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SSCP: Systems Security Certified Practitioner

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. ____________ is a file system that was poorly designed and has numerous security flaws.






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






3. ______________ is a major component of an overall risk management program.






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






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






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






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






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






9. The ability to identify and audit a user and his / her actions is known as ____________.






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






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






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






13. Information security policies are a ___________________.






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






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






16. An intrusion detection system is an example of what type of countermeasure?






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






18. The __________ is the most dangerous part of a virus program.






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






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






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






22. A standardized list of the most common security weaknesses and exploits is the __________.






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






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






25. Accounting - Authentication - and ____________ are the AAAs of information security.






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






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






28. Ways to deal with risk.






29. Although it is considered a low tech attack ____________ is still a very effective way of gaining unauthorized access to network systems.






30. 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?






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






32. Digital Certificates use which protocol?






33. Countermeasures' main objectives






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






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






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






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






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






39. Which form of media is handled at the Physical Layer (Layer 1) of the OSI Reference Model?






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






41. MD5 is a ___________ algorithm






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






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






44. 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






45. 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?






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






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






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






49. A security policy is a ___________ set of rules that must be followed explicitly in order to be effective.






50. What term describes the amount of risk that remains after the countermeasures have been deployed and the vulnerabilities classified?







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