312-49v10 practice test

1. Question 1 · 1

   When an investigator contacts by telephone the domain administrator or controller listed by a Who is lookup to request all e-mails sent and received for a user account be preserved, what U.S.C. statute authorizes this phone call and obligates the ISP to preserve e-mail records?

   Choose one answer.

   • Title 18, Section 1030
   • Title 18, Section 2703(d)
   • Title 18, Section Chapter 90
   • Title 18, Section 2703(f)

2. Question 2 · 1

   You are contracted to work as a computer forensics investigator for a regional bank that has four 30 TB storage area networks that store customer data. What method would be most efficient for you to acquire digital evidence from this network?

   Choose one answer.

   • create a compressed copy of the file with DoubleSpace
   • create a sparse data copy of a folder or file
   • make a bit-stream disk-to-image file
   • make a bit-stream disk-to-disk file

3. Question 3 · 1

   You are employed directly by an attorney to help investigate an alleged sexual harassment case at a large pharmaceutical manufacture. While at the corporate office of the company, the CEO demands to know the status of the investigation. What prevents you from discussing the case with the CEO?

   Choose one answer.

   • the attorney-work-product rule
   • Good manners
   • Trade secrets
   • ISO 17799

4. Question 4 · 1

   What is the investigator trying to analyze if the system gives the following image as output?

   Choose one answer.

   

   • All the logon sessions
   • Currently active logon sessions
   • Inactive logon sessions
   • Details of users who can logon

5. Question 5 · 1

   This organization maintains a database of hash signatures for known software.

   Choose one answer.

   • International Standards Organization
   • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
   • National Software Reference Library
   • American National standards Institute

6. Question 6 · 1

   The ____________________ refers to handing over the results of private investigations to the authorities because of indications of criminal activity.

   Choose one answer.

   • Locard Exchange Principle
   • Clark Standard
   • Kelly Policy
   • Silver-Platter Doctrine

7. Question 7 · 1

   You are working as Computer Forensics investigator and are called by the owner of an accounting firm to investigate possible computer abuse by one of the firm's employees. You meet with the owner of the firm and discover that the company has never published a policy stating that they reserve the right to inspect their computing assets at will. What do you do?

   Choose one answer.

   • Inform the owner that conducting an investigation without a policy is not a problem because the company is privately owned
   • Inform the owner that conducting an investigation without a policy is a violation of the 4th amendment
   • Inform the owner that conducting an investigation without a policy is a violation of the employee's expectation of privacy
   • Inform the owner that conducting an investigation without a policy is not a problem because a policy is only necessary for government agencies

8. Question 8 · 1

   You are working for a large clothing manufacturer as a computer forensics investigator and are called in to investigate an unusual case of an employee possibly stealing clothing designs from the company and selling them under a different brand name for a different company. What you discover during the course of the investigation is that the clothing designs are actually original products of the employee and the company has no policy against an employee selling his own designs on his own time. The only thing that you can find that the employee is doing wrong is that his clothing design incorporates the same graphic symbol as that of the company with only the wording in the graphic being different. What area of the law is the employee violating?

   Choose one answer.

   • trademark law
   • copyright law
   • printright law
   • brandmark law

9. Question 9 · 1

   To preserve digital evidence, an investigator should ____________________.

   Choose one answer.

   • Make two copies of each evidence item using a single imaging tool
   • Make a single copy of each evidence item using an approved imaging tool
   • Make two copies of each evidence item using different imaging tools
   • Only store the original evidence item

10. Question 10 · 1

    Profiling is a forensics technique for analyzing evidence with the goal of identifying the perpetrator from their various activity. After a computer has been compromised by a hacker, which of the following would be most important in forming a profile of the incident?

    Choose one answer.

    • The manufacturer of the system compromised
    • The logic, formatting and elegance of the code used in the attack
    • The nature of the attack
    • The vulnerability exploited in the incident

11. Question 11 · 1

    Printing under a Windows Computer normally requires which one of the following files types to be created?

    Choose one answer.

    • EME
    • MEM
    • EMF
    • CME

12. Question 12 · 1

    An Expert witness give an opinion if:

    Choose one answer.

    • The Opinion, inferences or conclusions depend on special knowledge, skill or training not within the ordinary experience of lay jurors
    • To define the issues of the case for determination by the finder of fact
    • To stimulate discussion between the consulting expert and the expert witness
    • To deter the witness form expanding the scope of his or her investigation beyond the requirements of the case

13. Question 13 · 1

    You have completed a forensic investigation case. You would like to destroy the data contained in various disks at the forensics lab due to sensitivity of the case. How would you permanently erase the data on the hard disk?

    Choose one answer.

    • Throw the hard disk into the fire
    • Run the powerful magnets over the hard disk
    • Format the hard disk multiple times using a low level disk utility
    • Overwrite the contents of the hard disk with Junk data

14. Question 14 · 1

    What file structure database would you expect to find on floppy disks?

    Choose one answer.

    • NTFS
    • FAT32
    • FAT16
    • FAT12

15. Question 15 · 1

    A law enforcement officer may only search for and seize criminal evidence with _______________________, which are facts or circumstances that would lead a reasonable person to believe a crime has been committed or is about to be committed, evidence of the specific crime exists and the evidence of the specific crime exists at the place to be searched.

    Choose one answer.

    • Mere Suspicion
    • A preponderance of the evidence
    • Probable cause
    • Beyond a reasonable doubt

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