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The CFA exam has 50 questions and runs 2 hours.
These 10 free CFA questions are organized by exam domain, so you can see how each part of the Forensic Art Certification blueprint is tested. Reveal the answer and explanation under each question.
A robbery witness says, 'I can remember the shop, but I am struggling to bring his face back.' Before showing any facial-feature examples, the artist chooses mental reinstatement of context. Which instruction carries out that technique?
Correct answer: B - Put yourself back where you stood and describe the surroundings you remember from that moment.
Two witnesses who have not spoken to each other describe the same offender. One remembers a narrow, pointed chin; the other remembers a broad, rounded chin. Their viewing opportunities were comparable. A detective requests one composite that both witnesses can endorse. How should the artist handle the disagreement?
Correct answer: A - Develop separate composites and preserve each witness's chin description with its attribution.
An 11-year-old witness gives a spontaneous description of an offender's face and is comfortable continuing. When shown eyebrow examples, the child says, 'I don't remember those, but I remember his nose.' What response best preserves useful information without turning uncertainty into a guessed feature?
Correct answer: A - Leave the eyebrows uncertain and invite the child to describe the remembered nose.
In a frontal skull photograph, the bony nasal aperture spans 120 pixels. A 50-mm scale in the aperture's measurement plane spans 250 pixels; another 50-mm scale on a tray behind the skull spans 200 pixels. Both scales are parallel to the image plane, and lens distortion is negligible. Which measurement belongs in the reconstruction record?
Correct answer: D - 24.0 mm, using the scale in the nasal-aperture measurement plane.
A reconstruction method calls for a tissue-depth marker at bony pogonion. During a placement check, that marker is found on the lowest midline point of the mandibular symphysis. Where should its base be moved?
Correct answer: C - To the most anterior midline point on the bony prominence of the chin.
A postmortem photograph shows purple discoloration on the dependent cheek, interrupted by a pale area that contacted a firm surface. The pathologist documents blood pooled within vessels rather than hemorrhage into the cheek tissues. Which process accounts for this appearance and should not be reproduced as the person's living complexion?
Correct answer: D - Hypostasis: dependent pooling of blood after circulation has ceased.
While assisting with postmortem facial photography, an artist receives a splash of blood into an unprotected eye. There is no eye pain, the source's infection status is unknown, and an eyewash station is immediately available. Which response takes priority?
Correct answer: C - Immediately flush the eye with water; report the exposure and obtain urgent medical assessment.
At review, an age progression from 5 to 17 years still looks like a young child with a teenager's hairstyle. The artist enlarged the original face uniformly and retained its feature-to-feature ratios. The central anatomical correction is to:
Correct answer: B - Model differential growth of the midface, nose, and mandible relative to the cranial region.
Among the reference photographs for an adult age progression, a phone image shows a wider nose relative to the cheeks than a portrait taken four years earlier. The phone was about 30 centimetres from the face; the portrait camera was about 2 metres away. A second portrait taken the same week as the phone photograph reproduces the earlier proportions. All views are frontal, with comparable expressions. The phone photograph's apparent change is best explained by:
Correct answer: C - Near-camera perspective, enlarging nearer facial structures relative to more distant ones.
An adult is being age-progressed from 48 to 72 years. Verified dental records from age 70 document complete tooth loss and substantial resorption of the tooth-bearing ridges. The requested depiction is without dentures. Beyond skin aging, which change in the mouth region is supported by those records?
Correct answer: B - Reduced lip support and altered lower-face contour from loss of dental and alveolar support.
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