RCA Relativity Certified Administrator Questions and Answers

The correct answer is A. The field to use for production numbering. Relativity’s documentation distinguishes between production set settings and production data source settings . The production set defines overarching settings such as document numbering , appearance of numbering, and related production-wide behaviors. By contrast, the production data source page includes settings such as production type , placeholder image format , burn redactions , burn native redactions , burn PDF redactions , and markup set .

This means the field used for production numbering is not configured at the individual data source level; it belongs to the production set itself. The other options are all part of production data source configuration. The documentation explicitly shows Burn Redactions and Markup Set , and placeholder behavior is also configured within the production data source settings.

Therefore, the option that cannot be configured when creating a new production data source is the field to use for production numbering , because that is a production-set-level setting rather than a data-source-level one.

The correct answer is C. #pear . Relativity’s Using dtSearch syntax options documentation states that phonic searching uses the pound sign (#) in front of a word. The documentation gives the exact example that a phonic search for pear also finds pair and pare , which directly matches the question.

The other choices represent different or invalid syntax. pear* is a wildcard-based pattern, not a phonic search. The apostrophe form is not the documented phonic operator, and $pear is not the phonic syntax in Relativity dtSearch. Therefore, the correct syntax for a phonic search returning pair and pare is #pear .

The correct answer is A. At the User level, use the Disable on Date settings. Relativity’s Users documentation states that Disable on Date (UTC) is the field used to auto-disable users on a specific future date. It also explains that you can set this field when creating or editing an individual user, and that users will be automatically logged out and disabled on the specified date and time.

The other options are not the documented built-in mechanism for this feature. User Activity in Security Center allows admins to inspect and disable users, but it is not the setting used to preconfigure automatic disablement on a future date. Likewise, the question’s instance-level settings in options B and D are not the Relativity feature described in the official Users documentation for automatic disablement. Therefore, the correct answer is Disable on Date at the user level .

The correct answer is A. Simple File Upload. Relativity’s Simple File Upload documentation states that the Viewer supports the ability to replace natives and images from the Document Actions menu. The same documentation ties this replacement workflow to Simple File Upload , explaining that if you want to replace a document rather than upload a new one, you use the Replace document native function in the Review Interface. Relativity’s review interface guide also shows that reviewers can replace the native file of the current document and replace the images for the current document from the Viewer.

The other tools do not match this Viewer-based replacement workflow. Mass Replace updates field values, not the native or image file itself. Relativity Processing is for ingestion and extraction workflows, not replacing a currently loaded document in the Reviewer Interface. Native Imaging Sets image groups of documents but are not the tool identified for replacing a native or image from within the Viewer. Therefore, the correct answer is Simple File Upload .

The correct answer is C. The video must be synced to one .MP4 video and uploaded at the same time. Relativity’s official Transcripts application documentation explicitly states that the video can be played in the Viewer in sync with the text of the transcript, and further notes: you must import videos at the same time you are uploading transcripts or the video and transcript cannot sync . The documentation also describes uploading the video as an .mp4 alongside the transcript during the transcript upload workflow.

This directly eliminates the other options. Option A is false because Relativity clearly supports synced transcript video playback. Option B is wrong because this is not a PST-based workflow. Option D is also incorrect because the documentation does not describe a later mass action that separately syncs already uploaded video and text files; instead, the sync relationship is established during the same upload process. Relativity even distinguishes that videos are not stored as normal documents in the document list, but rather as a file field within a transcript, reinforcing that the transcript upload workflow is the correct path.

From a case administration standpoint, this is important because transcript/video synchronization affects deposition and interview review usability. To ensure successful synchronization, the transcript and its associated .mp4 video must be uploaded together. Therefore, the correct answer is C .

The correct answer is C. Branding queue . Relativity’s official Production queue documentation states that during a production job, Relativity sends a job to the branding queue for stamping redactions, headers, or other image modifications, and any change to the priority of a job in the production queue changes its priority in the branding queue . This is a direct match to the question.

This linkage exists because branding is a dependent production-stage activity. When administrators reprioritize a production job, Relativity keeps the related branding work aligned so that downstream stamping and production preparation happen in the proper order. The other queues listed in the answers are separate queue systems and are not documented as automatically inheriting production queue priority changes. Therefore, from a Productions administration perspective, the queue whose priority is also changed is the Branding queue .

The correct answer is D. MM/DD/YYYY and HH:MM:SS AM/PM. Relativity’s Import/Export documentation states that the Regional Settings (Date and Time) value for document load file import reverts to the US date and time by default when browser cache is cleared. The documentation does not spell out the example string on that exact import page, but across Relativity documentation, the default U.S. date convention is month/day/year , and related Relativity guidance commonly shows U.S.-style date-time strings using AM/PM with seconds for import-oriented parsing examples. This makes MM/DD/YYYY and HH:MM:SS AM/PM the best-supported answer from the available choices.

Options A and B are not U.S. default ordering, so they do not fit the documented “US date and time” default. Option C has the correct U.S. month/day/year structure but omits seconds. Based on Relativity’s broader documentation examples for imported date-time strings and supported parsing formats, the version including seconds is the stronger match among the provided options. This answer involves a small inference from the documented U.S. default plus the product’s date-time examples, because the exact multiple-choice wording is more specific than the import page itself.

The correct answer is A. The Family Group relational view is no longer selected. In Relativity, family relationships for emails and attachments are displayed through a relational view tied to the Group Identifier field. Relativity’s documentation explains that family groups are shown in a document list when a view is configured to display those relationships, and that the Group Identifier is the field used to associate an email with its attachments. When a relational family view is active, users can see the family grouped together in the list rather than seeing only the individual records that directly meet the filter criteria.

Once the attorney adds a filter, the list may appear to “lose” attachments if the view is no longer leveraging the Family Group relational context. This is because Relativity filters act on the records in the active view, and related items such as attachments are included through family grouping behavior rather than because every attachment independently satisfies the filter. The Group Identifier field itself is generally what defines the family relationship, and if it were not populated, the issue would be broader and structural, not just something that appears after adding a filter. The Document Extension field being indexed is unrelated to whether attachments display as family members in the document list. Therefore, the most plausible and Relativity-aligned explanation is that the Family Group relational view is no longer selected , which prevents all related email attachments from continuing to display together in the filtered Hot Documents view.

The correct answer is C. The email and other parent emails in the thread are coded differently. Relativity’s Email thread visualization documentation explains the meaning of the visual warning icons used in the thread display. The red exclamation point is associated with a coding mismatch condition in the thread. In practice, this means related parent emails in the thread have been coded inconsistently, which is exactly the kind of review inconsistency ETV is designed to expose.

This is different from missing attachments, duplicate spare comparison, or a generic “Needs Review” state. ETV is focused on surfacing thread relationships, inclusiveness, missing emails, and coding consistency across the email conversation. From a Structured Analytics standpoint, the red exclamation point is a QC indicator that reviewers should inspect the thread because coding decisions across parent emails do not align. Therefore, the correct answer is C .

The correct answer is D. Check the box to export multiple-choice fields as nested. Relativity’s official export documentation states that Export Multiple Choice Fields as Nested is the option used to maintain the hierarchy of Relativity multiple-choice lists during export. It further explains that the nested value delimiter is a backslash, which preserves the parent-child structure of those choices in the exported data.

This means the hierarchy is not lost by default if the appropriate export option is selected, so option A is incorrect. Sorting on the field does not preserve the nested hierarchy, making option B wrong. Exporting as CSV for Excel recognition is also not the documented mechanism, so option C is incorrect. From an RCA and data loading standpoint, this setting matters because exported hierarchical values often need to be re-used downstream, re-imported, or validated in a way that preserves their original structure. Without the nested export option, the relationship between parent and child values may not be represented correctly. Therefore, the proper way to maintain multiple-choice hierarchy when exporting a saved search through Import/Export is to check the box to export multiple-choice fields as nested .

The correct answer is B. Add the OCR text field as the first field in the Text Precedence window. Relativity’s OCR-on-redacted-production guidance explains that to produce only non-redacted text, you must use Text Precedence during export, and it specifically warns not to add the Extracted Text field to the exported field list because doing so can result in producing redacted text. It also explains that production export can use ordered text fields so Relativity pulls text from the highest-priority populated field.

In this workflow, the OCR text generated from the redacted production images is the field that reflects the redacted-visible text appropriately for export. By placing the OCR text field first in Text Precedence, Relativity uses that OCR-derived text before falling back to other long-text fields. Option A is incorrect because prioritizing Extracted Text risks exporting the original underlying text rather than the intended redacted-visible text. Options C and D are also incorrect because the guidance is to control output through Text Precedence , not by simply adding those fields to the exported field list; in fact, Relativity explicitly warns against adding Extracted Text to the exported list for this use case. Therefore, the correct step is to put the OCR text field first in Text Precedence .

The correct answer is C. Change the job’s priority to the lowest value in the queue. Relativity’s Branding queue documentation states that only one job runs at a time and the lower numbered job runs first while the higher numbered job runs last. It also explains that you can move jobs by using Change Priority and entering a new integer value. Since lower numbers represent higher queue priority, moving a job to the front means assigning it the lowest priority number among the queued jobs.

This rules out option D, which reverses the queue logic. Changing submitted date/time is not the documented control for moving a branding job forward, and canceling/restarting is unnecessary when Relativity already provides a queue-priority control. Therefore, to move a job to the front of the Branding queue, you change its priority to the lowest value in the queue.

The correct answer is A. Artifact ID. Relativity’s official Production Sets documentation states that in the Sorting section of a production, if no custom sort criteria are selected, the default sort order is Artifact ID , which Relativity describes as the load order of the documents. This is the platform’s documented default for productions.

This is an important administrative detail because production sort order affects how documents are sequenced when a production is generated. Relativity also notes that when you apply a custom sort order, family groups are not kept together automatically , so administrators need to design sort strategies carefully if they want a specific production sequence. But absent any special configuration, Relativity defaults to Artifact ID.

The other options are not the documented default. Family group may be relevant in review workflows, but not as the production default sort order. Control number is also not the starting sort value because control numbers may be assigned independently of the production sort configuration. Custodian is a common field for review and QC, but again not the production default. Therefore, the correct answer is A. Artifact ID .

The correct answer is A. After updating fields in the searchable set. Relativity’s dtSearch index documentation states that you must perform a full build when you add an additional field to the index, change any index settings, change fields of the searchable set, or overlay text on existing fields . That directly matches option A.

By contrast, Relativity documents that an incremental build is used after adding or removing documents . That makes options B and D incorrect. “After using Swap Index” is not listed as a required trigger for a full build in the dtSearch console documentation. Therefore, the correct answer is that a full build is required after updating fields in the searchable set .

The correct answer is A. The field mapping section is disabled because only the control number is needed. Relativity’s official Integration Points documentation for promoting data between workspaces states that when you select Copy Images , the field mapping section is disabled because only the control number is required and available in this scenario . It further notes that if you want to transfer other field metadata, you must create a separate integration point without choosing to copy images.

That directly rules out the other options. Relativity does not state that the native file must be included to transfer images in this scenario. It also specifically notes that you are not required to have Integration Points installed on the destination workspace , so option C is incorrect. Option D is wrong because metadata is not automatically mapped and migrated in the Copy Images path; in fact, field mapping is disabled in that configuration.

From an RCA and data-movement perspective, this is a common distinction: image promotion through Integration Points is streamlined and relies on control number matching , not standard metadata field mapping. Therefore, the true statement is A .

The correct answer is D. Use the Tally/Sum/Average mass operation on the Relativity Image Count field. Relativity’s Tally/sum/average documentation says this mass operation is commonly used to determine the number of pages in a print job or production. Relativity also specifically documents, in related guidance, that to estimate project size you can use Tally/sum/average on the Relativity Image Count field.

This makes it the fastest and most direct built-in method for obtaining an image count estimate. The other options are less efficient or are not the documented workflow for quickly producing a total image count. Therefore, the correct answer is to use Tally/Sum/Average on the Relativity Image Count field.

The correct answer is D. Remove key terms from the dtSearch index noise words. Relativity’s dtSearch documentation explains that if a word in the search phrase is part of the noise words list, and that word is important to the search, you must remove it from the dtSearch noise words list and then rebuild the index. The documentation gives this exact type of guidance for terms like “and” when the term must be treated as part of the actual phrase instead of being ignored.

This makes options B and C incorrect because changing or deleting the attorney’s search terms would alter the intended search logic rather than making the index capable of respecting the requested phrase. Option A is also incorrect because the alphabet file is for searchable characters and tokenization behavior, not for managing ignored noise words. Therefore, before running the Search Terms Report, the correct step is to remove those key terms from the dtSearch index noise words list and rebuild the index if needed.

The correct answer is C. You cannot use Audit to revert coding decisions on required fields back to a null state. Relativity’s official Audit documentation states that certain field types, including single choice , can be reverted. However, it also explicitly states that you cannot revert a required field if doing so would return that field to a blank null value . That is exactly what this scenario describes: the field was changed from null to Responsive, and reverting would restore it to null. If the field is required, Relativity blocks that revert because required fields cannot be blank.

This means option A is incorrect because single-choice fields can be reverted in Audit. Option B is also incorrect because Relativity supports both individual and mass revert workflows depending on the situation. Option D is not the documented reason for the failure. The controlling issue is the required-field constraint. From an RCA perspective, this is a subtle but important administrative behavior: the Audit system can revert field changes, but only where the resulting value remains valid under Relativity’s field rules. If the revert would violate a field’s required setting, the system will not allow it. Therefore, the most accurate reason is that Audit cannot revert the value because the revert would place a required field back into a null state .

The correct answer is D. Install the Repository application to the workspace. Relativity’s official repository workspace documentation states that when installed to an existing workspace, the RelativityOne repository workspace application converts the workspace into a streamlined repository workspace for early case assessment and lower-cost storage of data not actively under review. The documentation also provides a dedicated section called Converting a review workspace to a repository workspace , where the conversion steps are simply to access the RelativityOne Repository Workspace application from the Application Library and install the application to the desired workspace .

This makes option D the exact documented conversion method. Option A describes moving data to another repository workspace, which is a different workflow and does not convert the existing workspace itself. Option B involving ARM restore is used in some repository-related workflows, especially around templates or archived workspaces, but it is not the primary documented method for converting an existing workspace. Option C is incorrect because repository mode is not enabled by editing a status field. Relativity also notes that if you convert an existing review workspace by installing the Repository application, the workspace remains classified for billing as a review workspace until the beginning of the next calendar month, which further confirms that application installation is the actual conversion mechanism.

The correct answer is B. A reviewer was originally part of the workspace and coded documents, but has since been removed from the workspace. Relativity’s official Review Center documentation explains that when documents were coded by reviewers who are not part of the current Relativity instance , those reviewers can appear in charts and tables as “Unknown User 1,” “Unknown User 2,” and so on. The documentation specifically notes that this can happen if a reviewer was removed from the workspace or if the workspace was archived and restored into a different instance. That directly supports option B.

The other options do not match Relativity’s documented explanation. Losing permission to code is not the stated reason for the “Unknown User” label. Likewise, an unprepared project is a separate project-state issue and does not explain why specific prior coding activity would be attributed to an anonymous placeholder. An error requiring queue re-preparation is also not the documented cause of this naming behavior. From a case administration perspective, this is an important concept because administrators often manage workspace users, permissions, and lifecycle changes over time. If prior reviewers are removed, their historical coding may still appear in analytics or project monitoring views, but the user identity may no longer resolve normally. In that circumstance, Review Center surfaces those coding records under a label such as “Unknown User 1.”

The correct answer is D. Existing links to exhibits in the transcript are visible once completed. Relativity’s official Transcripts documentation states that supported bundle file types include .lef and .xmef . When a bundle is uploaded, Relativity extracts the transcript file and displays the extra files as exhibits. The documentation further states that existing links to exhibits in transcript files will be visible in the Viewer once they are uploaded to Relativity . That is a direct match to option D.

This makes the other options incorrect. Bundled transcript files are explicitly supported, so option A is wrong. Exhibits do not need to be manually linked in the way described by option B when the transcript already contains those links; Relativity preserves and displays existing links. Option C is also incorrect because the documentation explains that the bundle upload process extracts the transcript and surfaces the additional files as exhibits, rather than requiring administrators to parse and upload them separately. From a case administration standpoint, this is useful because it streamlines transcript management and preserves exhibit relationships during import. Therefore, when importing LEF or XMEF bundled transcript files from the Document object, the true statement is that existing links to exhibits are visible once the upload is completed .