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SSCP: Systems Security Certified Practitioner
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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. Intentionally embedding secret data into a picture or some form of media is known as Steganographyor data ___________.
Wild
Prevent - Recover - Detect
Virus definition downloads and system virus scans
Data Hiding
2. Ways to deal with risk.
All
SLE - Single Loss Expectancy
Polymorphic
Acceptance - Transfer - Mitigate
3. It is difficult to prosecute a computer criminal if _________ are not deployed
Not rigid
Privacy violations
Detective
Warning banners
4. Identifying specific attempts to penetrate systems is the function of the _______________.
Intrusion Detection System
Acceptance - Transfer - Mitigate
SSL
product development life cycle
5. 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?
Risk Equation
Man In The Middle
DAC - Discretionary Access Control
Virus definition downloads and system virus scans
6. This free (for personal use) program is used to encrypt and decrypt emails.
Passwords
PGP
SLE - Single Loss Expectancy
Class A: 1-126 - Class B: 128-191 - Class C: 192-223
7. Today - ______________ are almost as serious as security violations
Stealth viruses
Privacy violations
a good password policy
Warning banners
8. RSA is not based on a ________
Reboot or system startup
Macro
Decentralized access control
Symmetric algorithm
9. Tiger - TCP Wrappers - TripWire - LogCheck - SATAN
SET
Verisign - Microsoft - Dell
Unix / Linux based security tools?
Mobile
10. 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 ______
Passfilt.dll
Prevent - Recover - Detect
Class A: 1-126 - Class B: 128-191 - Class C: 192-223
X.509
11. DES - Data Encryption standard has a 128 bit key and is ________
Not very difficult to break.
Unix / Linux based security tools?
Stateful Inspection
0-1023
12. Wiretapping is an example of a ________.
Passive network attack
Steps in handling incidents
Phreaks
A PGP Signed message
13. ___________________ is responsible for creating security policies and for communicating those policies to system users.
Authorization
Authentication
ISO
Passive network attack
14. A virus is considered to be 'in the ______ ' if it has been reported as replicating and causing harm to computers.
Passive network attack
Wild
Risk Equation
Quantitative analysis
15. Stealth viruses live in memory while __________ are written to disk
Logic bombs
Warning banners
Data Hiding
X.509
16. Although it is considered a low tech attack ____________ is still a very effective way of gaining unauthorized access to network systems.
Social Engineering
NFS
MAC - Mandatory Access Control
Acceptance - Transfer - Mitigate
17. If your telephone company suddenly started billing you for caller ID and call forwarding without your permission - this practice is referred to as __________________.
Sniffer
Polymorphic
Unix / Linux based security tools?
Cramming
18. What is the main difference between computer abuse and computer crime?
Risk Equation
Cisco
Intentions of the perpetrator
Mobile
19. Name two types of Intrusion Detection Systems
SLE - Single Loss Expectancy
Confidentiality - Availability -Integrity of data
Host based - network based
Password audit
20. Passwords: should be audited on a regular basis- should contain some form of your name or userid - should never be shared or written down
a good password policy
Passfilt.dll
Email
Off site in a climate controlled area
21. A Security Reference Monitor relates to which DoD security standard?
Privacy violations
Macro
CERT - SANS - CERIAS - COAST
C2
22. In a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) - what is the role of a directory server?
RADIUS
To make user certificates available to others
All
Privacy violations
23. Which major vendor adopted TACACS into its product line as a form of AAA architecture?
Cisco
Mobile
Authorization
DSS - Digital Signature Standard
24. ___________________ viruses change the code order of the strain each time they replicate to another machine.
Hackers and crackers
Available service ports
Social Engineering
Polymorphic
25. Instructions or code that executes on an end user's machine from a web browser is known as __________ code.
Privacy violations
RADIUS
Data Hiding
Mobile
26. PGP & PEM are programs that allow users to send encrypted messages to each other. What form of encryption do these programs use?
Stateful Inspection
RSA
TIGER
Residual risk
27. The ability to adjust access control to the exact amount of permission necessary is called ______________.
Stateful Inspection
involves only computer to computer transactions
Passfilt.dll
Granularity
28. Smart cards are a secure alternative to which weak security mechanism?
Risk assessment
Detective
Assignment
Passwords
29. Security incidents fall into a number of categories such as accidental - deliberate - and ____________.
Environmental
Biometrics
Detective
Confidentiality - Availability -Integrity of data
30. 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
Warning banners
DAC - Discretionary Access Control
Warning Banner
Wild
31. Accounting - Authentication - and ____________ are the AAAs of information security.
Configuration Control
Acceptance - Transfer - Mitigate
Authorization
IANA
32. What term describes the amount of risk that remains after the countermeasures have been deployed and the vulnerabilities classified?
Verisign - Microsoft - Dell
SLE - Single Loss Expectancy
Risk assessment
Residual risk
33. Combine both boot and file virus behavior
Configuration Control
IDEA algorithm
Multi-partite viruses
Stateful Inspection
34. 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.
Directive
Layer 7 - Application
Detective
Cryptanalysis
35. _________________should be Written down - Clearly Communicated to all system users - Audited and revised periodically.
SYN Flooding
Preserve electronic evidence and protect it from any alteration
Email
Information Security policies
36. Public keys are used for encrypting messages and private keys are used for __________messages.
Not rigid
Depcrypting
Risk Equation
Quantitative analysis
37. The ability to identify and audit a user and his / her actions is known as ____________.
Information
CVE - Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
RADIUS
Accountability
38. There are 65536 _________
Accountability
Available service ports
run applications as generic accounts with little or no privileges.
Personal Firewall - IDS - host based - Antivirus
39. Which organization(s) are responsible for the timely distribution of information security intelligence data?
DSS - Digital Signature Standard
CERT - SANS - CERIAS - COAST
a good password policy
Information
40. Trend Analysis involves analyzing historical ___________ files in order to look for patterns of abuse or misuse.
Log files
Data Classification
Cryptanalysis
Less secure
41. __________ attacks capitalize on programming errors and can allow the originator to gain additional privileges on a machine.
Buffer Overflow
involves only computer to computer transactions
a good password policy
product development life cycle
42. Which auditing practice relates to the controlling of hardware - software - firmware - and documentation to insure it has not been improperly modified?
Symmetric algorithm
Assignment
Cryptanalysis
Configuration Control
43. The __________ is the most dangerous part of a virus program.
Depcrypting
Payload
NFS
Polymorphic
44. Types of firewalls: Packet Filtering - Application Proxy - and _________________.
Stateful Inspection
Polymorphic
Macro
Protection of data from unauthorized users
45. ___________ - generally considered 'need to know' access is given based on permissions granted to the user.
DAC - Discretionary Access Control
Buffer Overflow
IDEA algorithm
CHAP
46. A standardized list of the most common security weaknesses and exploits is the __________.
Prevent - Recover - Detect
CVE - Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
Virus definition downloads and system virus scans
Steps in handling incidents
47. __________ is a tool used by network administrators to capture packets from a network.
Email
RADIUS
Sniffer
Data Classification
48. Vulnerability x Threat = RISK is an example of the _______________.
Risk Equation
One way hash
DAC - Discretionary Access Control
Information
49. A type of virus that resides in a Word or Excel document is called a ___________ virus?
Phreaks
To make user certificates available to others
Macro
Confidentiality
50. Countermeasures address security concerns in this category
To make user certificates available to others
Social Engineering
Information
Risk assessment