Free ND-PI Practice Questions

Question 1

Two lawfully obtained recordings show the same delivery van leaving a warehouse at a displayed 17:24 and arriving at a depot at a displayed 17:22. The warehouse camera was nine minutes fast; the depot camera was four minutes slow. Both offsets were verified for the recording period, on the same date and in the same time zone. Which reconstruction fits the verified clock information?

Accepted Answer

Arrival followed departure by 11 minutes; the apparent reversal is explained by the clock offsets.

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Arrival preceded departure by 2 minutes; the recordings contain an unresolved timing contradiction.

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Arrival preceded departure by 15 minutes; the corrected times still place the events in reverse order.

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Arrival followed departure by 3 minutes; subtracting each camera's offset resolves the apparent reversal.

Question 2

A licensed detective agency hires one worker to interview witnesses and another solely to schedule appointments and prepare invoices. Neither holds an individual private-investigator license. For these duties, what must the agency require?

Accepted Answer

The interviewer must be registered and supervised by a licensed PI; the clerical-only worker need not register.

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Register both workers and place the interviewer under an experienced registered investigator's sole supervision.

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The interviewer can remain unregistered while gaining experience if a licensed PI signs the reports.

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Both assignments must be postponed until the two workers obtain individual PI licenses, regardless of their assigned duties.

Question 3

A retailer retains an independent PI to determine who diverted inventory. The retailer then asks the PI to spend evenings at the store entrance screening visitors and preventing theft, rather than gathering information about the loss. The added assignment falls into which statutory category?

Accepted Answer

Private security service, because the added duties protect property and control access.

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Private investigative service, because the added duties support the same client's inventory investigation.

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Proprietary security, because the retailer is purchasing protection for its own business premises.

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Exempt in-house investigation, because the retailer has an interest in the loss.

Question 4

During a voluntary interview about a loading-dock incident, a witness says, 'I remember a dark pickup. After I talked with my coworker, I realized it was Jensen's blue truck.' The investigator needs to separate the witness's original recollection from information learned afterward. The next question should be:

Accepted Answer

Describe what you remember seeing before you spoke with your coworker.

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How certain are you now that the truck belonged to Jensen?

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Where were you standing when Jensen's truck passed the loading dock?

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Tell me what you and your coworker agreed the truck looked like.

Question 5

An applicant is arranging insurance before a North Dakota individual PI license can be issued. Assume each proposal meets the required policy conditions except for any deficiency in coverage type or amount. Which proposal meets the insurance requirement?

Accepted Answer

$500,000 in general liability with errors-and-omissions coverage.

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$1,000,000 in general liability that excludes errors and omissions.

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$250,000 in general liability with errors-and-omissions coverage.

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$500,000 in errors and omissions without general liability coverage.

Question 6

A researcher proposes a business locating heirs to North Dakota estates for a fee. All investigative work would use public records, with no interviews or surveillance. The researcher claims no exemption other than the one for a solely public-records investigative business. How does that exemption apply?

Accepted Answer

It does not apply because locating heirs is specifically excluded from that exemption.

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It applies because all information will come from public records rather than private interviews.

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It applies if the researcher charges an hourly fee rather than a share of the inheritance.

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It does not apply because charging any fee disqualifies otherwise exempt public-records research.

Question 7

A lawfully acquired forensic drive image was hashed at acquisition. Months later, a working copy produces the same cryptographic digest using the same algorithm over the same defined data. A file on that copy identifies an employee as its author. The hash comparison supports which conclusion?

Accepted Answer

The working copy matches the data represented by the acquisition digest.

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The employee named in the file created the entry.

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The custody history accounts for every transfer of the evidence.

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The entry accurately describes the event recorded in the file.

Question 8

A business client hands a PI a written plan to attack a named employee at the employee's home that evening. The client confirms an intention to carry it out and demands secrecy. The investigator is now in a safe location with the document. What must take priority over the client's demand?

Accepted Answer

Promptly contact law enforcement about the imminent threat and preserve the written plan.

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Obtain the client's permission before disclosing the plan to authorities.

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Observe the home before reporting, to verify that the client acts on the plan.

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End the engagement and return the document while continuing to honor the confidentiality agreement.

Question 9

With an application for an individual North Dakota PI license, an applicant supplies the results of an FBI nationwide criminal-history check requested by another state and performed 42 days before the application date. No state criminal-history check has been completed, and no other exception applies. Which requirement remains unsatisfied?

Accepted Answer

A state check is still required; the supplied FBI results meet the nationwide-check exception.

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Both checks must be repeated because the FBI check was not requested by North Dakota.

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Neither check remains required because an FBI search replaces the separate state-check requirement.

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A nationwide check is still required; the other state's FBI request satisfies only the state-check requirement.

Question 10

A construction company's laser level is missing from a locked equipment cage. Access records show that an employee opened the cage shortly before the loss was discovered. The employee says a supervisor authorized a transfer to another jobsite. Which finding would best distinguish that explanation from theft?

Accepted Answer

An authenticated prior transfer approval and a receiving record for the level's serial number.

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Video of the employee carrying a laser-level case out of the cage.

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A second interview in which the employee repeats the same transfer explanation.

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Another witness independently confirming that the laser level was absent when the later count occurred.

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