SFPC COMPLETE EXAMINATION TEST
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
●● 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
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
●● 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
