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WGU D431 DIGITAL FORENSICS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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WGU D431 DIGITAL FORENSICS QUESTIONS ANDANSWERS
Which law requires both parties to consent to the recording of a conversation? -
Answers -ECPA (Electronic Communications Privacy Act)
Which law is related to the disclosure of personally identifiable protected health
information (PHI)? - Answers -Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
(HIPAA)
Which U.S. law criminalizes the act of knowingly using a misleading domain name with
the intent to deceive a minor into viewing harmful material? - Answers -18 U.S.C. 2252B
Which U.S. law protects journalists from turning over their work or sources to law
enforcement before the information is shared with the public? - Answers -The Privacy
Protection Act (PPA)
Which law or guideline lists the four states a mobile device can be in when data is
extracted from it? - Answers -NIST SP 800-72 Guidelines
Which law includes a provision permitting the wiretapping of VoIP calls? - Answers -
Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act (CALEA)
Which log or folder contains information about printed documents on a computer
running Mac OS X? - Answers -/var/spool/cups
Which Windows event log should be checked for evidence of invalid logon attempts? -
Answers -Security
A cyber security organization has issued a warning about a cybercriminal who is using a
known vulnerability to attack unpatched corporate Macintosh systems. A network
administrator decides to examine the software updates logs on a Macintosh system to
ensure the system has been patched. Which folder contains the software updates logs?
- Answers -/Library/Receipts
A forensic investigator wants to image an older BlackBerry smartphone running OS 7.0.
Which tool should the investigator use? - Answers -BlackBerry Desktop Manager
An investigator wants to extract information from a mobile device by connecting it to a
computer. What should the investigator take great care to ensure? - Answers -That the
mobile device does not synchronize with the computer
Which state is a device in if it is powered on, performing tasks, and able to be
manipulated by the user? - Answers -Active
, The chief information officer of an accounting firm believes sensitive data is being
exposed on the local network. Which tool should the IT staff use to gather digital
evidence about this security vulnerability? - Answers -Sniffer
A police detective investigating a threat traces the source to a house. The couple at the
house shows the detective the only computer the family owns, which is in their son's
bedroom. The couple states that their son is presently in class at a local middle school.
How should the detective legally gain access to the computer? - Answers -Obtain
consent to search from the parents
How should a forensic scientist obtain the network configuration from a Windows PC
before seizing it from a crime scene? - Answers -By using the ipconfig command from a
command prompt on the computer
The human resources manager of a small accounting firm believes he may have been a
victim of a phishing scam. The manager clicked on a link in an email message that
asked him to verify the logon credentials for the firm's online bank account. Which digital
evidence should a forensic investigator collect to investigate this incident? - Answers -
Browser Cache
Which policy is included in the CAN-SPAM Act? - Answers -The email sender must
provide some mechanism whereby the receiver can opt out of future emails and that
method cannot require the receiver to pay in order to opt out.
Which United States law requires telecommunications equipment manufacturers to
provide built-in surveillance capabilities for federal agencies? - Answers -
Communication Assistance to Law Enforcement Act (CALEA)
Which law requires a search warrant or one of the recognized exceptions to the search
warrant requirements for searching email messages on a computer? - Answers -The
Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Where are local passwords stored for the Windows operating system? - Answers -SAM
file in \Windows\System32\
Where on a Windows system is the config folder located that contains the SAM file? -
Answers -C:\Windows\System32
A forensic examiner wants to try to extract passwords for wireless networks to which a
system was connected. Where should passwords for wireless networks be stored on a
Windows XP system? - Answers -Registry
Which Windows password cracking tool uses rainbow tables? - Answers -Ophcrack
How does a rainbow table work to crack a password? - Answers -It uses a table of all
possible keyboard combinations and their hash values, then searches for a match.
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