SPēD SFPC: 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. This set is not en… 179
Questions with Definitive Solutions.
acquisition, intelligence, and operations and support - Answer: The three
categories of
Special Access Programs
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,Insider Threat, Foreign Intelligence Entities (FIE) and Cybersecurity Threat -
Answer: Three different types
of threats to classified
information
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. -
Answer: The concept of an insider threat
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. - Answer:
The purpose of the
Foreign Visitor Program
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. -
Answer: Special Access
Program
Within Personnel Security:
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,• 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
polygraph examination;
• Polygraph examination, if approved by the DepSecDef, may be used as a
mandatory access determination;
• Tier review process;
• Personnel must have a Secret or Top Secret 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 a carve-out provision to relieve Defense
Security Service of industrial security oversight responsibilities.
Within Physical Security:
• Access - Answer: Enhanced security requirements for protecting Special Access
Program (SAP) information
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, From Revision 1 Department of Defense Overprint to the National
Industrial Security Program Operating Manual Supplement - 1 April
2004:
• Possess a personnel clearance and Program access at least equal to
the highest level of Program classified information involved.
• Provide security administration and management for his/her
organization.
• Ensure personnel processed for access to a SAP meet the prerequisite
personnel clearance and/or investigative requirements specified.
• Ensure adequate secure storage and work spaces.
• Ensure strict adherence to the provisions of the NISPOM, its
supplement, and the Overprint.
• When required, establish and oversee a classified material control
program for each SAP.
• When required, conduct an annual inventory of accountable
classified material.
• When required, establish a SAPF.
• Establish and oversee a visitor control program.
• Monitor reproduction and/or duplication and dest - Answer: Responsibilities of
the Government SAP Security Officer/Contractor Program
Security Officer (GSSO/
CPSO)
Department of Defense
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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. This set is not en… 179
Questions with Definitive Solutions.
acquisition, intelligence, and operations and support - Answer: The three
categories of
Special Access Programs
Page 1 of 32
,Insider Threat, Foreign Intelligence Entities (FIE) and Cybersecurity Threat -
Answer: Three different types
of threats to classified
information
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. -
Answer: The concept of an insider threat
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. - Answer:
The purpose of the
Foreign Visitor Program
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. -
Answer: Special Access
Program
Within Personnel Security:
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,• 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
polygraph examination;
• Polygraph examination, if approved by the DepSecDef, may be used as a
mandatory access determination;
• Tier review process;
• Personnel must have a Secret or Top Secret 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 a carve-out provision to relieve Defense
Security Service of industrial security oversight responsibilities.
Within Physical Security:
• Access - Answer: Enhanced security requirements for protecting Special Access
Program (SAP) information
Page 3 of 32
, From Revision 1 Department of Defense Overprint to the National
Industrial Security Program Operating Manual Supplement - 1 April
2004:
• Possess a personnel clearance and Program access at least equal to
the highest level of Program classified information involved.
• Provide security administration and management for his/her
organization.
• Ensure personnel processed for access to a SAP meet the prerequisite
personnel clearance and/or investigative requirements specified.
• Ensure adequate secure storage and work spaces.
• Ensure strict adherence to the provisions of the NISPOM, its
supplement, and the Overprint.
• When required, establish and oversee a classified material control
program for each SAP.
• When required, conduct an annual inventory of accountable
classified material.
• When required, establish a SAPF.
• Establish and oversee a visitor control program.
• Monitor reproduction and/or duplication and dest - Answer: Responsibilities of
the Government SAP Security Officer/Contractor Program
Security Officer (GSSO/
CPSO)
Department of Defense
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