EC-COUNCIL EC-COUNCIL Certifications 412-79 Questions & Answers

• Question 101:

  You are assigned to work in the computer forensics lab of a state police agency. While working on a high profile criminal case, you have followed every applicable procedure, however your boss is still concerned that the defense attorney might question weather evidence has been changed while at the laB. What can you do to prove that the evidence is the same as it was when it first entered the lab?

  A. make an MD5 hash of the evidence and compare it with the original MD5 hash that was taken when the evidence first entered the lab

  B. make an MD5 hash of the evidence and compare it to the standard database developed by NIST

  C. there is no reason to worry about this possible claim because state labs are certified

  D. sign a statement attesting that the evidence is the same as it was when it entered the lab

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 102:

  In what way do the procedures for dealing with evidence in a criminal case differ from the procedures for dealing with evidence in a civil case?

  A. evidence must be handled in the same way regardless of the type of case

  B. evidence procedures are not important unless you work for a law enforcement agency

  C. evidence in a criminal case must be secured more tightly than in a civil case

  D. evidence in a civil case must be secured more tightly than in a criminal case

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 103:

  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?

  A. one who has NTFS 4 or 5 partitions

  B. one who uses dynamic swap file capability

  C. one who uses hard disk writes on IRQ 13 and 21

  D. one who has lots of allocation units per block or cluster

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 104:

  E-mail logs contain which of the following information to help you in your investigation? (Select up to 4)

  A. user account that was used to send the account

  B. attachments sent with the e-mail message

  C. unique message identifier

  D. contents of the e-mail message

  E. date and time the message was sent

  Correct Answer: ACDE

• Question 105:

  Which is a standard procedure to perform during all computer forensics investigations?

  A. with the hard drive removed from the suspect PC, check the date and time in the system s CMOS

  B. with the hard drive in the suspect PC, check the date and time in the File Allocation Table

  C. with the hard drive removed from the suspect PC, check the date an d time in the system s RAM

  D. with the hard drive in the suspect PC, check the date and time in the system s CMOS

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 106:

  The MD5 program is used to:

  A. wipe magnetic media before recycling it

  B. make directories on a evidence disk

  C. view graphics files on an evidence drive

  D. verify that a disk is not altered when you examine it

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 107:

  You are working as an investigator for a corporation and you have just received instructions from your manager to assist in the collection of 15 hard drives that are part of an ongoing investigation. Your job is to complete the required evidence custody forms to properly document each piece of evidence as it is collected by other members of your team. Your manager instructs you to complete one multi-evidence form for the entire case and a single-evidence form for each hard drive. How will these forms be stored to help preserve the chain of custody of the case?

  A. All forms should be placed in an approved secure container because they are now primary evidence in the case.

  B. The multi-evidence form should be placed in the report file and the single-evidence forms should be kept with each hard drive in an approved secure container.

  C. The multi-evidence form should be placed in an approved secure container with the hard drives and the single-evidence forms should be placed in the report file.

  D. All forms should be placed in the report file because they are now primary evidence in the case.

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 108:

  Which legal document allows law enforcement to search an office, place of business, or other locale for evidence relating to an alleged crime?

  A. bench warrant

  B. wire tap

  C. subpoena

  D. search warrant

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 109:

  What is the advantage in encrypting the communication between the agent and the monitor in an Intrusion Detection System?

  A. Encryption of agent communications will conceal the presence of the agents

  B. Alerts are sent to the monitor when a potential intrusion is detected

  C. An intruder could intercept and delete data or alerts and the intrusion can go undetected

  D. The monitor will know if counterfeit messages are being generated because they will not be encrypted

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 110:

  Paula works as the primary help desk contact for her company.Paula has just received a call from a user reporting that his computer just displayed a Blue Screen of Death screen and he can no longer work.Paula walks over to the user s computer and sees the Blue Screen of Death screen.The user s computer is running Windows XP, but the Blue Screen looks like a familiar one that Paula had seen on Windows 2000 computers periodically. The user said he stepped away from his computer for only 15 minutes and when he got back, the Blue Screen was there.Paula also noticed that the hard drive activity light was flashing, meaning that the computer was processing something.Paula knew this should not be the case since the computer should be completely frozen during a Blue Screen. She checks the network IDS live log entries and notices numerous nmap scan alerts.

  What is Paula seeing happen on this computer?

  A. Paula s network was scanned using Floppyscan

  B. There was IRQ conflict in Paula s PC

  C. Paula s network was scanned using Dumpsec

  D. Tools like Nessus will cause BSOD

  Correct Answer: A