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is it possible to view behind the scenes of an exe file once its executed? to find the answers of a test questions?

For example if someone clicks on F12 on a website the code is viewable to the user, is this also applicable to an exe file?

Thank you.

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  • Lookup terms like "decompilation" and "reverse engineering", or this one: How to decompile an exe file? from an SE beta side I did not even know to exist five minutes ago. Voted to close with "needs more focus", this is a way too huge topic for a single answer. – Doc Brown Jun 25 '21 at 12:48

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is it possible to view behind the scenes of an exe file once its executed?

Technically, yes. Practically, no.

While it is possible to open an exe file with an editor and inspect its contents, like you do for a website with F12 in the browser, a really big difference between an exe file and a website is that the code of the website is distributed in the form of more or less human-readable text which gets interpreted by the browser. An exe file on the other hand is in a binary format that can be executed almost directly by the processor. Those instructions are essentially unreadable for humans.

Bart van Ingen Schenau
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