ACEDs IQ Test Questions and Answers
After your legal team requested from the opposing party 25 of its employees' e-mails
sent or received over the prior decade, the opponent objected to the request, stating it
was overbroad, not proportional and unduly burdensome.
Of the following, what is the strongest argument to defend your team's request?
A. Email is Electronically Stored Information and is discoverable
B. 25 people is a reasonable number of custodians
C. IT has tools to export email easily
D. Responding party failed to offer evidence in support of its position - ANSWER-D
An employee is suspected of stealing corporate secrets by downloading files onto his
employer's desktop computer, copying the files to a thumb drive, and then taking the
thumb drive home.
What is the most effective method to determine whether the employee is stealing?
A. Interview the employee.
B. Examine the corporate firewall logs.
c. Collection and examine the corporate desktop with forensics software.
D. Export the mailbox and review the employee's email. - ANSWER-C
As a family lawyer, you are counseling the plaintiff in a divorce case. Your client has an
active Facebook presence that almost certainly includes discussions relevant to case.
Your best advice to the plaintiff is to:
A. Shut down the Facebook account as Facebook can be used as evidence
B. Download as much Facebook as possible for preservation and use Facebook
sparingly during the trial
C. Friend the other spouse on Facebook and download the spouse's material
D. Friend the judge in the case so the judge will see the plaintiff as more human -
ANSWER-B
As a paralegal in the legal department, you have been asked to arrange for the contents
of 30 desktops and 2 servers to be uploaded to a particular litigation support review
platform.
Before starting to collect the data, what is the first thing you should do?
A. Make sure the transfer media is purged of any data
B. Call and make an appointment with each custodian
C. Investigate the matter's legal issues and prospectively relevant facts to help
thoughtfully focus the scope of the data inventory and accumulation
D. Arrange to exclude from the uploading process all software system files - ANSWER-
C
