Border Patrol Agent Practice Test

Question 1

Crimes are frequently classified as either malum in se-inherently evil-or malum prohibitum-criminal because they have been declared as so by a legislature. The former is exemplified by murder. The failure to file a tax return is an example of the latter. Although some jurisdictions still distinguish between crimes 
of malum in se and crimes of malum prohibitum, others do not.

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Some jurisdictions still distinguish between crimes malum in se and malum prohibitum

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Many jurisdictions no longer distinguish between crimes malum in se and malum prohibitum

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Sometimes failing to file a tax return is characterized as malum in se.

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Some crimes characterized as malum in se are not inherently evil.

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Some crimes characterized as malum prohibitum are not declared by legislature to be an offense.

Question 2

A trucking company can act as a common carrier-for contract to the common open at distributed rates. As a common carrier,  it is obligated for any cargo damage, unless the company can show that it was not negligent. On the off chance that the company can illustrate that it was not negligent, at that point it is not liable for cargo damage. In contrast, a contract carrier (a trucking company contracted by a shipper beneath a particular contract) is as it were dependable for cargo damage as spelled out within the contract. A  Claus Inc. tractor-trailer, acting beneath common carrier specialist, was in a 5-vehicle accident that damages its cargo. A Nichols Inc. tractor-trailer, acting under contract carrier authority, was included within the same accident and its cargo were also damaged.

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If Claus Inc. can show that it was not negligent, then it is negligent.

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If Nichols Inc. can show that it is not negligent, the it is not liable.

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If Claus Inc. is liable, then it can show that it was not negligent.

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If Claus Inc. cannot show that it was not negligent, then it is not liable.

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If Nichols Inc is liable, then it cannot show that it is negligent.

Question 3

A Quickly changing technical environment is advancing greater dependence on electronic mail (mail) systems. As this utilization develops, there's expanding conflict between the users? desires of security and public access rights. In a few examinations, get to all mail, counting those messages put away in authentic records and messages exterior the scope of the examination, has been looked for and allowed. In show disdain toward this, a few people send messages through email that would never be said face-to-face or written formally.

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Some e-mail messages that have been requested as part of investigations have contained messages that
would never be said face-to-face.

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Some messages that people would never say face-to-face are sent in e-mail messages.

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Some e-mail messages contain information that would be omitted from formal writing.

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E-mail messages have not been exempted from investigations.

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Some e-mail messages have been requested as part of investigations.

Question 4

Phyllis T. could be a former Government representative who was entitled to benefits beneath the Government Employee Compensation Act since of job-related, impairing harm. When an eligible Government employee has such harm, the advantage is decided by this test: in case the recipient is hitched or 
has dependents, benefits are 3/4 of the people's compensation at the time of the harm; something else, benefits are set at 2/3 of the compensation. 
Phillis T.'s benefits were 2/3 of her compensation when she was injured.

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was not married and had no dependents.

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Was married but without dependents.

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was not married nut had dependents.

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Was not married but had dependents.

Question 5

A few 480,000 immigrants were living in a certain nation in 1999. In spite of the fact that most of these immigrants were not utilized in proficient occupations, numerous of them were. For instance, numerous of them were engineers, and numerous of them were nurses. Exceptionally few of these workers were curators, another professional occupation.

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Some of these engineers were immigrants.

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It is not the case that some of the nurses were immigrants

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None of the engineers were immigrants.

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Most immigrants were either engineers or nurses.

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Most of those not employed in professional occupations were immigrants.

Question 6

Impressions made by the ridges on wants of the fingers and thumbs are valuable implies of identification, since no two people have the same design of ridges. In case finger patterns from fingerprints are not decipherable, then they cannot be classified by common shape and form or by design sort. In case they cannot be classified by these characteristics, at that point, it is incomprehensible to recognize the individual to whom the fingerprints belong.

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If fingerprints are decipherable, then it is impossible to identify the person to whom they belong.

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If it is possible to identify the person to whom fingerprints belong, then the fingerprint is decipherable.

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If its is impossible to identify the person to whom fingerprints belong, then the fingerprints can be 
classified by general shape and contour or pattern type.

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If finger patterns from fingerprints are not decipherable, then it is impopssible to identify the person to
whom the fingerprints belong.

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If fingerprints can be classified by general shape and contour or by pattern type, then they are decipherable.

Question 7

Explosives are substances or gadgets able of creating a volume of quickly extending gases that apply a sudden weight on their environment. Chemical explosives are the most commonly utilized, even though there are mechanical and atomic explosives. All mechanical explosives are devices in which physical response is created, such as that caused by overloading a holder with compressed air. Whereas atomic explosives are by distant the most powerful, all atomic explosives have been limited to military weapons.

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Some devices in which a physical reaction is produced, such as that caused by overloading a
container with compressed air, are mechanical explosives.

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No mechanical explosives are devices in which a physical reaction is produced, such as that 
caused by overloading a container with compressed air.

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All explosives that have been restricted to military weapons are nuclear explosives.

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Some nuclear explosives have not been restricted to military weapons.

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All mechanical explosives have been restricted to military weapons.

Question 8

The alphanumeric coding of a fingerprint may be an efficient depiction of the print. Within a certain metropolitan area, 90% of the populace have fingerprints that can be alphanumerically coded.

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Cannot be alphanumerically coded, with probability of 10%.

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Can be alphanumerically coded, with a probability of less than 90%.

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Can be alphanumerically coded, with a probability of 10%

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may be coded alphanumerically, but the probability is unknown.

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Cannot be alphanumerically coded, with a probability of up to 90%E

Question 9

Twenty-five percent of the nation's approaching cargo holders are dispatched to the harbor of Cary, and 10% are transported to the harbor of Davidson. Merchandise that arrives at these ports in containers is dispatched by truck and rail to its last destination within the United States. Cary is one of the greatest
 targets for cargo thieves due to the huge volume of merchandise dispatched there.

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There is a 75% chance that the container was not shipped to the port of Cary.

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There is 75% chance that the container was shipped  to the port of Davidson.

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There is 90% chance that the container was shipped to the port of Cary.

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There is 25% chance that the container was shipped to the port of Davidson.

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There is 25% chance that the container was not shipped to the port of Davidson.

Question 10

In spite of the reality that HIV isn't effortlessly transmitted, its dangerous potential requires that law enforcement officers ensure themselves from
getting to be tainted by it. At the Callen Precinct, officers utilize as were disposable items for collecting prove at whatever point blood is shown. 
Whereas examining a specific wrongdoing scene where blood was present, Detective R.C. of the Callen Precinct utilized as it were disposable things 
for collecting evidence.

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No officers at the Callen Precinct do not use disposable items whenever blood is present.

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Some officers at the Callen Precinct do not use disposable items exclusively whenever blood is present.

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Detective R.C. does not always use disposable items when blood is present.

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Whenever blood is not present, Detective R.C. does not use disposable items.

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Detective R.C. uses only disposable items whenever blood is not present.