SPēD SFPC EXAM All Areas questions with
correct answers
Indicators of insider threats - correct 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 - correct 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) - correct answer -1. Assess assets
2. Assess threats
3. Assess Vulnerabilities
4. Assess risks
5. Determine countermeasure options
6. Make RM decision
The three categories of Special Access Programs - correct answer -acquisition, intelligence, and operations & support
Types of threats to classified information - correct answer -Insider Threat, Foreign Intelligence Entities (FIE), criminal
activities, cyber threats, business competitors
The concept of an insider threat - correct 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 - correct 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 - correct answer -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.
Enhanced security requirements for protecting Special Access Program (SAP) information - correct 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;
