SPēD SFPC: General Exam Questions
and Answers
Principle incident/events required to be reported to DoD counterintelligence (CI) organizations -
Answer-espionage, sabotage, terrorism, cyber
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
and Answers
Principle incident/events required to be reported to DoD counterintelligence (CI) organizations -
Answer-espionage, sabotage, terrorism, cyber
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
