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SSCP: Systems Security Certified Practitioner

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. ____ members of the staff need to be educated in disaster recovery procedures.






2. Allows File owners to determine access rights.






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






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






5. Cable modems are ___________than DSL connections






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






7. Remote Access Dial-in User Service






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






9. An intrusion detection system is an example of what type of countermeasure?






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






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






12. Ways to deal with risk.






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






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






15. A true network security audit does include an audit for _____________






16. Layer 4 of the OSI model corresponds to which layer of the DoD model?






17. 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 ______






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






19. Smart cards are a secure alternative to which weak security mechanism?






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






21. RSA is not based on a ________






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






23. _______________ supply AV engines with false information to avoid detection






24. There are 65536 _________






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






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






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






28. 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?






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






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






31. Combine both boot and file virus behavior






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. Countermeasures' main objectives






42. Logon and Logoff - Use of User Rights - Security Policy Change






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






44. Information security policies are a ___________________.






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






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






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






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






49. Digital Certificates use which protocol?






50. Which layer of the OSI model handles encryption?