What is meant by basic input/output system (BIOS)? - Ans the instructions stored on a chip
for booting up the computer
What term is used to describe data that changes rapidly and may be lost when the machine
that holds it is powered down? - Ans volatile data
Two of the easiest things to extract...
C840 – PT2 test |Questions Solved 100% Correct
What is meant by basic input/output system (BIOS)? - Ans the instructions stored on a chip
for booting up the computer
What term is used to describe data that changes rapidly and may be lost when the machine
that holds it is powered down? - Ans volatile data
Two of the easiest things to extract during __________ are a list of all website uniform resource
locators (URLs) and a list of all e-mail addresses on the computer. - Ans physical analysis
What is meant by physical analysis? - Ans offline analysis conducted on an evidence disk
or forensic duplicate after booting from a CD or another system
Which of the following is the definition of metadata? - Ans data about the data; in the case
of files, it can include creation time/date, size, last modified date, and even file header
information
This is the space that remains on a hard drive if the partitions do not use all the available
space. - Ans volume slack
Basis Technology invented an open file standard format with three variations, all supported
by Sleuth Kit and Autopsy. The name of this file format is what? - Ans the Advanced Forensic
Format
, What version of RAID are the following descriptors? Striped disks with dual parity combine
four or more disks in a way that protects data against loss of any two disks. - Ans RAID 6
What is meant by carrier? - Ans Carrier is the signal, stream, or data file in which the payload
is hidden.
__________ is a term that refers to hiding messages in sound files. - Ans Steganophony
__________ is about obfuscating the message so that it cannot be read. - Ans Cryptography
In World War II, the Germans made use of an electromechanical rotor-based cipher system
known as __________. - Ans enigma
__________ describes the total number of coprime numbers; two numbers are considered
coprime if they have no common factors. - Ans Euler's Totient
Which of the following is the definition of transposition? - Ans in terms of cryptography, this
is the swapping of blocks of ciphertext
In FAT and NTFS file systems, a __________ is used to map files to specific clusters where they
are stored on the disk. - Ans table
Hard drives that run __________ address blocks, or integer multiples of blocks, at a time. - Ans
Linux
Which of the following is the definition of inode? - Ans a data structure in the file system
that stores all the information about a file except its name and its actual data
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