SFPC Updated Study Guide Questions and
Answers (2026) | Focused Revision Pack |
Grade A+
• Derivative Classification -✓✓This is defined as the incorporating, paraphrasing,
restating, or generating in new form any information that is already classified.
• Extracting -✓✓Information taken directly from an existing classified source and
stated verbatim in a new or different document.
• Security Classification Guide (SCG) -✓✓A collection of precise, comprehensive
guidance about specific program, system, operation, or weapon system elements of
information to be classified.
• Generating -✓✓Information taken from an existing classified source and
generated into another form or medium, such as a video, DVD, or CD.
• Contained in -✓✓When derivative classifiers incorporate classified information
from existing content into a new document, and no additional interpretation or
analysis is needed to deduce the classification of that information.
• Classification by compilation -✓✓New material may aggregate, or bring
together, pieces of information that are not individually classified, but when
presented together they render your new material classified.
• Threats -✓✓Compromise the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of
information processed, stored, or transmitted by DOD systems.
, • Original Classification -✓✓Initial decision about what information needs to be
classified and protected because its disclosure could cause harm to national
security.
• Revealed by -✓✓A properly marked source document contains some Secret
information. A new document does not contain the same information. However,
the information in the new document will allow a reader to deduce the classified
information.
• Paraphrasing or restating -✓✓Information taken from an existing classified
document and re-worded in a new or different document.
• Spill or negligent discharge of Classified information -✓✓When someone opens
classified information on the NIPRNET
• DCII -✓✓Houses records of DOD investigations into criminal, fraud & CI
activity.
• SII -✓✓Database used to record PSIs conducted by OPM & other authorization
investigative agencies.
• JPAS -✓✓Used to record adjudicative actions and determinations.
• JCAVS -✓✓Designed for DOD security managers and security officers used to
update other users.
• Risk -✓✓A measure of peril, hazard or loss, which is incurred from a capable
aggressor or the environment.
Answers (2026) | Focused Revision Pack |
Grade A+
• Derivative Classification -✓✓This is defined as the incorporating, paraphrasing,
restating, or generating in new form any information that is already classified.
• Extracting -✓✓Information taken directly from an existing classified source and
stated verbatim in a new or different document.
• Security Classification Guide (SCG) -✓✓A collection of precise, comprehensive
guidance about specific program, system, operation, or weapon system elements of
information to be classified.
• Generating -✓✓Information taken from an existing classified source and
generated into another form or medium, such as a video, DVD, or CD.
• Contained in -✓✓When derivative classifiers incorporate classified information
from existing content into a new document, and no additional interpretation or
analysis is needed to deduce the classification of that information.
• Classification by compilation -✓✓New material may aggregate, or bring
together, pieces of information that are not individually classified, but when
presented together they render your new material classified.
• Threats -✓✓Compromise the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of
information processed, stored, or transmitted by DOD systems.
, • Original Classification -✓✓Initial decision about what information needs to be
classified and protected because its disclosure could cause harm to national
security.
• Revealed by -✓✓A properly marked source document contains some Secret
information. A new document does not contain the same information. However,
the information in the new document will allow a reader to deduce the classified
information.
• Paraphrasing or restating -✓✓Information taken from an existing classified
document and re-worded in a new or different document.
• Spill or negligent discharge of Classified information -✓✓When someone opens
classified information on the NIPRNET
• DCII -✓✓Houses records of DOD investigations into criminal, fraud & CI
activity.
• SII -✓✓Database used to record PSIs conducted by OPM & other authorization
investigative agencies.
• JPAS -✓✓Used to record adjudicative actions and determinations.
• JCAVS -✓✓Designed for DOD security managers and security officers used to
update other users.
• Risk -✓✓A measure of peril, hazard or loss, which is incurred from a capable
aggressor or the environment.
