CFCE Exam Information and Outline
Certified Forensic Computer Examiner
Syllabus Update Checked on: November 9, 2026
CFCE Exam Syllabus & Study Guide
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official CFCE exam objectives. This course outline serves as your roadmap.
The information below reflects the 2026 syllabus defined by
IACIS.
Below are complete topics detail with latest syllabus and course outline, that will help you good knowledge about exam objectives and topics that you have to prepare. These contents are covered in questions and answers pool of exam.
- Exam Format
- Two-phase certification: peer review (practical problems) and certification phase (practical exercise and written exam)
- Pre-Examination Procedures and Legal Issues
- Search authority, chain of custody
- Computer Hardware and Storage Media
- Forensic Imaging and Write Protection
- Hashing and verification
- File Systems
- FAT, NTFS, exFAT, HFS+/APFS, ext
- Data Recovery
- Deleted files, file carving, slack and unallocated space
- Windows Artefacts
- Registry, LNK, prefetch, event logs
- Internet and Email Artefacts
- Reporting Findings and Testimony