SPĒD SFPC ALL AREAS TEST BANK 2026
COMPLETE CERTIFICATION QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
⫸ Elements that should be considered in identifying Critical Program
Information - 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) - 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 - acquisition,
intelligence, and operations & support
,⫸ Types of threats to classified information - Insider Threat, Foreign
Intelligence Entities (FIE), criminal activities, cyber threats, business
competitors
⫸ The concept of an 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
⫸ 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.
⫸ 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.
⫸ Enhanced security requirements for protecting Special Access
Program (SAP) information - 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;
• Polygraph examination, if approved by the DepSecDef, may be used as
a
mandatory access determination;
• Tier review process;
• Personnel must have Secret or TS 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 carve-out provision to relieve
Defense
Security Service of industrial security oversight responsibilities.
Within Physical Security:
• Access Control;
, • Maintain SAP Facility;
• Access Roster;
• All SAPs must have unclassified nickname/ Codeword (optional).
Within Information Security:
• The use of HVSACO;
• Transmission requirements (order of precedence).
⫸ Responsibilities of the Government SAP Security Officer/Contractor
Program
Security Officer (GSSO/
CPSO) - • Possess personnel clearance and Program access at least equal
to highest level of Program classified information involved.
• Provide security administration and management for organization.
• Ensure personnel processed for access to SAP meet prerequisite
personnel clearance and/or investigative requirements specified.
• Ensure adequate secure storage and work spaces.
• Ensure strict adherence to the provisions of NISPOM, its supplement,
and the Overprint.
• When required, establish and oversee classified material control
program for each SAP.
• When required, conduct an annual inventory of accountable
classified material.
• When required, establish SAPF.
COMPLETE CERTIFICATION QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
⫸ Elements that should be considered in identifying Critical Program
Information - 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) - 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 - acquisition,
intelligence, and operations & support
,⫸ Types of threats to classified information - Insider Threat, Foreign
Intelligence Entities (FIE), criminal activities, cyber threats, business
competitors
⫸ The concept of an 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
⫸ 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.
⫸ 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.
⫸ Enhanced security requirements for protecting Special Access
Program (SAP) information - 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;
• Polygraph examination, if approved by the DepSecDef, may be used as
a
mandatory access determination;
• Tier review process;
• Personnel must have Secret or TS 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 carve-out provision to relieve
Defense
Security Service of industrial security oversight responsibilities.
Within Physical Security:
• Access Control;
, • Maintain SAP Facility;
• Access Roster;
• All SAPs must have unclassified nickname/ Codeword (optional).
Within Information Security:
• The use of HVSACO;
• Transmission requirements (order of precedence).
⫸ Responsibilities of the Government SAP Security Officer/Contractor
Program
Security Officer (GSSO/
CPSO) - • Possess personnel clearance and Program access at least equal
to highest level of Program classified information involved.
• Provide security administration and management for organization.
• Ensure personnel processed for access to SAP meet prerequisite
personnel clearance and/or investigative requirements specified.
• Ensure adequate secure storage and work spaces.
• Ensure strict adherence to the provisions of NISPOM, its supplement,
and the Overprint.
• When required, establish and oversee classified material control
program for each SAP.
• When required, conduct an annual inventory of accountable
classified material.
• When required, establish SAPF.
