SPeD General Security (2022/2023)
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SPeD is an abbreviation for? ✔✔Security Professional Education Development
SPed is a certification program of what agency? ✔✔Department of Defense
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SPeD General Security (2022/2023)
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SPeD is an abbreviation for? ✔✔Security Professional Education Development
SPed is a certification program of what agency? ✔✔Department of Defense
Security Fundamentals Professional Certification (SFPC) ✔✔The individual understands
foundational security concepts, principles, and practices. (Core Certification for SPed)
Security Asset Protection Professional Certification (SAPPC) ✔✔The Individual applies
foundational security concepts, principles, and practices. (Core Certification for SPed)
Security Program Integration Professional Certification (SPIPC) ✔✔The individual understands
and applies risk assessment and security program management based on security concepts,
principles, and practices. (Core Certification for SPed)
Security Enterprise Professional Certification (SEPC) ✔✔The individual understands and
applies concepts, principles, and practices for managing enterprise-wide security
What are the three principle incident/events required to be reported to DoD Counterintelligence
(CI) organizations? ✔✔Answer: Espionage, Sabotage, Terrorism, & Cyber Policy: DoD
5220.22M, "NISPOM" - E.O. 12333-DoDI 5200.01, DoD Information Security and Protection of
SCI
PMO is an abbreviation for? ✔✔Program Management Office
Provides the legal requirements to use lawful means to ensure U. S. receives the best intelligence
available ✔✔E.O. 12333
The manual that includes CI-related requirements for industry ✔✔DoD 5220.2.2-M NISPOM
Regulation mandating CI-specific training, briefing, and reporting ✔✔DoDI5240.6: CI
Awareness, Briefing, and Reporting Programs
Regulation providing procedures to follow when classified information is compromised ✔✔DoD
5200.1-R: information Security Program
What are three principle incidents/ events required to report to DoD counterintelligence (CI)
organizations? ✔✔Espionage Sabotage Terrorism Cyber
List three different types of threats to classified information. ✔✔1. Insider Threat
2. Foreign Intelligence Entities (FIE)
3. Cybersecurity Threat
List three indicators of insider threats. ✔✔Failure to report overseas travel or contact with
foreign nationals
Seeking to gain higher clearance or expand access outside the job scope
Engaging in classified conversations without a need to know
Working hours inconsistent with job assignment or insistence on working in private
Exploitable behavior traits
Repeated security violations
Attempting to enter areas not granted access to
List three elements that should be considered in identifying Critical Program Information.
✔✔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
5. Enable an adversary to defeat, counter, copy, or reverse-engineer the technology or capability.
Briefly describe the concept of insider threat. ✔✔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.
List three elements that a security professional should consider when assessing and managing
risks to DoD assets. ✔✔Asset
Threat
Vulnerability
Risk
Countermeasures
Describe the purpose of the Foreign Visitor Program. ✔✔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.
List three categories of Special Access Programs. ✔✔1. Acquisition
2. Intelligence
3. Operations and Support
Briefly define a Special Access 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.
List three enhanced security requirements for protecting Special Access Program (SAP)
Information. ✔✔Within Personnel Security:
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
Identify the four Cognizant Security Agencies (CSAs) and describe their role in the National
Industrial Security Program (NISP). ✔✔The four CSAs are the Department of Defense (DoD),
the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), the Department of Energy (DoE), and the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission (NRC).
Establish an industrial security program to safeguard classified information under its jurisdiction.
List three factors for determining whether U.S. companies are under Foreign Ownership, Control
or Influence (FOCI). ✔✔1. Record of economic and government espionage against the U.S.
targets
2. Record of enforcement/engagement in unauthorized technology transfer
3. Type and sensitivity of the information that shall be accessed
4. The source, nature and extent of FOCI
5. Record of compliance with pertinent U.S. laws, regulations and contracts
Define the purpose and function of the Militarily Critical Technologies List (MCTL). ✔✔Serves
as a technical reference for the development and implementation of DoD technology, security
policies on international transfers of defense-related goods, services, and technologies as
administered by the Director, Defense Technology Security Administration (DTSA).
Formulation of export control proposals and export license review
List three primary authorities governing foreign disclosure of classified military information.
✔✔Arms Export Control Act
National Security Decision Memorandum 119
National Disclosure Policy-1
International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR)
E.O.s 12829, 13526
Bilateral Security Agreements
DoD 5220.22-M, "NISPOM,"
Briefly describe the purpose of the DD Form 254. ✔✔Convey security requirements and
classification guidance, and provide handling procedures for classified material received and/or
generated on a classified contract.
List the three main policies that govern the DoD Information Security Program. ✔✔E.O. 13526
Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) 32 CFR Parts 2001 & 2003, "Classified National
Security Information; Final Rule"
DoD Manual 5200.01, Volumes 1-4
What must an "authorized person" have before being granted access to classified information?
✔✔Have:
favorable determination of eligibility for access
a need to know the information
signed SF 312 Nondisclosure Agreement
List three classification duration options for originally classified information. ✔✔Date or event
that is:
less than 10 years
at 10 years
up to 25 years
50X1-HUM (with no date or event)
50X2-WMD (with no date or event
25X (with a date or event)
List three authorized sources of security classification guidance that could be used in the
derivative classification process. ✔✔Security Classification Guide
Properly Marked Source Document
Contract Security Classification Specification (DD Form 254)
Define derivative classification. ✔✔Incorporating, paraphrasing, restating, or generating in new
form information that is already classified and marking the newly developed material consistent
with the markings that apply to the source information.
Define the difference between a security infraction and a security violation. ✔✔An infraction
cannot reasonably be expected to and does not result in the loss, compromise, or suspected
compromise of classified information; whereas a violation does result in or could be expected to
result in the loss or compromise of classified information.
Define unauthorized disclosure. ✔✔Communication or physical transfer of classified or
controlled unclassified information to an unauthorized recipient.
List three types of initial personnel security investigations and to whom they apply. ✔✔SSBI:
Military, Civilian, Contractor
ANACI: Civilian
NACLC: Military and Contractor
NACI: Civilian and Contractor
Describe the purpose of due process in Personnel Security Program (PSP). ✔✔Ensures fairness
by providing the subject the opportunity to appeal an unfavorable adjudicative determination.
List the key procedures for initiating Personnel Security Investigations(PSIs) ✔✔Validate the
need for an investigation
Initiate e-QIP
Review Personnel Security Questionnaire (PSQ) for completeness
Submit electronically to OPM
List three DoD position sensitivity types and their investigative requirements. ✔✔Critical
Sensitive: SSBI, SSBI-PR, PPR
Non-Critical Sensitive: ANACI, NACLC
Nonsensitive: NACI
Describe the difference between revocation and denial in Personnel Security Program
✔✔Revocation: A current security eligibility determination is rescinded.
Denial: An initial request for security eligibility is not granted.
Describe the purpose of a Statement of Reason (SOR). ✔✔The purpose of the SOR is to provide
a comprehensive and detailed written explanation of why a preliminary unfavorable adjudicative
determination was made.
List five adjudicative guidelines. ✔✔Allegiance to the United States
Foreign Influence
Foreign Preference
Sexual Behavior
Personal Conduct
Financial Considerations
Alcohol Consumption
Drug Involvement
Psychological Conditions
Criminal Conduct
Handling Protected Information
Outside Activities
Use of Information Technology
List three different types of approved classified material storage areas. ✔✔GSA-approved
storage containers
Vaults (including modular vaults)
Open storage area (secure rooms, to include SCIFs and bulk storage areas)
List three construction requirements for vault doors. ✔✔Constructed of metal
Hung on non-removable hinge pins or with interlocking leaves.
Equipped with a GSA-approved combination lock.
Emergency egress hardware (deadbolt or metal bar extending across width of door).
What is the purpose of intrusion detection systems? ✔✔Detect unauthorized penetration into a
secured area.
What is the purpose of perimeter barriers? ✔✔Defines the physical limits of an installation,
activity, or area, restrict, channel, impede access, or shield activities within the installation from
immediate and direct observation.
What is the purpose of an Antiterrorism Program? ✔✔Protect DoD personnel, their families,
installations, facilities, information, and other material resources from terrorist acts.
List three Force Protection Condition levels. ✔✔Normal, Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta
Describe the concept of security-in-depth. ✔✔Layered and complementary security controls
sufficient to deter, detect, and document unauthorized entry and movement within an installation
or facility.
In which security program area would you find practitioners who train and/or advise Original
Classification Authorities in the application of the process for making classification
determinations? ✔✔Information Security
In which security program area would you find practitioners working with a facility's
Antiterrorism Officer to deploy defensive measures designed to reduce the facility's vulnerability
from terrorist attacks? ✔✔Physical Security
In which security program area would you find practitioners involved with processes that
monitor employees for new information that could affect their security clearance eligibility
status? ✔✔Personnel Security
Two security professionals - Paul and Ashley - are discussing security program areas.
Paul says that Information Security practitioners train and/or advise Original Classification
Authorities in the application of the process for making classification determinations.
Ashley says that Physical Security practitioners work with a facility's Antiterrorism Officer to
deploy defensive measures designed to reduce the facility's vulnerability from terrorist attacks.
✔✔Paul and Ashley are both correct
Two security professionals - Paul and Ashley - are discussing security program areas.
Paul says that Information Security practitioners work with a facility's Antiterrorism Officer to
deploy defensive measures designed to reduce the facility's vulnerability from terrorist attacks.
Ashley says that Personnel Security practitioners train and/or advise Original Classification
Authorities in the application of the process for making classification determinations. ✔✔Paul
and Ashley are both incorrect
CI Foreign Travel Briefing ✔✔Purpose to increase awareness and personal safety, targeting by
foreign intelligence, current travel warnings, & where to seek help if needed
CI Elicitation is a form of social engineering. ✔✔Collecting info from people though
conversation
Potential Espionage Indicator Categories ✔✔Foreign Contracts and Associations
Foreign Travel
Foreign Preference
Anti-American Statements, Activities, and Associations
Falsification/Failure to Report Substantive Information
Sexual Behavior That Increases Vulnerability to Exploitation
Suspicious Financial Transactions or Undue Affluence
Illicit Information Collection or Transmittal
Other Counterintelligence Issues
Who could become an insider threat? ✔✔Any person with authorized access to any US
government resources.
Executive Order 13587 ✔✔Government agencies to establish their own insider threat programs
Insider threat programs are intended to: ✔✔Deter, Detect, and Mitigate the risk
Sharing and reporting information s essential to detecting potential insider threats ✔✔True
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