GIAC GCFA Certification Sample Questions

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GIAC GCFA Sample Questions:

01. Which incident response phase involves gathering volatile data, taking forensic images, and preserving logs for future analysis?

a) Recovery

b) Containment

c) Identification

d) Collection

02. Investigators analyze $MFT and $UsnJrnl and find that a suspicious executable was created, renamed, and deleted within a short timeframe. What is the most likely attacker objective?

a) To maintain persistence with registry keys

b) To perform anti-forensic cleanup after execution

c) To optimize file system performance

d) To trigger a normal system restore operation

03. What is the biggest risk if volatile memory is not collected quickly during an incident?

a) It leads to permanent registry corruption

b) It allows timestamps to be altered

c) It results in loss of ephemeral evidence

d) It prevents disk imaging from succeeding

04. Where in memory would a forensic examiner most likely find malicious drivers attempting to hide network connections?

a) IAT of user-mode processes

b) Windows kernel object handles

c) ARP cache

d) Winsock catalog

05. Who is typically responsible for validating whether observed user activity is malicious or a business requirement during investigations?

a) Security analyst

b) System administrator

c) Business unit owner

d) Legal counsel

06. An analyst notices suspicious traffic from several endpoints to an external domain. Investigation shows the malware is spreading laterally using SMB. The IR team must act quickly to prevent further compromise. Which response step should be prioritized?

a) Immediately reimage all endpoints

b) Disable SMB on affected segments

c) Collect all historical proxy logs

d) Notify all business partners of a breach

07. When analyzing NTFS timestamps, which field indicates changes to file metadata but not the file content itself?

a) Modified (M)

b) Created (C)

c) Accessed (A)

d) Entry Modified (E)

08. Why is it important for forensic analysts to understand how normal system updates affect file timestamps?

a) Updates may generate misleading anomalies in the timeline

b) Updates encrypt timestamps during patching

c) Updates always zero out old timestamps

d) Updates only modify event logs but not timelines

09. During a forensic review, analysts identify Prefetch entries showing execution of rar.exe, followed by large outbound network traffic logs. What conclusion is most likely?

a) User installed a new Windows update

b) Antivirus was performing routine scans

c) Files were compressed and exfiltrated externally

d) Temporary cache files were being cleaned

10. What does an unusually high number of threads within a single svchost.exe process in memory most likely indicate?

a) Resource exhaustion

b) Hidden DLL injection

c) Scheduled update tasks

d) Driver misconfiguration

Answers:

Question: 01 Answer: d	Question: 02 Answer: b	Question: 03 Answer: c	Question: 04 Answer: b	Question: 05 Answer: a
Question: 06 Answer: b	Question: 07 Answer: d	Question: 08 Answer: a	Question: 09 Answer: c	Question: 10 Answer: b

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