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SSCP: Systems Security Certified Practitioner
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. Which form of media is handled at the Physical Layer (Layer 1) of the OSI Reference Model?
Ethernet
Granularity
Prevent - Recover - Detect
SYN Flooding
2. __________ is a tool used by network administrators to capture packets from a network.
Sniffer
Environmental
Unix / Linux based security tools?
product development life cycle
3. There are 5 classes of IP addresses available - but only 3 classes are in common use today
Class A: 1-126 - Class B: 128-191 - Class C: 192-223
Intentions of the perpetrator
Polymorphic
run applications as generic accounts with little or no privileges.
4. 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
Social Engineering
Warning Banner
Detective
Decentralized access control
5. PGP & PEM are programs that allow users to send encrypted messages to each other. What form of encryption do these programs use?
RSA
Detective
Salami attack
Wild
6. A virus is considered to be 'in the ______ ' if it has been reported as replicating and causing harm to computers.
Phreaks
Mobile
Wild
Sniffer
7. ___________________ is responsible for creating security policies and for communicating those policies to system users.
Email
SYN Flooding
ISO
One way hash
8. Combine both boot and file virus behavior
Multi-partite viruses
NFS
Macro
CVE - Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
9. Although it is considered a low tech attack ____________ is still a very effective way of gaining unauthorized access to network systems.
Log files
Macro
Hackers and crackers
Social Engineering
10. The act of intercepting the first message in a public key exchange and substituting a bogus key for the original key is an example of which style of attack?
C2
Man In The Middle
Macro
Prevent - Recover - Detect
11. A ______________ is an electronically generated record that ties a user's ID to their public key.
Depcrypting
Cramming
Certificate
MAC - Mandatory Access Control
12. Name two types of Intrusion Detection Systems
Warning banners
Layer 3 - Host to Host
Host based - network based
DAC - Discretionary Access Control
13. A true network security audit does include an audit for _____________
Intentions of the perpetrator
Granularity
modems
Buffer Overflow
14. A security policy is a ___________ set of rules that must be followed explicitly in order to be effective.
Virus definition downloads and system virus scans
Not rigid
Protection of data from unauthorized users
Fixed length
15. 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 ______
Buffer Overflow
Passfilt.dll
Available service ports
Privacy violations
16. 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?
Symmetric algorithm
Phreaks
IDEA algorithm
Authentication
17. An intrusion detection system is an example of what type of countermeasure?
CVE - Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
Granularity
MAC - Mandatory Access Control
Detective
18. Identifying specific attempts to penetrate systems is the function of the _______________.
Data Classification
To make user certificates available to others
Intrusion Detection System
Cramming
19. Although they are accused of being one in the same - _______________ are two distinctly different groups with different goals pertaining to computers.
Personal Firewall - IDS - host based - Antivirus
Salami attack
Layers 5 - 6 - & 7 - Session - Presentation - and Application Layers
Hackers and crackers
20. __________ attacks capitalize on programming errors and can allow the originator to gain additional privileges on a machine.
Warning banners
Buffer Overflow
Wild
Class A: 1-126 - Class B: 128-191 - Class C: 192-223
21. Which of the following is NOT and encryption algorithm?
Quantitative analysis
SSL
Granularity
Buffer Overflow
22. Layer 4 in the DoD model overlaps with which layer(s) of the OSI model?
Passwords
Cisco
Hackers and crackers
Layers 5 - 6 - & 7 - Session - Presentation - and Application Layers
23. DES - Data Encryption standard has a 128 bit key and is ________
RADIUS
SET
CRACK
Not very difficult to break.
24. 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.
Verisign - Microsoft - Dell
Off site in a climate controlled area
Directive
SLE - Single Loss Expectancy
25. MD5 is a ___________ algorithm
Cisco
One way hash
DAC - Discretionary Access Control
Privacy violations
26. Which organization(s) are responsible for the timely distribution of information security intelligence data?
CERT - SANS - CERIAS - COAST
Protection of data from unauthorized users
128
SET
27. RSA is not based on a ________
Symmetric algorithm
Ethernet
Mobile
Accountability
28. To help managers find the correct cost balance between risks and countermeasures
Data Hiding
Main goal of a risk management program
Business enabler
Macro
29. Tiger - TCP Wrappers - TripWire - LogCheck - SATAN
Unix / Linux based security tools?
RADIUS
Layer 7 - Application
involves only computer to computer transactions
30. The ability to identify and audit a user and his / her actions is known as ____________.
involves only computer to computer transactions
Protection of data from unauthorized users
Layer 7 - Application
Accountability
31. There are 65536 _________
product development life cycle
A PGP Signed message
Passive network attack
Available service ports
32. Instructions or code that executes on an end user's machine from a web browser is known as __________ code.
Password audit
Mobile
IDEA algorithm
Payload
33. Security incidents fall into a number of categories such as accidental - deliberate - and ____________.
Personal Firewall - IDS - host based - Antivirus
Environmental
Cryptanalysis
Fixed length
34. Which layer of the OSI model handles encryption?
PGP
Passive network attack
Presentation Layer - L6
SSL
35. Layer 4 of the OSI model corresponds to which layer of the DoD model?
Layer 3 - Host to Host
run applications as generic accounts with little or no privileges.
Mobile
RADIUS
36. This is more time consuming - numeric values - based on Annualized Loss Expectancy (ALE) formulas
Test virus
Quantitative analysis
Intrusion Detection System
Assignment
37. The IDEA algorithm (used in PGP) is _______ bits long.
128
IPSEC
Environmental
involves only computer to computer transactions
38. Consists of checking for Minimum password length - Password aging - Password Strength - Blank Passwords?
Accountability
Payload
Privacy violations
Password audit
39. Used in ______________:Retinal Scanning - Fingerprints - Face Recognition - Voice Recognition
IDEA algorithm
Stealth viruses
involves only computer to computer transactions
Biometrics
40. ____ members of the staff need to be educated in disaster recovery procedures.
All
Macro
Authorization
CRACK
41. Organizations that can be a valid Certificate Authority (CA)
IANA
CRACK
Sniffer
Verisign - Microsoft - Dell
42. S/MIME was developed for the protection of what communication mechanism(s)?
product development life cycle
Email
Cramming
Data Hiding
43. Unlike like viruses and worm - __________ are bogus messages that spread via email forwarding.
Mobile
Hoaxes
run applications as generic accounts with little or no privileges.
Presentation Layer - L6
44. __________ is the most famous Unix password cracking tool.
Residual risk
CRACK
Privacy violations
Certificate
45. What is the main difference between computer abuse and computer crime?
Intentions of the perpetrator
Passive network attack
CVE - Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
Warning banners
46. ______________ is a major component of an overall risk management program.
Risk assessment
involves only computer to computer transactions
Polymorphic
Off site in a climate controlled area
47. Smart cards are a secure alternative to which weak security mechanism?
Granularity
Passwords
Protection of data from unauthorized users
IPSEC
48. These should be done on a weekly basis
Confidentiality
Virus definition downloads and system virus scans
Layers 5 - 6 - & 7 - Session - Presentation - and Application Layers
DSS - Digital Signature Standard
49. Intentionally embedding secret data into a picture or some form of media is known as Steganographyor data ___________.
Data Hiding
Test virus
Decentralized access control
Not rigid
50. _______________ supply AV engines with false information to avoid detection
Stealth viruses
SYN Flooding
Personal Firewall - IDS - host based - Antivirus
CHAP