ASIS Physical Security Professional (PSP) Exam Prep FREE Sample Exam

An assessment budget is cut by a third after planning. What is the assessor’s most professional response?

Renegotiate scope, depth, or phasing explicitly so the reduced budget matches stated coverage

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Downgrade all ratings so the report looks complete

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Keep the promised scope and quietly skip steps no one will notice

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Reuse another client's findings to fill the gaps

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A client with a single flagship store and many small outlets asks whether asset identification should use the same depth everywhere. What is the assessor’s best guidance?

Skip the flagship because it is already well known to staff

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Use identical depth everywhere regardless of consequence differences

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Use census-level depth at the flagship and criteria-based sampling with clear rationale at smaller outlets

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Assess outlets only if their managers volunteer

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When a theater’s ticketing system is outsourced to a vendor’s platform, where does the asset reside for assessment purposes?

The function remains a theater asset whose dependency on the vendor must be understood and protected contractually and operationally

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Nowhere — outsourced functions stop being assets

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Only in the vendor's data center, beyond the theater's concern

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In the box office safe with the cash

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An analyst defining a loss event profile for a casino cage robbery includes the amount likely taken, the risk of injury during the robbery, and the gaming floor shutdown that follows. Which element is most often forgotten in such profiles and is included here?

The color of the cage uniforms on duty

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The robber preferred escape vehicle type

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The business interruption and response consequences after the taking itself, which can rival the cash loss

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The denomination mix stored in the cage that night

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An office tower already spent a large sum studying a turnstile project it will now abandon. A manager argues the turnstiles must be bought or the study money is wasted. Which cost principle answers the manager?

Study costs must always be recovered by completing the project studied

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Money already spent on the study is a sunk cost, gone regardless of the decision, and it should not distort the comparison of what buying or not buying will cost and deliver from today forward

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Abandoned studies can be resold to other buildings to recover the money

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The turnstiles should be bought at a discount equal to the study cost

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A client asks the designer to ‘just make it like our competitor’s headquarters.’ The professionally correct response is to:

Decline to design anything until the competitor's drawings are obtained

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Explain that the design must be based on this site's own assets, threats, and operations, though general lessons from other sites may inform it

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Copy the competitor's layout and adjust the logo on the drawings

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Ask the competitor's security manager to approve the plans

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A designer writes the specification for a data center’s biometric readers as a proprietary section naming one product, then adds ‘or equal’ language. What must the documents define for ‘or equal’ to be workable?

The bidder's profit margin on substitutions

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The salient characteristics the named product was chosen for—accuracy, throughput, integration, environmental ratings—against which proposed equals will be judged

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The named product's list price

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The color options of the named product

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A success metric for a new parking-garage attendant program reads: ‘Reduce reported vehicle break-ins in Garage B by at least 30 percent within one year of program start, using police-reported incidents.’ Its strength is that it:

Uses the attendants' own logs as the only source

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Cannot be compared with any earlier period

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Guarantees the target will be met

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Anchors the target to an independent data source and a baseline period, making the result credible

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A project manager for a prison systems replacement plans the cutover so the legacy control system remains operational in parallel until the new system passes a full week of live operation. What project risk management technique is this?

Risk avoidance by refusing to replace the system

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Risk transfer to the insurance carrier

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Risk acceptance without any mitigation

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Risk mitigation through parallel operation: accepting the cost of running both systems to reduce the consequence of new-system failure during transition

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Environmental monitoring of a server room housing security systems — temperature and water detection — is life-cycle protection because:

Servers enjoy comfortable weather

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Heat and leaks destroy electronics silently and quickly; early warning prevents a facilities event from becoming a total security outage

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Monitoring impresses the fire inspector socially

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It lowers the servers' purchase price

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An owner receives a proposal that is technically excellent but priced 60 percent over the available budget, while other compliant proposals fit the budget. What is the defensible action?

Follow the published process — score it as submitted and award per the criteria and budget reality, documenting the outcome

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Ask only that firm to cut its price in secret

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Award to the excellent proposal and seek funds later without a record

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Cancel all proposals because one was over budget

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During selection for a records-center project, a vendor refuses to name the subcontractor that will handle confidential document-area cameras. What is the appropriate buyer response?

Hire a separate investigator at the vendor's direction

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Treat undisclosed handling of sensitive-area work as an unresolved risk that must be satisfied before award

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Award quickly before the vendor withdraws

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Accept the refusal as a trade secret

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