Sample Questions from ISP Certification-The Industrial Security Professional Exam Manual

Here are actual questions from the book ISP Certification-The Industrial Security Professional Exam Manual. The questions here are all about NISPOM Chapter 8.

Go ahead, test your knowledge:

80. Level of concern reflects the sensitivity of the information and the consequences of the loss of confidentiality, availability, or _____.

a. Truth

b. Equipment

c. Integrity 

d. Values

e. Ethics

81. Who has responsibility for accrediting information systems used to process classified information in industry?

a. CSA 

b. FSO

c. ISSM

d. ISSO

e. Contractor

82. The CSA can grant interim approval to operate an IS for up to:

a. 120 days

b. 90 days

c. 180 days

d. 1 year

e. 45 days

83. Systems operate at Protection Level 3 when:

a. All users have required approvals for access to all information

on system

b. All users have required clearance, but at least one lacks

need to know

c. All users have required clearance, but at least one lacks formal access approval of the information on the system 

d. None of the above

e. All of the above

84. For availability of information, what level of concern reflects that information must be available with flexible tolerance for delay??

a. Low

b. Medium

c. High

d. Basic 

e. Intermediate

Answers follow this line:

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80. Level of concern reflects the sensitivity of the information and the consequences of the loss of confidentiality, availability, or _____.

c. Integrity (NISPOM 8-401)

81. Who has responsibility for accrediting information systems used to process classified information in industry?

a. CSA (NISPOM 8-102)

82. The CSA can grant interim approval to operate an IS for up to:

c. 180 days (NISPOM 8-202)

83. Systems operate at Protection Level 3 when:

c. All users have required clearance, but at least one lacks formal access approval of the information on the system (NISPOM 8-402c)

84. For availability of information, what level of concern reflects that information must be available with flexible tolerance for delay??

d. Basic (NISPOM Chapter 8 Table 3)

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