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SSCP: Systems Security Certified Practitioner
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1. Which major vendor adopted TACACS into its product line as a form of AAA architecture?
S/Key - OPIE
Password audit
Cisco
Decentralized access control
2. A standardized list of the most common security weaknesses and exploits is the __________.
CVE - Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
Intentions of the perpetrator
Verisign - Microsoft - Dell
Environmental
3. Which range defines 'well known ports?'
Warning banners
MAC - Mandatory Access Control
Information Security policies
0-1023
4. ____________ is used in mission critical systems and applications to lock down information based on sensitivity levels (Confidential - Top Secret - etc.
Buffer Overflow
Information
MAC - Mandatory Access Control
Gathering digital evidence
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 ______
Passfilt.dll
Confidentiality - Availability -Integrity of data
Information Security policies
Environmental
6. What security principle is based on the division of job responsibilities - designed to prevent fraud?
Verisign - Microsoft - Dell
Separation of Duties
Business enabler
X.509
7. To help managers find the correct cost balance between risks and countermeasures
Main goal of a risk management program
Reboot or system startup
Passfilt.dll
Payload
8. Logon and Logoff - Use of User Rights - Security Policy Change
NT Audit events
SLE - Single Loss Expectancy
Separation of Duties
DAC - Discretionary Access Control
9. What term describes the amount of risk that remains after the countermeasures have been deployed and the vulnerabilities classified?
IDEA algorithm
Main goal of a risk management program
Residual risk
Confidentiality - Availability -Integrity of data
10. Ways to deal with risk.
Acceptance - Transfer - Mitigate
Accountability
Social Engineering
Risk assessment
11. Security incidents fall into a number of categories such as accidental - deliberate - and ____________.
Log files
SLE - Single Loss Expectancy
Accountability
Environmental
12. What type of software can be used to prevent - detect (and possibly correct) malicious activities on a system?
Decentralized access control
Personal Firewall - IDS - host based - Antivirus
Log files
Not very difficult to break.
13. A one way hash converts a string of random length into a _______________ encrypted string.
Users can gain access to any resource upon request (assuming they have proper permissions)
Residual risk
Fixed length
Preserve electronic evidence and protect it from any alteration
14. 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
Confidentiality
run applications as generic accounts with little or no privileges.
Stealth viruses
Gathering digital evidence
15. Committing computer crimes in such small doses that they almost go unnoticed.
Salami attack
Cisco
Environmental
SSL
16. ______________ is a major component of an overall risk management program.
Risk assessment
Polymorphic
Verisign - Microsoft - Dell
RADIUS
17. 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
Polymorphic
Warning Banner
Authentication
CHAP
18. The ultimate goal of a computer forensics specialist is to ___________________.
Layer 3 - Host to Host
Preserve electronic evidence and protect it from any alteration
CRACK
Risk assessment
19. This is more time consuming - numeric values - based on Annualized Loss Expectancy (ALE) formulas
Quantitative analysis
CRACK
Log files
RSA
20. Unlike like viruses and worm - __________ are bogus messages that spread via email forwarding.
Steps in handling incidents
Hoaxes
SLE - Single Loss Expectancy
Passfilt.dll
21. Name two types of Intrusion Detection Systems
Biometrics
Passive network attack
Host based - network based
Sued for privacy violations
22. S/MIME was developed for the protection of what communication mechanism(s)?
Email
Symmetric algorithm
Detective
Sued for privacy violations
23. Consists of checking for Minimum password length - Password aging - Password Strength - Blank Passwords?
Detective
Passwords
Password audit
Information
24. Which auditing practice relates to the controlling of hardware - software - firmware - and documentation to insure it has not been improperly modified?
C2
Information Security policies
Configuration Control
Not very difficult to break.
25. Although they are accused of being one in the same - _______________ are two distinctly different groups with different goals pertaining to computers.
Separation of Duties
Hackers and crackers
IANA
Confidentiality
26. IKE - Internet Key Exchange is often used in conjunction with what security standard?
involves only computer to computer transactions
Email
Authorization
IPSEC
27. Diffie Hellman - RSA - and ___________ are all examples of Public Key cryptography?
Depcrypting
DSS - Digital Signature Standard
Directive
S/Key - OPIE
28. MD5 is a ___________ algorithm
a good password policy
Password audit
One way hash
Risk Equation
29. There are 65536 _________
Symmetric algorithm
Passwords
Available service ports
Cryptanalysis
30. They specifically target telephone networks
Phreaks
Stateful Inspection
All
Warning banners
31. ___________________ viruses change the code order of the strain each time they replicate to another machine.
Stateful Inspection
SET
Polymorphic
Macro
32. ___________ - generally considered 'need to know' access is given based on permissions granted to the user.
Passwords
DAC - Discretionary Access Control
modems
Layer 7 - Application
33. _________ is a form of Denial of Service attack which interrupts the TCP three way handshake and leaves half open connections.
SYN Flooding
Data Hiding
Class A: 1-126 - Class B: 128-191 - Class C: 192-223
CHAP
34. In a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) - what is the role of a directory server?
Authentication
To make user certificates available to others
Privacy violations
Hoaxes
35. Layer 4 of the OSI model corresponds to which layer of the DoD model?
Accountability
Layer 3 - Host to Host
NFS
Password audit
36. A type of virus that resides in a Word or Excel document is called a ___________ virus?
Phreaks
Sniffer
Ethernet
Macro
37. There are 5 classes of IP addresses available - but only 3 classes are in common use today
Not very difficult to break.
0-1023
Hoaxes
Class A: 1-126 - Class B: 128-191 - Class C: 192-223
38. Code Review - Certification - Accreditation - Functional Design Review - System Test Review
product development life cycle
Macro
NT Audit events
Confidentiality - Availability -Integrity of data
39. Instructions or code that executes on an end user's machine from a web browser is known as __________ code.
Mobile
Sniffer
Intentions of the perpetrator
Residual risk
40. __________ attacks capitalize on programming errors and can allow the originator to gain additional privileges on a machine.
Buffer Overflow
Confidentiality - Availability -Integrity of data
Assignment
Accountability
41. A virus is considered to be 'in the ______ ' if it has been reported as replicating and causing harm to computers.
Certificate
NT Audit events
Wild
Multi-partite viruses
42. Companies can now be __________ just as easily as they can be sued for security compromises.
Environmental
One way hash
TIGER
Sued for privacy violations
43. DES - Data Encryption standard has a 128 bit key and is ________
Test virus
Environmental
Not very difficult to break.
Business enabler
44. A ______________ is an electronically generated record that ties a user's ID to their public key.
Certificate
CVE - Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
Mobile
Phreaks
45. 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.
Not rigid
Cryptanalysis
Acceptance - Transfer - Mitigate
Directive
46. Types of firewalls: Packet Filtering - Application Proxy - and _________________.
Stateful Inspection
Authentication
TIGER
Reboot or system startup
47. Contain - Recover - Review - Identify - Prepare
Wild
Steps in handling incidents
involves only computer to computer transactions
Log files
48. Tiger - TCP Wrappers - TripWire - LogCheck - SATAN
128
Intentions of the perpetrator
Unix / Linux based security tools?
Residual risk
49. _________________should be Written down - Clearly Communicated to all system users - Audited and revised periodically.
Information Security policies
Residual risk
NFS
Salami attack
50. Which of the following is NOT and encryption algorithm?
Payload
SSL
Intentions of the perpetrator
Information
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