SAPPC CERTIFICATION 2026 TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔PMO is an abbreviation for? - ✔✔Program Management Office
✔✔Provides the legal requirements to use lawful means to ensure U. S. receives the
best intelligence available? - ✔✔E.O. 12333
✔✔The manual that includes CI-related requirements for Industry? - ✔✔DoD 5220.22-M
(NISPOM)
✔✔Regulation mandating CI-specific training, briefing, and reporting? - ✔✔DoDI5240.6:
CI Awareness, Briefing, and Reporting Programs
✔✔Regulation providing procedures to follow when classified information is
compromised? - ✔✔DoD 5200.1-R: information Security Program
✔✔What are three principle incidents/events required to report to DoD
counterintelligence (CI) organizations? - ✔✔Espionage, Sabotage, Terrorism & Cyber
Policy
✔✔List three different types of threats to classified information? - ✔✔Insider Threat,
Foreign Intelligence Entities (FIE), Cybersecurity Threat
✔✔List three indicators of insider threats? - ✔✔Failure to report overseas travel or
contact with foreign nationals.
Seeking to gain higher clearance or expand access outside the job scope.
Engaging in classified conversations without a need to know.
Working hours inconsistent with job assignment or insistence on working in private.
Exploitable behavior traits.
Repeated security violations.
Attempting to enter areas not granted access to.
✔✔List three elements that should be considered in identifying Critical Program
Information? - ✔✔- Cause significant degradation in mission effectiveness
- Shorten the expected combat-effective life of the system
- Reduce technological advantage
- Significantly alter program direction
- Enable an adversary to defeat, counter, copy, or reverse-engineer the technology or
capability.
✔✔Briefly describe the concept of insider threat? - ✔✔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.
✔✔List three elements that a security professional should consider when assessing and
managing risks to DoD assets? - ✔✔Asset
Threat
Vulnerability
Risk
Countermeasures
✔✔Describe the purpose of the Foreign Visitor Program? - ✔✔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.
✔✔Briefly define a Special Access Program (SAP)? - ✔✔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.
✔✔List three enhanced security requirements for protecting Special Access Program
(SAP) Information within Personnel Security? - ✔✔Access Rosters
Billet Structures (if required)
Indoctrination Agreement
Clearance based on an appropriate investigation completed within the last 5 years
Individual must materially contribute to the program in addition to having the need to
know
All individuals with access to SAP are subject to a random counterintelligence-scope
polygraph
✔✔Identify the four Cognizant Security Agencies (CSA)? - ✔✔Department of Defense
(DoD)
Director of National Intelligence (DNI)
Department of Energy (DoE)
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
✔✔Describe the CSA's role in the National Industrial Security Program (NISP)? - ✔✔To
establish an industrial security program to safeguard classified information under its
jurisdiction.
✔✔List three factors for determining whether U.S. companies are under Foreign
Ownership, Control, or Influence (FOCI)? - ✔✔Record of economic and government
espionage against the U.S. targets
Record of enforcement/engagement in unauthorized technology transfer
Type and sensitivity of the information that shall be accessed
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔PMO is an abbreviation for? - ✔✔Program Management Office
✔✔Provides the legal requirements to use lawful means to ensure U. S. receives the
best intelligence available? - ✔✔E.O. 12333
✔✔The manual that includes CI-related requirements for Industry? - ✔✔DoD 5220.22-M
(NISPOM)
✔✔Regulation mandating CI-specific training, briefing, and reporting? - ✔✔DoDI5240.6:
CI Awareness, Briefing, and Reporting Programs
✔✔Regulation providing procedures to follow when classified information is
compromised? - ✔✔DoD 5200.1-R: information Security Program
✔✔What are three principle incidents/events required to report to DoD
counterintelligence (CI) organizations? - ✔✔Espionage, Sabotage, Terrorism & Cyber
Policy
✔✔List three different types of threats to classified information? - ✔✔Insider Threat,
Foreign Intelligence Entities (FIE), Cybersecurity Threat
✔✔List three indicators of insider threats? - ✔✔Failure to report overseas travel or
contact with foreign nationals.
Seeking to gain higher clearance or expand access outside the job scope.
Engaging in classified conversations without a need to know.
Working hours inconsistent with job assignment or insistence on working in private.
Exploitable behavior traits.
Repeated security violations.
Attempting to enter areas not granted access to.
✔✔List three elements that should be considered in identifying Critical Program
Information? - ✔✔- Cause significant degradation in mission effectiveness
- Shorten the expected combat-effective life of the system
- Reduce technological advantage
- Significantly alter program direction
- Enable an adversary to defeat, counter, copy, or reverse-engineer the technology or
capability.
✔✔Briefly describe the concept of insider threat? - ✔✔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.
✔✔List three elements that a security professional should consider when assessing and
managing risks to DoD assets? - ✔✔Asset
Threat
Vulnerability
Risk
Countermeasures
✔✔Describe the purpose of the Foreign Visitor Program? - ✔✔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.
✔✔Briefly define a Special Access Program (SAP)? - ✔✔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.
✔✔List three enhanced security requirements for protecting Special Access Program
(SAP) Information within Personnel Security? - ✔✔Access Rosters
Billet Structures (if required)
Indoctrination Agreement
Clearance based on an appropriate investigation completed within the last 5 years
Individual must materially contribute to the program in addition to having the need to
know
All individuals with access to SAP are subject to a random counterintelligence-scope
polygraph
✔✔Identify the four Cognizant Security Agencies (CSA)? - ✔✔Department of Defense
(DoD)
Director of National Intelligence (DNI)
Department of Energy (DoE)
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
✔✔Describe the CSA's role in the National Industrial Security Program (NISP)? - ✔✔To
establish an industrial security program to safeguard classified information under its
jurisdiction.
✔✔List three factors for determining whether U.S. companies are under Foreign
Ownership, Control, or Influence (FOCI)? - ✔✔Record of economic and government
espionage against the U.S. targets
Record of enforcement/engagement in unauthorized technology transfer
Type and sensitivity of the information that shall be accessed
