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10 free, exam-style Relativity Certified Administrator (RCA) practice questions with answers and explanations. No signup required. Work through them below, then take the full free RCA practice test to study every exam domain.

Question 1

A reviewer reports that the Documents tab has disappeared from their workspace. An administrator removed it from that group's Tab Visibility to keep the group out of the documents. The reviewer, however, still opens documents using a bookmarked record URL. What best explains this?

  1. Tab Visibility hides the menu item but leaves the object's View permission intact
  2. A second group the reviewer belongs to silently re-grants visibility of the tab
  3. Directly bookmarked record URLs are designed to bypass workspace-level security
  4. Item-level security must be applied before Tab Visibility can take any effect
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Correct answer: A - Tab Visibility hides the menu item but leaves the object's View permission intact

Question 2

An administrator wants a new group to mirror an existing group, so they use Copy Permissions from the source group onto the new group. The new group had already been given a few custom item-level rights earlier that day. After the copy, those custom rights are gone. Why?

  1. Copy Permissions transfers only object-level rights and clears any item-level rights on the target group
  2. Copy Permissions overwrites every permission on the target group, including its existing item-level rights
  3. Item-level rights are automatically purged whenever a group's object-level permissions are modified
  4. The source group lacked the Edit Security right, which forced a full reset of the target group
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Correct answer: B - Copy Permissions overwrites every permission on the target group, including its existing item-level rights

Question 3

A workspace has a field named "Custodian" built as a Fixed-Length Text field. The team now needs it to be a Single Choice field so it can be coded consistently and used in Pivot. What is the correct way to accomplish this?

  1. Edit the existing field and switch its Field Type setting from text to Single Choice
  2. Convert the field using the Field Type migration option found in the Choice Editor
  3. Create a new Single Choice field and migrate the existing values across into it
  4. Re-import the original load file as an overlay with the corrected field type set
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Correct answer: C - Create a new Single Choice field and migrate the existing values across into it

Question 4

An administrator selects a set of documents in the Document list and wants to duplicate them as new records within the same workspace using a mass operation. They cannot find a Mass Copy option in the mass operations bar. What is the reason?

  1. Mass Copy requires Add permission on the Document object, which this admin is missing
  2. Mass Copy is suppressed whenever a saved search rather than a folder is the active view
  3. Mass Copy becomes available only after the documents are first added to a batch set
  4. Mass Copy is simply not an available mass operation on the Document object itself
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Correct answer: D - Mass Copy is simply not an available mass operation on the Document object itself

Question 5

A workspace contains a large volume of complex Excel files with intricate formatting that must image cleanly for production. Which imaging approach is designed to render these files using the originating application for the highest fidelity?

  1. Basic imaging with the embedded spreadsheet rendering option switched on
  2. Native imaging, which renders the file through its originating application
  3. Mass Image run against the documents using the default imaging profile
  4. Producing the files as natives accompanied by branded TIFF placeholders
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Correct answer: B - Native imaging, which renders the file through its originating application

Question 6

An attorney asks the administrator to run a dtSearch that returns grammatical variations of the word "manage" - including managed, manages, and managing - without manually listing each form. Which dtSearch operator should be appended to the term?

  1. The % operator, for fuzzy matching
  2. The * operator, for wildcard expansion
  3. The ~ operator, for stemming
  4. The w/n operator, for proximity
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Correct answer: C - The ~ operator, for stemming

Question 7

An administrator runs a dtSearch for the exact phrase clear and present danger against a properly built and active index, but it returns zero documents - even though matching documents are known to exist. What is the most likely cause?

  1. The phrase exceeds the maximum number of consecutive terms a single dtSearch will accept
  2. "and" is a default noise word, so the phrase must be quoted and "and" removed from the noise list
  3. dtSearch cannot evaluate multi-word phrases, so an Analytics index must be used for this search
  4. The index requires an incremental build before any exact-phrase search will return results
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Correct answer: B - "and" is a default noise word, so the phrase must be quoted and "and" removed from the noise list

Question 8

An administrator is configuring structured analytics and wants to maximize efficiency. Which pairing of operations can be run together within a single structured analytics set?

  1. Email threading and textual near-duplicate identification
  2. Name normalization and repeated content identification
  3. Language identification and name normalization
  4. Repeated content identification and email threading
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Correct answer: A - Email threading and textual near-duplicate identification

Question 9

A load file is being imported to update metadata on documents that already exist in the workspace. The administrator selects Overlay mode, but the import will not proceed. What does Relativity require for an overlay import to match incoming records to existing documents?

  1. A control number range must be entered in the import settings to bound the overlay
  2. An overlay identifier field that maps each incoming row to an existing record
  3. The append/overlay mode must be selected instead of the overlay-only mode
  4. A saved search defining exactly which documents are eligible to be overlaid
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Correct answer: B - An overlay identifier field that maps each incoming row to an existing record

Question 10

During processing, an administrator wants duplicate documents suppressed only when they share the same custodian, so that identical files held by different custodians are each retained. Which deduplication method achieves this, and at which stage is deduplication applied?

  1. Global deduplication, applied during Inventory
  2. Custodial deduplication, applied during Discovery
  3. Custodial deduplication, applied during Publish
  4. Global deduplication, applied during Publish
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Correct answer: C - Custodial deduplication, applied during Publish

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