SAPPC EXAMINATION 2026 SET QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔List three transmission and transportation requirements that help manage risks to
DoD assets? - ✔✔• Safeguarding
• Briefings
• Documentation
• Personal control
• Utilizing proper methods of transmission/transportation based on classification level
• Intended recipient(s) have proper clearance/eligibility and need to know (or access)
• Capability to properly store classified
information
✔✔List three types of security briefings that help manage risks to DoD assets? - ✔✔•
Initial Orientation
• Annual Refresher
• Threat Awareness
• Foreign Travel
• Special Training Requirements
• Derivative Classification
• Original Classification Authority (OCA)
• Declassification Authority
• Debriefings
• Termination briefing
✔✔List three disposal and destruction methods used to effectively manage risks to DoD
classified information? - ✔✔• Cross-cut shredding
• Burning/ Incinerating
• Pulverizing
• Disintegrating
• Mutilating
• Degaussing
• Chemical decomposition
• Special burn
• Wet pulping
• Overwriting
• Sanding
• Physical destruction
✔✔List three types of safeguarding procedures for classified information? - ✔✔• Proper
storage
• Proper handling
• Approved disposition
• Proper transmission/transportation methods
• Receipt use, when required
, • Forced entry protection
• Dissemination
• Physical security measures
• Technical, administrative, and personnel control measures (deleted access control as
these measures constitute access control)
• Develop emergency plan
✔✔Describe the security professional's role in handling a security incident? - ✔✔•
Secure
• Safeguard
• Report
• Inquire (under unusual circumstances)
• Investigate (under unusual
circumstances)
• Recommend
✔✔Describe how the roles of the security professional and the information assurance
(IA) professional differ in regard to protecting DoD classified information on information
technology (IT) systems. - ✔✔• The IA professional must ensure that all DoD
information systems maintain appropriate levels of availability, integrity, authentication,
confidentiality, and non-repudiation in order to protect and defend DoD
information and networks. They must also ensure the systems are certified and
accredited.
• The security professional coordinates with the IA professional during the C&A process.
The security professional must be aware of the nature, scope, and schedule of ongoing
C&A activities within a given organization, in order to provide timely and relevant
classification management direction and to ensure the physical environment is properly
secured and accredited for the operations planned and that users are properly cleared
and have all requisite access in time to support the mission.
✔✔Explain how the adjudication process contributes to effective risk management of
DoD assets? - ✔✔Ensures that, based upon all available information, an individual's
loyalty, reliability, and trustworthiness are such that entrusting assigned persons with
eligibility to classified information or sensitive duties is in the best interest of national
security.
✔✔Explain how effective implementation of the continuous evaluation process
contributes to management of risks to DoD assets? - ✔✔Ensures that individuals with
national security eligibility and access are continuously assessed through
utilization of accessible databases and other lawfully available information; continue to
meet adjudicative standards; and that any issues that may arise are promptly reported.
✔✔List three factors that should be considered when determining position sensitivity? -
✔✔• Level of Access to Classified Information
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔List three transmission and transportation requirements that help manage risks to
DoD assets? - ✔✔• Safeguarding
• Briefings
• Documentation
• Personal control
• Utilizing proper methods of transmission/transportation based on classification level
• Intended recipient(s) have proper clearance/eligibility and need to know (or access)
• Capability to properly store classified
information
✔✔List three types of security briefings that help manage risks to DoD assets? - ✔✔•
Initial Orientation
• Annual Refresher
• Threat Awareness
• Foreign Travel
• Special Training Requirements
• Derivative Classification
• Original Classification Authority (OCA)
• Declassification Authority
• Debriefings
• Termination briefing
✔✔List three disposal and destruction methods used to effectively manage risks to DoD
classified information? - ✔✔• Cross-cut shredding
• Burning/ Incinerating
• Pulverizing
• Disintegrating
• Mutilating
• Degaussing
• Chemical decomposition
• Special burn
• Wet pulping
• Overwriting
• Sanding
• Physical destruction
✔✔List three types of safeguarding procedures for classified information? - ✔✔• Proper
storage
• Proper handling
• Approved disposition
• Proper transmission/transportation methods
• Receipt use, when required
, • Forced entry protection
• Dissemination
• Physical security measures
• Technical, administrative, and personnel control measures (deleted access control as
these measures constitute access control)
• Develop emergency plan
✔✔Describe the security professional's role in handling a security incident? - ✔✔•
Secure
• Safeguard
• Report
• Inquire (under unusual circumstances)
• Investigate (under unusual
circumstances)
• Recommend
✔✔Describe how the roles of the security professional and the information assurance
(IA) professional differ in regard to protecting DoD classified information on information
technology (IT) systems. - ✔✔• The IA professional must ensure that all DoD
information systems maintain appropriate levels of availability, integrity, authentication,
confidentiality, and non-repudiation in order to protect and defend DoD
information and networks. They must also ensure the systems are certified and
accredited.
• The security professional coordinates with the IA professional during the C&A process.
The security professional must be aware of the nature, scope, and schedule of ongoing
C&A activities within a given organization, in order to provide timely and relevant
classification management direction and to ensure the physical environment is properly
secured and accredited for the operations planned and that users are properly cleared
and have all requisite access in time to support the mission.
✔✔Explain how the adjudication process contributes to effective risk management of
DoD assets? - ✔✔Ensures that, based upon all available information, an individual's
loyalty, reliability, and trustworthiness are such that entrusting assigned persons with
eligibility to classified information or sensitive duties is in the best interest of national
security.
✔✔Explain how effective implementation of the continuous evaluation process
contributes to management of risks to DoD assets? - ✔✔Ensures that individuals with
national security eligibility and access are continuously assessed through
utilization of accessible databases and other lawfully available information; continue to
meet adjudicative standards; and that any issues that may arise are promptly reported.
✔✔List three factors that should be considered when determining position sensitivity? -
✔✔• Level of Access to Classified Information
