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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. 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
Main goal of a risk management program
Biometrics
Certificate
Warning Banner
2. A Security Reference Monitor relates to which DoD security standard?
Test virus
One way hash
Passfilt.dll
C2
3. ___________ - generally considered 'need to know' access is given based on permissions granted to the user.
DAC - Discretionary Access Control
product development life cycle
Steps in handling incidents
Cryptanalysis
4. _________ is a form of Denial of Service attack which interrupts the TCP three way handshake and leaves half open connections.
All
SYN Flooding
NT Audit events
Phreaks
5. Which auditing practice relates to the controlling of hardware - software - firmware - and documentation to insure it has not been improperly modified?
Warning Banner
Configuration Control
Biometrics
Class A: 1-126 - Class B: 128-191 - Class C: 192-223
6. Tiger - TCP Wrappers - TripWire - LogCheck - SATAN
Warning banners
Authorization
Mobile
Unix / Linux based security tools?
7. 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?
Steps in handling incidents
Man In The Middle
DSS - Digital Signature Standard
NFS
8. The ability to identify and audit a user and his / her actions is known as ____________.
Assignment
CRACK
Accountability
Confidentiality - Availability -Integrity of data
9. Vulnerability x Threat = RISK is an example of the _______________.
To make user certificates available to others
Risk Equation
Payload
Passfilt.dll
10. Contracting with an insurance company to cover losses due to information security breaches is known as risk __________.
Payload
Assignment
Directive
Authorization
11. A formula used in Quantitative risk analysis
Steps in handling incidents
RADIUS
SLE - Single Loss Expectancy
Email
12. Which form of media is handled at the Physical Layer (Layer 1) of the OSI Reference Model?
Salami attack
Confidentiality
Certificate
Ethernet
13. A true network security audit does include an audit for _____________
modems
To make user certificates available to others
Unix / Linux based security tools?
Virus definition downloads and system virus scans
14. Intentionally embedding secret data into a picture or some form of media is known as Steganographyor data ___________.
Salami attack
Confidentiality
Decentralized access control
Data Hiding
15. One method that can reduce exposure to malicious code is to ___________________
run applications as generic accounts with little or no privileges.
CVE - Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
S/Key - OPIE
Salami attack
16. ______________ relates to the concept of protecting data from unauthorized users.
Confidentiality
NT Audit events
Passwords
Users can gain access to any resource upon request (assuming they have proper permissions)
17. DES - Data Encryption standard has a 128 bit key and is ________
0-1023
modems
Not very difficult to break.
Quantitative analysis
18. HTTP - FTP - SMTP reside at which layer of the OSI model?
Preserve electronic evidence and protect it from any alteration
To make user certificates available to others
Layer 7 - Application
Also
19. An intrusion detection system is an example of what type of countermeasure?
Polymorphic
Data Classification
Environmental
Detective
20. A ______________ is an electronically generated record that ties a user's ID to their public key.
Main goal of a risk management program
One way hash
Certificate
MAC - Mandatory Access Control
21. __________ is the most famous Unix password cracking tool.
modems
CRACK
Confidentiality - Availability -Integrity of data
Reboot or system startup
22. Trend Analysis involves analyzing historical ___________ files in order to look for patterns of abuse or misuse.
Stateful Inspection
TIGER
Passfilt.dll
Log files
23. Which of the following is NOT and encryption algorithm?
Data Hiding
Decentralized access control
SSL
CRACK
24. EICAR is an example of a _____________ used to test AV products without introducing a live virus into the network.
CRACK
Test virus
Business enabler
Layer 7 - Application
25. The __________ is the most dangerous part of a virus program.
Granularity
DSS - Digital Signature Standard
Payload
RSA
26. This is more time consuming - numeric values - based on Annualized Loss Expectancy (ALE) formulas
involves only computer to computer transactions
Steps in handling incidents
Layers 5 - 6 - & 7 - Session - Presentation - and Application Layers
Quantitative analysis
27. It is difficult to prosecute a computer criminal if _________ are not deployed
Depcrypting
Verisign - Microsoft - Dell
Hoaxes
Warning banners
28. Unclassified - Private - Confidential - Secret - Top Secret - and Internal Use Only are levels of ________________.
Data Classification
Gathering digital evidence
Depcrypting
C2
29. ____________ is used in mission critical systems and applications to lock down information based on sensitivity levels (Confidential - Top Secret - etc.
Prevent - Recover - Detect
MAC - Mandatory Access Control
NT Audit events
Polymorphic
30. __________ attacks capitalize on programming errors and can allow the originator to gain additional privileges on a machine.
Buffer Overflow
TIGER
Business enabler
Warning banners
31. Which layer of the OSI model handles encryption?
Mobile
Fixed length
Log files
Presentation Layer - L6
32. Today - ______________ are almost as serious as security violations
Password audit
Certificate
Privacy violations
128
33. Accounting - Authentication - and ____________ are the AAAs of information security.
ISO
Risk Equation
Mobile
Authorization
34. A virus is considered to be 'in the ______ ' if it has been reported as replicating and causing harm to computers.
Not rigid
Confidentiality
Wild
Virus definition downloads and system virus scans
35. A type of virus that resides in a Word or Excel document is called a ___________ virus?
128
All
Macro
Phreaks
36. Remote Access Dial-in User Service
Passive network attack
RADIUS
Man In The Middle
Layers 5 - 6 - & 7 - Session - Presentation - and Application Layers
37. What security principle is based on the division of job responsibilities - designed to prevent fraud?
Business enabler
C2
IDEA algorithm
Separation of Duties
38. Security incidents fall into a number of categories such as accidental - deliberate - and ____________.
Depcrypting
0-1023
Environmental
TIGER
39. ____________ is a file system that was poorly designed and has numerous security flaws.
SLE - Single Loss Expectancy
Information
MAC - Mandatory Access Control
NFS
40. Layer 4 in the DoD model overlaps with which layer(s) of the OSI model?
Protection of data from unauthorized users
Layers 5 - 6 - & 7 - Session - Presentation - and Application Layers
IPSEC
SLE - Single Loss Expectancy
41. Data being delivered from the source to the intended receiver without being altered
Protection of data from unauthorized users
Accountability
product development life cycle
Polymorphic
42. Combine both boot and file virus behavior
Multi-partite viruses
Quantitative analysis
NFS
ISO
43. Companies can now be __________ just as easily as they can be sued for security compromises.
Privacy violations
Salami attack
Stealth viruses
Sued for privacy violations
44. ___________________ is responsible for creating security policies and for communicating those policies to system users.
ISO
CVE - Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
C2
Authorization
45. 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
Confidentiality - Availability -Integrity of data
Multi-partite viruses
Passwords
CHAP
46. Smart cards are a secure alternative to which weak security mechanism?
Ethernet
Cryptanalysis
Confidentiality
Passwords
47. Countermeasures address security concerns in this category
S/Key - OPIE
Information
DSS - Digital Signature Standard
CHAP
48. 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
Business enabler
Sued for privacy violations
Presentation Layer - L6
49. Digital Certificates use which protocol?
X.509
Host based - network based
product development life cycle
TIGER
50. ____ members of the staff need to be educated in disaster recovery procedures.
All
product development life cycle
0-1023
Configuration Control