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ISC2 SSCP Exam Questions
- Topic 1: Security Concepts and Practices: This domain covers the foundational principles of information security including the CIA triad, ethical codes, types of security controls, asset and change management lifecycles, and security awareness training.
- Topic 2: Access Controls: This domain focuses on authentication methods, identity and access management lifecycles, trust architectures between networks, and the various models used to control who can access what resources.
- Topic 3: Risk Identification, Monitoring and Analysis: This domain addresses how organizations identify, assess, and respond to risks through frameworks, vulnerability management, continuous monitoring, and security event analysis using tools like SIEM.
- Topic 4: Incident Response and Recovery: This domain covers the full lifecycle of handling security incidents — from preparation and detection through containment, recovery, and post-incident review along with forensic investigation and business continuity planning.
- Topic 5: Cryptography: This domain explains why and how cryptography is used to protect data confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity, covering encryption algorithms, secure protocols, hashing, digital signatures, and public key infrastructure.
- Topic 6: Network and Communications Security: This domain covers core networking concepts, common network attacks and countermeasures, access control standards, secure configuration of network devices and appliances, and securing wireless and IoT communications.
- Topic 7: Systems and Application Security: This domain addresses the identification and mitigation of malicious code and activity, endpoint and mobile device security, cloud and virtual environment security, and the shared responsibility model in cloud deployments.
Free ISC2 SSCP Exam Actual Questions
Note: Premium Questions for SSCP were last updated On Oct. 04, 2026 (see below)
Password management falls into which control category?
Password management is an example of preventive control.
Proper passwords prevent unauthorized users from accessing a system.
There are literally hundreds of different access approaches, control methods, and technologies, both in the physical world and in the virtual electronic world. Each method addresses a different type of access control or a specific access need.
For example, access control solutions may incorporate identification and authentication mechanisms, filters, rules, rights, logging and monitoring, policy, and a plethora of other controls. However, despite the diversity of access control methods, all access control systems can be categorized into seven primary categories.
The seven main categories of access control are:
1. Directive: Controls designed to specify acceptable rules of behavior within an organization
2. Deterrent: Controls designed to discourage people from violating security directives
3. Preventive: Controls implemented to prevent a security incident or information breach
4. Compensating: Controls implemented to substitute for the loss of primary controls and mitigate risk down to an acceptable level
5. Detective: Controls designed to signal a warning when a security control has been breached
6. Corrective: Controls implemented to remedy circumstance, mitigate damage, or restore controls
7. Recovery: Controls implemented to restore conditions to normal after a security incident
Reference(s) used for this question:
Hernandez CISSP
, Steven (2012-12-21). Official (ISC)2 Guide to the CISSP CBK, Third Edition ((ISC)2 Press) (Kindle Locations 1156-1176). Auerbach Publications. Kindle Edition.
Recovery Site Strategies for the technology environment depend on how much downtime an organization can tolerate before the recovery must be completed. What would you call a strategy where the alternate site is internal, standby ready, with all the technology and equipment necessary to run the applications?
Internal Hot Site---This site is standby ready with all the technology and equipment necessary to run the applications positioned there. The planner will be able to effectively restart an application in a hot site recovery without having to perform any bare metal recovery of servers. If this is an internal solution, then often the organization will run non-time sensitive processes there such as development or test environments, which will be pushed aside for recovery of production when needed. When employing this strategy, it is important that the two environments be kept as close to identical as possible to avoid problems with O/S levels, hardware differences, capacity differences, etc., from preventing or delaying recovery.
Recovery Site Strategies Depending on how much downtime an organization has before the technology recovery must be complete, recovery strategies selected for the technology environment could be any one of the following:
Dual Data Center---This strategy is employed for applications, which cannot accept any downtime without negatively impacting the organization. The applications are split between two geographically dispersed data centers and either load balanced between the two centers or hot swapped between the two centers. The surviving data center must have enough head room to carry the full production load in either case.
External Hot Site---This strategy has equipment on the floor waiting, but the environment must be rebuilt for the recovery. These are services contracted through a recovery service provider. Again, it is important that the two environments be kept as close to identical as possible to avoid problems with O/S levels, hardware differences, capacity differences, etc., from preventing or delaying recovery. Hot site vendors tend to have the most commonly used hardware and software products to attract the largest number of customers to utilize the site. Unique equipment or software would generally need to be provided by the organization either at time of disaster or stored there ahead of time.
Warm Site---A leased or rented facility that is usually partially configured with some equipment, but not the actual computers. It will generally have all the cooling, cabling, and networks in place to accommodate the recovery but the actual servers, mainframe, etc., equipment are delivered to the site at time of disaster.
Cold Site---A cold site is a shell or empty data center space with no technology on the floor. All technology must be purchased or acquired at the time of disaster.
Reference(s) used for this question:
Hernandez CISSP
, Steven (2012-12-21). Official (ISC)2 Guide to the CISSP CBK, Third Edition ((ISC)2 Press) (Kindle Locations 21265-21291). Auerbach Publications. Kindle Edition.
Which protocol is NOT implemented in the Network layer of the OSI Protocol Stack?
Open Shortest Path First, Internet Protocol, and Routing Information Protocol are all protocols implemented in the Network Layer.
Domain: Telecommunications and Network Security
References: AIO 3rd edition. Page 429
Official Guide to the CISSP CBK. Page 411
Which of the following outlined how senior management are responsible for the computer and information security decisions that they make and what actually took place within their organizations?
In 1991, U.S. Federal Sentencing Guidelines were developed to provide judges with courses of action in dealing with white collar crimes. These guidelines provided ways that companies and law enforcement should prevent, detect and report computer crimes. It also outlined how senior management are responsible for the computer and information security decisions that they make and what actually took place within their organizations.
Who is ultimately responsible for the security of computer based information systems within an organization?
If there is no support by management to implement, execute, and enforce security policies and procedure, then they won't work. Senior management must be involved in this because they have an obligation to the organization to protect the assests . The requirement here is for management to show ''due diligence'' in establishing an effective compliance, or security program.
The following answers are incorrect:
The tech support team. Is incorrect because the ultimate responsibility is with management for the security of computer-based information systems.
The Operation Team. Is incorrect because the ultimate responsibility is with management for the security of computer-based information systems.
The Training Team. Is incorrect because the ultimate responsibility is with management for the security of computer-based information systems.
Reference(s) used for this question:
OIG CBK
Information Security Management and Risk Management (page 20 - 22)
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