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SSCP: Systems Security Certified Practitioner

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Allows File owners to determine access rights.






2. 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?






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






4. Main goals of an information security program






5. Ways to deal with risk.






6. Logon and Logoff - Use of User Rights - Security Policy Change






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






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






9. Macintosh computers are _____ at risk for receiving viruses.






10. One method that can reduce exposure to malicious code is to ___________________






11. Remote Access Dial-in User Service






12. ________ is the authoritative entity which lists port assignments






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






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






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






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






17. Which of the concepts best describes Availability in relation to computer resources?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. Public keys are used for encrypting messages and private keys are used for __________messages.






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






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






29. Layer 4 of the OSI model corresponds to which layer of the DoD model?






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






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






32. Which range defines 'well known ports?'






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. Intentionally embedding secret data into a picture or some form of media is known as Steganographyor data ___________.






43. Which of the following is NOT and encryption algorithm?






44. Information security policies are a ___________________.






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






46. The PAP protocol sends passwords in clear text - while ____________ encrypts passwords. Both protocols are used by PPP (Point to Point Protocol) to transport IP traffic






47. Countermeasures address security concerns in this category






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






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






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