SSCP Practice Test

Review 1074 SSCP practice questions with answer explanations and community insights.

Question 1

A potential problem related to the physical installation of the Iris Scanner in regards to the usage of the iris pattern within a biometric system is:

  1. concern that the laser beam may cause eye damage
  2. the iris pattern changes as a person grows older.
  3. there is a relatively high rate of false accepts.
  4. the optical unit must be positioned so that the sun does not shine into the aperture.

Question 2

In Mandatory Access Control, sensitivity labels attached to object contain what information?

  1. The item's classification
  2. The item's classification and category set
  3. The item's category
  4. The items's need to know

Question 3

What are the components of an object's sensitivity label?

  1. A Classification Set and a single Compartment.
  2. A single classification and a single compartment.
  3. A Classification Set and user credentials.
  4. A single classification and a Compartment Set.

Question 4

What does it mean to say that sensitivity labels are "incomparable"?

  1. The number of classification in the two labels is different.
  2. Neither label contains all the classifications of the other.
  3. the number of categories in the two labels are different.
  4. Neither label contains all the categories of the other.

Question 5

Which of the following is true about Kerberos?

  1. It utilizes public key cryptography.
  2. It encrypts data after a ticket is granted, but passwords are exchanged in plain text.
  3. It depends upon symmetric ciphers.
  4. It is a second party authentication system.