SPĒD SFPC EXAM: ALL AREAS
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 100%
CORRECT RATED A+
What are the primary behavioral, operational, and financial indicators that point to a
potential insider threat within an organization?
ANSWER:
Failure to report official/personal overseas travel or ongoing contact with foreign
nationals.
Seeking to gain higher security clearances or expanding system access well outside
their current job scope.
Engaging in classified conversations or requesting sensitive data without a
validated Need-to-Know (NTK).
Working inconsistent hours or accessing facilities/networks at unusual, unapproved
times.
Exploitable behavior traits (e.g., severe financial distress, substance abuse,
vulnerability to blackmail).
Repeated security violations or a blatant disregard for established security policies.
Unexplainable affluence or suddenly living visibly far above one's known financial
means.
,Illegal or unauthorized downloads of massive volumes of sensitive information,
data, or corporate files. ✔✔
Question 2
What critical elements must be evaluated when identifying Critical Program
Information (CPI) that, if compromised, would severely harm an organization or
national security?
ANSWER: Elements which, if compromised, could:
Cause significant degradation in mission effectiveness.
Shorten the expected combat-effective life of a system or technology.
Reduce the organization's or nation's technological advantage.
Significantly alter program direction or strategic development timelines.
Enable an adversary to defeat, counter, copy, or reverse-engineer the technology or
operational capability. ✔✔
Elements that security professional should consider when assessing and managing
risks to DoD assets (risk management process) -ANSWER ✔✔1. Assess assets
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;
• 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).
Responsibilities of the Government SAP Security Officer/Contractor Program
Security Officer (GSSO/
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 100%
CORRECT RATED A+
What are the primary behavioral, operational, and financial indicators that point to a
potential insider threat within an organization?
ANSWER:
Failure to report official/personal overseas travel or ongoing contact with foreign
nationals.
Seeking to gain higher security clearances or expanding system access well outside
their current job scope.
Engaging in classified conversations or requesting sensitive data without a
validated Need-to-Know (NTK).
Working inconsistent hours or accessing facilities/networks at unusual, unapproved
times.
Exploitable behavior traits (e.g., severe financial distress, substance abuse,
vulnerability to blackmail).
Repeated security violations or a blatant disregard for established security policies.
Unexplainable affluence or suddenly living visibly far above one's known financial
means.
,Illegal or unauthorized downloads of massive volumes of sensitive information,
data, or corporate files. ✔✔
Question 2
What critical elements must be evaluated when identifying Critical Program
Information (CPI) that, if compromised, would severely harm an organization or
national security?
ANSWER: Elements which, if compromised, could:
Cause significant degradation in mission effectiveness.
Shorten the expected combat-effective life of a system or technology.
Reduce the organization's or nation's technological advantage.
Significantly alter program direction or strategic development timelines.
Enable an adversary to defeat, counter, copy, or reverse-engineer the technology or
operational capability. ✔✔
Elements that security professional should consider when assessing and managing
risks to DoD assets (risk management process) -ANSWER ✔✔1. Assess assets
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;
• 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).
Responsibilities of the Government SAP Security Officer/Contractor Program
Security Officer (GSSO/
