National Infrastructure Protection Plan 2013 Questions and Answers 100% correct Autumn 2022
Critical infrastructure Correct Answer: those assets, systems, and networks that underpin American
society.
Strategic National Risk Assessment Correct Answer: defines numerous threats and hazards to homeland
security in the broad categories of adversarial/human-caused, natural, and technological/ accidental
threats
risk environment Correct Answer: complex and uncertain; threats, vulnerabilities, and consequences
Sector Coordinating Councils (SCCs) Correct Answer: Self-organized, self-run, and self-governed private
sector councils consisting of owners and operators and their representatives, which interact on a wide
range of sector-specific strategies, policies, activities, and issue
Critical Infrastructure Risk Management Framework Correct Answer: Consisting of the chairs and vice
chairs of the SCCs, this private sector council coordinates cross-sector issues, initiatives, and
interdependencies to support critical infrastructure security and resilience.
The first National Infrastructure Protection Plan was completed in ___________? Correct Answer: 2009
The 2013 National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) is titled ____________________? Correct
Answer: Partnering for Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience
The USA PATRIOT Act defines critical infrastructure as _____________________? Correct Answer:
Systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or
destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic
security, national public health or safety, or any combination of those matters.
The strategic direction for efforts to build and sustain critical infrastructure security and resilience is
driven by a common mission. The Mission of the 2013 National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) is
_________________________________? Correct Answer: Strengthen the security and resilience of the
Nation's critical infrastructure, by managing physical and cyber risks through
the collaborative and integrated efforts of the critical infrastructure community.
According to the National Infrastructure Protection Plan: security and resilience are strengthened
through _____________? Correct Answer: risk management
According to PPD 21, "reducing the risk to critical infrastructure by physical means or defens[ive]
cyber measures to intrusions, attacks, or the effects of natural or manmade disasters." Is ___________?
Correct Answer: security
According to PPD 21, "the ability to prepare for and adapt to changing conditions and withstand and
recover rapidly from disruptions...[it] includes the ability to withstand and recover from deliberate
Critical infrastructure Correct Answer: those assets, systems, and networks that underpin American
society.
Strategic National Risk Assessment Correct Answer: defines numerous threats and hazards to homeland
security in the broad categories of adversarial/human-caused, natural, and technological/ accidental
threats
risk environment Correct Answer: complex and uncertain; threats, vulnerabilities, and consequences
Sector Coordinating Councils (SCCs) Correct Answer: Self-organized, self-run, and self-governed private
sector councils consisting of owners and operators and their representatives, which interact on a wide
range of sector-specific strategies, policies, activities, and issue
Critical Infrastructure Risk Management Framework Correct Answer: Consisting of the chairs and vice
chairs of the SCCs, this private sector council coordinates cross-sector issues, initiatives, and
interdependencies to support critical infrastructure security and resilience.
The first National Infrastructure Protection Plan was completed in ___________? Correct Answer: 2009
The 2013 National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) is titled ____________________? Correct
Answer: Partnering for Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience
The USA PATRIOT Act defines critical infrastructure as _____________________? Correct Answer:
Systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or
destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic
security, national public health or safety, or any combination of those matters.
The strategic direction for efforts to build and sustain critical infrastructure security and resilience is
driven by a common mission. The Mission of the 2013 National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) is
_________________________________? Correct Answer: Strengthen the security and resilience of the
Nation's critical infrastructure, by managing physical and cyber risks through
the collaborative and integrated efforts of the critical infrastructure community.
According to the National Infrastructure Protection Plan: security and resilience are strengthened
through _____________? Correct Answer: risk management
According to PPD 21, "reducing the risk to critical infrastructure by physical means or defens[ive]
cyber measures to intrusions, attacks, or the effects of natural or manmade disasters." Is ___________?
Correct Answer: security
According to PPD 21, "the ability to prepare for and adapt to changing conditions and withstand and
recover rapidly from disruptions...[it] includes the ability to withstand and recover from deliberate
