112-57 Dumps (2026) Prepare Your Exam With 77 Questions [Q27-Q45]

QUESTION 27
Sarah, a forensic investigator, is working on a criminal case. She was provided with all the suspect devices.
Sarah employs an imaging software tool for duplicating the original data from the suspect devices. However, the tool she employed failed to image the data as the suspect version of the drive was very old and incompatible with imaging software. Hence, Sarah used an alternative data acquisition technique and succeeded in imaging the data.
Which of the following types of data acquisition techniques did Sarah employ in the above scenario?

QUESTION 28
Harry, a security professional, was hired to identify the details of an attack that was initiated on a Windows system. In this process, Harry decided to check the logs of currently running applications and the information related to previously uninstalled or removed applications for suspicious events.
Which of the following folders in a Windows system stores information on applications run on the system?

QUESTION 29
Kelvin, a forensic investigator at FinCorp Ltd., was investigating a cybercrime against the company. As part of the investigation process, he needs to recover corrupted and deleted files from a Windows system. Kelvin decided to use an automated tool to recover the damaged, corrupted, or deleted files.
Which of the following forensic tools can help Kelvin in recovering deleted files?

QUESTION 30
Identify the malware analysis technique in which the investigators must take a snapshot of the baseline state of the forensic workstation before malware execution.

QUESTION 31
Which of the following tools can be used by an investigator to analyze the metadata of files in a Windows- based system?

QUESTION 32
Clark, a digital forensic expert, was assigned to investigate a malicious activity performed on an organization’ s network. The organization provided Clark with all the information related to the incident. In this process, he assessed the impact of the incident on the organization, reasons for and source of the incident, steps required to tackle the incident, investigation team required to handle the case, investigative procedures, and possible outcome of the forensic process.
Identify the type of analysis performed by Clark in the above scenario.

QUESTION 33
Which of the following layers of the TCP/IP model serves as the backbone for data flow between two devices in a network and enables peer entities on the source and destination devices to communicate with each other?

QUESTION 34
Cheryl, a forensic expert, was recruited to investigate a malicious activity performed by an anonymous hackers’ group on an organization’s systems. Using an automated tool, Cheryl was able to extract the malware file and analyze the assembly code instructions, which helped him understand the malware’s purpose.
Which of the following tools helped Cheryl extract and analyze the assembly code of the malware?

QUESTION 35
Jack, a forensic investigator, was appointed to investigate a Windows-based security incident. In this process, he employed an Autopsy tool to recover the deleted files from unallocated space, which helps in gathering potential evidence.
Which of the following functions of Autopsy helped Jack recover the deleted files?

QUESTION 36
Alice and John are close college friends. Alice frequently sends emails to John attaching her pics with friends.
One day, Alice sent an email to John describing all the details related to the final year project without specifying the actual purpose. John missed the message as he frequently receives emails from her and did not arrive for a project seminar.
Which of the following email fields could Alice have used in the above scenario to highlight the importance of the email?

QUESTION 37
Below is an extracted Apache error log entry.
“[Wed Aug 28 13:35:38.878945 2020] [core:error] [pid 12356:tid 8689896234] [client 10.0.0.8] File not found: /images/folder/pic.jpg” Identify the element in the Apache error log entry above that represents the IP address from which the request was made.

QUESTION 38
Which of the following folders of macOS stores all the files, documents, applications, library folders, etc.
pertaining to a particular user?

QUESTION 39
Bob, a security specialist at an organization, extracted the following IIS log from a Windows-based server:
“2019-12-12
06:11:41 192.168.0.10 GET /images/content/bg_body1.jpg – 80 – 192.168.0.27 Mozilla/5.0+(Windows+NT+6.
3;+WOW64)+AppleWebKit/537.36+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+Chrome/48.0.2564.103+Safari/537.36
http://www.moviescope.com/css/style.css 200 0 0 365″
Identify the element in the above IIS log entry that indicates the request was fulfilled without error.

QUESTION 40
A forensic investigator is collecting volatile data such as system information and network information present in the registries, cache, DLLs, and RAM of digital devices through its normal interface.
Identify the data acquisition method the investigator is performing.

QUESTION 41
Which of the following file systems of Windows replaces the first letter of a deleted file name with the hex byte code “e5h”?

QUESTION 42
Below are the elements included in the order of volatility for a typical computing system as per the RFC 3227 guidelines for evidence collection and archiving.
Archival media
Remote logging and monitoring data related to the target system
Routing table, process table, kernel statistics, and memory
Registers and processor cache
Physical configuration and network topology
Disk or other storage media
Temporary system files
Identify the correct sequence of order of volatility from the most to least volatile for a typical system.

QUESTION 43
John, a forensic officer, was working on a criminal case. He employed imaging software to create a copy of data from the suspect device on a storage medium for further investigation. For developing an image of the original data, John used a software application that does not allow an unauthorized user to alter the image content on storage media, thereby retaining an unaltered image copy.
Identify the data acquisition step performed by John in the above scenario.

QUESTION 44
Which of the following tools helps forensic experts analyze user activity in the Microsoft Edge browser?

QUESTION 45
Which of the following steps in forensic readiness planning provides a backup for future reference and assists in presenting evidence in a court of law?