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EPSO Digital Skills — Free Practice Test

Digital Skills tests judgement in realistic office IT scenarios — document collaboration, data handling, security — not coding. Try 2 real questions below.

40 questions

30 minutes

Language 2 (second EU language)

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Pass score: 20/40

Question 1

A policy officer in a European Commission Directorate-General must share a draft legislative working document with counterparts in three EU Member State administrations who need to collaboratively edit and return a revised version. The officer's institution requires compliance with the European Interoperability Framework (EIF), which recommends open standards for document exchange. Which file format best satisfies both the requirement for collaborative editing and compliance with the EIF's preference for open, royalty-free document standards?

ASend the document in RTF format, which is editable and broadly compatible but is a proprietary Microsoft legacy format with no open standard certification recognised by the EIF.

BSend the document in ODT (Open Document Text) format, as it is based on the ISO/IEC 26300-certified OpenDocument Format — an open, royalty-free standard recommended by the EIF — and supports full collaborative editing across all major office suites.

CSend the document in PDF format, which meets EIF openness criteria but does not support standard collaborative editing and revision.

DSend the document in DOCX format, as it is widely editable but based on a proprietary Microsoft standard not fully aligned with EIF open-standard preferences.

Question 2

A policy officer co-authoring a sensitive draft regulation on SharePoint Online notices that the document's version history contains an entry saved two days ago by a colleague who was on leave at the time. What is the most appropriate course of action?

ARestore the last known clean version of the document immediately, overwriting the suspicious version, and notify the colleague when they return from leave.

BDownload a copy of the suspicious version locally, delete it from SharePoint's version history to prevent further access, and email the IT helpdesk to reset the colleague's password.

CReview the suspicious version in SharePoint's Version History without modifying or deleting any versions, and immediately report the anomalous access to the IT Security Officer, taking no restoration action until the investigation is complete.

DCompare the suspicious version with the previous version using Word's Compare Documents feature, and if no harmful changes are found, continue co-authoring and note the anomaly informally in the document's comments.

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