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SPĒD SFPC EXAM VERIFIED QUESTIONS &
100% ACCURATE ANSWERS | COMPLETELY
UPDATED 2025–2026 EDITION A+
PERFORMANCE GUARANTEED
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 job scope
3. Engaging in classified conversations without NTK
4. Working inconsistent hours
5. Exploitable behavior traits
6. Repeated security violations
7. Unexplainable affluence/living above one's means
8. 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 expected combat-effective life of system
3. reduce technological advantage
4. significantly alter program direction; or
5. enable adversary to defeat, counter, copy, or reverse engineer
technology/capability.
Elements that security professional should consider when assessing and managing
risks to DoD assets (risk management process) - ANSWER: 1. Assess assets
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2. Assess threats
3. Assess Vulnerabilities
4. Assess risks
5. Determine countermeasure options
6. Make RM decision
The three categories of Special Access Programs - ANSWER: acquisition,
intelligence, and operations & support
Types of threats to classified information - ANSWER: Insider Threat, Foreign
Intelligence Entities (FIE), criminal activities, cyber threats, business competitors
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
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: Within Personnel Security:
• Access Rosters;
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• Billet Structures (if required);
• Indoctrination Agreement;
• Clearance based on appropriate investigation completed within last 5/6
years;
• Individual must materially contribute to program and have need to know
(NTK);
• SAP personnel subject to random counterintelligence scope polygraph;
• Polygraph examination, if approved by the DepSecDef, may be used as a
mandatory access determination;
• Tier review process;
• Personnel must have Secret or TS clearance;
• SF-86 must be current within one year;
• Limited Access;
• Waivers required for foreign cohabitants, spouses, and immediate family
members.
Within Industrial Security:
The SecDef or DepSecDef can approve carve-out provision to relieve Defense
Security Service of industrial security oversight responsibilities.
Within Physical Security:
• Access Control;
• Maintain SAP Facility;
• Access Roster;
• All SAPs must have unclassified nickname/ Codeword (optional). Within
Information Security:
• The use of HVSACO;
• Transmission requirements (order of precedence).
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Responsibilities of the Government SAP Security Officer/Contractor Program
Security Officer (GSSO/
CPSO) - ANSWER: • Possess personnel clearance and Program access at least
equal to highest level of Program classified information involved.
• Provide security administration and management for organization.
• Ensure personnel processed for access to SAP meet prerequisite personnel
clearance and/or investigative requirements specified.
• Ensure adequate secure storage and work spaces.
• Ensure strict adherence to the provisions of NISPOM, its supplement, and
the Overprint.
• When required, establish and oversee classified material control program for
each SAP.
• When required, conduct an annual inventory of accountable classified
material.
• When required, establish SAPF.
• Establish and oversee visitor control program.
• Monitor reproduction/duplication/destruction capability of SAP information
• Ensure adherence to special communications capabilities within SAPF.
• Provide for initial Program indoctrination of employees after access is
approved; rebrief and debrief personnel
• Establish and oversee specialized procedures for transmission of SAP
material to and from Program elements
• When required, ensure contractual specific security requirements are
accomplished.
• Establish security training and briefings specifically tailored to unique
requirements of SAP.
SPĒD SFPC EXAM VERIFIED QUESTIONS &
100% ACCURATE ANSWERS | COMPLETELY
UPDATED 2025–2026 EDITION A+
PERFORMANCE GUARANTEED
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 job scope
3. Engaging in classified conversations without NTK
4. Working inconsistent hours
5. Exploitable behavior traits
6. Repeated security violations
7. Unexplainable affluence/living above one's means
8. 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 expected combat-effective life of system
3. reduce technological advantage
4. significantly alter program direction; or
5. enable adversary to defeat, counter, copy, or reverse engineer
technology/capability.
Elements that security professional should consider when assessing and managing
risks to DoD assets (risk management process) - ANSWER: 1. Assess assets
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2. Assess threats
3. Assess Vulnerabilities
4. Assess risks
5. Determine countermeasure options
6. Make RM decision
The three categories of Special Access Programs - ANSWER: acquisition,
intelligence, and operations & support
Types of threats to classified information - ANSWER: Insider Threat, Foreign
Intelligence Entities (FIE), criminal activities, cyber threats, business competitors
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
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: Within Personnel Security:
• Access Rosters;
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• Billet Structures (if required);
• Indoctrination Agreement;
• Clearance based on appropriate investigation completed within last 5/6
years;
• Individual must materially contribute to program and have need to know
(NTK);
• SAP personnel subject to random counterintelligence scope polygraph;
• Polygraph examination, if approved by the DepSecDef, may be used as a
mandatory access determination;
• Tier review process;
• Personnel must have Secret or TS clearance;
• SF-86 must be current within one year;
• Limited Access;
• Waivers required for foreign cohabitants, spouses, and immediate family
members.
Within Industrial Security:
The SecDef or DepSecDef can approve carve-out provision to relieve Defense
Security Service of industrial security oversight responsibilities.
Within Physical Security:
• Access Control;
• Maintain SAP Facility;
• Access Roster;
• All SAPs must have unclassified nickname/ Codeword (optional). Within
Information Security:
• The use of HVSACO;
• Transmission requirements (order of precedence).
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Responsibilities of the Government SAP Security Officer/Contractor Program
Security Officer (GSSO/
CPSO) - ANSWER: • Possess personnel clearance and Program access at least
equal to highest level of Program classified information involved.
• Provide security administration and management for organization.
• Ensure personnel processed for access to SAP meet prerequisite personnel
clearance and/or investigative requirements specified.
• Ensure adequate secure storage and work spaces.
• Ensure strict adherence to the provisions of NISPOM, its supplement, and
the Overprint.
• When required, establish and oversee classified material control program for
each SAP.
• When required, conduct an annual inventory of accountable classified
material.
• When required, establish SAPF.
• Establish and oversee visitor control program.
• Monitor reproduction/duplication/destruction capability of SAP information
• Ensure adherence to special communications capabilities within SAPF.
• Provide for initial Program indoctrination of employees after access is
approved; rebrief and debrief personnel
• Establish and oversee specialized procedures for transmission of SAP
material to and from Program elements
• When required, ensure contractual specific security requirements are
accomplished.
• Establish security training and briefings specifically tailored to unique
requirements of SAP.
