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C702 – CHFI (Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator)
Actual Exam | 2025/2026 Latest Edition | Verified Questions
with Correct Answers | Graded A+
When an investigator contacts by telephone the domain administrator or controller
listed by a Who is lookup to request all e-mails sent and received for a user account
be preserved, what U.S.C. statute authorizes this phone call and obligates the ISP
to preserve e-mail records?
A. Title 18, Section 1030
B. Title 18, Section 2703(d)
C. Title 18, Section Chapter 90
D. Title 18, Section 2703(f) - CORRECT ANSWER=D. Title 18, Section 2703(f)
If you come across a sheepdip machine at your client site, what would you infer?
A. A sheepdip coordinates several honeypots
B. A sheepdip computer is another name for a honeypot
C. A sheepdip computer is used only for virus-checking.
D. A sheepdip computer defers a denial of service attack - CORRECT
ANSWER=C. A sheepdip computer is used only for virus-checking.
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?
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A. rules of evidence
B. law of probability
C. chain of custody
D. policy of separation - CORRECT ANSWER=C. chain of custody
How many characters long is the fixed-length MD5 algorithm checksum of a
critical system file?
A. 128
B. 64
C. 32
D. 16 - CORRECT ANSWER=C. 32
You are working on a thesis for your doctorate degree in Computer Science. Your
thesis is based on HTML, DHTML, and other web-based languages and how they
have evolved over the years.You navigate to archive. org and view the HTML code
of news.com. You then navigate to the current news.com website and copy over the
source code. While searching through the code, you come across something
abnormal: What have you found?
A. Web bug
B. CGI code
C. Trojan.downloader
D. Blind bug - CORRECT ANSWER=A. Web bug
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You are using DriveSpy, a forensic tool and want to copy 150 sectors where the
starting sector is 1709 on the primary hard drive. Which of the following formats
correctly specifies these sectors?
A. 0:1000, 150
B. 0:1709, 150
C. 1:1709, 150
D. 0:1709-1858 - CORRECT ANSWER=B. 0:1709, 150
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 -> 172.16.1.108:111TCP TTL:43
TOS:0x0 ID:29726 IpLen:20 DgmLen:52 DF***A**** Seq: 0x9B6338C5 Ack:
0x5820ADD0 Win: 0x7D78 TcpLen: 32TCP Options (3) => NOP NOP TS:
23678634 2878772
=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=
+=+=+=+=+=+=
03/15-20:21:24.452051 211.185.125.124:789 -> 172.16.1.103:111UDP TTL:43
TOS:0x0 ID:29733 IpLen:20 DgmLen:84Len: 64 -01 0A 8A 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 02 00 - CORRECT ANSWER=A. The attacker has conducted a network sweep
on port 111
The newer Macintosh Operating System is based on:
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A. OS/2
B. BSD Unix
C. Linux
D. Microsoft Windows - CORRECT ANSWER=B. BSD Unix
Before you are called to testify as an expert, what must an attorney do first?
A. engage in damage control
B. prove that the tools you used to conduct your examination are perfect
C. read your curriculum vitae to the jury
D. qualify you as an expert witness - CORRECT ANSWER=D. qualify you as an
expert witness
Hide Solution
You are contracted to work as a computer forensics investigator for a regional bank
that has four 30 TB storage area networks that store customer data.What method
would be most efficient for you to acquire digital evidence from this network?
A. create a compressed copy of the file with DoubleSpace
B. create a sparse data copy of a folder or file
C. make a bit-stream disk-to-image file
D. make a bit-stream disk-to-disk file - CORRECT ANSWER=C. make a bit-
stream disk-to-image file
You have completed a forensic investigation case. You would like to destroy the
data contained in various disks at the forensics lab due to sensitivity of the case.
How would you permanently erase the data on the hard disk? (multiple)
C702 – CHFI (Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator)
Actual Exam | 2025/2026 Latest Edition | Verified Questions
with Correct Answers | Graded A+
When an investigator contacts by telephone the domain administrator or controller
listed by a Who is lookup to request all e-mails sent and received for a user account
be preserved, what U.S.C. statute authorizes this phone call and obligates the ISP
to preserve e-mail records?
A. Title 18, Section 1030
B. Title 18, Section 2703(d)
C. Title 18, Section Chapter 90
D. Title 18, Section 2703(f) - CORRECT ANSWER=D. Title 18, Section 2703(f)
If you come across a sheepdip machine at your client site, what would you infer?
A. A sheepdip coordinates several honeypots
B. A sheepdip computer is another name for a honeypot
C. A sheepdip computer is used only for virus-checking.
D. A sheepdip computer defers a denial of service attack - CORRECT
ANSWER=C. A sheepdip computer is used only for virus-checking.
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?
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A. rules of evidence
B. law of probability
C. chain of custody
D. policy of separation - CORRECT ANSWER=C. chain of custody
How many characters long is the fixed-length MD5 algorithm checksum of a
critical system file?
A. 128
B. 64
C. 32
D. 16 - CORRECT ANSWER=C. 32
You are working on a thesis for your doctorate degree in Computer Science. Your
thesis is based on HTML, DHTML, and other web-based languages and how they
have evolved over the years.You navigate to archive. org and view the HTML code
of news.com. You then navigate to the current news.com website and copy over the
source code. While searching through the code, you come across something
abnormal: What have you found?
A. Web bug
B. CGI code
C. Trojan.downloader
D. Blind bug - CORRECT ANSWER=A. Web bug
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You are using DriveSpy, a forensic tool and want to copy 150 sectors where the
starting sector is 1709 on the primary hard drive. Which of the following formats
correctly specifies these sectors?
A. 0:1000, 150
B. 0:1709, 150
C. 1:1709, 150
D. 0:1709-1858 - CORRECT ANSWER=B. 0:1709, 150
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 -> 172.16.1.108:111TCP TTL:43
TOS:0x0 ID:29726 IpLen:20 DgmLen:52 DF***A**** Seq: 0x9B6338C5 Ack:
0x5820ADD0 Win: 0x7D78 TcpLen: 32TCP Options (3) => NOP NOP TS:
23678634 2878772
=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=
+=+=+=+=+=+=
03/15-20:21:24.452051 211.185.125.124:789 -> 172.16.1.103:111UDP TTL:43
TOS:0x0 ID:29733 IpLen:20 DgmLen:84Len: 64 -01 0A 8A 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 02 00 - CORRECT ANSWER=A. The attacker has conducted a network sweep
on port 111
The newer Macintosh Operating System is based on:
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A. OS/2
B. BSD Unix
C. Linux
D. Microsoft Windows - CORRECT ANSWER=B. BSD Unix
Before you are called to testify as an expert, what must an attorney do first?
A. engage in damage control
B. prove that the tools you used to conduct your examination are perfect
C. read your curriculum vitae to the jury
D. qualify you as an expert witness - CORRECT ANSWER=D. qualify you as an
expert witness
Hide Solution
You are contracted to work as a computer forensics investigator for a regional bank
that has four 30 TB storage area networks that store customer data.What method
would be most efficient for you to acquire digital evidence from this network?
A. create a compressed copy of the file with DoubleSpace
B. create a sparse data copy of a folder or file
C. make a bit-stream disk-to-image file
D. make a bit-stream disk-to-disk file - CORRECT ANSWER=C. make a bit-
stream disk-to-image file
You have completed a forensic investigation case. You would like to destroy the
data contained in various disks at the forensics lab due to sensitivity of the case.
How would you permanently erase the data on the hard disk? (multiple)
