Free Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) - Fraud Investigations and Legal Issues Practice Questions

A.  

A certification in a specific field is required for an expert to qualify to testify.

B.  

An expert is not qualified to testify unless all parties involved in the litigation approve.

C.  

Someone can qualify to testify as an expert based on their experience alone.

D.  

The qualification of an expert is primarily based on educational accomplishments.

A.  

The length of the employee ' s tenure at the organization

B.  

Whether the employee has signed a noncompetition agreement

C.  

Whether the employee has signed a union contract

D.  

The likelihood of the employee ' s guilt or innocence

A.  

Determinate sentence

B.  

Probation

C.  

Deferred prosecution agreement

D.  

Indeterminate sentence

A.  

The attorney waived the privilege because she transmitted the protected information to a third party.

B.  

The attorney waived the privilege because she sent the protected information to a third party before the lawsuit was filed.

C.  

The attorney did not waive the privilege because the attorney hired the forensic accountant to work on the case.

D.  

The attorney did not waive the privilege because the legal professional privilege cannot be waived by an attorney.

A.  

Double-negative

B.  

Free narrative

C.  

Controlled answer

D.  

Complex

A.  

If the integrity of digital evidence is violated through alteration or destruction, then it usually can be restored by a digital forensic expert.

B.  

Digital evidence is less volatile than tangible evidence because tangible evidence is subject to claims of spoliation and digital evidence is not.

C.  

Digital evidence is more volatile than tangible evidence because digital data can be altered or destroyed more easily than tangible information.

D.  

The failure to preserve the integrity of digital evidence collected during an investigation does not affect its admissibility in a legal proceeding.

A.  

Circumstantial evidence

B.  

Relevant evidence

C.  

Testamentary evidence

D.  

Demonstrative evidence

A.  

The employment of a learning algorithm that identifies similarities, patterns, or anomalies within a data set on its own, without human involvement

B.  

The configuration of a business program to emulate and integrate the actions of a human to execute certain business processes thus increasing efficiency and automating repetitive manual tasks

C.  

The use of historical data, along with analyses, statistics, and machine learning components, to build a mathematical model that captures important trends and creates a quantitative forecast

D.  

The use of layered artificial neural networks to accommodate more data and more sophisticated algorithms to identify complex patterns

A.  

Fraud examinations should begin with general information that is known, starting at the periphery, and then move to the more specific details.

B.  

When conducting fraud examinations, fraud examiners should adhere to the means-and-ends approach

C.  

When conducting fraud examinations, fraud examiners should operate under the assumption that the subjects are guilty

D.  

In most examinations, fraud examiners should interview those who are more involved in the matters at issue before interviewing those who are less involved.

A.  

Covert operations rarely result in irreparable damage to an investigation, even when an investigator fails to plan properly or take appropriate precautions.

B.  

Although covert operations can be beneficial to an investigation, mistakes made during the investigation can result in physical harm to the investigator.

C.  

Most jurisdictions provide protections for investigators conducting covert operations so that they do not incur reputational, financial, or legal consequences.

D.  

For best results, fraud examiners should conduct covert operations at the same time that they are pursuing conventional methods of gathering evidence.

A.  

Levi will assist the fact finder by providing specialized knowledge that will help them understand evidence.

B.  

Levi will assist the fact finder by providing specialized knowledge on the admissibility of evidence in the case.

C.  

Levi will assist the fact finder by providing an opinion about the honesty of other witnesses in the case.

D.  

Levi will assist the fact finder by providing an opinion regarding whether the accused is guilty of the offense.

A.  

True

B.  

False

A.  

The name of the receiving institution ' s registered agent

B.  

The recipient ' s government identification number

C.  

The name of the sender or originator

D.  

The sending institution ' s accreditation type

A.  

The only acceptable approaches to obtaining a verbal confession are chronologically or by transaction

B.  

The transition from the accusation to the confession should occur when the accused supplies the first detailed information about the offense.

C.  

If the subject lies about an aspect of the offense in the process of confessing, it is best to correct the records immediately before proceeding

D.  

Fraudsters tend to overestimate the amount of funds involved in the offense to relieve themselves of the guilt of their dishonest actions.

A.  

The invisible archives

B.  

The free web

C.  

The internet archives

D.  

The deep web