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WGU D431 DIGITAL FORENSICS ACTUAL OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT LATEST 2025 COMPLETE REAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS (100 CORRECT VERIFIED SOLUTIONS) NEWEST UPDATED VERSION

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WGU D431 DIGITAL FORENSICS OBJECTIVE ASSESS
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Which law requires both parties to consent to the recording of a conv
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ersation? - d


ANSWER >>>>ECPA (Electronic Communications Privacy Act)
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Which law is related to the disclosure of personally identifiable prote
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cted health information (PHI)? -
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dANSWER >>>>Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
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(HIPAA)

Which U.S. law criminalizes the act of knowingly using a misleading
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domain name with the intent to deceive a minor into viewing harmful
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material? - ANSWER >>>>18 U.S.C. 2252B
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Which U.S. law protects journalists from turning over their work or so
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urces to law enforcement before the information is shared with the p
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ublic? - ANSWER >>>>The Privacy Protection Act (PPA)
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Which law or guideline lists the four states a mobile device can be in
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when data is extracted from it? - ANSWER >>>>NIST SP 800-
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72 Guidelines
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Which law includes a provision permitting the wiretapping of VoIP ca
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lls? - d


dANSWER >>>>Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement
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Act (CALEA)
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Which policy is included in the CAN-SPAM Act? - ANSWER
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>>>>The email sender must provide some mechanism whereby
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,the receiver can opt out of future emails and that method cannot req
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uire the receiver to pay in order to opt out.
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Which United States law requires telecommunications equipment
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manufacturers to provide built- d d d


in surveillance capabilities for federal agencies? -
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dANSWER >>>>Communication Assistance to Law Enforcement Ac d d d d d d


t (CALEA)
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Which law requires a search warrant or one of the recognized excep
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tions to the search warrant requirements for searching email messa
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ges on a computer? - d d d d


dANSWER >>>>The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution d d d d d d d




Where are local passwords stored for the Windows operating syste
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m? - ANSWER >>>>SAM file in \Windows\System32\
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Where on a Windows system is the config folder located that contain
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s the SAM file? - ANSWER >>>>C:\Windows\System32
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A forensic examiner wants to try to extract passwords for wireless ne
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tworks to which a system was connected. Where should passwords
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for wireless networks be stored on a Windows XP system? -
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dANSWER >>>>Registry d




Which Windows password cracking tool uses rainbow tables? -
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ANSWER >>>>Ophcrack
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How does a rainbow table work to crack a password? - ANSWER
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>>>>It uses a table of all possible keyboard combinations and their
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hash values, then searches for a match.
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What should a forensic investigator use to gather the most reliable r
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outing information for tracking an email message? -
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ANSWER >>>>Email header
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,Which activity involves email tracing? - ANSWER
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>>>>Determining the ownership of the source email server d d d d d d d




A forensic examiner reviews a laptop running OS X which has been
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compromised. The examiner wants to know if there were any mount d d d d d d d d d d


ed volumes created from USB drives. Which digital evidence shoul
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d be reviewed? - ANSWER >>>>/var/log
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Which log or folder contains information about printed documents on
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a computer running Mac OS X? - ANSWER
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>>>>/var/spool/cups

Which Windows event log should be checked for evidence of invalid
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logon attempts? - ANSWER >>>>Security
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A cyber security organization has issued a warning about a cybercri
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minal who is using a known vulnerability to attack unpatched corpor
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ate Macintosh systems. A network administrator decides to examin
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e the software updates logs on a Macintosh system to ensure the sy
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stem has been patched. Which folder contains the software updates
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logs? - ANSWER
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>>>>/Library/Receipts

A forensic investigator wants to image an older BlackBerry smartph
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one running OS 7.0. Which tool should the investigator use? -
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ANSWER >>>>BlackBerry Desktop Manager
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An investigator wants to extract information from a mobile device by
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connecting it to a computer. What should the investigator take great
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care to ensure? - d d d


ANSWER >>>>That the mobile device does not synchronize with t
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he computer
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Which state is a device in if it is powered on, performing tasks, and a
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ble to be manipulated by the user? - ANSWER >>>>Active
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, The chief information officer of an accounting firm believes sensitive
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data is being exposed on the local network. Which tool should the IT
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staff use to gather digital evidence about this security vulnerability? -
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ANSWER >>>>Sniffer
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A police detective investigating a threat traces the source to a house
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. The couple at the house shows the detective the only computer the
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dfamily owns, which is in their son's bedroom. The couple states that
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their son is presently in class at a local middle school. How should th
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e detective legally gain access to the computer? -
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dANSWER >>>>Obtain consent to search from the parents d d d d d d d




How should a forensic scientist obtain the network configuration fro
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m a Windows PC before seizing it from a crime scene? -
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ANSWER >>>>By using the ipconfig command from a command pr
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ompt on the computer d d d




The human resources manager of a small accounting firm believes
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he may have been a victim of a phishing scam. The manager clicked
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don a link in an email message that asked him to verify the logon cred
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entials for the firm's online bank account.
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Which digital evidence should a forensic investigator collect to inves
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tigate this incident? - ANSWER >>>>Browser Cache
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After a company's single- d d d


purpose, dedicated messaging server is hacked by a cybercriminal,
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a forensics expert is hired to investigate the crime and collect eviden
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ce.Which digital evidence should be collected? - d d d d d d


ANSWER >>>>Firewall Logs
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Thomas received an email stating that he needed to follow a link and
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verify his bank account information to ensure it was secure. Shortly
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after following the instructions, Thomas noticed money was missing
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from his account. Which digital evidence should be
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