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SSCP: Systems Security Certified Practitioner
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certifications
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it-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. Cable modems are ___________than DSL connections
Less secure
Passfilt.dll
Layer 7 - Application
Presentation Layer - L6
2. ______________ relates to the concept of protecting data from unauthorized users.
Cryptanalysis
Confidentiality
Environmental
Social Engineering
3. S/MIME was developed for the protection of what communication mechanism(s)?
Email
Main goal of a risk management program
Authentication
DSS - Digital Signature Standard
4. Consists of checking for Minimum password length - Password aging - Password Strength - Blank Passwords?
A PGP Signed message
Virus definition downloads and system virus scans
MAC - Mandatory Access Control
Password audit
5. Smart cards are a secure alternative to which weak security mechanism?
Passwords
Hoaxes
Available service ports
Macro
6. Identifying specific attempts to penetrate systems is the function of the _______________.
Intrusion Detection System
Prevent - Recover - Detect
Cisco
run applications as generic accounts with little or no privileges.
7. 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.
Phreaks
Directive
Salami attack
Passive network attack
8. PGP & PEM are programs that allow users to send encrypted messages to each other. What form of encryption do these programs use?
RSA
Layer 3 - Host to Host
Detective
Phreaks
9. Countermeasures address security concerns in this category
MAC - Mandatory Access Control
Acceptance - Transfer - Mitigate
Buffer Overflow
Information
10. In a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) - what is the role of a directory server?
Verisign - Microsoft - Dell
Prevent - Recover - Detect
Buffer Overflow
To make user certificates available to others
11. __________ attacks capitalize on programming errors and can allow the originator to gain additional privileges on a machine.
Data Classification
Ethernet
Environmental
Buffer Overflow
12. 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 ______
RSA
Information Security policies
Passfilt.dll
NFS
13. Countermeasures' main objectives
Prevent - Recover - Detect
SLE - Single Loss Expectancy
a good password policy
Directive
14. A ______________ is an electronically generated record that ties a user's ID to their public key.
Certificate
Hoaxes
Also
Data Classification
15. What type of software can be used to prevent - detect (and possibly correct) malicious activities on a system?
Reboot or system startup
NT Audit events
Personal Firewall - IDS - host based - Antivirus
Not very difficult to break.
16. What is the main difference between computer abuse and computer crime?
Available service ports
IANA
Off site in a climate controlled area
Intentions of the perpetrator
17. Unclassified - Private - Confidential - Secret - Top Secret - and Internal Use Only are levels of ________________.
Intentions of the perpetrator
Cryptanalysis
Buffer Overflow
Data Classification
18. The ability to adjust access control to the exact amount of permission necessary is called ______________.
Granularity
product development life cycle
One way hash
Phreaks
19. MD5 is a ___________ algorithm
Assignment
Macro
Prevent - Recover - Detect
One way hash
20. Name two types of Intrusion Detection Systems
Data Hiding
Not very difficult to break.
Host based - network based
Virus definition downloads and system virus scans
21. ___________ - generally considered 'need to know' access is given based on permissions granted to the user.
SYN Flooding
DAC - Discretionary Access Control
IDEA algorithm
Risk Equation
22. Intentionally embedding secret data into a picture or some form of media is known as Steganographyor data ___________.
Certificate
Cryptanalysis
RSA
Data Hiding
23. HTTP - FTP - SMTP reside at which layer of the OSI model?
Accountability
SET
modems
Layer 7 - Application
24. A boot sector virus goes to work when what event takes place?
CHAP
Reboot or system startup
Certificate
Passwords
25. A type of virus that resides in a Word or Excel document is called a ___________ virus?
Warning banners
CVE - Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
Prevent - Recover - Detect
Macro
26. Instructions or code that executes on an end user's machine from a web browser is known as __________ code.
Environmental
Mobile
Preserve electronic evidence and protect it from any alteration
Personal Firewall - IDS - host based - Antivirus
27. The __________ is the most dangerous part of a virus program.
Authentication
Hoaxes
Payload
0-1023
28. __________ is the most famous Unix password cracking tool.
CRACK
Data Hiding
Privacy violations
a good password policy
29. The ability to identify and audit a user and his / her actions is known as ____________.
Accountability
Information
Reboot or system startup
Polymorphic
30. 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
Gathering digital evidence
Reboot or system startup
Protection of data from unauthorized users
Payload
31. Layer 4 of the OSI model corresponds to which layer of the DoD model?
Layer 3 - Host to Host
All
IANA
Passive network attack
32. IKE - Internet Key Exchange is often used in conjunction with what security standard?
a good password policy
Test virus
IPSEC
Accountability
33. Macintosh computers are _____ at risk for receiving viruses.
Also
0-1023
Sued for privacy violations
Configuration Control
34. A formula used in Quantitative risk analysis
SLE - Single Loss Expectancy
SET
To make user certificates available to others
Less secure
35. _________________should be Written down - Clearly Communicated to all system users - Audited and revised periodically.
SLE - Single Loss Expectancy
Accountability
Not rigid
Information Security policies
36. Which layer of the OSI model handles encryption?
Presentation Layer - L6
Wild
Prevent - Recover - Detect
Granularity
37. DES - Data Encryption standard has a 128 bit key and is ________
Buffer Overflow
Not very difficult to break.
SET
Passfilt.dll
38. What term describes the amount of risk that remains after the countermeasures have been deployed and the vulnerabilities classified?
Polymorphic
Residual risk
Password audit
Information
39. Contain - Recover - Review - Identify - Prepare
Steps in handling incidents
CERT - SANS - CERIAS - COAST
Test virus
Wild
40. The ultimate goal of a computer forensics specialist is to ___________________.
Macro
CERT - SANS - CERIAS - COAST
Preserve electronic evidence and protect it from any alteration
Authorization
41. RSA is not based on a ________
Email
Symmetric algorithm
Stateful Inspection
Steps in handling incidents
42. Committing computer crimes in such small doses that they almost go unnoticed.
0-1023
Salami attack
Verisign - Microsoft - Dell
Separation of Duties
43. Vulnerability x Threat = RISK is an example of the _______________.
Risk Equation
CRACK
Fixed length
Passive network attack
44. ________ is the authoritative entity which lists port assignments
ISO
IANA
SLE - Single Loss Expectancy
Layer 3 - Host to Host
45. Tiger - TCP Wrappers - TripWire - LogCheck - SATAN
Directive
128
Not rigid
Unix / Linux based security tools?
46. This free (for personal use) program is used to encrypt and decrypt emails.
Steps in handling incidents
Password audit
Presentation Layer - L6
PGP
47. __________________ will have weird characters printed at the beginning or end of an email message - what would it be anindication of?
Passfilt.dll
Unix / Linux based security tools?
A PGP Signed message
Stealth viruses
48. ___________________ viruses change the code order of the strain each time they replicate to another machine.
Polymorphic
Intrusion Detection System
Prevent - Recover - Detect
Accountability
49. EICAR is an example of a _____________ used to test AV products without introducing a live virus into the network.
a good password policy
Multi-partite viruses
Test virus
0-1023
50. 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?
Authentication
Users can gain access to any resource upon request (assuming they have proper permissions)
Password audit
Separation of Duties