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SSCP: Systems Security Certified Practitioner
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certifications
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sscp
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it-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. These should be done on a weekly basis
Man In The Middle
MAC - Mandatory Access Control
Salami attack
Virus definition downloads and system virus scans
2. __________ is a tool used by network administrators to capture packets from a network.
NT Audit events
Accountability
Granularity
Sniffer
3. 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?
Man In The Middle
Less secure
Business enabler
Not very difficult to break.
4. There are 5 classes of IP addresses available - but only 3 classes are in common use today
Multi-partite viruses
Class A: 1-126 - Class B: 128-191 - Class C: 192-223
Risk assessment
Social Engineering
5. A standardized list of the most common security weaknesses and exploits is the __________.
Data Classification
Preserve electronic evidence and protect it from any alteration
CVE - Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
Passwords
6. Unclassified - Private - Confidential - Secret - Top Secret - and Internal Use Only are levels of ________________.
SLE - Single Loss Expectancy
Data Hiding
To make user certificates available to others
Data Classification
7. Accounting - Authentication - and ____________ are the AAAs of information security.
TIGER
Risk assessment
Granularity
Authorization
8. Allows File owners to determine access rights.
IPSEC
Decentralized access control
Information
Passfilt.dll
9. Although they are accused of being one in the same - _______________ are two distinctly different groups with different goals pertaining to computers.
Stealth viruses
Hackers and crackers
Protection of data from unauthorized users
modems
10. Logon and Logoff - Use of User Rights - Security Policy Change
NT Audit events
Multi-partite viruses
involves only computer to computer transactions
S/Key - OPIE
11. A virus is considered to be 'in the ______ ' if it has been reported as replicating and causing harm to computers.
Wild
Buffer Overflow
Risk Equation
Depcrypting
12. ____________ is a file system that was poorly designed and has numerous security flaws.
a good password policy
DSS - Digital Signature Standard
To make user certificates available to others
NFS
13. The ultimate goal of a computer forensics specialist is to ___________________.
Password audit
Preserve electronic evidence and protect it from any alteration
Main goal of a risk management program
Passive network attack
14. The PAP protocol sends passwords in clear text - while ____________ encrypts passwords. Both protocols are used by PPP (Point to Point Protocol) to transport IP traffic
CHAP
Not very difficult to break.
Layers 5 - 6 - & 7 - Session - Presentation - and Application Layers
Verisign - Microsoft - Dell
15. A boot sector virus goes to work when what event takes place?
Intrusion Detection System
Available service ports
Reboot or system startup
Confidentiality
16. It is difficult to prosecute a computer criminal if _________ are not deployed
Also
128
Warning banners
Separation of Duties
17. Contracting with an insurance company to cover losses due to information security breaches is known as risk __________.
CHAP
Assignment
Certificate
Wild
18. They specifically target telephone networks
RADIUS
Phreaks
Logic bombs
Warning Banner
19. IKE - Internet Key Exchange is often used in conjunction with what security standard?
IPSEC
Logic bombs
involves only computer to computer transactions
Gathering digital evidence
20. _________________should be Written down - Clearly Communicated to all system users - Audited and revised periodically.
RSA
Environmental
Password audit
Information Security policies
21. ____________ is used in mission critical systems and applications to lock down information based on sensitivity levels (Confidential - Top Secret - etc.
MAC - Mandatory Access Control
Log files
Test virus
Prevent - Recover - Detect
22. So far - no one has been able to crack the ____________ with Brute Force.
Separation of Duties
C2
IDEA algorithm
Off site in a climate controlled area
23. Types of firewalls: Packet Filtering - Application Proxy - and _________________.
Separation of Duties
Intrusion Detection System
Stateful Inspection
Host based - network based
24. Smart cards are a secure alternative to which weak security mechanism?
Layer 7 - Application
Passwords
Intentions of the perpetrator
Passive network attack
25. This is more time consuming - numeric values - based on Annualized Loss Expectancy (ALE) formulas
Logic bombs
Quantitative analysis
Business enabler
Certificate
26. PGP & PEM are programs that allow users to send encrypted messages to each other. What form of encryption do these programs use?
Layer 7 - Application
RSA
Multi-partite viruses
Depcrypting
27. The __________ is the most dangerous part of a virus program.
product development life cycle
Payload
IPSEC
Wild
28. An attempt to break an encryption algorithm is called _____________.
Ethernet
Cryptanalysis
Passive network attack
Privacy violations
29. 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
Ethernet
Warning Banner
TIGER
Acceptance - Transfer - Mitigate
30. What security principle is based on the division of job responsibilities - designed to prevent fraud?
Email
Layers 5 - 6 - & 7 - Session - Presentation - and Application Layers
Password audit
Separation of Duties
31. ________ is the authoritative entity which lists port assignments
To make user certificates available to others
Man In The Middle
IANA
Accountability
32. Remote Access Dial-in User Service
RADIUS
DAC - Discretionary Access Control
Certificate
Stealth viruses
33. Ways to deal with risk.
involves only computer to computer transactions
Information Security policies
Acceptance - Transfer - Mitigate
IPSEC
34. __________ is the most famous Unix password cracking tool.
Presentation Layer - L6
CRACK
Cryptanalysis
Payload
35. Digital Certificates use which protocol?
X.509
RSA
DSS - Digital Signature Standard
a good password policy
36. Security incidents fall into a number of categories such as accidental - deliberate - and ____________.
SSL
Acceptance - Transfer - Mitigate
Environmental
Steps in handling incidents
37. Unlike like viruses and worm - __________ are bogus messages that spread via email forwarding.
Risk assessment
A PGP Signed message
Hoaxes
Depcrypting
38. There are 6 types of security control practices. ___________ controls are management policies - procedures - and guidelines that usually effect the entire system. These types of controls deal with system auditing and usability.
Wild
Directive
Not rigid
Assignment
39. ______________ is a major component of an overall risk management program.
Intrusion Detection System
Off site in a climate controlled area
Risk assessment
TIGER
40. Passwords: should be audited on a regular basis- should contain some form of your name or userid - should never be shared or written down
a good password policy
Data Hiding
Stealth viruses
Confidentiality
41. Each password must have a combination of upper case - lower case - numbers and special characters - 6 character minimum password length - This rule is enforced by ______
Cryptanalysis
Passfilt.dll
SSL
0-1023
42. Which of the following is NOT and encryption algorithm?
SSL
To make user certificates available to others
Test virus
Not rigid
43. Which major vendor adopted TACACS into its product line as a form of AAA architecture?
Business enabler
Cisco
SLE - Single Loss Expectancy
Intrusion Detection System
44. __________________ will have weird characters printed at the beginning or end of an email message - what would it be anindication of?
Risk assessment
A PGP Signed message
To make user certificates available to others
a good password policy
45. Intentionally embedding secret data into a picture or some form of media is known as Steganographyor data ___________.
Macro
DAC - Discretionary Access Control
Data Hiding
Directive
46. Tiger - TCP Wrappers - TripWire - LogCheck - SATAN
Information Security policies
Intentions of the perpetrator
Unix / Linux based security tools?
Data Classification
47. Layer 4 of the OSI model corresponds to which layer of the DoD model?
Environmental
Payload
Warning banners
Layer 3 - Host to Host
48. What term describes the amount of risk that remains after the countermeasures have been deployed and the vulnerabilities classified?
128
Environmental
Separation of Duties
Residual risk
49. S/MIME was developed for the protection of what communication mechanism(s)?
MAC - Mandatory Access Control
Payload
CERT - SANS - CERIAS - COAST
Email
50. There are 65536 _________
Available service ports
CERT - SANS - CERIAS - COAST
Certificate
Sniffer