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SSCP: Systems Security Certified Practitioner

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






3. Main goals of an information security program






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. There are 65536 _________






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






14. Information security policies are a ___________________.






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






16. A formula used in Quantitative risk analysis






17. DES - Data Encryption standard has a 128 bit key and is ________






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






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






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






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






22. An attempt to break an encryption algorithm is called _____________.






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






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






25. Public keys are used for encrypting messages and private keys are used for __________messages.






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






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






28. These should be done on a weekly basis






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






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






31. MD5 is a ___________ algorithm






32. 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.






33. Which of the concepts best describes Availability in relation to computer resources?






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






35. RSA is not based on a ________






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. ________ is the authoritative entity which lists port assignments






45. What security principle is based on the division of job responsibilities - designed to prevent fraud?






46. 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 ______






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






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






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






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







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