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SSCP: Systems Security Certified Practitioner

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Contain - Recover - Review - Identify - Prepare






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






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






4. 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?






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






6. Digital Certificates use which protocol?






7. Which range defines 'well known ports?'






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






9. Remote Access Dial-in User Service






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






11. Wiretapping is an example of a ________.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. These should be done on a weekly basis






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






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






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






33. Identifying specific attempts to penetrate systems is the function of the _______________.






34. Tiger - TCP Wrappers - TripWire - LogCheck - SATAN






35. Used in ______________:Retinal Scanning - Fingerprints - Face Recognition - Voice Recognition






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






37. A formula used in Quantitative risk analysis






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






39. Security incidents fall into a number of categories such as accidental - deliberate - and ____________.






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






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






42. The __________ is the most dangerous part of a virus program.






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






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






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






46. One method that can reduce exposure to malicious code is to ___________________






47. Countermeasures' main objectives






48. RSA is not based on a ________






49. 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 ______






50. ____________ is used in mission critical systems and applications to lock down information based on sensitivity levels (Confidential - Top Secret - etc.







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