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FRT 123 Introduction to Digital Forensics

ND1 levelComputing & ICT22 topics

FRT 123 covers 22 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Introduction to digital forensics
  2. Types of digital forensics
  3. Significance of digital forensics
  4. Forensic investigation of digital devices
  5. Cybercrime concepts and classes
  6. Password cracking tools for legal security use
  7. Digital evidence
  8. Types of digital evidence
  9. Digital evidence extraction tools
  10. Interpretation of digital evidence from various sources
  11. File system, physical and logical extraction
  12. Integrity preservation of digital evidence
  13. Forensic software tools for problem solving
  14. Digital forensic investigations
  15. Tools and importance of digital forensic investigations
  16. Types of cybercrime
  17. Sources of digital evidence
  18. Hard drives and flash drive evidence
  19. Network and mobile device evidence
  20. Data bank evidence
  21. Simulated digital crime scene investigation
  22. Use of digital forensic tools

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Introduction to digital forensics

Digital forensics is the systematic investigation and analysis of digital devices to identify, preserve, and present electronic evidence. Mastering its core concepts—definition, purpose, evidence types, legal framework, and the forensic cycle—enables students to recognise the discipline’s scope and its relevance to cybercrime investigations.

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