Exam 312-49v11 Topic 1 Question 532 Discussion

Actual exam question for EC-COUNCIL's 312-49v11 exam
Question #: 532
Topic #: 1
A computer forensics investigator is analyzing a hard disk drive (HDD) that is suspected to contain evidence of criminal activity. The HDD has 20,000 cylinders, 16 heads, and 63 sectors per track, with each sector having 512 bytes. During the analysis, the investigator discovered a file of 1.5KB in size on the disk. How many sectors are allocated for the file, and what could be the consequences of such allocation for the investigation?

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by priyankaverma1927 at Jun 20, 2025, 01:34 AM

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priyankaverma1927
2025-06-20 01:34:18
Selected Answer: C
File size and sector size:
File size = 1.5 KB = 1536 bytes

Sector size = 512 bytes

2. How many sectors are needed?
Sectors required
=
1536
 bytes
512
 bytes/sector
=
3
 sectors
Sectors required=
512 bytes/sector
1536 bytes
​
=3 sectors
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