CIPT Exam Study Guide

Prepare for the IAPP Certified Information Privacy Technologist (CIPT) certification exam with a focused, comprehensive study companion built around the current CIPT Body of Knowledge (v4.0, effective September 2025).

CIPT Study Guide organizes everything into the five official exam domains — The Privacy Technologist's Role in the Organization; Data Collection, Use, Dissemination & Destruction; Privacy Risk Management; Privacy by Design; and Privacy Engineering & Privacy Governance — so you study exactly what the exam tests.

FOUR WAYS TO STUDY

• 172 flashcards — tap to flip, tagged by exam domain

• 126 multiple-choice questions with worked explanations

• Term-matching game — pair all 112 key terms, in rounds of five

• Searchable 112-term glossary and 43 models & metrics

TOPICS COVERED

• Foundations & role: FIPPs, OECD principles, GDPR/CCPA concepts, data governance roles (DPO, owner, steward, custodian), privacy risk models (Nissenbaum, Calo, FAIR, NICE), data ethics and bias in automated decision-making

• Threat modeling: Solove's taxonomy, LINDDUN, MITRE PANOPTIC, threat/vulnerability/attack concepts

• Data lifecycle: minimization, consent management, retention and secure destruction, aggregation risk, processing segregation, web scraping risks

• PETs & de-identification: anonymization, pseudonymization, k-anonymity, l-diversity, t-closeness, differential privacy, homomorphic encryption, secure multiparty computation, zero-knowledge proofs, federated learning, tokenization, hashing and encryption

• Tracking & surveillance: cookies, fingerprinting, adtech and real-time bidding, dark patterns, biometrics, location tracking, IoT, workplace monitoring

• Privacy by design: Cavoukian's 7 principles, GDPR Article 25, privacy-protective UX, value sensitive design, usability testing

• Privacy engineering & governance: NIST privacy engineering objectives, SDLC integration, DPIAs, data flow diagrams, data inventory, RoPA, ISO/IEC 27701, NIST Privacy Framework, AI/ML privacy risks (model inversion, membership inference, LLMs)

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