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CIPM Questions and Answers
Privacy vision and mission
Ans: Statement of an org concisely communicates stance on privacy to
all stakeholders
3 things to create a company vision
Ans: 1. Get knowledge on privacy approaches
2. Evaluate intended objective
3. Get sponsor approval
Elements within a privacy vision
Ans: 1. Value of privacy to the org
2. Org objectives
3. Strategies to achieve intended outcomes
4. Roles/responsibilities
Considerations when developing privacy strategy (3)
Ans: 1. Business alignment
2. Develop a data governance strategy for PI
3. Plan inquiry/complaint handling procedures
Components of data governance (4)
Ans: Collection, access, authorized use, destruction
Structure of privacy team large orgs
Ans: Chief privacy officer, privacy manager, privacy analyst, business
line privacy leaders, first responders
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Privacy "team" for a small org
Ans: Sole data protection officer
Once strategy is defined, org can move to develop
Ans: privacy program framework
Stuff a privacy program is responsible for (7)
Ans: Education/awareness, monitoring regulation, internal policy
compliance, data inventories/flows/classification, PIAs, incident
response, remediation, audits
How to implement the privacy program framework (2)
Ans: Communicate to internal/external stakeholders, ensure alignment
with laws/regs
Privacy strategy vs framework
Ans: Strategy is the why / goals
Framework is the what / form and structure
Privacy frameworks provide ___________ ________ that guide
privacy team through privacy mgmt
Ans: Implementation roadmaps
Benefits of privacy program framework (4)
Ans: Reduce risk, avoid/plan for incidents, sustain market value and
rep, provide measurements in compliance with laws and standards
Privacy framework is used loosely to describe 4 things that guide
the privacy professional in program mgmt
Ans: Processes, templates, tools, laws/standards
5 things useful for effective policy lifecycle
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Ans: 1. Inward facing policies that are simple to understand 2. Get
approval from decision makers and stakeholders 3. Socialize policies to
all employees 4. Train employees and enforce policies 5. Review/revise
policies at least annually, after a breach or when business circumstances
change
Privacy governance may be (3 things)
Ans: 1. Localized 2. Centralized 3. Hybrid
Hybrid privacy governance model
Ans: Combines localized and centralized. Most common when large org
assigns someone to be responsible for privacy of the rest of the org
Local/decentralized privacy governance
Ans: Decision making is delegated for the lower levels of the org.
Centralized privacy governance
Ans: One team or person is responsible for privacy related affairs.
Works best in orgs with single channel functions with planing and
decision making
Pros cons of centralized privacy governance
Ans: Pro streamlined , Con individual employees can't make decisions
Pros cons of localized privacy governance
Ans: Pros Bottom to top flow of info, Con lack of centralized effort can
cause duplication of efforts
Pros cons of hybrid privacy governance
Ans: Pros offers resources of a larger org, Cons decentralized decision
making
Requirements to having a DPO (3)
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CIPM Questions and Answers
Privacy vision and mission
Ans: Statement of an org concisely communicates stance on privacy to
all stakeholders
3 things to create a company vision
Ans: 1. Get knowledge on privacy approaches
2. Evaluate intended objective
3. Get sponsor approval
Elements within a privacy vision
Ans: 1. Value of privacy to the org
2. Org objectives
3. Strategies to achieve intended outcomes
4. Roles/responsibilities
Considerations when developing privacy strategy (3)
Ans: 1. Business alignment
2. Develop a data governance strategy for PI
3. Plan inquiry/complaint handling procedures
Components of data governance (4)
Ans: Collection, access, authorized use, destruction
Structure of privacy team large orgs
Ans: Chief privacy officer, privacy manager, privacy analyst, business
line privacy leaders, first responders
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Privacy "team" for a small org
Ans: Sole data protection officer
Once strategy is defined, org can move to develop
Ans: privacy program framework
Stuff a privacy program is responsible for (7)
Ans: Education/awareness, monitoring regulation, internal policy
compliance, data inventories/flows/classification, PIAs, incident
response, remediation, audits
How to implement the privacy program framework (2)
Ans: Communicate to internal/external stakeholders, ensure alignment
with laws/regs
Privacy strategy vs framework
Ans: Strategy is the why / goals
Framework is the what / form and structure
Privacy frameworks provide ___________ ________ that guide
privacy team through privacy mgmt
Ans: Implementation roadmaps
Benefits of privacy program framework (4)
Ans: Reduce risk, avoid/plan for incidents, sustain market value and
rep, provide measurements in compliance with laws and standards
Privacy framework is used loosely to describe 4 things that guide
the privacy professional in program mgmt
Ans: Processes, templates, tools, laws/standards
5 things useful for effective policy lifecycle
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Ans: 1. Inward facing policies that are simple to understand 2. Get
approval from decision makers and stakeholders 3. Socialize policies to
all employees 4. Train employees and enforce policies 5. Review/revise
policies at least annually, after a breach or when business circumstances
change
Privacy governance may be (3 things)
Ans: 1. Localized 2. Centralized 3. Hybrid
Hybrid privacy governance model
Ans: Combines localized and centralized. Most common when large org
assigns someone to be responsible for privacy of the rest of the org
Local/decentralized privacy governance
Ans: Decision making is delegated for the lower levels of the org.
Centralized privacy governance
Ans: One team or person is responsible for privacy related affairs.
Works best in orgs with single channel functions with planing and
decision making
Pros cons of centralized privacy governance
Ans: Pro streamlined , Con individual employees can't make decisions
Pros cons of localized privacy governance
Ans: Pros Bottom to top flow of info, Con lack of centralized effort can
cause duplication of efforts
Pros cons of hybrid privacy governance
Ans: Pros offers resources of a larger org, Cons decentralized decision
making
Requirements to having a DPO (3)
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