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SSCP: Systems Security Certified Practitioner

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. A virus is considered to be 'in the ______ ' if it has been reported as replicating and causing harm to computers.






2. Ways to deal with risk.






3. EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) differs from e- Commerce in that it ___________________.






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






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






6. Name two types of Intrusion Detection Systems






7. A standardized list of the most common security weaknesses and exploits is the __________.






8. PGP & PEM are programs that allow users to send encrypted messages to each other. What form of encryption do these programs use?






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






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






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






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






13. Cable modems are ___________than DSL connections






14. RSA is not based on a ________






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






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






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






18. In a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) - what is the role of a directory server?






19. 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.






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






21. A formula used in Quantitative risk analysis






22. There are 65536 _________






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






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






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






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






27. Stealth viruses live in memory while __________ are written to disk






28. Countermeasures' main objectives






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






30. They specifically target telephone networks






31. What security principle is based on the division of job responsibilities - designed to prevent fraud?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. ____________ is a file system that was poorly designed and has numerous security flaws.






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






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






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






46. 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






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






48. Contain - Recover - Review - Identify - Prepare






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






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