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SSCP: Systems Security Certified Practitioner

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What term describes the amount of risk that remains after the countermeasures have been deployed and the vulnerabilities classified?






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






3. Remote Access Dial-in User Service






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






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






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






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






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






9. In a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) - what is the role of a directory server?






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






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






12. A formula used in Quantitative risk analysis






13. Which layer of the OSI model handles encryption?






14. The ability to adjust access control to the exact amount of permission necessary is called ______________.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. Vulnerability x Threat = RISK is an example of the _______________.






23. Data being delivered from the source to the intended receiver without being altered






24. Name two types of Intrusion Detection Systems






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






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






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






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






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






30. MD5 is a ___________ algorithm






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






32. Digital Certificates use which protocol?






33. What is the main difference between computer abuse and computer crime?






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






35. 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






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






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






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






39. 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






40. Contain - Recover - Review - Identify - Prepare






41. This is more time consuming - numeric values - based on Annualized Loss Expectancy (ALE) formulas






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






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






44. Allows File owners to determine access rights.






45. 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 ______






46. ______________ is a Unix security scanning tool developed at Texas A&M university.






47. Ways to deal with risk.






48. If your telephone company suddenly started billing you for caller ID and call forwarding without your permission - this practice is referred to as __________________.






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






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