SAPPC CERTIFICATION 2026 SKILLS
EVALUATION STUDY GUIDE COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
◉ What are three principle incidents/events required to report to
DoD counterintelligence (CI) organizations? Answer: Espionage,
Sabotage, Terrorism & Cyber Policy
◉ List three different types of threats to classified information?
Answer: Insider Threat, Foreign Intelligence Entities (FIE),
Cybersecurity Threat
◉ List three indicators of insider threats? Answer: 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? Answer: - Cause significant
degradation in mission effectiveness
- Shorten the expected combat-effective life of the system
- Reduce technological advantage
- Significantly alter program direction
- Enable an adversary to defeat, counter, copy, or reverse-engineer
the technology or capability.
◉ Briefly describe the concept of 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.
◉ List three elements that a security professional should consider
when assessing and managing risks to DoD assets? Answer: Asset
Threat
Vulnerability
Risk
Countermeasures
, ◉ Describe 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.
◉ Briefly define a Special Access Program (SAP)? 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.
◉ List three enhanced security requirements for protecting Special
Access Program (SAP) Information within Personnel Security?
Answer: 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 (CSA)? Answer:
Department of Defense (DoD)
EVALUATION STUDY GUIDE COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
◉ What are three principle incidents/events required to report to
DoD counterintelligence (CI) organizations? Answer: Espionage,
Sabotage, Terrorism & Cyber Policy
◉ List three different types of threats to classified information?
Answer: Insider Threat, Foreign Intelligence Entities (FIE),
Cybersecurity Threat
◉ List three indicators of insider threats? Answer: 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? Answer: - Cause significant
degradation in mission effectiveness
- Shorten the expected combat-effective life of the system
- Reduce technological advantage
- Significantly alter program direction
- Enable an adversary to defeat, counter, copy, or reverse-engineer
the technology or capability.
◉ Briefly describe the concept of 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.
◉ List three elements that a security professional should consider
when assessing and managing risks to DoD assets? Answer: Asset
Threat
Vulnerability
Risk
Countermeasures
, ◉ Describe 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.
◉ Briefly define a Special Access Program (SAP)? 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.
◉ List three enhanced security requirements for protecting Special
Access Program (SAP) Information within Personnel Security?
Answer: 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 (CSA)? Answer:
Department of Defense (DoD)
