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SSCP: Systems Security Certified Practitioner

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






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






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






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






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






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






7. 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.






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






9. Combine both boot and file virus behavior






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






11. The act of intercepting the first message in a public key exchange and substituting a bogus key for the original key is an example of which style of attack?






12. Contain - Recover - Review - Identify - Prepare






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






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






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






16. Countermeasures' main objectives






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






18. Cable modems are ___________than DSL connections






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






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






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






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






23. Digital Certificates use which protocol?






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






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






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






27. Information security policies are a ___________________.






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. Consists of checking for Minimum password length - Password aging - Password Strength - Blank Passwords?






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






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






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






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






39. 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






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






41. MD5 is a ___________ algorithm






42. 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?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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







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