SPēD SFPC EXAM: All Areas(This
study set supplements CDSE
Certification Preparatory Tools (CPTs)
for the Security Fundamentals
Professional Certification (SFPC).
Content is based on the candidate
handbook, CPTs, & CDSE course
student guides for SFPC areas of
expertise. We recommend taking CDSE
courses: Intro to Industrial Security,
Intro to Information Security, Intro to
Physical Security, Intro to Personnel
Security, Intro to DoD Personnel
Security Adjudication, & Special
Access Program (SAP) Overview)2026
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 job scope
3. Engaging in classified conversations without NTK
4. Working inconsistent hours
5. Exploitable behavior traits
6. Repeated security violations
7. Unexplainable affluence/living above one's means
8. 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 expected combat-effective life of system
3. reduce technological advantage
4. significantly alter program direction; or
5. enable adversary to defeat, counter, copy, or reverse engineer
technology/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
,SPēD SFPC EXAM: All Areas(This
study set supplements CDSE
Certification Preparatory Tools (CPTs)
for the Security Fundamentals
Professional Certification (SFPC).
Content is based on the candidate
handbook, CPTs, & CDSE course
student guides for SFPC areas of
expertise. We recommend taking CDSE
courses: Intro to Industrial Security,
Intro to Information Security, Intro to
Physical Security, Intro to Personnel
Security, Intro to DoD Personnel
Security Adjudication, & Special
Access Program (SAP) Overview)2023
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
,SPēD SFPC EXAM: All Areas(This
study set supplements CDSE
Certification Preparatory Tools (CPTs)
for the Security Fundamentals
Professional Certification (SFPC).
Content is based on the candidate
handbook, CPTs, & CDSE course
student guides for SFPC areas of
expertise. We recommend taking CDSE
courses: Intro to Industrial Security,
Intro to Information Security, Intro to
Physical Security, Intro to Personnel
Security, Intro to DoD Personnel
Security Adjudication, & Special
Access Program (SAP) Overview)2023
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
, SPēD SFPC EXAM: All Areas(This
study set supplements CDSE
Certification Preparatory Tools (CPTs)
for the Security Fundamentals
Professional Certification (SFPC).
Content is based on the candidate
handbook, CPTs, & CDSE course
student guides for SFPC areas of
expertise. We recommend taking CDSE
courses: Intro to Industrial Security,
Intro to Information Security, Intro to
Physical Security, Intro to Personnel
Security, Intro to DoD Personnel
Security Adjudication, & Special
Access Program (SAP) Overview)2023
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/
CPSO) - Answer • Possess personnel clearance and Program access at least equal
to highest level of Program classified information involved.
• Provide security administration and management for organization.
• Ensure personnel processed for access to SAP meet prerequisite personnel
clearance and/or investigative requirements specified.
• Ensure adequate secure storage and work spaces.
• Ensure strict adherence to the provisions of NISPOM, its supplement, and the
Overprint.
• When required, establish and oversee classified material control program for each
SAP.
study set supplements CDSE
Certification Preparatory Tools (CPTs)
for the Security Fundamentals
Professional Certification (SFPC).
Content is based on the candidate
handbook, CPTs, & CDSE course
student guides for SFPC areas of
expertise. We recommend taking CDSE
courses: Intro to Industrial Security,
Intro to Information Security, Intro to
Physical Security, Intro to Personnel
Security, Intro to DoD Personnel
Security Adjudication, & Special
Access Program (SAP) Overview)2026
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 job scope
3. Engaging in classified conversations without NTK
4. Working inconsistent hours
5. Exploitable behavior traits
6. Repeated security violations
7. Unexplainable affluence/living above one's means
8. 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 expected combat-effective life of system
3. reduce technological advantage
4. significantly alter program direction; or
5. enable adversary to defeat, counter, copy, or reverse engineer
technology/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
,SPēD SFPC EXAM: All Areas(This
study set supplements CDSE
Certification Preparatory Tools (CPTs)
for the Security Fundamentals
Professional Certification (SFPC).
Content is based on the candidate
handbook, CPTs, & CDSE course
student guides for SFPC areas of
expertise. We recommend taking CDSE
courses: Intro to Industrial Security,
Intro to Information Security, Intro to
Physical Security, Intro to Personnel
Security, Intro to DoD Personnel
Security Adjudication, & Special
Access Program (SAP) Overview)2023
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
,SPēD SFPC EXAM: All Areas(This
study set supplements CDSE
Certification Preparatory Tools (CPTs)
for the Security Fundamentals
Professional Certification (SFPC).
Content is based on the candidate
handbook, CPTs, & CDSE course
student guides for SFPC areas of
expertise. We recommend taking CDSE
courses: Intro to Industrial Security,
Intro to Information Security, Intro to
Physical Security, Intro to Personnel
Security, Intro to DoD Personnel
Security Adjudication, & Special
Access Program (SAP) Overview)2023
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
, SPēD SFPC EXAM: All Areas(This
study set supplements CDSE
Certification Preparatory Tools (CPTs)
for the Security Fundamentals
Professional Certification (SFPC).
Content is based on the candidate
handbook, CPTs, & CDSE course
student guides for SFPC areas of
expertise. We recommend taking CDSE
courses: Intro to Industrial Security,
Intro to Information Security, Intro to
Physical Security, Intro to Personnel
Security, Intro to DoD Personnel
Security Adjudication, & Special
Access Program (SAP) Overview)2023
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/
CPSO) - Answer • Possess personnel clearance and Program access at least equal
to highest level of Program classified information involved.
• Provide security administration and management for organization.
• Ensure personnel processed for access to SAP meet prerequisite personnel
clearance and/or investigative requirements specified.
• Ensure adequate secure storage and work spaces.
• Ensure strict adherence to the provisions of NISPOM, its supplement, and the
Overprint.
• When required, establish and oversee classified material control program for each
SAP.
