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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. 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?






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






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






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






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






6. Name two types of Intrusion Detection Systems






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






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






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






10. 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.






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






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






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






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






15. __________ is the most famous Unix password cracking tool.






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






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






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






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






20. A formula used in Quantitative risk analysis






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






22. Cable modems are ___________than DSL connections






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. Which layer of the OSI model handles encryption?






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






34. Countermeasures address security concerns in this category






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






36. RSA is not based on a ________






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






38. The IDEA algorithm (used in PGP) is _______ bits long.






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






40. Consists of checking for Minimum password length - Password aging - Password Strength - Blank Passwords?






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. Main goals of an information security program






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






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






50. Wiretapping is an example of a ________.