EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Jim performed a vulnerability analysis on his network and found no potential problems. He runs another utility that executes exploits against his system to verify the results of the vulnerability test.
The second utility executes five known exploits against his network in which the vulnerability analysis said were not exploitable. What kind of results did Jim receive from his vulnerability analysis?

Question2: In the following email header, where did the email first originate from?

Question3: Which of the following tools is not a data acquisition hardware tool?

Question4: Which of the following statements is incorrect when preserving digital evidence?

Question5: Which of the following is a database in which information about every file and directory on an NT File System (NTFS) volume is stored?

Question6: If a PDA is seized in an investigation while the device is turned on, what would be the proper procedure?

Question7: A packet is sent to a router that does not have the packet destination address in its route table.
How will the packet get to its proper destination?

Question8: A small law firm located in the Midwest has possibly been breached by a computer hacker looking to obtain information on their clientele. The law firm does not have any on-site IT employees, but wants to search for evidence of the breach themselves to prevent any possible media attention. Why would this not be recommended?

Question9: Where does Encase search to recover NTFS files and folders?

Question10: If the partition size is 4 GB, each cluster will be 32 K. Even if a file needs only 10 K, the entire 32 K will be allocated, resulting in 22 K of ________.

Question11: When a router receives an update for its routing table, what is the metric value change to that path?

Question12: Email archiving is a systematic approach to save and protect the data contained in emails so that it can be accessed fast at a later date. There are two main archive types, namely Local Archive and Server Storage Archive. Which of the following statements is correct while dealing with local archives?

Question13: In handling computer-related incidents, which IT role should be responsible for recovery, containment, and prevention to constituents?

Question14: What will the following URL produce in an unpatched IIS Web Server?
http://www.thetargetsite.com/scripts/..% co%af../..%co%af../windows/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir+c:\

Question15: The investigator wants to examine changes made to the system's registry by the suspect program. Which of the following tool can help the investigator?

Question16: Simon is a former employee of Trinitron XML Inc. He feels he was wrongly terminated and wants to hack into his former company's network. Since Simon remembers some of the server names, he attempts to run the axfr and ixfr commands using DIG. What is Simon trying to accomplish here?

Question17: Which of the following tool enables data acquisition and duplication?

Question18: Which of the following techniques delete the files permanently?

Question19: A honey pot deployed with the IP 172.16.1.108 was compromised by an attacker. Given below is an excerpt from a Snort binary capture of the attack. Decipher the activity carried out by the attacker by studying the log. Please note that you are required to infer only what is explicit in the excerpt.
(Note: The student is being tested on concepts learnt during passive OS fingerprinting, basic TCP/IP connection concepts and the ability to read packet signatures from a sniff dump.)
03/15-20:21:24.107053 211.185.125.124:3500 -> 172.16.1.108:111
TCP TTL:43 TOS:0x0 ID:29726 IpLen:20 DgmLen:52 DF
***A**** Seq: 0x9B6338C5 Ack: 0x5820ADD0 Win: 0x7D78 TcpLen: 32
TCP Options (3) => NOP NOP TS: 23678634 2878772
=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=
03/15-20:21:24.452051 211.185.125.124:789 -> 172.16.1.103:111
UDP TTL:43 TOS:0x0 ID:29733 IpLen:20 DgmLen:84
Len: 64
01 0A 8A 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 01 86 A0 ................
00 00 00 02 00 00 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 86 B8 00 00 00 01 ................
00 00 00 11 00 00 00 00 ........
=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=
03/15-20:21:24.730436 211.185.125.124:790 -> 172.16.1.103:32773
UDP TTL:43 TOS:0x0 ID:29781 IpLen:20 DgmLen:1104
Len: 1084
47 F7 9F 63 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 01 86 B8

Question20: Microsoft Outlook maintains email messages in a proprietary format in what type of file?

Question21: Which US law does the interstate or international transportation and receiving of child pornography fall under?

Question22: John is working as a computer forensics investigator for a consulting firm in Canad a. He is called to seize a computer at a local web caf purportedly used as a botnet server. John thoroughly scans the computer and finds nothing that would lead him to think the computer was a botnet server. John decides to scan the virtual memory of the computer to possibly find something he had missed. What information will the virtual memory scan produce?

Question23: Which of the following attack uses HTML tags like <script></script>?

Question24: During the trial, an investigator observes that one of the principal witnesses is severely ill and cannot be present for the hearing. He decides to record the evidence and present it to the court. Under which rule should he present such evidence?

Question25: Steve, a forensic investigator, was asked to investigate an email incident in his organization. The organization has Microsoft Exchange Server deployed for email communications. Which among the following files will Steve check to analyze message headers, message text, and standard attachments?

Question26: Where should the investigator look for the Edge browser's browsing records, including history, cache, and cookies?

Question27: Which of the following application password cracking tool can discover all password-protected items on a computer and decrypts them?

Question28: Given the drive dimensions as follows and assuming a sector has 512 bytes, what is the capacity of the described hard drive?
22,164 cylinders/disk
80 heads/cylinder
63 sectors/track

Question29: Which of the following refers to the process of the witness being questioned by the attorney who called the latter to the stand?

Question30: If you see the files Zer0.tar.gz and copy.tar.gz on a Linux system while doing an investigation, what can you conclude?

Question31: The surface of a hard disk consists of several concentric rings known as tracks; each of these tracks has smaller partitions called disk blocks. What is the size of each block?

Question32: Centralized binary logging is a process in which many websites write binary and unformatted log data to a single log file. What extension should the investigator look to find its log file?

Question33: You are working as an independent computer forensics investigator and received a call from a systems administrator for a local school system requesting your assistance. One of the students at the local high school is suspected of downloading inappropriate images from the Internet to a PC in the Computer Lab. When you arrive at the school, the systems administrator hands you a hard drive and tells you that he made a "simple backup copy" of the hard drive in the PC and put it on this drive and requests that you examine the drive for evidence of the suspected images. You inform him that a "simple backup copy" will not provide deleted files or recover file fragments. What type of copy do you need to make to ensure that the evidence found is complete and admissible in future proceeding?

Question34: An "idle" system is also referred to as what?

Question35: Which of the following components within the android architecture stack take care of displaying windows owned by different applications?

Question36: What value of the "Boot Record Signature" is used to indicate that the boot-loader exists?

Question37: When a file is deleted by Windows Explorer or through the MS-DOS delete command, the operating system inserts _______________ in the first letter position of the filename in the FAT database.

Question38: While analyzing a hard disk, the investigator finds that the file system does not use UEFI-based interface. Which of the following operating systems is present on the hard disk?

Question39: Bob has been trying to penetrate a remote production system for the past two weeks. This time however, he is able to get into the system. He was able to use the System for a period of three weeks. However, law enforcement agencies were recoding his every activity and this was later presented as evidence.
The organization had used a Virtual Environment to trap Bob. What is a Virtual Environment?

Question40: If you plan to startup a suspect's computer, you must modify the ___________ to ensure that you do not contaminate or alter data on the suspect's hard drive by booting to the hard drive.

Question41: Which password cracking technique uses every possible combination of character sets?

Question42: What does the part of the log, "% SEC-6-IPACCESSLOGP", extracted from a Cisco router represent?

Question43: Harold is a web designer who has completed a website for ghttech.net. As part of the maintenance agreement he signed with the client, Harold is performing research online and seeing how much exposure the site has received so far. Harold navigates to google.com and types in the following search. link:www.ghttech.net What will this search produce?

Question44: Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (SMART) is built into the hard drives to monitor and report system activity. Which of the following is included in the report generated by SMART?

Question45: Daryl, a computer forensics investigator, has just arrived at the house of an alleged computer hacker. Daryl takes pictures and tags all computer and peripheral equipment found in the house. Daryl packs all the items found in his van and takes them back to his lab for further examination. At his lab, Michael his assistant helps him with the investigation. Since Michael is still in training, Daryl supervises all of his work very carefully. Michael is not quite sure about the procedures to copy all the data off the computer and peripheral devices. How many data acquisition tools should Michael use when creating copies of the evidence for the investigation?

Question46: What does the command "C:\>wevtutil gl <log name>" display?

Question47: An Employee is suspected of stealing proprietary information belonging to your company that he had no rights to possess. The information was stored on the Employees Computer that was protected with the NTFS Encrypted File System (EFS) and you had observed him copy the files to a floppy disk just before leaving work for the weekend. You detain the Employee before he leaves the building and recover the floppy disks and secure his computer. Will you be able to break the encryption so that you can verify that that the employee was in possession of the proprietary information?

Question48: What type of analysis helps to identify the time and sequence of events in an investigation?

Question49: Which among the following web application threats is resulted when developers expose various internal implementation objects, such as files, directories, database records, or key-through references?

Question50: Smith, a forensic examiner, was analyzing a hard disk image to find and acquire deleted sensitive files. He stumbled upon a $Recycle.Bin folder in the root directory of the disk. Identify the operating system in use.

Question51: Which of the following Event Correlation Approach is an advanced correlation method that assumes and predicts what an attacker can do next after the attack by studying the statistics and probability and uses only two variables?

Question52: Which of the following is a list of recently used programs or opened files?

Question53: You are carrying out the last round of testing for your new website before it goes live. The website has many dynamic pages and connects to a SQL backend that accesses your product inventory in a database. You come across a web security site that recommends inputting the following code into a search field on web pages to check for vulnerabilities: When you type this and click on search, you receive a pop-up window that says: "This is a test." What is the result of this test?

Question54: Which Linux command when executed displays kernel ring buffers or information about device drivers loaded into the kernel?

Question55: Data Files contain Multiple Data Pages, which are further divided into Page Header, Data Rows, and Offset Table. Which of the following is true for Data Rows?

Question56: Which of the following techniques can be used to beat steganography?

Question57: A state department site was recently attacked and all the servers had their disks erased. The incident response team sealed the area and commenced investigation. During evidence collection they came across a zip disks that did not have the standard labeling on it. The incident team ran the disk on an isolated system and found that the system disk was accidentally erased. They decided to call in the FBI for further investigation. Meanwhile, they short listed possible suspects including three summer interns. Where did the incident team go wrong?

Question58: If a suspect computer is located in an area that may have toxic chemicals, you must:

Question59: With the standard Linux second extended file system (Ext2fs), a file is deleted when the inode internal link count reaches ________.

Question60: You are working as a Computer forensics investigator for a corporation on a computer abuse case. You discover evidence that shows the subject of your investigation is also embezzling money from the company. The company CEO and the corporate legal counsel advise you to contact law enforcement and provide them with the evidence that you have found. The law enforcement officer that responds requests that you put a network sniffer on your network and monitor all traffic to the subject's computer. You inform the officer that you will not be able to comply with that request because doing so would:

Question61: Which tool does the investigator use to extract artifacts left by Google Drive on the system?

Question62: Where are files temporarily written in Unix when printing?

Question63: Which code does the FAT file system use to mark the file as deleted?

Question64: What method would be most efficient for you to acquire digital evidence from this network?

Question65: An investigator has found certain details after analysis of a mobile device. What can reveal the manufacturer information?

Question66: Which among the following search warrants allows the first responder to get the victim's computer information such as service records, billing records, and subscriber information from the service provider?

Question67: Jason has set up a honeypot environment by creating a DMZ that has no physical or logical access to his production network. In this honeypot, he has placed a server running Windows Active Directory. He has also placed a Web server in the DMZ that services a number of web pages that offer visitors a chance to download sensitive information by clicking on a button. A week later, Jason finds in his network logs how an intruder accessed the honeypot and downloaded sensitive information. Jason uses the logs to try and prosecute the intruder for stealing sensitive corporate information. Why will this not be viable?

Question68: The rule of thumb when shutting down a system is to pull the power plug. However, it has certain drawbacks. Which of the following would that be?

Question69: When monitoring for both intrusion and security events between multiple computers, it is essential that the computers' clocks are synchronized. Synchronized time allows an administrator to reconstruct what took place during an attack against multiple computers. Without synchronized time, it is very difficult to determine exactly when specific events took place, and how events interlace. What is the name of the service used to synchronize time among multiple computers?

Question70: Jack Smith is a forensics investigator who works for Mason Computer Investigation Services. He is investigating a computer that was infected by Ramen Virus.

He runs the netstat command on the machine to see its current connections. In the following screenshot, what do the 0.0.0.0 IP addresses signify?

Question71: When carrying out a forensics investigation, why should you never delete a partition on a dynamic disk?

Question72: Stephen is checking an image using Compare Files by The Wizard, and he sees the file signature is shown as FF D8 FF E1. What is the file type of the image?

Question73: Which of the following is a part of a Solid-State Drive (SSD)?

Question74: You are the network administrator for a small bank in Dallas, Texas. To ensure network security, you enact a security policy that requires all users to have 14 character passwords. After giving your users 2 weeks notice, you change the Group Policy to force 14 character passwords. A week later you dump the SAM database from the standalone server and run a password-cracking tool against it. Over 99% of the passwords are broken within an hour. Why were these passwords cracked so Quickly?

Question75: When you carve an image, recovering the image depends on which of the following skills?

Question76: James is testing the ability of his routers to withstand DoS attacks. James sends ICMP ECHO requests to the broadcast address of his network. What type of DoS attack is James testing against his network?

Question77: Using Internet logging software to investigate a case of malicious use of computers, the investigator comes across some entries that appear odd.

From the log, the investigator can see where the person in question went on the Internet. From the log, it appears that the user was manually typing in different user ID numbers. What technique this user was trying?

Question78: Which of the following stand true for BIOS Parameter Block?

Question79: You should make at least how many bit-stream copies of a suspect drive?

Question80: Brian needs to acquire data from RAID storage. Which of the following acquisition methods is recommended to retrieve only the data relevant to the investigation?

Question81: In Windows, prefetching is done to improve system performance. There are two types of prefetching: boot prefetching and application prefetching. During boot prefetching, what does the Cache Manager do?

Question82: With Regard to using an Antivirus scanner during a computer forensics investigation, You should:

Question83: What term is used to describe a cryptographic technique for embedding information into something else for the sole purpose of hiding that information from the casual observer?

Question84: You are working for a local police department that services a population of 1,000,000 people and you have been given the task of building a computer forensics lab. How many law-enforcement computer investigators should you request to staff the lab?

Question85: Consider that you are investigating a machine running an Windows OS released prior to Windows Vist a. You are trying to gather information about the deleted files by examining the master database file named INFO2 located at C:\Recycler\<USER SID>\. You read an entry named "Dd5.exe". What does Dd5.exe mean?

Question86: Event correlation is the process of finding relevance between the events that produce a final result. What type of correlation will help an organization to correlate events across a set of servers, systems, routers and network?

Question87: Amber, a black hat hacker, has embedded a malware into a small enticing advertisement and posted it on a popular ad-network that displays across various websites. What is she doing?

Question88: A forensics investigator needs to copy data from a computer to some type of removable media so he can examine the information at another location. The problem is that the data is around 42GB in size. What type of removable media could the investigator use?

Question89: Select the tool appropriate for finding the dynamically linked lists of an application or malware.

Question90: Which of the following is found within the unique instance ID key and helps investigators to map the entry from USBSTOR key to the MountedDevices key?

Question91: Meyer Electronics Systems just recently had a number of laptops stolen out of their office. On these laptops contained sensitive corporate information regarding patents and company strategies. A month after the laptops were stolen, a competing company was found to have just developed products that almost exactly duplicated products that Meyer produces. What could have prevented this information from being stolen from the laptops?

Question92: Which of the following file system uses Master File Table (MFT) database to store information about every file and directory on a volume?

Question93: Which of the following statements is true regarding SMTP Server?

Question94: You have compromised a lower-level administrator account on an Active Directory network of a small company in Dallas, Texas. You discover Domain Controllers through enumeration. You connect to one of the Domain Controllers on port 389 using ldp.exe. What are you trying to accomplish here?

Question95: You have been given the task to investigate web attacks on a Windows-based server. Which of the following commands will you use to look at the sessions the machine has opened with other systems?

Question96: Raw data acquisition format creates _________ of a data set or suspect drive.

Question97: Which of the following is NOT a part of pre-investigation phase?

Question98: Which of the following files store the MySQL database data permanently, including the data that had been deleted, helping the forensic investigator in examining the case and finding the culprit?

Question99: You are assisting a Department of Defense contract company to become compliant with the stringent security policies set by the DoD. One such strict rule is that firewalls must only allow incoming connections that were first initiated by internal computers. What type of firewall must you implement to abide by this policy?

Question100: The MD5 program is used to:

Question101: Julie is a college student majoring in Information Systems and Computer Science. She is currently writing an essay for her computer crimes class. Julie paper focuses on white-collar crimes in America and how forensics investigators investigate the cases. Julie would like to focus the subject. Julie would like to focus the subject of the essay on the most common type of crime found in corporate Americ a. What crime should Julie focus on?

Question102: George is the network administrator of a large Internet company on the west coast. Per corporate policy, none of the employees in the company are allowed to use FTP or SFTP programs without obtaining approval from the IT department. Few managers are using SFTP program on their computers. Before talking to his boss, George wants to have some proof of their activity. George wants to use Ethereal to monitor network traffic, but only SFTP traffic to and from his network.
What filter should George use in Ethereal?

Question103: The following is a log file screenshot from a default installation of IIS 6.0.

What time standard is used by IIS as seen in the screenshot?

Question104: Casey has acquired data from a hard disk in an open source acquisition format that allows her to generate compressed or uncompressed image files. What format did she use?

Question105: Which of the following stages in a Linux boot process involve initialization of the system's hardware?

Question106: A master boot record (MBR) is the first sector ("sector zero") of a data storage device. What is the size of MBR?

Question107: What operating system would respond to the following command?

Question108: When obtaining a warrant, it is important to:

Question109: You are a computer forensics investigator working with local police department and you are called to assist in an investigation of threatening emails. The complainant has printer out 27 email messages from the suspect and gives the printouts to you. You inform her that you will need to examine her computer because you need access to the _________________________ in order to track the emails back to the suspect.

Question110: Hard disk data addressing is a method of allotting addresses to each _______ of data on a hard disk.

Question111: In a virtual test environment, Michael is testing the strength and security of BGP using multiple routers to mimic the backbone of the Internet. This project will help him write his doctoral thesis on "bringing down the Internet". Without sniffing the traffic between the routers, Michael sends millions of RESET packets to the routers in an attempt to shut one or all of them down. After a few hours, one of the routers finally shuts itself down. What will the other routers communicate between themselves?

Question112: Which of the following standard represents a legal precedent regarding the admissibility of scientific examinations or experiments in legal cases?

Question113: Which of the following registry hive gives the configuration information about which application was used to open various files on the system?

Question114: Which password cracking technique uses details such as length of password, character sets used to construct the password, etc.?

Question115: Robert, a cloud architect, received a huge bill from the cloud service provider, which usually doesn't happen. After analyzing the bill, he found that the cloud resource consumption was very high. He then examined the cloud server and discovered that a malicious code was running on the server, which was generating huge but harmless traffic from the server. This means that the server has been compromised by an attacker with the sole intention to hurt the cloud customer financially. Which attack is described in the above scenario?

Question116: When searching through file headers for picture file formats, what should be searched to find a JPEG file in hexadecimal format?

Question117: Which layer of iOS architecture should a forensics investigator evaluate to analyze services such as Threading, File Access, Preferences, Networking and high-level features?

Question118: A section of your forensics lab houses several electrical and electronic equipment. Which type of fire extinguisher you must install in this area to contain any fire incident?

Question119: Michael works for Kimball Construction Company as senior security analyst. As part of yearly security audit, Michael scans his network for vulnerabilities. Using Nmap, Michael conducts XMAS scan and most of the ports scanned do not give a response. In what state are these ports?

Question120: When needing to search for a website that is no longer present on the Internet today but was online few years back, what site can be used to view the website collection of pages?

Question121: Which of the following files DOES NOT use Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) technology to embed and link to other objects?

Question122: Which of the following files stores information about a local Google Drive installation such as User email ID, Local Sync Root Path, and Client version installed?

Question123: A Linux system is undergoing investigation. In which directory should the investigators look for its current state data if the system is in powered on state?

Question124: How will you categorize a cybercrime that took place within a CSP's cloud environment?

Question125: Buffer overflow vulnerability of a web application occurs when it fails to guard its buffer properly and allows writing beyond its maximum size. Thus, it overwrites the_________. There are multiple forms of buffer overflow, including a Heap Buffer Overflow and a Format String Attack.

Question126: Sheila is a forensics trainee and is searching for hidden image files on a hard disk. She used a forensic investigation tool to view the media in hexadecimal code for simplifying the search process. Which of the following hex codes should she look for to identify image files?

Question127: Which of the following ISO standard defines file systems and protocol for exchanging data between optical disks?

Question128: Which of the following email headers specifies an address for mailer-generated errors, like "no such user" bounce messages, to go to (instead of the sender's address)?

Question129: Which of these rootkit detection techniques function by comparing a snapshot of the file system, boot records, or memory with a known and trusted baseline?

Question130: Which list contains the most recent actions performed by a Windows User?

Question131: Rusty, a computer forensics apprentice, uses the command nbtstat -c while analyzing the network information in a suspect system. What information is he looking for?

Question132: What type of attack sends SYN requests to a target system with spoofed IP addresses?

Question133: Your company uses Cisco routers exclusively throughout the network. After securing the routers to the best of your knowledge, an outside security firm is brought in to assess the network security.
Although they found very few issues, they were able to enumerate the model, OS version, and capabilities for all your Cisco routers with very little effort. Which feature will you disable to eliminate the ability to enumerate this information on your Cisco routers?

Question134: After passively scanning the network of Department of Defense (DoD), you switch over to active scanning to identify live hosts on their network. DoD is a large organization and should respond to any number of scans. You start an ICMP ping sweep by sending an IP packet to the broadcast address. Only five hosts respond to your ICMP pings; definitely not the number of hosts you were expecting. Why did this ping sweep only produce a few responses?

Question135: Travis, a computer forensics investigator, is finishing up a case he has been working on for over a month involving copyright infringement and embezzlement. His last task is to prepare an investigative report for the president of the company he has been working for. Travis must submit a hard copy and an electronic copy to this president. In what electronic format should Travis send this report?

Question136: When analyzing logs, it is important that the clocks of all the network devices are synchronized. Which protocol will help in synchronizing these clocks?

Question137: This organization maintains a database of hash signatures for known software.

Question138: Which of the following Linux command searches through the current processes and lists the process IDs those match the selection criteria to stdout?

Question139: Which of the following data structures stores attributes of a process, as well as pointers to other attributes and data structures?

Question140: Data is striped at a byte level across multiple drives, and parity information is distributed among all member drives.

What RAID level is represented here?

Question141: Which of the following commands shows you the names of all open shared files on a server and the number of file locks on each file?

Question142: Which Event Correlation approach assumes and predicts what an attacker can do next after the attack by studying statistics and probability?

Question143: Law enforcement officers are conducting a legal search for which a valid warrant was obtained.
While conducting the search, officers observe an item of evidence for an unrelated crime that was not included in the warrant. The item was clearly visible to the officers and immediately identified as evidence. What is the term used to describe how this evidence is admissible?

Question144: Bob works as information security analyst for a big finance company. One day, the anomaly-based intrusion detection system alerted that a volumetric DDOS targeting the main IP of the main web server was occurring. What kind of attack is it?

Question145: In a forensic examination of hard drives for digital evidence, what type of user is most likely to have the most file slack to analyze?

Question146: Which principle states that "anyone or anything, entering a crime scene takes something of the scene with them, and leaves something of themselves behind when they leave"?

Question147: When a user deletes a file or folder, the system stores complete path including the original filename is a special hidden file called "INFO2" in the Recycled folder. If the INFO2 file is deleted, it is recovered when you ______________________.

Question148: Select the data that a virtual memory would store in a Windows-based system.

Question149: Which of the following is a non-zero data that an application allocates on a hard disk cluster in systems running on Windows OS?

Question150: The process of restarting a computer that is already turned on through the operating system is called?

Question151: In a computer forensics investigation, what describes the route that evidence takes from the time you find it until the case is closed or goes to court?

Question152: One technique for hiding information is to change the file extension from the correct one to one that might not be noticed by an investigator. For example, changing a .jpg extension to a .doc extension so that a picture file appears to be a document. What can an investigator examine to verify that a file has the correct extension?

Question153: During the course of a corporate investigation, you find that an Employee is committing a crime.
Can the Employer file a criminal complaint with Police?

Question154: Which of the following are small pieces of data sent from a website and stored on the user's computer by the user's web browser to track, validate, and maintain specific user information?

Question155: A picture file is recovered from a computer under investigation. During the investigation process, the file is enlarged 500% to get a better view of its contents. The picture quality is not degraded at all from this process. What kind of picture is this file. What kind of picture is this file?

Question156: To reach a bank web site, the traffic from workstations must pass through a firewall. You have been asked to review the firewall configuration to ensure that workstations in network 10.10.10.0/24 can only reach the bank web site 10.20.20.1 using https. Which of the following firewall rules meets this requirement?

Question157: To preserve digital evidence, an investigator should ____________________.

Question158: In conducting a computer abuse investigation you become aware that the suspect of the investigation is using ABC Company as his Internet Service Provider (ISP). You contact ISP and request that they provide you assistance with your investigation. What assistance can the ISP provide?

Question159: Which program uses different techniques to conceal a malware's code, thereby making it difficult for security mechanisms to detect or remove it?

Question160: Andie, a network administrator, suspects unusual network services running on a windows system. Which of the following commands should he use to verify unusual network services started on a Windows system?

Question161: Which of the following web browser uses the Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) database format to store browsing records, including history, cache, and cookies?

Question162: Checkpoint Firewall logs can be viewed through a Check Point Log viewer that uses icons and colors in the log table to represent different security events and their severity. What does the icon in the checkpoint logs represent?

Question163: Which part of Metasploit framework helps users to hide the data related to a previously deleted file or currently unused by the allocated file.

Question164: What is the size value of a nibble?

Question165: Pick the statement which does not belong to the Rule 804. Hearsay Exceptions; Declarant Unavailable.

Question166: Which forensic investigating concept trails the whole incident from how the attack began to how the victim was affected?

Question167: Which U.S. law sets the rules for sending emails for commercial purposes, establishes the minimum requirements for commercial messaging, gives the recipients of emails the right to ask the senders to stop emailing them, and spells out the penalties in case the above said rules are violated?

Question168: You work as a penetration tester for Hammond Security Consultants. You are currently working on a contract for the state government of Californi a. Your next step is to initiate a DoS attack on their network. Why would you want to initiate a DoS attack on a system you are testing?

Question169: What is cold boot (hard boot)?

Question170: Harold is finishing up a report on a case of network intrusion, corporate spying, and embezzlement that he has been working on for over six months. He is trying to find the right term to use in his report to describe network-enabled spying. What term should Harold use?

Question171: John is using Firewalk to test the security of his Cisco PIX firewall. He is also utilizing a sniffer located on a subnet that resides deep inside his network. After analyzing the sniffer log files, he does not see any of the traffic produced by Firewalk. Why is that?

Question172: Examination of a computer by a technically unauthorized person will almost always result in:

Question173: What does 254 represent in ICCID 89254021520014515744?

Question174: You are assisting in the investigation of a possible Web Server Hack. The company who called you stated that customers reported to them that whenever they entered the web address of the company in their browser, what they received was a porno graphic web site. The company checked the web server and nothing appears wrong. When you type in the IP address of the web site in your browser everything appears normal. What is the name of the attack that affects the DNS cache of the name resolution servers, resulting in those servers directing users to the wrong web site?

Question175: What information do you need to recover when searching a victim's computer for a crime committed with specific e-mail message?

Question176: You are a security analyst performing reconnaissance on a company you will be carrying out a penetration test for. You conduct a search for IT jobs on Dice.com and find the following information for an open position: 7+ years experience in Windows Server environment 5+ years experience in Exchange 2000/2003 environment Experience with Cisco Pix Firewall, Linksys 1376 router, Oracle 11i and MYOB v3.4 Accounting software are required MCSA desired, MCSE, CEH preferred No Unix/Linux Experience needed What is this information posted on the job website considered?

Question177: You setup SNMP in multiple offices of your company. Your SNMP software manager is not receiving data from other offices like it is for your main office. You suspect that firewall changes are to blame. What ports should you open for SNMP to work through Firewalls? (Choose two.)

Question178: Why is it a good idea to perform a penetration test from the inside?

Question179: The use of warning banners helps a company avoid litigation by overcoming an employee assumed __________________________. When connecting to the company's intranet, network or Virtual Private Network(VPN) and will allow the company's investigators to monitor, search and retrieve information stored within the network.

Question180: Amelia has got an email from a well-reputed company stating in the subject line that she has won a prize money, whereas the email body says that she has to pay a certain amount for being eligible for the contest. Which of the following acts does the email breach?

Question181: Which Intrusion Detection System (IDS) usually produces the most false alarms due to the unpredictable behaviors of users and networks?

Question182: What type of attack sends spoofed UDP packets (instead of ping packets) with a fake source address to the IP broadcast address of a large network?

Question183: On an Active Directory network using NTLM authentication, where on the domain controllers are the passwords stored?

Question184: 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?

Question185: You are trying to locate Microsoft Outlook Web Access Default Portal using Google search on the Internet. What search string will you use to locate them?

Question186: When should an MD5 hash check be performed when processing evidence?

Question187: Steven has been given the task of designing a computer forensics lab for the company he works for. He has found documentation on all aspects of how to design a lab except the number of exits needed. How many exits should Steven include in his design for the computer forensics lab?

Question188: In Windows Security Event Log, what does an event id of 530 imply?

Question189: Bob has encountered a system crash and has lost vital data stored on the hard drive of his Windows computer. He has no cloud storage or backup hard drives. he wants to recover all those data, which includes his personal photos, music, documents, videos, official email, etc. Which of the following tools shall resolve Bob's purpose?

Question190: Tyler is setting up a wireless network for his business that he runs out of his home. He has followed all the directions from the ISP as well as the wireless router manual. He does not have any encryption set and the SSID is being broadcast. On his laptop, he can pick up the wireless signal for short periods of time, but then the connection drops and the signal goes away.
Eventually the wireless signal shows back up, but drops intermittently. What could be Tyler issue with his home wireless network?

Question191: Which of the following processes is part of the dynamic malware analysis?

Question192: Which of the following statements is TRUE about SQL Server error logs?

Question193: While looking through the IIS log file of a web server, you find the following entries:

What is evident from this log file?

Question194: A forensic examiner is examining a Windows system seized from a crime scene. During the examination of a suspect file, he discovered that the file is password protected. He tried guessing the password using the suspect's available information but without any success. Which of the following tool can help the investigator to solve this issue?

Question195: An employee is attempting to wipe out data stored on a couple of compact discs (CDs) and digital video discs (DVDs) by using a large magnet. You inform him that this method will not be effective in wiping out the data because CDs and DVDs are ______________ media used to store large amounts of data and are not affected by the magnet.

Question196: Paul's company is in the process of undergoing a complete security audit including logical and physical security testing. After all logical tests were performed; it is now time for the physical round to begin. None of the employees are made aware of this round of testing. The security-auditing firm sends in a technician dressed as an electrician. He waits outside in the lobby for some employees to get to work and follows behind them when they access the restricted areas. After entering the main office, he is able to get into the server room telling the IT manager that there is a problem with the outlets in that room. What type of attack has the technician performed?

Question197: You are asked to build a forensic lab and your manager has specifically informed you to use copper for lining the walls, ceilings, and floor. What is the main purpose of lining the walls, ceilings, and floor with copper?

Question198: How many times can data be written to a DVD+R disk?

Question199: Select the tool appropriate for examining the dynamically linked libraries of an application or malware.

Question200: How many bits is Source Port Number in TCP Header packet?

Question201: Diskcopy is:

Question202: What is the smallest physical storage unit on a hard drive?

Question203: Sectors are pie-shaped regions on a hard disk that store dat
a. Which of the following parts of a hard disk do not contribute in determining the addresses of data?

Question204: Which of the following standard represents a legal precedent set in 1993 by the Supreme Court of the United States regarding the admissibility of expert witnesses' testimony during federal legal proceedings?

Question205: Chris has been called upon to investigate a hacking incident reported by one of his clients. The company suspects the involvement of an insider accomplice in the attack. Upon reaching the incident scene, Chris secures the physical area, records the scene using visual medi a. He shuts the system down by pulling the power plug so that he does not disturb the system in any way. He labels all cables and connectors prior to disconnecting any. What do you think would be the next sequence of events?

Question206: A(n) _____________________ is one that's performed by a computer program rather than the attacker manually performing the steps in the attack sequence.

Question207: During an investigation, an employee was found to have deleted harassing emails that were sent to someone else. The company was using Microsoft Exchange and had message tracking enabled. Where could the investigator search to find the message tracking log file on the Exchange server?

Question208: Why would you need to find out the gateway of a device when investigating a wireless attack?

Question209: What does ICMP Type 3/Code 13 mean?