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SSCP: Systems Security Certified Practitioner

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. Information security policies are a ___________________.






2. Allows File owners to determine access rights.






3. Passwords: should be audited on a regular basis- should contain some form of your name or userid - should never be shared or written down






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






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






6. Wiretapping is an example of a ________.






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






8. Organizations that can be a valid Certificate Authority (CA)






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






10. _________________should be Written down - Clearly Communicated to all system users - Audited and revised periodically.






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






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






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






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






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






16. Remote Access Dial-in User Service






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






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






19. This free (for personal use) program is used to encrypt and decrypt emails.






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






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






22. ___________ - generally considered 'need to know' access is given based on permissions granted to the user.






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






24. A formula used in Quantitative risk analysis






25. There are 65536 _________






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






27. 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?






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






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






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






31. Ways to deal with risk.






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






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






34. RSA is not based on a ________






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






36. They specifically target telephone networks






37. These should be done on a weekly basis






38. Countermeasures' main objectives






39. Although they are accused of being one in the same - _______________ are two distinctly different groups with different goals pertaining to computers.






40. 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






41. ______________ relates to the concept of protecting data from unauthorized users.






42. Name two types of Intrusion Detection Systems






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






44. Code Review - Certification - Accreditation - Functional Design Review - System Test Review






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






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






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






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






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






50. ________ is the authoritative entity which lists port assignments