SPēD SFPC: PHYSEC Exam Study Guide
Three different types of approved classified material storage areas. - Answer✔✔-1. GSA-
approved storage containers
2. Vaults (including modular vaults)
3. Open storage area (secure rooms, to include SCIFs and bulk storage areas)
Construction requirements for vault doors - Answer✔✔-1. Constructed of metal
2. Hung on non-removable hinge pins or with interlocking leaves.
3. Equipped with a GSA-approved combination lock.
4. Emergency egress hardware (deadbolt or metal bar extending across width of door).
The purpose of intrusion detection systems - Answer✔✔-To detect unauthorized penetration
into a secured area
The purpose of perimeter barriers - Answer✔✔-To define the physical limits of an installation,
activity, or area, restrict, channel, impede access, or shield activities within the installation from
immediate and direct observation
The purpose of an Antiterrorism Program - Answer✔✔-Protect DoD personnel, their families,
installations, facilities, information, and other material resources from terrorist acts
Force Protection Condition levels - Answer✔✔-Normal, Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta
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The concept of security-in-depth - Answer✔✔-Layered and complementary security controls
sufficient to deter, detect, and document unauthorized entry and movement within an
installation or facility.
Security Officer - Answer✔✔-This person is charged with management, implementation, and
direction of all physical security programs
Law Enforcement - Answer✔✔-Must be integrated into our intelligence gathering process so
that they can be part of coordinating emergency responses and criminal incidents on a Federal
installation
Criticality - Answer✔✔-Determination based on an asset's importance to national security and
effect of loss
Area Security - Answer✔✔-Security is geared towards protecting an entire area of the
installation or facility
Threat - Answer✔✔-The intention and the capability of an adversary to undertake detrimental
actions
Point Security - Answer✔✔-Security focused on the resource itself
Effective Protective Barriers - Answer✔✔-1. Steel barriers
2. Chain link fence
3. Barbed wire
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