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SSCP: Systems Security Certified Practitioner

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Although it is considered a low tech attack ____________ is still a very effective way of gaining unauthorized access to network systems.






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






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






4. Main goals of an information security program






5. A formula used in Quantitative risk analysis






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






7. Wiretapping is an example of a ________.






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






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






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






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






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






13. 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 ______






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






15. Allows File owners to determine access rights.






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






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






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






19. Ways to deal with risk.






20. 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?






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






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






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






24. A type of virus that resides in a Word or Excel document is called a ___________ virus?






25. Combine both boot and file virus behavior






26. MD5 is a ___________ algorithm






27. Instructions or code that executes on an end user's machine from a web browser is known as __________ code.






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






29. Name two types of Intrusion Detection Systems






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






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






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






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






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






35. 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.






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






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






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






39. There are 65536 _________






40. __________ is the most famous Unix password cracking tool.






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






42. Which range defines 'well known ports?'






43. Today - ______________ are almost as serious as security violations






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. _________ is a form of Denial of Service attack which interrupts the TCP three way handshake and leaves half open connections.