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SSCP: Systems Security Certified Practitioner

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. _________ is a form of Denial of Service attack which interrupts the TCP three way handshake and leaves half open connections.






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






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






4. __________________ will have weird characters printed at the beginning or end of an email message - what would it be anindication of?






5. 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 ______






6. Wiretapping is an example of a ________.






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






8. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






19. EICAR is an example of a _____________ used to test AV products without introducing a live virus into the network.






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






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






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






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






24. A formula used in Quantitative risk analysis






25. Combine both boot and file virus behavior






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






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






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






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






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






31. Information security policies are a ___________________.






32. The most secure method for storing backup tapes is?






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






34. Countermeasures' main objectives






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. ________ is the authoritative entity which lists port assignments






42. Which auditing practice relates to the controlling of hardware - software - firmware - and documentation to insure it has not been improperly modified?






43. RSA is not based on a ________






44. MD5 is a ___________ algorithm






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






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






47. 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?






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






49. The ability to adjust access control to the exact amount of permission necessary is called ______________.






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