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jeatrice

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Which of the following best defines a hard drive or mass storage device?
 
  a. A device used for rapid, short term storage of data, while the computer is powered up
  b. A piece of removable media that stores data optically using lasers
  c. A device used for the long term storage of large amounts of data even when the computer is powered down
  d. The successor to the floppy drive and flash drives

Question 2

Preservation of the system configuration on scene and what the state of the computer was are very important items to document. List several things that you can do to document how a computer was set up and what it was doing at the time of seizure.
 
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Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

All ports and cable connections should be photographed, documented, and labeled, evidence tape should be placed over the ports, power switches, and disk drives. This applies to peripheral devices as well. The screen should also be photographed if the computer is on.



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Both answers were spot on, thank you once again



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