D431 Digital Forensics in Cybersecurity - Set 2 - Part 1

Test your knowledge of technical writing concepts with these practice questions. Each question includes detailed explanations to help you understand the correct answers.

Question 1: Which U.S. law governs the privacy and disclosure, access, and interception of content and traffic data related to electronic communications?

Sarbanes-Oxley Act

Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act

Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA)

USA PATRIOT Act

Question 2: What does the term "slack space" refer to in digital forensics?

Unused space in the cloud storage

Unallocated space on a storage device

The unused space between the logical end of a file and the physical end of the file

The unused RAM on a system

Question 3: Which act requires service providers that become aware of child exploitation content to report it to law enforcement?

The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act

The Child Protection and Sexual Predator Punishment Act

The Communications Decency Act

The Privacy Protection Act

Question 4: What is the main feature of steganography?

Encrypting a message using a public and private key

Hiding a message within another file, such as an image or audio file

Decrypting a message using a shared key

Scrambling the contents of a file so it is unreadable without a key

Question 5: Which component of a mobile phone network handles communication between the mobile device and the network switching system?

Mobile switching center (MSC)

Base transceiver station (BTS)

Subscriber identity module (SIM)

International mobile subscriber identity (IMSI)

Question 6: What is the role of the Security Accounts Manager (SAM) file in Windows?

It stores user passwords in an encrypted format

It logs system boot activity

It manages firewall configurations

It tracks the activity of user accounts

Question 7: What is a forensic SIM cloner used for in mobile device forensics?

To recover deleted messages from the SIM card

To clone the SIM card for evidence preservation

To unlock a mobile phone

To retrieve call logs from a mobile device

Question 8: Which forensics tool is particularly useful for cracking passwords?

EnCase

Forensic Toolkit (FTK)

Sleuth Kit

StegVideo

Question 9: What does the Caesar cipher do to encrypt text?

It shifts the alphabet by a fixed number of positions

It encrypts data in fixed-size blocks

It replaces characters with random symbols

It reverses the text and adds random characters

Question 10: What is the primary purpose of the Daubert Standard in digital forensics?

To establish standards for presenting expert testimony in court

To protect journalists from disclosing their sources

To regulate the collection of GPS data

To standardize encryption techniques

Question 11: What is a polymorphic virus?

A virus that infects multiple files on a computer

A virus that can change its code to avoid detection

A virus that infects a computer’s boot sector

A virus that replicates through email attachments

Question 12: Which U.S. law protects the privacy of individuals by regulating how federal agencies handle personal information?

Electronic Communications Privacy Act

Federal Privacy Act of 1974

Communications Decency Act

Children's Online Privacy Protection Act

Question 13: Which U.S. law established the guidelines for wiretapping VoIP calls?

Sarbanes-Oxley Act

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act

Unlawful Access to Stored Communications Act

Question 14: Which log contains information about applications and their errors on a Windows system?

System log

Security log

Application log

ForwardedEvents log

Question 15: Which method is used to hide data in the least significant bits of an image's pixels?

Symmetric encryption

LSB steganography

RSA encryption

Vigenère cipher

Question 16: What is the primary purpose of a brute-force attack?

To guess encryption keys by trying all possible combinations

To exploit known vulnerabilities in a system

To install malware on a target machine

To monitor network traffic for sensitive information

Question 17: What is the purpose of a "clean room" in computer forensics?

To recover data from magnetic tapes

To dismantle and repair storage devices in a controlled environment

To analyze cryptographic keys

To decompile malicious software

Question 18: What does the term "inode" refer to in a file system?

A table storing file names

A process running on the operating system

A data structure that contains metadata about a file

A log of recent network activity

Question 19: Which act governs how service providers must handle personal information of children under 13 years old?

The Communications Decency Act

The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)

The Privacy Protection Act

The USA PATRIOT Act

Question 20: What type of attack seeks to overwhelm a system with requests so it can no longer respond to legitimate traffic?

Replay attack

Man-in-the-middle attack

Denial-of-service (DoS) attack

SQL injection attack

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