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?
All forms should be placed in an approved secure container because they are now primary evidence in the case.
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.
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.
All forms should be placed in the report file because they are now primary evidence in the case.
Correct answer: B
Question 2
The MD5 program is used to:
wipe magnetic media before recycling it
make directories on an evidence disk
view graphics files on an evidence drive
verify that a disk is not altered when you examine it
Correct answer: D
Question 3
Which is a standard procedure to perform during all computer forensics investigations?
with the hard drive removed from the suspect PC, check the date and time in the system's CMOS
with the hard drive in the suspect PC, check the date and time in the File Allocation Table
with the hard drive removed from the suspect PC, check the date and time in the system's RAM
with the hard drive in the suspect PC, check the date and time in the system's CMOS