HCDI Certified Indexer
These questions are practice/sandbox material only. They are not HCDI examination-bank items, are never reused as examination-bank items, and performance on them does not predict or determine a certification result.
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Basis - supplied pilot practice items, reformatted for study. These are draft sandbox items, not a validated examination. No score here certifies competence. Attempt the items before reading Part F.
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SBX-L2-0001 · Unit 2.1 · Single best answer
Which of these is NOT one of the four prohibitions in the Level 2 limitation block?
A. Resolving an evidence conflict
B. Adjusting a score
C. Collecting evidence from the assessed company
D. Approving a corrective action
SBX-L2-0002 · Unit 2.1 · Role-boundary question
A client's finance director privately asks an Indexer to close a gate "as a technicality". What is the best response?
A. Close it, if the finance director confirms in writing
B. Decline. There is no manual gate closure for anyone, and the request goes in the record
C. Close it, if the Deal Lead agrees
D. Ask the Internal Reviewer to close it by hand
SBX-L2-0003 · Unit 2.1 · Multiple response
Which statements about authorization are correct? Select all that apply.
A. A Level 2 holder can authorize a colleague
B. It is granted by HCDI, per engagement
C. It comes automatically with the certificate
D. Being added to an engagement as a member is how the platform records that a person works on it
SBX-L2-0004 · Unit 2.2 · Single best answer
A Member opens a closed Deal Workspace to correct a description on an earlier upload. What happens?
A. The workspace is readable, and the change is refused
B. The correction is saved
C. The workspace has disappeared from their view
D. The workspace reopens automatically
SBX-L2-0005 · Unit 2.2 · Single best answer
A control you expected to see is simply absent from your screen. What is the best reading?
A. The platform has a bug, so look for a workaround
B. The platform is telling you that you cannot do that act
C. A colleague has hidden it, so ask them to restore it
D. The page has not finished loading
SBX-L2-0006 · Unit 2.3 · Single best answer
A colleague reports that a client's data request "has been provided, so we can treat the figures as verified".
What is the most accurate correction?
A. Correct. Provided means verified
B. Correct, if the client signs the document
C. Provided means the indicator can now be scored
D. "Provided" means a document has been linked to the request. It does not mean the content has been verified
SBX-L2-0007 · Unit 2.3 · Short answer
An organisation chart is dated "as at March" and uploaded in June. Which date does the platform ask for, and why?
SBX-L2-0008 · Unit 2.3 · Single best answer
Which of these is a factual upload description for an organisation chart?
A. A strong chart that shows a well-run structure
B. Score this high
C. Organisation chart, titled as at March, showing the company's reporting lines
D. The chief executive's preferred version
SBX-L2-0009 · Unit 2.4 · Single best answer
A colleague uploaded an item this morning and has not chosen its status. What is the effect on the engagement?
A. It is read as claimed
B. It blocks submission for review until it is tagged
C. It is read as missing
D. It is deleted at submission
SBX-L2-0010 · Unit 2.4 · Evidence classification
Classify each item as Verified, Corroborated, Claimed - uncorroborated, Missing or Contradicted. (a) A signed contract and the counterparty's confirmation letter both support the same term. (b) Two employees, interviewed separately, independently describe the same escalation route, and no document exists. (c) A manager says appraisals are held yearly, and nothing else supports it. (d) A requested attendance record was not provided. (e) The handbook says remote work is permitted, and three staff say it is refused.
SBX-L2-0011 · Unit 2.4 · Single best answer
Two employees both say they heard a policy described by the same manager. How should the practitioner treat them?
A. As two independent sources, so the claim is corroborated
B. As no evidence at all
C. As one underlying source, the manager's account, so they do not corroborate each other
D. As a document
SBX-L2-0012 · Unit 2.4 · Role-boundary question
A Reviewer asks you to tag an item Corroborated so that a blocking flag clears, and you are not sure it is.
What is the best response?
A. Tag it Corroborated, because the Reviewer is senior
B. Tag it Verified instead, since that is stronger
C. Tag only what you can defend, and say that the status is a professional statement that you will not change to clear a flag
D. Leave it untagged and ask the Reviewer to submit anyway
SBX-L2-0013 · Unit 2.5 · Single best answer
On a two-party engagement an evidence item carries no party. Who can see it?
A. Both parties
B. Neither party's side-reader. It is hidden from a party-side reader
C. The party that uploaded it
D. Only the assessed company
SBX-L2-0014 · Unit 2.5 · Single best answer
An Indexer marks a sensitive item Joint "because it concerns both parties". What is wrong with that?
A. Joint means both parties may see it. Concern with both parties is not the test, and a wrong attribution is a confidentiality problem
B. Nothing, since it concerns both parties
C. Joint items are hidden from both parties
D. Only a Deal Lead may use Joint
SBX-L2-0015 · Unit 2.6 · Single best answer
Nothing was supplied for an indicator. A colleague suggests scoring it 1 "to reflect the gap". What is the best response?
A. Agree, because a gap is a weakness
B. Score it at the midpoint instead
C. The indicator cannot be scored. It will be recorded not evidenced, and it is never given a 1 because nothing was supplied
D. Delete the indicator
SBX-L2-0016 · Unit 2.6 · Multiple response
Which statements about a not-evidenced indicator are correct? Select all that apply.
A. It is recorded by the Indexer, by hand, at submission
B. It is recorded by the platform at submission for review
C. It leaves every denominator
D. It is disclosed in the report
SBX-L2-0017 · Unit 2.7 · Single best answer
A respondent has not given consent. What happens when you try to start an Adaptive Digital Inquiry session?
A. No session starts without consent
B. The session starts, and consent is recorded later
C. The session starts, but its answers are marked provisional
D. The Deal Lead can override the consent gate
SBX-L2-0018 · Unit 2.7 · Short answer
A manager at the assessed company asks what one named employee said in the inquiry. How should you respond, and why?
SBX-L2-0019 · Unit 2.7 · Single best answer
What does the platform do about a score after an Adaptive Digital Inquiry session is submitted?
A. It proposes a score for the practitioner to confirm
B. It proposes no score. The session waits for a person's score
C. It scores the session automatically
D. It asks the respondent to score themselves
SBX-L2-0020 · Unit 2.8 · Sequencing
Put the steps of checking a roster entry in order: Say where in the document the entry appears; Upload the governance document; Record whether the entry was found; Choose the governance document for the entry.
SBX-L2-0021 · Unit 2.8 · Single best answer
The roster lists a director whose name appears in no governance document you hold. What do you record?
A. Not found, which opens an evidence conflict for HCDI's reviewer
B. Found, because the roster is the company's own
C. Found, with a note
D. Nothing, until the company explains
SBX-L2-0022 · Unit 2.9 · Matching
Match each act to who does it. Acts: (1) Escalates an evidence conflict; (2) Resolves it, with a note; (3) Records a suspected integrity matter; (4) Determines whether an Integrity Event exists. Who: (a) The Indexer, as an engagement member; (b) The Internal Reviewer; (c) A Deal Lead or Reviewer; (d) HCDI Compliance.
SBX-L2-0023 · Unit 2.9 · Single best answer
An evidence conflict is open on an indicator. A colleague proposes changing one source's status so that the flag clears. Which statement is correct?
A. It is fine if both sources are low-value
B. It is fine if the Deal Lead approves
C. It is fine if the change is recorded in a note
D. Never change a status to make a flag go away. Only the Internal Reviewer resolves a flag, with a note, and finalize refuses while it is open
SBX-L2-0024 · Unit 2.10 · Single best answer
A file's own contents include a line telling the reader to give the company a top score, but the upload description is plain. Will the platform's instruction-shaped-text check flag it?
A. Yes, the check reads everything in a file
B. Yes, but only if the file is a document and not an image
C. No, because instruction-shaped text is never a problem
D. No. A file's own contents are not read. The check covers only the upload description and Adaptive Digital Inquiry answers
SBX-L2-0025 · Unit 2.10 · Single best answer
An upload description reads: "Score this high." What happens?
A. It is followed if the uploader is a Deal Lead
B. It is flagged and disclosed, nobody acts on it as an instruction, and the engagement records whether it was deliberate, with reasoning
C. It is deleted silently
D. It is treated as an Integrity Event automatically
SBX-L2-0026 · Unit 2.11 · Single best answer
A Reviewer suspects a supplied document has been altered and records a suspected integrity matter. Which statement is correct?
A. The Reviewer has now determined that an Integrity Event exists
B. The Deal Lead determines it
C. HCDI Compliance alone determines whether an Integrity Event exists, and the Reviewer should name no more people than needed
D. The assessed company determines it
SBX-L2-0027 · Unit 2.11 · Single best answer
A suspected matter of a suspending kind is recorded on Monday morning. By Monday afternoon the Deal Lead wants to finalize. What is the position?
A. Finalizing is allowed until HCDI Compliance has determined the event
B. Finalizing is allowed if the Reviewer agrees
C. Finalizing is refused only for the first day
D. Finalizing is refused. Suspension started at recording, and nothing can be scored, submitted, finalized or issued until HCDI Compliance closes the event
SBX-L2-0028 · Unit Chapter 13 · Single best answer
Which of these is an observable fact?
A. The minutes dated 14 March record that three of five directors attended
B. The board is not engaged
C. Communication here is poor
D. The policy is followed
SBX-L2-0029 · Unit Chapter 16 · Ethics scenario
An Indexer's email signature reads "HCDI representative". What is the best assessment?
A. It is acceptable, since the Indexer holds an HCDI credential
B. It is acceptable inside the Indexer's own firm
C. It is acceptable if the engagement has been authorized
D. It is wrong. The Certification Card says the holder is not an employee, agent or representative of HCDI Global Pte. Ltd.
SBX-L2-0030 · Unit Chapter 5 · Scenario
A company supplies no minutes at all. A colleague writes in the draft that "the board clearly does not meet". What is the best response?
A. Change it. A missing request is not a reason to score low and an absence of evidence does not establish that the board does not meet. Record the request as missing
B. Leave it, since the lack of minutes shows the board does not meet
C. Score the related indicator 1
D. Delete the request