Security Fundamentals Professional Certification
(SFPC) EXAM [2026/2027] | UPDATED QUESTIONS |
CORRECT ANSWERS
• Personal Security (PERSEC) Elements -✓✓ANSWER: Designation, Investigation,
Adjudication, Reinvestigation, Continuous Evaluation
• Adjudicators' Criteria for Security Clearance -✓✓ANSWER: Honesty, Reliability,
Character, Loyalty, Trustworthiness
• Continuous Evaluation -✓✓ANSWER: Ongoing assessment for security clearance
eligibility or sensitive duty assignment retention
• Continuous Evaluation Program (CEP) -✓✓ANSWER: Monitors employees for
new information or changes since last investigation
• Interim Clearance Eligibility Prerequisites -✓✓ANSWER: Valid access need,
favorable SF-86 review, meeting all minimum requirements
• Civilian Personnel Designations -✓✓ANSWER: Special-sensitive, Critical-
sensitive, Non-critical sensitive, Non-sensitive
• Special-Sensitive Positions -✓✓ANSWER: Civilian roles with potential for severe
National Security damage
, • Critical-Sensitive Positions -✓✓ANSWER: Civilian roles with potential for
exceptionally grave National Security damage
• Non-Critical Sensitive Positions -✓✓ANSWER: Civilian roles with potential for
significant National Security damage
• Hatch Act of 1939 -✓✓ANSWER: Established guidelines for personnel security,
pledging allegiance to the US
• Joint Clearance and Access Verification System (JCAVS) Objectives -✓✓ANSWER:
Update security accesses, facilitate communication, aid in management tasks
• JPAS Objective -✓✓ANSWER: Centralized database for DoD PERSEC processes
• CATS -✓✓ANSWER: Case Adjudication Tracking System used by DoD CAF
adjudicators
• DISS -✓✓ANSWER: Defense Information System for Security, replaces CATS and
JPAS
• Privacy Act of 1974 Information Advisements -✓✓ANSWER: Authority, purpose,
routine use, and mandatory/voluntary info provision consequences
• Classified Working Papers Standards -✓✓ANSWER: Dated, marked with
classification, destroyed when not needed
(SFPC) EXAM [2026/2027] | UPDATED QUESTIONS |
CORRECT ANSWERS
• Personal Security (PERSEC) Elements -✓✓ANSWER: Designation, Investigation,
Adjudication, Reinvestigation, Continuous Evaluation
• Adjudicators' Criteria for Security Clearance -✓✓ANSWER: Honesty, Reliability,
Character, Loyalty, Trustworthiness
• Continuous Evaluation -✓✓ANSWER: Ongoing assessment for security clearance
eligibility or sensitive duty assignment retention
• Continuous Evaluation Program (CEP) -✓✓ANSWER: Monitors employees for
new information or changes since last investigation
• Interim Clearance Eligibility Prerequisites -✓✓ANSWER: Valid access need,
favorable SF-86 review, meeting all minimum requirements
• Civilian Personnel Designations -✓✓ANSWER: Special-sensitive, Critical-
sensitive, Non-critical sensitive, Non-sensitive
• Special-Sensitive Positions -✓✓ANSWER: Civilian roles with potential for severe
National Security damage
, • Critical-Sensitive Positions -✓✓ANSWER: Civilian roles with potential for
exceptionally grave National Security damage
• Non-Critical Sensitive Positions -✓✓ANSWER: Civilian roles with potential for
significant National Security damage
• Hatch Act of 1939 -✓✓ANSWER: Established guidelines for personnel security,
pledging allegiance to the US
• Joint Clearance and Access Verification System (JCAVS) Objectives -✓✓ANSWER:
Update security accesses, facilitate communication, aid in management tasks
• JPAS Objective -✓✓ANSWER: Centralized database for DoD PERSEC processes
• CATS -✓✓ANSWER: Case Adjudication Tracking System used by DoD CAF
adjudicators
• DISS -✓✓ANSWER: Defense Information System for Security, replaces CATS and
JPAS
• Privacy Act of 1974 Information Advisements -✓✓ANSWER: Authority, purpose,
routine use, and mandatory/voluntary info provision consequences
• Classified Working Papers Standards -✓✓ANSWER: Dated, marked with
classification, destroyed when not needed
