputs and traffic across the
network

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