CFC Study Guide 2026
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📋 CFC Exam Format at a Glance
📚 CFC Topics to Study (69)
✍️ Sample CFC Questions & Answers
1. Which type of cyberattack involves sending specially crafted DNS responses to redirect a victim's legitimate domain queries to a malicious IP address?
DNS cache poisoning injects fraudulent DNS records into a resolver's cache so that subsequent queries for a legitimate domain resolve to an attacker-controlled IP address.
2. The pubic symphysis is used by forensic anthropologists primarily to estimate which biological parameter?
The pubic symphysis undergoes predictable morphological changes throughout adulthood and is one of the most reliable skeletal indicators for estimating adult age at death.
3. In federal court, the admissibility of expert testimony is primarily governed by:
FRE 702 sets the standards for expert testimony admissibility, incorporating the Daubert criteria.
4. A document allegedly signed in 1998 contains ink with a dye component first manufactured in 2005. What is the correct forensic conclusion?
If an ink component did not exist at the purported document date, the document must have been created after that date, establishing backdating.
5. Which principle states that every contact between two objects leaves a trace that can be detected?
Locard's Exchange Principle holds that any physical contact between two surfaces results in a mutual transfer of material.
6. During crime scene reconstruction, 'event sequencing' is best accomplished by:
Event sequencing uses physical evidence relationships—such as which bloodstains overlay others or which damage patterns predate others—to establish the chronological order of events.