The C5W Certified Digital Forensics Foundations Exam is a two-part assessment designed to validate a learner’s foundational understanding and practical skills in digital forensics. It tests essential concepts like evidence acquisition, chain of custody, file system structures, basic artifact analysis, and the use of common forensic tools. The exam combines a theoretical assessment with multiple-choice and scenario-based questions and a practical challenge where you perform hands-on forensic tasks in a virtual lab environment.

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  • Warawut Manosong

    First of all, my honest feedback about the exam is you all did a great job to put out relevant theory based questions with the right amount to actually test foundation knowledge of your learners. All questions could be traced back to C5W100 course but there is some drawback on the evidence acquisition part of the exam, since there are image fragmentation value that did not specify and even so I tried to use default value and no image fragmentation and create disk image, i still could not replicate the same hash.. it might be good to tell learners more details about this but overall, this is solid for very beginner and if i have a junior/intern that want to study Digital forensics then i would definitely recommended this as minimum requirement to actually learn more advanced things! Looking forward to actually try CCDFA exam as well!

  • Briar Gagne

    When I started preparing for this exam by taking Cyber5W’s Intro to Digital Forensics track, I struggled to do something as simple as extracting a file. After taking this track and the exam, I now feel confident using imaging software and evidence analyzers like FTK Imager and Autopsy. There is also much to be said about the fundamental knowledge I gained of how computers work, such as how data is represented on computers, how files are stored in file systems, and even the typical timeline and procedures investigators follow in digital forensics cases. I feel this track has set me up to learn especially Windows forensics at a deeper level, and I think my experience is proof that even those without a major technical background can find success through courses like these.

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    • A modern operating system capable of running virtual machines
    • 8 GB RAM (minimum)
    • 500 GB disk space
    • Hypervisor software: Virtualbox, VMWare, HyperV, etc


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