WGU C840 - Digital Forensics Questions
and Answers Latest Updated 2022
The most common computer hard drives today are __________. ✔✔SATA
A __________ is used to send a test packet, or echo packet, to a machine to dete
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WGU C840 - Digital Forensics Questions
and Answers Latest Updated 2022
The most common computer hard drives today are __________. ✔✔SATA
A __________ is used to send a test packet, or echo packet, to a machine to determine if the
machine is reachable and how long the packet takes to reach the machine. ✔✔ping
Suspects often overwhelm forensic analysts with false positives and false leads. This is referred to
as__________. ✔✔data fabrication
Which of the following is the definition of the Daubert Standard? ✔✔The Daubert Standard
dictates that only methods and tools widely accepted in the scientific community can be used in
court.
The __________ protects journalists from being required to turn over to law enforcement any work
product and documentary material, including sources, before it is disseminated to the public.
✔✔Privacy Protection Act of 1980
It has been claimed that __________ of all computers connected to the Internet have spyware.
✔✔80%
__________ is/are the cyber-equivalent of vandalism. ✔✔DoS attacks
Which of the following is the definition of logic bomb? ✔✔malware that executes damage when
a specific condition is met
Rules of evidence can be defined as __________. ✔✔rules that govern whether, when, how, and
why proof of a legal case can be placed before a judge or jury
Use of __________ tools enables an investigator to reconstruct file fragments if files have been
deleted or overwritten. ✔✔bit-level
Identification, preservation, collection, examination, analysis, and presentation are six classes in
the matrix of __________. ✔✔the DFRWS framework
What is meant by file slack? ✔✔the unused space between the logical end of file and the physical
end of file
Information that has been processed and assembled so that it is relevant to an investigation and
supports a specific finding or determination is the definition of __________. ✔✔digital evidence
__________ is a Linux Live CD that you use to boot a system and then use the tools. It is a free
Linux distribution, making it extremely attractive to schools teaching forensics or laboratories on
a strict budget. ✔✔BackTrack
What name is given to data that an operating system creates and overwrites without the computer
user taking a direct action to save this data? ✔✔temporary data
__________ is offline analysis conducted on an evidence disk or forensic duplicate after booting
from a CD or another system. ✔✔Physical analysis
What was designed as an area where computer vendors could store data that is shielded from user
activities and operating system utilities, such as delete and format? ✔✔host protected area
A one-sided DVD (or digital video disc) can hold __________ gigabytes. ✔✔4.7
What version of RAID are the following descriptors? Striped disks with dedicated parity combine
three or more disks in a way that protects data against loss of any one disk. Fault tolerance is
achieved by adding an extra disk to the array and dedicating it to storing parity information. The
storage capacity of the array is reduced by one disk. ✔✔RAID 3 or 4
The art and science of writing hidden messages is the definition of what? ✔✔steganography
__________ is perhaps the most widely used public key cryptography algorithm in existence
today. ✔✔RSA
Windows 2000 and newer operating systems' file systems utilize __________. ✔✔NTFS
A port is a number that identifies a channel in which communication can occur. There are certain
ports a forensic analyst should know on sight. Which port uses IRC chat rooms? ✔✔Port 194
(which can use TCP or UDP. TCP guarantees delivery of data packets on port 194 in the same
order in which they were sent. UDP on port 194 provides an unreliable service and datagrams may
arrive duplicated, out of order, or missing without notice.)
What is grep? ✔✔a popular Linux/UNIX search tool
What is meant by zero-knowledge analysis? ✔✔a technique for file system repair that involves
recovering data from a damaged partition with limited knowledge of the file system
What name is given to a protocol used to send e-mail that works on port 25? ✔✔Simple Mail
Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
Which of the following common header fields includes tracking information generated by mail
servers that have previously handled a message, in reverse order? ✔✔received
RFC 3864 describes message header field names. Message-ID of the message to which there is a
reply refers to which of the following options? ✔✔references
The Electronic Communications Privacy Act requires different legal processes to obtain specific
__________ information, including information from retrieved e-mail messages and unretrieved
stored e-mails. ✔✔content information
There are specific laws in the United States that are applicable to e-mail investigations.
__________ is a U.S. law that prescribes procedures for the physical and electronic surveillance
and collection of "foreign intelligence information" between foreign powers and agents of foreign
powers, which may include American citizens and permanent residents suspected of espionage or
terrorism. ✔✔Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)
__________ is a live-system forensic technique in which you collect a memory dump and perform
analysis in an isolated environment. ✔✔Volatile memory analysis
Which of the following is the definition of dump? ✔✔a complete copy of every bit of memory or
cache recorded in permanent storage or printed on paper
A number of tools and even some Windows utilities are available that can help you to analyze live
data on a Windows system. Use __________ to view process and thread statistics on a system.
✔✔PsList
What name is given to the result of acquiring a file as it is being updated? ✔✔slurred image
Essentially, a __________ is a special place on the hard drive where items from memory can be
temporarily stored for fast retrieval. ✔✔swap file
The Windows Registry is organized into five sections. The __________ section contains those
settings common to the entire machine, regardless of the individual user.
✔✔HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (HKLM)
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