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SPēD SFPC: General Exam Questions With
Verified Answers.
Principle incident/events required to be reported to DoD counterintelligence (CI) organizations -
answer✔espionage, sabotage, terrorism, cyber
Indicators of insider threats - answer✔1. Failure to report overseas travel or contact with foreign
nationals
2. Seeking to gain higher clearance or expand access outside the job scope
3. Engaging in classified conversations without a need to know
4. Working hours inconsistent with job assignment or insistence on working in private
5. Exploitable behavior traits
6. Repeated security violations
7. Attempting to enter areas not granted access to
8. Unexplainable affluence/living above one's means
9. Anomalies (adversary taking actions which indicate they are knowledgeable to information)
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10. Illegal downloads of information/files
Elements that should be considered in identifying Critical Program Information -
answer✔Elements which if compromised could:
1. cause significant degradation in mission effectiveness
2. shorten the expected combat-effective life of the system
3. reduce technological advantage
4. significantly alter program direction or
5. enable an adversary to defeat, counter, copy, or reverseengineer the technology or capability
Asset, threat, vulnerability, risk, countermeasures - answer✔Elements that a security
professional should consider when assessing and managing risks to DoD assets
The three categories of Special Access Programs - answer✔acquisition, intelligence, and
operations and support
Three different types of threats to classified information - answer✔Insider Threat, Foreign
Intelligence Entities (FIE) and Cybersecurity Threat
The concept of an insider threat - answer✔An employee who may represent a threat to national
security. These threats encompass potential espionage, violent acts against the Government or
the nation, and unauthorized disclosure of classified information, including the vast amounts of
classified data available on interconnected United States Government computer networks and
systems.
The purpose of the Foreign Visitor Program - answer✔To track and approve access by a foreign
entity to information that is classified; and to approve access by a foreign entity to information
that is unclassified, related to a U.S. Government contract, or plant visits covered by ITAR.
Special Access Program - answer✔A program established for a specific class of classified
information that imposes safeguarding and access requirements that exceed those normally
required for information at the same classification level.
Enhanced security requirements for protecting Special Access Program (SAP) information -
answer✔1. Within Personnel Security:
SPēD SFPC: General Exam Questions With
Verified Answers.
Principle incident/events required to be reported to DoD counterintelligence (CI) organizations -
answer✔espionage, sabotage, terrorism, cyber
Indicators of insider threats - answer✔1. Failure to report overseas travel or contact with foreign
nationals
2. Seeking to gain higher clearance or expand access outside the job scope
3. Engaging in classified conversations without a need to know
4. Working hours inconsistent with job assignment or insistence on working in private
5. Exploitable behavior traits
6. Repeated security violations
7. Attempting to enter areas not granted access to
8. Unexplainable affluence/living above one's means
9. Anomalies (adversary taking actions which indicate they are knowledgeable to information)
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10. Illegal downloads of information/files
Elements that should be considered in identifying Critical Program Information -
answer✔Elements which if compromised could:
1. cause significant degradation in mission effectiveness
2. shorten the expected combat-effective life of the system
3. reduce technological advantage
4. significantly alter program direction or
5. enable an adversary to defeat, counter, copy, or reverseengineer the technology or capability
Asset, threat, vulnerability, risk, countermeasures - answer✔Elements that a security
professional should consider when assessing and managing risks to DoD assets
The three categories of Special Access Programs - answer✔acquisition, intelligence, and
operations and support
Three different types of threats to classified information - answer✔Insider Threat, Foreign
Intelligence Entities (FIE) and Cybersecurity Threat
The concept of an insider threat - answer✔An employee who may represent a threat to national
security. These threats encompass potential espionage, violent acts against the Government or
the nation, and unauthorized disclosure of classified information, including the vast amounts of
classified data available on interconnected United States Government computer networks and
systems.
The purpose of the Foreign Visitor Program - answer✔To track and approve access by a foreign
entity to information that is classified; and to approve access by a foreign entity to information
that is unclassified, related to a U.S. Government contract, or plant visits covered by ITAR.
Special Access Program - answer✔A program established for a specific class of classified
information that imposes safeguarding and access requirements that exceed those normally
required for information at the same classification level.
Enhanced security requirements for protecting Special Access Program (SAP) information -
answer✔1. Within Personnel Security:
