CIS 294 - Advanced Data Recovery & Clean Room Operations

5.0 Credits
Covers the technical and administrative aspects of physical and logical data recovery from various media, including using clean room equipment and data recovery machines, as well as advanced digital forensics and data recovery techniques.
Prerequisite CIS 293 with a minimum grade of 2.5 or instructor permission.
Course-level Learning Objectives (CLOs)
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Recover data from a variety of computer media.
Describe the processes used for logical and physical recovery of disabled hard drives.
Appropriately use physical data recovery tools and equipment such as: write blockers, spacers, head combs, Torx screwdrivers, magnet removal tools, and anti-static protection.
Swap hard drive components including platters and head stack assemblies.
List and describe the environmental and technical requirements for operating clean room equipment to recover data from various media.
Use data recovery machines with associated drive connectors, adapters, and firmware bypass tools.
Apply RAID concepts and parameters by rebuilding and recovering data from a RAID 5.
List and describe various file systems and identify the data structures that define them.
Use logical recovery software to overcome logical data corruption.
Work as a team to analyze, design and implement a data recovery project.

Course Typically Offered
Summer, Winter