SPēD SFPC: All Areas Final Exam
Questions with Guaranteed Pass
Solutions 2025-2026 Updated.
Principle incident/
events required to be reported to DoD counterintelligence (CI) organizations - Answer
espionage, sabotage, terrorism, cyber
Indicators of insider threats - Answer 1. Failure to report overseas travel or contact with
foreign nationals
2. Seeking to gain higher clearance or expand access outside the job scope
3. Engaging in classified conversations without a need to know
4. Working hours inconsistent with job assignment or insistence on working in private
5. Exploitable behavior traits
6. Repeated security violations
7. Attempting to enter areas not granted access to
8. Unexplainable affluence/living above one's means
9. Anomalies (adversary taking actions which indicate they are knowledgeable to information)
10. Illegal downloads of information/files
Elements that
should be considered in
identifying Critical Program
Information - Answer 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; or
5. enable an adversary to defeat, counter, copy, or reverseengineer the technology or capability.
asset, threat, vulnerability, risk, countermeasures - Answer Elements that a
security professional should
consider when assessing and
managing risks to DoD assets
The three categories of
Special Access Programs - Answer acquisition, intelligence, and operations and support
Three different types
of threats to classified
information - Answer Insider Threat, Foreign Intelligence Entities (FIE) and Cybersecurity
Threat
The concept of an insider threat - 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, including the
vast amounts of classified data available on interconnected United States Government
computer networks and systems.
The purpose of the
Foreign Visitor Program - 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 - 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 -
Answer 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 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 Control;
• Maintain a SAP Facility;
• Access Roster;
• All SAPs must have an 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) - Answer 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
Questions with Guaranteed Pass
Solutions 2025-2026 Updated.
Principle incident/
events required to be reported to DoD counterintelligence (CI) organizations - Answer
espionage, sabotage, terrorism, cyber
Indicators of insider threats - Answer 1. Failure to report overseas travel or contact with
foreign nationals
2. Seeking to gain higher clearance or expand access outside the job scope
3. Engaging in classified conversations without a need to know
4. Working hours inconsistent with job assignment or insistence on working in private
5. Exploitable behavior traits
6. Repeated security violations
7. Attempting to enter areas not granted access to
8. Unexplainable affluence/living above one's means
9. Anomalies (adversary taking actions which indicate they are knowledgeable to information)
10. Illegal downloads of information/files
Elements that
should be considered in
identifying Critical Program
Information - Answer 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; or
5. enable an adversary to defeat, counter, copy, or reverseengineer the technology or capability.
asset, threat, vulnerability, risk, countermeasures - Answer Elements that a
security professional should
consider when assessing and
managing risks to DoD assets
The three categories of
Special Access Programs - Answer acquisition, intelligence, and operations and support
Three different types
of threats to classified
information - Answer Insider Threat, Foreign Intelligence Entities (FIE) and Cybersecurity
Threat
The concept of an insider threat - 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, including the
vast amounts of classified data available on interconnected United States Government
computer networks and systems.
The purpose of the
Foreign Visitor Program - 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 - 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 -
Answer 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 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 Control;
• Maintain a SAP Facility;
• Access Roster;
• All SAPs must have an 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) - Answer 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
