SPED SFPC ALL AREAS EXAM 2026 FINAL
REVIEW PACK COMPLETE QUESTION SET AND
CORE CONCEPT SUMMARY
◉ 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)
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: 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 examination;
• Polygraph examination, if approved by the DepSecDef, may be used
as a
mandatory access determination;
• Tier review process;
REVIEW PACK COMPLETE QUESTION SET AND
CORE CONCEPT SUMMARY
◉ 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)
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: 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 examination;
• Polygraph examination, if approved by the DepSecDef, may be used
as a
mandatory access determination;
• Tier review process;
