FIS Exam 2

Question 1

What do document examiners do most of their time?

Question 2

What is an example of an erasure?

Question 2

What type of instrument detects indented writing?

Question 3

What detects for altered or obliterated writings?

Answer 3

Video Spectral Comparator
Obliterating = scratching out

Question 4

A written document asking to be produced is an example of what?

Answer 4

Requested exemplar

Dis-advantages- handwriting may be altered to disguise
Advantages- the process is controlled

Question 5

What is examined in machine made documents?

Answer 5

Factory errors, defects in printing mechanisms

Question 6

What is a characteristic used to compare handwriting samples?

Answer 6

Distancing, slantings, height, connections

Question 7

Can a questioned document examiner determine the emotional mindset of the writer?

Answer 7

No
Age and gender cannot be determined eitherq

Question 8

What are the three types of signatures?

Answer 8

hand printing, stylized, and mixture

Question 9

What type of fingerprint pattern is used to determine the Henry Classification Value?

Answer 9

Whorls

Question 10

What is the formula for the Henry Classification Value?

Answer 10

Evens + 1/ Odds + 1

Question 11

Patent Print

Answer 11

visible to the naked eye

Question 12

Latent Print

Answer 12

invisible to naked eye

Question 13

Plastic Print

Answer 13

3D impressions

Question 14

Loops are the most common fingerprint pattern, what type of loop form ridges that enter/exit toward the little finger?

Answer 14

Ulnar Loop

Question 15

What type of loop form ridges that enter/exit toward the thumb?

Answer 15

Radial loop

Question 16

What is the difference between a plain arch and a tented arch?

Answer 16

Plain arches do not have a a deep delta extending upwards

Question 17

What is a whorl?

Answer 17

A pattern that is completely circular and does not extend to the edges of the finger

Question 18

What is a Central Pocket Loop

Answer 18

It appears as a loop, but has a pocket in the center resembling a whorl.

Question 19

During which stage of development are friction ridges formed?

Answer 19

Fetal Development

Question 20

At what point do friction ridge patterns change?

Answer 20

They do not, they may grow, but the pattern will stay the same.

Question 21

Name a chemical visualization method of latent prints on porous surfaces

Answer 21

Ninhydrin

Question 22

When was fingerprinting first used in the US?

Answer 22

1902

Question 23

What levels are used to identify fingerprints to an individual?

Answer 23

Level 2 may be used, but level 3 will be as well

Question 24

In firearms analysis, what is "rifling"?

Answer 24

Lands and grooves

Question 25

Striations, used to individualize a bullet to a firearm, are produced from what part of the firearm barrel?

Answer 25

Made by lands and grooves Raised portion on the bullet is called groove mark.

Question 26

What is the purpose of the magazine?

Answer 26

Holds a large quantity of ammunition

Question 27

What type of firearm does not have lands and grooves?

Answer 27

Shotgun

Question 28

What is first done during a firearm examination?

Answer 28

Check for safety

Question 29

What residue is used to determine distance of fired weapon using the Greiss Test?

Question 30

What are the three components to gunshot residue?

Question 31

What are the components of ammunition?

Question 32

What type of impression is left on a clean surface?

Question 33

What type of impression is left on a dirty surface?

Question 34

How many points need to be compared for impression evidence?

Question 35

What type of casting is most commonly used?

Question 36

What is the first step in collection of footwear impressions?

Question 37

Does a toolmark make the same impression every time?

Question 38

Marks made by a lateral force parallel to the surface are called?

Question 39

Marks made perpendicular to the surface are called?

Question 40

What chemical is used to restore serial numbers?

Question 41

An arrangement, orientation, or shape of macroscopic toolmark features that are consistent with a particular shape of tool surface is an example of what type of class?

Question 42

What is disrupted when the surface is stamped with an alphanumeric dye?

Answer 42

crystalline structure

Question 43

What is a questioned document and how is it analyzed?

Question 44

What do question document examiners do and how?

Question 45

How is handwriting disguised?

Question 45

What is the difference between a request and non-request exemplar?

Question 46

What causes erasures, obliterations, charred, and indented writings and how they are detected?

Question 47

How are the age of documents determined?

Question 48

Where do fingerprints come from, how are fingerprints left behind?

Question 49

What are the different techniques used in processing latent fingerprints? When is each technique used?

Question 50

How are fingerprints identified? What is IAFIS?

Question 51

What is the difference between a handgun and a shotgun?

Question 52

Can toolmark and firearm evidence be unique?

Question 53

How is ammunition fired through the barrel?

Question 54

What type of microscope is used for firearm comparisons?

Question 55

How is impression evidence individualized?