IAI Latent Print Certification Actual Exam
Questions with Correct Verified Answers
Latest Update 2025
Vacuum Metal Deposition utilizes vacuum-coating technology for the
evaporation of metals and the deposition of thin metal films. Thin
layers of what metal are used for this process? --- correct answer ---
Gold and Zinc
Vacuum Metal Deposition is particularly suitable for what surfaces? --
- correct answer ---Polythene plastic
Employed in the Central Police Department, La Plata, Argentina and
installed the French Bertillon Anthropometric Identification System ---
correct answer ---Vucetich
In 1893 operated office that solved the Rojas murder by use of
fingerprints --- correct answer ---Vucetich
A fingerprint classification without whorls --- correct answer ---1/1
,A fingerprint classification with all whorls --- correct answer ---32/32
The initial suggestion associating the identification of fingerprints
found at crime scenes with finger impressions in a collection is
credited to: --- correct answer ---Dr. Henry Faulds
Credited for his practical interest in fingerprints in India as a means
of identifying workers to ensure that payment of wages was not
duplicated: --- correct answer ---Sir Edward Henry
The first person to confirm ridge permanency --- correct answer ---Sir
William Herschel
This person is known as the "Father of Canadian Fingerprinting" ---
correct answer ---Edward Foster
The first American fingerprint lecturer --- correct answer ---Mary
Holland
The use of magnetic fingerprint powder was first reported by ---
correct answer ---H. MacDonald
,Iodine is applied by: --- correct answer ---1. Fuming Gun Method
2. Fuming Cabinet Method
3. Solution Method
In 1982, the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory in Japan
introduced which novel procedure for processing evidence for latent
prints? --- correct answer ---Superglue
In order to accelerate the development of superglued prints which is
commonly used: --- correct answer ---1. Portable heater
2. Hair dryer
3. Alcohol lamp
Reacts with amino acids in the fingerprint deposit --- correct answer -
--Ninhydrin
Freon 113 (trichlorotrifluoroethane) is a solvent that has been used to
produce: --- correct answer ---Ninhydrin
An alternative name for "1,8-diazafluoren-9-one" --- correct answer --
-DFO
, Who reported the use of DFO for the fluorescent detection of latent
prints on paper? --- correct answer ---Pounds
Ninhydrin solutions may be applied by: --- correct answer ---1.
Spraying
2. Swabbing
3. Dipping
A photographic process that is based on the formation of silver and a
ferrous/ferric redox couple and the deposition of metal salts onto a
fingerprint image --- correct answer ---Physical Developer
These reagent s have been reported to work very successfully in the
enhancement of bloody fingerprints --- correct answer ---1. Coomassie
Blue
2. Amido Black
These methods have been suggested for the visualization and recovery
of latent fingerprints on human skin --- correct answer ---1. Magnetic
Powder
2. Iodine-silver plate transfer
Questions with Correct Verified Answers
Latest Update 2025
Vacuum Metal Deposition utilizes vacuum-coating technology for the
evaporation of metals and the deposition of thin metal films. Thin
layers of what metal are used for this process? --- correct answer ---
Gold and Zinc
Vacuum Metal Deposition is particularly suitable for what surfaces? --
- correct answer ---Polythene plastic
Employed in the Central Police Department, La Plata, Argentina and
installed the French Bertillon Anthropometric Identification System ---
correct answer ---Vucetich
In 1893 operated office that solved the Rojas murder by use of
fingerprints --- correct answer ---Vucetich
A fingerprint classification without whorls --- correct answer ---1/1
,A fingerprint classification with all whorls --- correct answer ---32/32
The initial suggestion associating the identification of fingerprints
found at crime scenes with finger impressions in a collection is
credited to: --- correct answer ---Dr. Henry Faulds
Credited for his practical interest in fingerprints in India as a means
of identifying workers to ensure that payment of wages was not
duplicated: --- correct answer ---Sir Edward Henry
The first person to confirm ridge permanency --- correct answer ---Sir
William Herschel
This person is known as the "Father of Canadian Fingerprinting" ---
correct answer ---Edward Foster
The first American fingerprint lecturer --- correct answer ---Mary
Holland
The use of magnetic fingerprint powder was first reported by ---
correct answer ---H. MacDonald
,Iodine is applied by: --- correct answer ---1. Fuming Gun Method
2. Fuming Cabinet Method
3. Solution Method
In 1982, the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory in Japan
introduced which novel procedure for processing evidence for latent
prints? --- correct answer ---Superglue
In order to accelerate the development of superglued prints which is
commonly used: --- correct answer ---1. Portable heater
2. Hair dryer
3. Alcohol lamp
Reacts with amino acids in the fingerprint deposit --- correct answer -
--Ninhydrin
Freon 113 (trichlorotrifluoroethane) is a solvent that has been used to
produce: --- correct answer ---Ninhydrin
An alternative name for "1,8-diazafluoren-9-one" --- correct answer --
-DFO
, Who reported the use of DFO for the fluorescent detection of latent
prints on paper? --- correct answer ---Pounds
Ninhydrin solutions may be applied by: --- correct answer ---1.
Spraying
2. Swabbing
3. Dipping
A photographic process that is based on the formation of silver and a
ferrous/ferric redox couple and the deposition of metal salts onto a
fingerprint image --- correct answer ---Physical Developer
These reagent s have been reported to work very successfully in the
enhancement of bloody fingerprints --- correct answer ---1. Coomassie
Blue
2. Amido Black
These methods have been suggested for the visualization and recovery
of latent fingerprints on human skin --- correct answer ---1. Magnetic
Powder
2. Iodine-silver plate transfer
