GIAC Battlefield Forensics and Acquisition
Domain 1Objective 2
Computer Fundamentals GBFA Practice Questions (Page 2)
Part of the Foundations and Preparation domain, which makes up ~21% of our current practice bank. GIAC (SANS) does not publish an official question count, but from its 120-minute exam (~50–80 total, ~11–17 in this domain), expect 3–4 from this objective — we provide 38 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)
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A forensic analyst is examining a file that contains a series of 8-bit values. The analyst needs to determine the decimal value of a specific byte that is stored as 0xFF. What is the decimal equivalent?
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An examiner is analyzing a disk image from a system that used a file system with a 4 KB cluster size. The examiner finds a file that is exactly 10 KB in size. How many clusters does the file occupy?
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How many bits are in one byte?
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Which computer hardware component is primarily responsible for executing instructions and performing arithmetic and logic operations?
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A forensic analyst is examining a raw disk image and finds the byte sequence 0x50 0x4B 0x03 0x04 at the beginning of a file. This signature is commonly associated with which type of file?
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