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SSCP: Systems Security Certified Practitioner

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






2. Digital Certificates use which protocol?






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






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






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






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






7. ________ is the authoritative entity which lists port assignments






8. Which layer of the OSI model handles encryption?






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






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






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






12. Which of the following is NOT and encryption algorithm?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. The most secure method for storing backup tapes is?






21. Intentionally embedding secret data into a picture or some form of media is known as Steganographyor data ___________.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. Name two types of Intrusion Detection Systems






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






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






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






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






35. Remote Access Dial-in User Service






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






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






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.






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






40. Identifying specific attempts to penetrate systems is the function of the _______________.






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






42. 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 ______






43. 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






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






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






46. Information security policies are a ___________________.






47. These should be done on a weekly basis






48. ____ members of the staff need to be educated in disaster recovery procedures.






49. Which organization(s) are responsible for the timely distribution of information security intelligence data?






50. PGP & PEM are programs that allow users to send encrypted messages to each other. What form of encryption do these programs use?







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