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SSCP: Systems Security Certified Practitioner

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Data being delivered from the source to the intended receiver without being altered






2. Which layer of the OSI model handles encryption?






3. Ways to deal with risk.






4. Remote Access Dial-in User Service






5. These should be done on a weekly basis






6. A security policy is a ___________ set of rules that must be followed explicitly in order to be effective.






7. ______________ is a major component of an overall risk management program.






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






9. A formula used in Quantitative risk analysis






10. S/MIME was developed for the protection of what communication mechanism(s)?






11. Companies can now be __________ just as easily as they can be sued for security compromises.






12. Countermeasures' main objectives






13. Which auditing practice relates to the controlling of hardware - software - firmware - and documentation to insure it has not been improperly modified?






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






15. Although it is considered a low tech attack ____________ is still a very effective way of gaining unauthorized access to network systems.






16. Macintosh computers are _____ at risk for receiving viruses.






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






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






19. There are 65536 _________






20. _________________should be Written down - Clearly Communicated to all system users - Audited and revised periodically.






21. Intentionally embedding secret data into a picture or some form of media is known as Steganographyor data ___________.






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






23. Passwords: should be audited on a regular basis- should contain some form of your name or userid - should never be shared or written down






24. A standardized list of the most common security weaknesses and exploits is the __________.






25. ___________________ viruses change the code order of the strain each time they replicate to another machine.






26. The ability to identify and audit a user and his / her actions is known as ____________.






27. ________ is the authoritative entity which lists port assignments






28. Identifying specific attempts to penetrate systems is the function of the _______________.






29. Tiger - TCP Wrappers - TripWire - LogCheck - SATAN






30. There are 5 classes of IP addresses available - but only 3 classes are in common use today






31. What is the following paragraph an example of? <<ATTN: This system is for the use of authorized persons only. If you use this system without authority - or if you abuse your authority - then you are subject to having all of your activities on this sy






32. If your telephone company suddenly started billing you for caller ID and call forwarding without your permission - this practice is referred to as __________________.






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






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






35. Which form of media is handled at the Physical Layer (Layer 1) of the OSI Reference Model?






36. A ______________ is an electronically generated record that ties a user's ID to their public key.






37. In a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) - what is the role of a directory server?






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






39. Is the person who is attempting to log on really who they say they are? What form of access control does this questions stem from?






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






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






42. Which organization(s) are responsible for the timely distribution of information security intelligence data?






43. The act of intercepting the first message in a public key exchange and substituting a bogus key for the original key is an example of which style of attack?






44. Wiretapping is an example of a ________.






45. ____ members of the staff need to be educated in disaster recovery procedures.






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






47. To help managers find the correct cost balance between risks and countermeasures






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






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






50. A one way hash converts a string of random length into a _______________ encrypted string.







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