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INSTRUCTIONS: Select the correct answer for each of the following questions. Mark only one
answer for each item by shading the box corresponding to the letter of your choice on the answer
sheet provided. STRICTLY NO ERASURES ALLOWED.
100 items
1. The theory of light which states that it is produced as energy made by action of some
small particles such as electron and protons.
a. Wave theory
b. Corpuscular theory
c. Modified wave theory
d. Spectrum theory
2. What is the value of hypnotism in criminal investigation?
a. Hypnotism can very well guide on case
b. Desired information can be abundantly gathered
c. Admissible in court
d. Subject totally under control by hypnotist
3. The primary classification is the sum total of all numbered values of_____ in a set of
fingers plus the fraction of one over one.
a. Whorls
b. Arches
c. Loops
d. All of them
4. Poroscopy is________.
a. Science of microscopic hair analysis
b. Science of identification thru sweat
c. Science of identification thru footprints
d. Science of identification thru sole prints
5. What type of forgery is made when the writer’s exerts no effort to effect resemblance or
facsimile between the forged and the genuine signatures?
a. Simple
b. Simulated
c. Traced
d. Spurious
6. As a rule, it is easier to determine whether or not a signature is forgery, but it is very
difficult on the other hand to established who committed the forgery because:
a. The forger might be a left handed
b. Imitation is one of the most effective means to disguise one’s handwriting
c. It might be a traced forgery
d. There should be no sufficient standard available
7. What is the first step in the procurement of typewriting exemplars?
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a. Procurement of the suspected typewriter
b. Acquisition of typewriting exemplars
c. Study of the questioned typewriting
d. Preparation of exemplars
8. The following are the considerations used for the identification of a loop EXCEPT one:
a. Delta
b. Core
c. Sufficient recurve
d. Single count across a looping
9. It is defined as treats of the motion of projectiles while still in the barrel.
a. Interior ballistics
b. Exterior ballistics
c. Forensic ballistics
d. None of the above
10. Which of the following is an example of smooth-bore firearms?
a. Shotgun
b. Browning rifle
c. Musket
d. A and C
11. In lie detection, the interrogator chart probes on the subject every after the taking of each
chart. At what phrase or stage post interrogation conducted?
a. Done immediately before conducting the pre-test interview
b. Done only on subjects who refuse to cooperate during examination
c. Done every after taking each chart
d. When fully convinced of the subject’s guilt based on the charts taken
12. The subject in a burglary or house robbery is apprehended shortly after the commission
of crime and subjected to a seizure of his clothing. A laboratory examination of the
suspect’s clothing could reveal hairs identical to those of the victim, or pets in the home
or even carpet fibers originating from the scene of the crime and such physical evidence
are deemed material in the prosecution of his guilt in a criminal proceeding. The
preceding illustration would give us the conclusion that-
a. To prove that a crime has been committed, an investigator has to establish the
elements of the crime.
b. To prove that a crime has been committed and a certain suspect has something
to do with it, an investigator would have to link such suspect with the victim or
with the scene of the crime
c. To prove that a crime has been committed, investigator will establish the identity
persons associated with a crime
d. To prove that a crime has been committed, investigator will gather circumstantial
evidence
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13. Is a barrel of any firearms considered as a complete firearm?
a. Yes
b. No
c. Maybe
d. Never
14. Fire investigators might collect pieces of carpets at the scene of a house fire and have it
tested for the presence of flammable liquids. If such a substance was present inside the
house, such physical evidence could be used to prove that the fire was deliberately set.
This then would establish one of the elements of arson. The preceding illustration is
consistent with which of the following deduction or interference.
a. To prove that a crime has been committed, an investigator has to establish the elements
of the crime.
b. To prove that a crime has been committed and a certain suspect has something to do
with it, an investigator would have to link such suspect with the victim or with the scene
of the crime
c. To prove that a crime has been committed, investigator will establish the identity
persons associated with a crime
d. To prove that a crime has been committed, investigator will gather circumstantial
evidence to establish the guilt of the suspect.
15. A normal or usual deviation found between repeated specimens is called:
a. Hesitation
b. Pen pressure
c. Variation
d. All of them
16. A kind of forgery wherein the forger copy as a model is called.
a. Simple
b. Simulated
c. Spurious
d. Traced
17. Fraudulent tampering with a document often involves two kinds of erasures, namely:
a. Electronic and chemical erasures
b. Electronic and mechanical erasures
c. Mechanical and chemical erasures
d. All of the foregoing
18. A document which is being questioned as to its origin and its production is called.
a. Document
b. Questioned document
c. Forged document
d. Holograph
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19. The backward thrust of a gun caused by the reaction of the powder gasses pushing the
bullet forward.
a. Ricochet
b. Recoil
c. Back spatting
d. All of them
20. How many hours a person may not allowed to smoke prior to his or her polygraph
examination?
a. 10
b. 12
c. 8
d. 2
21. The primary purpose of pre-test interview
a. Prepare the subject for polygraph test
b. Make the subject calm
c. Obtain confession
d. Explain the polygraph test procedures
22. A camera lens that is capable of taking photograph for extreme close-up without the need
attachment is called.
a. Zoom lens
b. Telephoto lens
c. Wide angle lens
d. Micro lens
23. The color closely related to magenta is..
a. Yellow
b. Green
c. Yellow
d. Red
24. What is that condition in firing at which the cartridge took several seconds before it
discharged upon firing? (delayed in the discharged of the cartridge).
a. Mis-fire
b. Hang fire
c. Backfire
d. Backshot
25. Type of primer consisting of two flash hole or vent.
a. Berdan
b. Battery
c. Boxer
d. none
26. A metallic or non-metallic cylindrical ball propel from a firearm.
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a. Bullet
b. Slug
c. Projectile
d. All of these
27. Black powder basically composed of:
a. 75% potassium chlorate, 15% charcoal and 10% sulfur.
b. 75% potassium nitrate, 15% charcoal and 10% sulfur.
c. 75% potassium chlorate, 10 % charcoal and 15 % sulfur.
d. 75% potassium nitrate, 10% charcoal and 15% sulfur.
28. Is the helical groove mark found inside the bore of the barrel designed to impart rotation
motion of the bullet
a. Lands
b. Rifling
c. grooves
d. pitch of rifling
29. It refers to the characteristics of a firearm which are determinable even before the
manufacture of the firearm?
a. Class Characteristics
b. Individual Characteristics
c. Repetitive mark
d. Accidental mark
30. Is a condition in which two bullets or shells are examined and compared under the
comparison microscope at the same time, level and direction and magnification and same
image?
a. Pseudo match
b. Juxtaposition
c. false match
d. Sodo match
31. Firearms includes muskets, carbine shotgun etc. as mention in _______of the Revised
Administrative Code.
a. sec.788
b. sec.787
c. sec.878
[Link].877
32. . A type of a document which bears the seals of the office issuing and the authorized
signature to such document.
a. Public document
b. Private document
c. Official document
d. commercial document
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33. The polygraph machine should be _________ in relation to the credibility and
competence of the examiner?
a. Indirectly proportion
b. Supplementary to investigation
c. Substitute to investigation
d. Directly proportion
34. What is the best way of picking a suspected firearm at the crime scene?
a. Picking it through the handle
b. Picking it through the barrel
c. Inserting a handkerchief or string straw at the trigger guard
d. Inserting a rod at the barrel
35. In polygraph testing, how many questions are ideal?
a. 5
b. 12
c. 8
d. 24
36. In a “pot sessions” or drug case. The question, “ Do you smoke? Is what kind of
question?
a. Control
b. Both relevant and irrelevant
c. Irrelevant
d. Relevant
37. Henry Galton system is a..
a. Fingerprint pattern system
b. Fingerprint classification system
c. Fingerprint identification system
d. Science system
38. Fingerprints left on various surfaces at the crime scene which are not clearly visible.
a. Plane impressions
b. Visible impressions
c. Rolled impressions
d. Latent fingerprints
39. What instrument is used in measuring the pitch of rifling of a firearm?
a. Calipher
b. Tortion balance
c. Helixometer
d. Chronograph
40. Hologram refers to a :
a. 1 dimensional image in a film.
b. 2- dimensional image in a film
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c. 3 – dimensional image in a film
d. 4 – dimensional image in a film
41. Is the condition of the sunlight where object in an open space cast a transparent or bluish
shadow.
a. Bright light
b. Dull sunlight
c. Hazy sunlight
d. None of these
42. Specifically, the camera is needed in photography to_________.
a. record the image
b. Exclude all unwanted and unnecessary lights
c. makes the image visible
d. makes the image permanent
43. Is that part of the camera which provides a means of determining the extent of the area
coverage of a given lens.
a. Lens
b. View finder
c. Shutter
d. Pentaprism
44. What type of a camera is ideal to police photography?
a. View finder type
b. Single lens reflex (SLR)
c. Twin lens reflex (TLR)
d. Press/view camera
45. A convex lens is capable of?
a. Reducing the object
b. Making the object appear hairy
c. Enlarging the object
d. Reducing the size of the picture
46. A filter used in photographing fingerprints on a shiny or highly polished surfaced because
it reduces or eliminates glare is known as:
a. Neutral density
b. Color
c. Polarizing
d. Contrast filter
47. It is the process of taking a magnified (enlarged) photograph of small object obtained by
attaching an extended tube lens to a camera.
a. Photomicrography
b. Photomacrography
c. Microphotography
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d. Photomacrograph
48. The person accredited as successful inventor of gun powder.
a. Horace smith
b. Alexander John Forsyth
c. Berthhold Schwartz
d. Col Calvin H. Goddard
49. It is the science of mobility of the projectile.
a. Forensic ballistics
b. Applied physics
c. Ballistics
d. Applied science
50. Is the size of the bullet grouping on the target?
a. Terminal penetration
b. Terminal accuracy
c. Terminal energy
d. Muzzle velocity
51. The mechanism of a firearm which withdraws the empty shells from the chamber?
a. Ejector
b. Extractor
c. Firing pin
d. Extractor pin
52. Fired Cartridge case/shell are usually mark at the _________?
a. Outside near open mouth
b. Side or body of the shell
c. Inside near open mouth
d. Any of the above
53. Philippine Paper bills are printed in what process.
a. Letter process
b. Intaglio process
c. Off-set process
d. Lithographic process
54. Is the basic principle involve in personal Identification which states that the greater the
number of similarity or difference the greater the probability for the identity or non-
identity to be conclusive.
a. Law of individuality
b. Law of multiplicity of evidence
c. Law of infallibility
d. Law of constancy
55. Characteristic which may easily change. Except
a. Clothing
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b. Growth hairs
c. Grade of profession
d. Gaits
56. Which of the test below are far most useful techniques in the laboratory for determining
accelerants?
a. Distillation
b. Acid etching
c. Solvent extraction
d. Gas chromatography
57. The development of female breast started at..
a. 9-11
b. 12-13
c. 14-15
d. 16-18
58. Which of the following substances is a potential biological agents?
a. small pox
b. Plague
c. All of these
d. Anthrax
59. The first conviction in the Philippine Case which gives recognition to the science of
fingerprint?
a. People Vs. Medina
b. People Vs. Jennings
c. Miranda Vs. Arizona
d. West Case
60. . How deep is the cut in order to produced permanent scar?
a. more than 1 cm
b. 1 m
c. more than 1mm
d. 1dm
61. Ridge forms in the person’s fingers and feet during its infants stage which usually starts:
a. 3rd to 4th months of the fetus life
b. 4th to 5th months of the fetus life
c. 5th to 6th months of the fetus life
d. 5th to 6th months before birth
62. DNA stands for:
a. Diphenylamine ninhydrine acid
b. Detoxifying nucleic acid
c. Deoxyribonucleic acid
d. Double negetic acid
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63. What is meant by total take?
a. Photograph the crime scene in all angles.
b. Photograph only important evidence.
c. Photograph the crime scene
d. Photograph the body of the crime.
64. A miscellaneous type of design as anti-riot basically made from rubber at a larger caliber.
a. Discarding sabot
b. Baton Round
c. Flechette
d. Frangible
65. A pointed instrument use in marking fired bullet/fired shell.
a. Pointer
b. Stylus
c. Marker
d. Driller
66. The name of a person written by him/her in a document as a sign of acknowledgement.
a. Opinion
b. Document
c. Signature
d. Handwriting
67. An instrument that can be legally used in comparison with a questioned document; its
origin is known and can be proven.
a. Standard document
b. Forged document
c. Simulated document
d. Falsified document
68. Characteristics is a characteristic which highly personal.
a. Class
b. Specific
c. Individual
d. Special
69. The blotting out or smearing over the writing with the dark material to make the original
invisible or indecipherable.
a. Retouching
b. Obliterations
c. Counterfeiting
d. Erasures
70. A condition of women who have had one or more sexual experience but not had
conceived a child.
a. Virgo-intacts
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b. demi-virginity
c. moral virginity
d. physical virginity
71. Colt
a. 6 LG2X
b. 6 RG2X
c. 7 RG3X
d. 4 RG3X
72. A physical injury which is found at the site and also at the opposite of the application of
force
a. Extensive injury
b. Contre-coup injury
c. Coup injury
d. Coup-contre coup injury
73. Inability of the lens to focus line turning in different direction for example a cross.
a. Astigmatism
b. Distortion
c. Chromatic aberration
d. Coma
74. These are known as the portrait or close- up attachments.
a. Negative lens
b. Positive lens
c. Lens hood
d. Astigmatism
75. Which is true about the size of the diaphragm opening?
a. The smaller the opening, the smaller is the depth of field
b. The smaller the opening, the longer is the depth of field
c. The wider the opening, the wider the depth of field
d. None of them
76. One which shows the specific condition of the victim as to degree of wound or specific
condition of pieces of evidence on the crime scene.
a. Overall photograph
b. Midrange photograph
c. Close up range
d. Long range
77. Rules on electronic evidence
a. A.M. No. 01-7-01 SC
b. A.M. No. 02-7-01 SC
c. A.M. No. 01-7-06 SC
d. A.M. No. 04-7-01 SC
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78. In Photographing the scene of the crime, what view should be used in order to show the
best feature of the nature of the crime scene?
a. Medium
b. Close-up
c. General
d. Extreme close-up
79. Light travels in a form of a wave according to wave theory of Huygens. What is that unit
of light wavelength which is express in ten millionth part of a millimeter.
a. Millimicron
b. Nanometer
c. Angstrom
d. Micron
80. The downward loop is toward the little finger.
a. Radial
b. Ulnar
c. Loop
d. Tented
81. A store clerk claimed that she was sexually assaulted by her store manager after closing
of store hours. She tells the investigators that she was drugged, passed out and then
awoke to discover that she was sexually abused. When the police analyzed her urine
samples the result did not indicate the presence of any type of drugs. When the later
confronted, she confessed that she had just made up and concocted a story to get back at
her boss for his mean behavior towards her. The preceding illustration would give us the
condition that-
a. A laboratory examination is material to exonerate the innocent or eliminate the
not guilty in the criminal investigation
b. A laboratory examination as in case will determine whether a suspect is guilty or not
guilty
c. A laboratory examination as in case of polygraph will substitute for effective criminal
investigation
d. To prove the crime has been committed, an investigator has to rely on laboratory to
establish the guilt.
82. In order for evidence to maintain its integrity and admissibility in court of law, strict
adherence to principles, rules and accountability must be observed and must be
established to show where, when and how an item or evidence was collected showing its
entire history. Starting from its initial discovery, collection, packaging, handling,
transportation, examination, storage and presentation in court. This process is simply
know us:
a. Proper handling of evidence with care and disposition of evidence
b. Custody transfer evidence
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c. Chain of custody
d. DO’s and DON’T’s in handling evidence
83. Death is the complete cessation of all vital functions without possibility of resuscitation.
What death is the absence of electrical brain activity?
a. Brain death
b. Somatic/Clinical death
c. Molecular/Cellular death
d. Apparent/State/Suspended death
84. On the onset of decomposition, watery, foul smelling froth coming from the nostrils and
mouth. The body is soft, and there is the presence of cavitations when pressure is applied
on the skin. All these are observable in _____.
a. More than 24 hours
b. 6-8 hours
c. 1-2 years
d. 24-48 hours
85. If grrenish discoloration is over whole abdomen and spreading to chest, the body is dead
for _____.
a. 24 hours
b. 48 hours
c. 72 hours
d. One week
86. When body is submerged in water, there is very little change is water is cold for the first
4-5 days. What happens in its 5-7 days?
a. Skin on the hands and feet become swollen and bleached
b. The face appears softened
c. Skin wrinkled, scrotum and penis distended with gas, nails and hair still intact.
d. Abdomen distended skin of hands and feet come off with the nails like a glove.
87. A person is presumed dead after _____.
a. 4 years
b. 5 years
c. 6 years
d. 7 years
88. An acknowledgement of guilt but falling short of a full confession.
a. Confession
b. Admission
c. Acknowledgment
d. Extrajudicial
89. White blood cells
a. Leukocytes
b. Erythrocytes
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c. Thrombocytes
d. Nanocytes
90. A person ceased to increase his height after the age of:
a. 22
b. 24
c. 25
d. 20
91. Characteristics may not be easily changed. Except
a. Speech
b. Mental memory
c. Gaits
d. Clothing
92. When the distance between the center points in two successive heel prints of the two feet
exceeds_________ inches presumption the person is running.
a. 50
b. 40
c. 100
d. 15
93. All types of licenses to possess firearm shall be renewed for every:
a. 3 years
b. 2 years
c. 1 year
d. 4 years
94. Antique firearm is a firearm manufactured for at least how many years prior to the
current date.
a. 60 years
b. 70 years
c. 45 years
d. 75 years
95. Who has the authority to issue firearms?
a. Firearms division
b. OFEO
c. Chief PNP
d. PNP Firearm division
96. Inability of the lens to focus all the colors in the same place.
a. Coma
b. Chromatic aberration
c. Curvature field
d. Astigmatism
97. The unstable rotating motion of the bullet.
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a. Yaw
b. Gryscopic reaction
c. Trajectory
d. Velocity
98. This concern with the thumb of both hands, and is placed just to the left side, or before
the primary classification.
a. Secondary classification
b. Primary classification
c. Sub-secondary classification
d. All of these
99. Relative dates of the questioned and the standards writing standard signatures or writing
must be those written how many years before and after the date of the questioned
signature or writing.
a. 5 years
b. 10 years
c. 8 years
d. 15 years
100. The general rule in taking photograph is that the photographer must ensure that
his camera must be.
a. Held tilted
b. Equipped with tripod
c. Held eye level
d. None of these
