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SSCP: Systems Security Certified Practitioner

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1. RSA is not based on a ________






2. Smart cards are a secure alternative to which weak security mechanism?






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






4. A ______________ is an electronically generated record that ties a user's ID to their public key.






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






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






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






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






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






10. Which layer of the OSI model handles encryption?






11. Code Review - Certification - Accreditation - Functional Design Review - System Test Review






12. It is difficult to prosecute a computer criminal if _________ are not deployed






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






14. Main goals of an information security program






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






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






17. ________ is the authoritative entity which lists port assignments






18. A Security Reference Monitor relates to which DoD security standard?






19. A formula used in Quantitative risk analysis






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






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






22. Combine both boot and file virus behavior






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






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






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






26. Examples of One- Time Password technology






27. Ways to deal with risk.






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






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






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






31. Countermeasures address security concerns in this category






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. Which organization(s) are responsible for the timely distribution of information security intelligence data?






39. Information security policies are a ___________________.






40. 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.






41. Digital Certificates use which protocol?






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






43. Contain - Recover - Review - Identify - Prepare






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






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






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






47. An attempt to break an encryption algorithm is called _____________.






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






49. __________ attacks capitalize on programming errors and can allow the originator to gain additional privileges on a machine.






50. 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?







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