SAPPC - Personnel Security questions with correct answers

personnel security program CORRECT ANSWER seeks to ensure that only loyal, trustworthy, and reliable people are granted access to classified information or assigned to sensitive duties. documents that mandate the personnel security program. CORRECT ANSWER • DoD Instruction 5200.02 (March 2014) establishes the policy, assigns responsibilities, and prescribes procedures for the DoD Personnel Security Program. • DoD Regulation 5200.2-R which has had three updates since 1987 covers policy for the major elements of the personnel security program. Use of this regulation is mandatory for all DoD components. It implements the personnel security program within the Department of Defense. • Executive Order 12968 was the most recent executive order that required several regulatory changes to the DoD 5200.2-R. It standardizes the personnel security program for the executive branch. As a security professional you will become familiar with this document. Personnel Security: Designation CORRECT ANSWER Each position in the Federal service is evaluated for a position designation. The designation is based on how the responsibilities and assignments of the position could impact the national security. Positions designated as sensitive involve job duties that can have a great impact on national security, as the individual assigned to the position could bring about, by virtue of the nature of the position, a material adverse effect on the national security. Positions with job duties which have no potential for material adverse effect on national security are designated as non-sensitive. I