Introduction to Personnel Security Exam #1 Questions with Correct
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PSP - ✔✔Personnel Security Program
Establishes the standards, criteria, and guidelines upon which personnel security
determinations are based. Using a comprehensive background investigative
process to make this determination. Applies to members of the Armed Forces,
DOD civilian employees, DOD contractors, and other affiliated people who require
access to classified information or who are assigned national security sensitive
duties
Protects national security by ensuring that only loyal, trustworthy, and reliable
individuals may access classified information and/or be assigned to national
security sensitive positions
3 questions asked over everyone who has a need for access to classified or
sensitive information - ✔✔1. Is the individual's allegiance solely with the United
States and its basic form of government?
2. Can the individual be trusted to properly protect classified information and/or
perform other sensitive duties?
3. Is the individual consistently willing and able to carry out security
responsibilities?
Spoils system - ✔✔System by which people were appointed to civil service jobs in
the 1800s. Required allegiance to the party boss and the political party that
appointed you, as opposed to a larger sense of allegiance to the Constitution
,Executive Orders governing the PSP - ✔✔1. EO 10450
2. EO 10865
3. EO 12968
4. EO 13467
5. EO 13764
6. EO 13869
EO 10450 - ✔✔Security Requirements for Government Employment
Establishes security requirements for government employment where each
civilian officer or employee in any department or agency of the Government shall
be made subject to investigation.
Scope of the investigation shall be determined in the first instance according to
the degree of adverse effect the occupant of the position sought to be filled could
bring about, by virtue of the nature of the position, on the national security.
EO 10865 - ✔✔Safeguarding Classified Information within Industry
Requires all persons who are employed by the departments and agencies of the
government shall be reliable, trustworthy, of good conduct and character, and of
complete and unswerving loyalty to the United States
EO 12968 - ✔✔Access to Classified Information and Background Investigative
Standards
, Establishes a uniform federal Personnel Security Program for employees who are
considered for initial or continued access to classified information
Establishes security policies designed to protect classified information
EO 13467 - ✔✔Authorizes the continued evaluation of personnel who hold an
active national security eligibility determination. Designates the Director of
National Intelligence as the "Security Executive Agent" with responsibility over
security and public trust clearance processing and the Office of Personnel
Management as the "Suitability Executive Agent" with continued responsibility
and authority for federal employment suitability investigations and
determinations and authorizes continuous evaluation of personnel who hold an
active national security clearance
EO 13764 - ✔✔Effort to Modernize the Executive Branch-Wide governance
structure and processes for Security clearances, suitability, and fitness for
employment, and credentialing, and related matters
EO 13869 - ✔✔Gave the Secretary of Defense the authority to conduct security,
suitability, and credentialing background investigations for Department of
Defense personnel
SEADS - ✔✔Security Executive Agency Directives for governing PSP
1. SEAD 3
2. SEAD 4
3. SEAD 6
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PSP - ✔✔Personnel Security Program
Establishes the standards, criteria, and guidelines upon which personnel security
determinations are based. Using a comprehensive background investigative
process to make this determination. Applies to members of the Armed Forces,
DOD civilian employees, DOD contractors, and other affiliated people who require
access to classified information or who are assigned national security sensitive
duties
Protects national security by ensuring that only loyal, trustworthy, and reliable
individuals may access classified information and/or be assigned to national
security sensitive positions
3 questions asked over everyone who has a need for access to classified or
sensitive information - ✔✔1. Is the individual's allegiance solely with the United
States and its basic form of government?
2. Can the individual be trusted to properly protect classified information and/or
perform other sensitive duties?
3. Is the individual consistently willing and able to carry out security
responsibilities?
Spoils system - ✔✔System by which people were appointed to civil service jobs in
the 1800s. Required allegiance to the party boss and the political party that
appointed you, as opposed to a larger sense of allegiance to the Constitution
,Executive Orders governing the PSP - ✔✔1. EO 10450
2. EO 10865
3. EO 12968
4. EO 13467
5. EO 13764
6. EO 13869
EO 10450 - ✔✔Security Requirements for Government Employment
Establishes security requirements for government employment where each
civilian officer or employee in any department or agency of the Government shall
be made subject to investigation.
Scope of the investigation shall be determined in the first instance according to
the degree of adverse effect the occupant of the position sought to be filled could
bring about, by virtue of the nature of the position, on the national security.
EO 10865 - ✔✔Safeguarding Classified Information within Industry
Requires all persons who are employed by the departments and agencies of the
government shall be reliable, trustworthy, of good conduct and character, and of
complete and unswerving loyalty to the United States
EO 12968 - ✔✔Access to Classified Information and Background Investigative
Standards
, Establishes a uniform federal Personnel Security Program for employees who are
considered for initial or continued access to classified information
Establishes security policies designed to protect classified information
EO 13467 - ✔✔Authorizes the continued evaluation of personnel who hold an
active national security eligibility determination. Designates the Director of
National Intelligence as the "Security Executive Agent" with responsibility over
security and public trust clearance processing and the Office of Personnel
Management as the "Suitability Executive Agent" with continued responsibility
and authority for federal employment suitability investigations and
determinations and authorizes continuous evaluation of personnel who hold an
active national security clearance
EO 13764 - ✔✔Effort to Modernize the Executive Branch-Wide governance
structure and processes for Security clearances, suitability, and fitness for
employment, and credentialing, and related matters
EO 13869 - ✔✔Gave the Secretary of Defense the authority to conduct security,
suitability, and credentialing background investigations for Department of
Defense personnel
SEADS - ✔✔Security Executive Agency Directives for governing PSP
1. SEAD 3
2. SEAD 4
3. SEAD 6
