Digital Forensics Quiz A

To be a successful computer forensics investigator, you must be familiar with more than one computing platform.

• True

• False

Computer investigations and forensics fall into the same category: public investigations

• True

• False

The law of search and seizure protects the rights of all people, excluding people suspected of crimes.

• True

• False

Chain of custody is also known as chain of evidence.     

• True

• False

Employees surfing the Internet can cost companies millions of dollars.

• True

• False

1.       ____ involves recovering information from a computer that was deleted by mistake or lost during a power surge or server crash, for example.

a.                                c.                  

b.                       d.           

• Data recovery

• Network forensics 

•   Computer forensics 

• Disaster recovery

In general, a criminal case follows three stages: the complaint, the investigation, and the ____.

• litigation

• prosecution

• blotter 

• allegation  

Based on the incident or crime, the complainant makes a(n) ____, an accusation or supposition of fact that a crime has been committed.        

• prosecution

• litigation

• blotter 

• allegation

Published company policies provide a(n) ____ for a business to conduct internal investigations.

• litigation path

• line of allegation

• line of authority

• allegation resource

Most computer investigations in the private sector involve ____.  

• e-mail abuse 

• misuse of computing assets

• VPN abuse

• Internet abuse