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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. What is the following paragraph an example of? <<ATTN: This system is for the use of authorized persons only. If you use this system without authority - or if you abuse your authority - then you are subject to having all of your activities on this sy






2. Contain - Recover - Review - Identify - Prepare






3. 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.






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






5. Combine both boot and file virus behavior






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. This is more time consuming - numeric values - based on Annualized Loss Expectancy (ALE) formulas






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. Allows File owners to determine access rights.






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






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






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






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






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






31. There are 65536 _________






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. Cable modems are ___________than DSL connections






39. Main goals of an information security program






40. __________ is a tool used by network administrators to capture packets from a network.






41. 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 ______






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






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






44. Ways to deal with risk.






45. Wiretapping is an example of a ________.






46. Is the person who is attempting to log on really who they say they are? What form of access control does this questions stem from?






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






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






49. ___________________ is responsible for creating security policies and for communicating those policies to system users.






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