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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. Ways to deal with risk.






2. 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 ______






3. ___________ - generally considered 'need to know' access is given based on permissions granted to the user.






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






5. A formula used in Quantitative risk analysis






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






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






8. Smart cards are a secure alternative to which weak security mechanism?






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






10. Name two types of Intrusion Detection Systems






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






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






13. A true network security audit does include an audit for _____________






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






15. Information security policies are a ___________________.






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






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






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






19. RSA is not based on a ________






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






21. Which layer of the OSI model handles encryption?






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






23. This free (for personal use) program is used to encrypt and decrypt emails.






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






25. Digital Certificates use which protocol?






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






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






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






29. Examples of One- Time Password technology






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






31. When ________________it is very important to do document the chain of evidence by taking good notes and perform a bit-level back up of the data before analysis






32. This is more time consuming - numeric values - based on Annualized Loss Expectancy (ALE) formulas






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






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






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






36. What type of software can be used to prevent - detect (and possibly correct) malicious activities on a system?






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. _______________ supply AV engines with false information to avoid detection






44. 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






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






46. Allows File owners to determine access rights.






47. 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.






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






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






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