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






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






3. A virus is considered to be 'in the ______ ' if it has been reported as replicating and causing harm to computers.






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






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






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






7. __________ attacks capitalize on programming errors and can allow the originator to gain additional privileges on a machine.






8. To help managers find the correct cost balance between risks and countermeasures






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






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






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






12. Data being delivered from the source to the intended receiver without being altered






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






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






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






16. Cable modems are ___________than DSL connections






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






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






19. S/MIME was developed for the protection of what communication mechanism(s)?






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






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






22. 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?






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






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






25. MD5 is a ___________ algorithm






26. Allows File owners to determine access rights.






27. ________ is the authoritative entity which lists port assignments






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






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






30. Digital Certificates use which protocol?






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






32. Ways to deal with risk.






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






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






35. The ultimate goal of a computer forensics specialist is to ___________________.






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






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






38. _________ is a form of Denial of Service attack which interrupts the TCP three way handshake and leaves half open connections.






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






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






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






42. 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 ______






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






44. HTTP - FTP - SMTP reside at which layer of the OSI model?






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






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






47. Diffie Hellman - RSA - and ___________ are all examples of Public Key cryptography?






48. Which organization(s) are responsible for the timely distribution of information security intelligence data?






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






50. Layer 4 in the DoD model overlaps with which layer(s) of the OSI model?