SAPPC COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What is the purpose of an Antiterrorism Program? - ✔✔Protect DoD personnel, their
families, installations, facilities, information, and other material resources from terrorist
acts.
✔✔List three Force Protection Condition levels? - ✔✔Normal, Alpha, Bravo, Charlie,
Delta
✔✔Describe the concept of security-in-depth? - ✔✔Layered and complementary
security controls sufficient to deter, detect, and document unauthorized entry and
movement within an installation or facility.
✔✔In which security program area would you find practitioners who train and/or advise
Original Classification Authorities in the application of the process for making
classification determinations? - ✔✔Information Security
✔✔In which security program area would you find practitioners working with a facility's
Antiterrorism Officer to deploy defensive measures designed to reduce the facility's
vulnerability from terrorist attacks? - ✔✔Physical Security
✔✔In which security program area would you find practitioners involved with processes
that monitor employees for new information that could affect their security clearance
eligibility status? - ✔✔Personnel Security
✔✔CI Foreign Travel Briefing? - ✔✔Purpose to increase awareness and personal
safety, targeting by foreign intelligence, current travel warnings, & where to seek help if
needed.
✔✔CI Elicitation is a form of social engineering? - ✔✔Collecting info from people though
conversation.
, ✔✔Potential Espionage Indicator Categories? - ✔✔Foreign Contracts and Associations
Foreign Travel
Foreign Preference
Anti-American Statements, Activities, and Associations
Falsification/Failure to Report Substantive Information
Sexual Behavior That Increases Vulnerability to Exploitation
Suspicious Financial Transactions or Undue Affluence
Illicit Information Collection or Transmittal
Other Counterintelligence Issues
✔✔Who could become an insider threat? - ✔✔Any person with authorized access to
any US government resources.
✔✔Executive Order 13587? - ✔✔Government agencies to establish their own insider
threat programs.
✔✔Insider threat programs are intended to? - ✔✔Deter, Detect, and Mitigate the risk.
✔✔List an enhanced security requirement for protecting Special Access Program (SAP)
Information within Industrial Security? - ✔✔The SecDef or DepSecDef can approve a
carve-out provision to relieve Defense
Security Service of industrial security oversight responsibilities.
✔✔List an enhanced security requirement for protecting Special Access Program (SAP)
Information within Physical Security? - ✔✔Access Control
Maintain a SAP Facility
Access Roster
All SAPs must have an unclassified nickname/Codeword (optional).
✔✔List an enhanced security requirement for protecting Special Access Program (SAP)
Information within Information Security? - ✔✔The use of HVSACO
Transmission requirements (order of precedence)
✔✔List five responsibilities of the Government SAP Security Officer/Contractor Program
Security Officer (GSSO/CPSO)? - ✔✔• Possess a personnel clearance and Program
access at least equal to the highest level of
• Program classified information involved.
• Provide security administration and management for his/her organization.
• Ensure personnel processed for access to a SAP meet the prerequisite personnel
clearance and/or investigative requirements specified.
• Ensure adequate secure storage and work spaces.
• Ensure strict adherence to the provisions of the NISPOM, its supplement, and the
Overprint.
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What is the purpose of an Antiterrorism Program? - ✔✔Protect DoD personnel, their
families, installations, facilities, information, and other material resources from terrorist
acts.
✔✔List three Force Protection Condition levels? - ✔✔Normal, Alpha, Bravo, Charlie,
Delta
✔✔Describe the concept of security-in-depth? - ✔✔Layered and complementary
security controls sufficient to deter, detect, and document unauthorized entry and
movement within an installation or facility.
✔✔In which security program area would you find practitioners who train and/or advise
Original Classification Authorities in the application of the process for making
classification determinations? - ✔✔Information Security
✔✔In which security program area would you find practitioners working with a facility's
Antiterrorism Officer to deploy defensive measures designed to reduce the facility's
vulnerability from terrorist attacks? - ✔✔Physical Security
✔✔In which security program area would you find practitioners involved with processes
that monitor employees for new information that could affect their security clearance
eligibility status? - ✔✔Personnel Security
✔✔CI Foreign Travel Briefing? - ✔✔Purpose to increase awareness and personal
safety, targeting by foreign intelligence, current travel warnings, & where to seek help if
needed.
✔✔CI Elicitation is a form of social engineering? - ✔✔Collecting info from people though
conversation.
, ✔✔Potential Espionage Indicator Categories? - ✔✔Foreign Contracts and Associations
Foreign Travel
Foreign Preference
Anti-American Statements, Activities, and Associations
Falsification/Failure to Report Substantive Information
Sexual Behavior That Increases Vulnerability to Exploitation
Suspicious Financial Transactions or Undue Affluence
Illicit Information Collection or Transmittal
Other Counterintelligence Issues
✔✔Who could become an insider threat? - ✔✔Any person with authorized access to
any US government resources.
✔✔Executive Order 13587? - ✔✔Government agencies to establish their own insider
threat programs.
✔✔Insider threat programs are intended to? - ✔✔Deter, Detect, and Mitigate the risk.
✔✔List an enhanced security requirement for protecting Special Access Program (SAP)
Information within Industrial Security? - ✔✔The SecDef or DepSecDef can approve a
carve-out provision to relieve Defense
Security Service of industrial security oversight responsibilities.
✔✔List an enhanced security requirement for protecting Special Access Program (SAP)
Information within Physical Security? - ✔✔Access Control
Maintain a SAP Facility
Access Roster
All SAPs must have an unclassified nickname/Codeword (optional).
✔✔List an enhanced security requirement for protecting Special Access Program (SAP)
Information within Information Security? - ✔✔The use of HVSACO
Transmission requirements (order of precedence)
✔✔List five responsibilities of the Government SAP Security Officer/Contractor Program
Security Officer (GSSO/CPSO)? - ✔✔• Possess a personnel clearance and Program
access at least equal to the highest level of
• Program classified information involved.
• Provide security administration and management for his/her organization.
• Ensure personnel processed for access to a SAP meet the prerequisite personnel
clearance and/or investigative requirements specified.
• Ensure adequate secure storage and work spaces.
• Ensure strict adherence to the provisions of the NISPOM, its supplement, and the
Overprint.
