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WGU D431 DIGITAL FORENSICS OBJECTIVE PRE-ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS, LATEST 2025 | PRE-ASSESSMENT: DIGITAL
FORENSICS IN CYBERSECURITY
Status: Passed
- Which law requires both parties to consent to the recording of a conversation?
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Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) USA Patriot Act
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
- Which law is related to the disclosure of personally identifiable protected health information (PHI)?
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Federal Privacy Act of 1974
Electronic Communications Privacy Act
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
CAN-SPAM Act
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- Which U.S. law criminalizes the act of knowingly using a misleading domain name with the intent to
deceive a minor into viewing harmful material?
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18 U.S.C. 2252B
CAN-SPAM Act
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
Communications Decency Act
- Which U.S. law protects journalists from turning over their work or sources to law enforcement before the
information is shared with the public?
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The Privacy Protection Act (PPA)
The Federal Privacy Act
The Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act (CALEA)
The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA)
Which law or guideline lists the four states a mobile device can be in when data is extracted from it?
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NIST SP 800-72 Guidelines
The USA Patriot Act
NIST SP 101r1 Guidelines
The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA)
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- Which law includes a provision permitting the wiretapping of VoIP calls?
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Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act (CALEA)
USA Patriot Act Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)
- Which policy is included in the CAN-SPAM Act?
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The email sender must provide some mechanism whereby the receiver
can opt out of future emails and that method cannot require the receiver to pay in order to opt out.Whoever knowingly uses a misleading domain name on the Internet
with the intent to deceive a person into viewing material constituting obscenity shall be fined or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both.Law enforcement officers may now intercept communications to and
from the computer trespasser if they have reasonable grounds to believe that the trespasser’s communications will be relevant to the investigation.A business can claim the business extension exemption only for
monitoring by certain types of equipment; the recording must occur in the ordinary course of business.
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