Which of the following license plate examples CANNOT be obtained by a DCI inquiry?

• A. Full plate with hyphen
• B. Numbers only
• C. Letters only
• D. Partial License Plate

Answer: (D)

The thing being tested is how search capabilities in a DCI inquiry are designed to work with license plate data. A DCI system can return results when you provide an exact identifier or a clearly defined format, such as a full plate (even with its hyphen) or inputs that match plates that are purely numeric or purely alphabetic. These are precise, recognizable formats the system is built to handle.

A partial license plate, on the other hand, would be too vague and could correspond to many possible records or none at all. The database is designed to require an exact match or a strictly defined input pattern, so partial inputs aren’t supported. That’s why a partial license plate cannot be obtained through a DCI inquiry.