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SSCP: Systems Security Certified Practitioner

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1. Name two types of Intrusion Detection Systems






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






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






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






5. Remote Access Dial-in User Service






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






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






8. Countermeasures' main objectives






9. Main goals of an information security program






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






11. Countermeasures address security concerns in this category






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






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






14. 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.






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






16. Combine both boot and file virus behavior






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






18. 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






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






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






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






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






23. There are 65536 _________






24. RSA is not based on a ________






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






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






27. Trend Analysis involves analyzing historical ___________ files in order to look for patterns of abuse or misuse.






28. 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?






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






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






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






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






33. Ways to deal with risk.






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






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






36. One method that can reduce exposure to malicious code is to ___________________






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






38. ________ is the authoritative entity which lists port assignments






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






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






41. Digital Certificates use which protocol?






42. Information security policies are a ___________________.






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






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






45. IKE - Internet Key Exchange is often used in conjunction with what security standard?






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






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






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






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






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






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