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SSCP Systems Security Certified Practitioner VIP Practice Exam
SSCP — The SSCP (Systems Security Certified Practitioner) is issued by (ISC)² and consists of 125 multiple-choice questions to be completed in 3 hours, with a passing score of 700 out of 1000 (70%), covering seven domains: Security Operations and Administration, Access Controls, Risk Identification/Monitoring/Analysis, Incident Response and Recovery, Cryptography, Network and Communications Security, and Systems and Application Security.
29
Questions
180m
Time Limit
70.00%
To Pass
Question 1 of 29👑 VIP
A security analyst reviewing SIEM logs notices that a privileged service account used exclusively for automated database backups has been authenticating to multiple unrelated internal hosts over the past 72 hours — activity that has never occurred before. The backup job itself completed successfully during this period. Which conclusion BEST explains this behavior, and what should the analyst do FIRST?
Questions 2–29 and full explanations are VIP-exclusive.