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






2. Digital Certificates use which protocol?






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






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






5. Information security policies are a ___________________.






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






7. ____________ is used in mission critical systems and applications to lock down information based on sensitivity levels (Confidential - Top Secret - etc.






8. Countermeasures' main objectives






9. MD5 is a ___________ algorithm






10. Remote Access Dial-in User Service






11. Combine both boot and file virus behavior






12. Contain - Recover - Review - Identify - Prepare






13. These should be done on a weekly basis






14. ________ is a protocol developed by Visa and MasterCard to protect electronic transactions.






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






16. 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.






17. A boot sector virus goes to work when what event takes place?






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






19. Ways to deal with risk.






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






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






22. ______________ is a Unix security scanning tool developed at Texas A&M university.






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






24. Diffie Hellman - RSA - and ___________ are all examples of Public Key cryptography?






25. A formula used in Quantitative risk analysis






26. ______________ relates to the concept of protecting data from unauthorized users.






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






28. EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) differs from e- Commerce in that it ___________________.






29. ________ is the authoritative entity which lists port assignments






30. __________ is a tool used by network administrators to capture packets from a network.






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






32. Examples of One- Time Password technology






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






34. Allows File owners to determine access rights.






35. There are 65536 _________






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. 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?






44. An intrusion detection system is an example of what type of countermeasure?






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






46. Accounting - Authentication - and ____________ are the AAAs of information security.






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






48. Instructions or code that executes on an end user's machine from a web browser is known as __________ code.






49. RSA is not based on a ________






50. A Security Reference Monitor relates to which DoD security standard?