10 free, exam-style Certified Research Administrator (CRA) practice questions with answers and explanations. No signup required. Work through them below, then take the full free CRA practice test to study every exam domain.
An analyst reviews a manager's inbox containing a signed vendor agreement, a spam advertisement, a draft memo never sent, and a personal lunch invitation. Which item should be declared and managed as a record?
Correct answer: C - The signed vendor agreement
An auditor must confirm that an electronic record is what it claims to be and was genuinely created by the stated author. Which characteristic of a trustworthy record is the auditor verifying?
Correct answer: D - Authenticity
A customer file pairs individuals' names with their Social Security numbers and dates of birth. When designing handling and access controls, the records analyst should classify this content as:
Correct answer: B - Personally identifiable information (PII)
A scanning project must produce images intended for long-term preservation and reliable future rendering. Which file format is most appropriate for that purpose?
Correct answer: C - TIFF or PDF/A
An organization decides it will scan only records created from the project's start date onward, leaving older paper files unconverted unless they are specifically requested later. This conversion strategy is known as:
Correct answer: C - Day-forward conversion
Before signing with a cloud storage provider, a records analyst wants a contractual guarantee of system uptime, response times, and remedies if those targets are missed. The document that defines these commitments is the:
Correct answer: B - Service-level agreement (SLA)
A schedule states that personnel files must be kept for "termination + 7 years," so the retention period cannot begin until the employee leaves. The employee's departure is best described as the:
Correct answer: C - Retention trigger (event)
To simplify a sprawling schedule, an organization groups many related record types under one broad category sharing a single retention period, rather than itemizing each form. This approach is called a:
Correct answer: B - Functional (big-bucket) schedule
When transferring records to the archives, an archivist keeps each office's records together and preserves the order in which that office originally maintained them, rather than reorganizing everything by subject. This reflects which archival principle?
Correct answer: A - Provenance and original order
A third-party vendor shreds a batch of records that have reached the end of their retention period. What should the vendor provide so the organization can prove the destruction was authorized and properly completed?
Correct answer: D - A certificate of destruction
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