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SSCP: Systems Security Certified Practitioner

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Companies can now be __________ just as easily as they can be sued for security compromises.






2. Which of the following is NOT and encryption algorithm?






3. DES - Data Encryption standard has a 128 bit key and is ________






4. ____________ is a file system that was poorly designed and has numerous security flaws.






5. Trend Analysis involves analyzing historical ___________ files in order to look for patterns of abuse or misuse.






6. A virus is considered to be 'in the ______ ' if it has been reported as replicating and causing harm to computers.






7. Which layer of the OSI model handles encryption?






8. It is difficult to prosecute a computer criminal if _________ are not deployed






9. Stealth viruses live in memory while __________ are written to disk






10. HTTP - FTP - SMTP reside at which layer of the OSI model?






11. They specifically target telephone networks






12. A type of virus that resides in a Word or Excel document is called a ___________ virus?






13. MD5 is a ___________ algorithm






14. Information security policies are a ___________________.






15. __________ attacks capitalize on programming errors and can allow the originator to gain additional privileges on a machine.






16. What security principle is based on the division of job responsibilities - designed to prevent fraud?






17. Remote Access Dial-in User Service






18. The __________ is the most dangerous part of a virus program.






19. One method that can reduce exposure to malicious code is to ___________________






20. __________________ will have weird characters printed at the beginning or end of an email message - what would it be anindication of?






21. IKE - Internet Key Exchange is often used in conjunction with what security standard?






22. Unclassified - Private - Confidential - Secret - Top Secret - and Internal Use Only are levels of ________________.






23. Contain - Recover - Review - Identify - Prepare






24. Layer 4 of the OSI model corresponds to which layer of the DoD model?






25. ___________________ is responsible for creating security policies and for communicating those policies to system users.






26. Combine both boot and file virus behavior






27. EICAR is an example of a _____________ used to test AV products without introducing a live virus into the network.






28. Layer 4 in the DoD model overlaps with which layer(s) of the OSI model?






29. Security incidents fall into a number of categories such as accidental - deliberate - and ____________.






30. Organizations that can be a valid Certificate Authority (CA)






31. Which major vendor adopted TACACS into its product line as a form of AAA architecture?






32. _________ is a form of Denial of Service attack which interrupts the TCP three way handshake and leaves half open connections.






33. The ability to adjust access control to the exact amount of permission necessary is called ______________.






34. So far - no one has been able to crack the ____________ with Brute Force.






35. Committing computer crimes in such small doses that they almost go unnoticed.






36. What term describes the amount of risk that remains after the countermeasures have been deployed and the vulnerabilities classified?






37. The ultimate goal of a computer forensics specialist is to ___________________.






38. Contracting with an insurance company to cover losses due to information security breaches is known as risk __________.






39. Used in ______________:Retinal Scanning - Fingerprints - Face Recognition - Voice Recognition






40. Although they are accused of being one in the same - _______________ are two distinctly different groups with different goals pertaining to computers.






41. There are 65536 _________






42. Types of firewalls: Packet Filtering - Application Proxy - and _________________.






43. Logon and Logoff - Use of User Rights - Security Policy Change






44. Today - ______________ are almost as serious as security violations






45. Unlike like viruses and worm - __________ are bogus messages that spread via email forwarding.






46. Code Review - Certification - Accreditation - Functional Design Review - System Test Review






47. Main goals of an information security program






48. Data being delivered from the source to the intended receiver without being altered






49. What is the main difference between computer abuse and computer crime?






50. Cable modems are ___________than DSL connections