Free Practice Questions for ASIS ASIS-PSP Exam

Proprietary (in-house) security often provides better control over personnel, consistency in training, greater loyalty, and better integration with the corporate culture. This can enhance overall performance and organizational prestige.

B, C, and D list some advantages but miss the full combination that best defines proprietary staffing benefits.

Controlled areas are secure zones that restrict access to authorized personnel and vehicles only. These areas may include military zones, secure corporate facilities, or sensitive operational spaces where access control is enforced through badges, guards, surveillance, or barriers.

Terminal operations (A) refers to logistical or transportation hubs.

Surveillance (B) is a monitoring method, not a restricted area itself.

Total programs (C) is not a recognized security term.

Organizational levels of terrorism are generally classified into:

Individual Terrorism (Lone-wolf actors)

Group Terrorism (Non-state groups like al-Qaeda, ISIS)

State Terrorism (When a state uses terror tactics on its own or others ' populations)

Modern terrorism refers more to the contemporary methods, tools, and global nature of terrorism—not a level of organization. Hence, it ' s not considered an " organizational level. "

In the context of physical security, predictability typically refers to human behavior patterns that adversaries could exploit. For example, predictable patrol schedules or access procedures can be observed and defeated. Reducing predictability enhances security by complicating an attacker’s planning process.

A (Accuracy) and B (Effectiveness) relate to system performance.

D (Efficiency) relates to resource use, not vulnerability.

The recommendations from the U.S. Department of Justice Task Force on Private Security Training include:

A minimum of 8 hours of formal pre-assignment training (A),

32 hours of basic training within two months of assignment, with at least 16 hours being supervised on-the-job training (B).

These guidelines aim to professionalize private security personnel and improve effectiveness and accountability.

The correct answer is C. environmental and degradation factors.

In PSP physical security design, lighting is treated as a structural security countermeasure, and the ASIS PSP Body of Knowledge includes knowledge of lighting, electronic security systems, performance requirements, and security system design capacities.

A 4:1 light-to-dark ratio means the brightest area should not be more than four times brighter than the darkest area within the assessed scene. This provides relatively even illumination for guards and video assessment systems. In physical protection system guidance, the light-to-dark ratio directly affects the ability to assess a scene; very high ratios create dark blind spots, while a lower ratio such as 4:1 greatly reduces those blind spots.

The reason 4:1 is used as the preferred design goal is that lighting systems degrade over time due to environmental and maintenance-related factors such as lamp aging, dirt on fixtures, weather effects, dust, damaged lamps, vegetation growth, and surface reflectance changes. Guidance on security camera lighting states that lighting may be designed for a 4-to-1 ratio to allow for degradation over time, while a 6-to-1 ratio is still used as a practical maximum to avoid areas becoming too dark or too bright for assessment.

The other options are not the best answer:

A. High surface reflection may help contrast, but it is not the reason for selecting a 4:1 design goal.

B. High aspect ratio is not a security lighting design objective in this context.

D. Reflected glare reduction is important, but the 4:1 ratio is mainly selected to maintain usable illumination despite environmental and degradation factors.

Therefore, the correct answer is C. environmental and degradation factors.

Fail-safe locks are designed to unlock automatically when power is removed. This ensures people can exit during emergencies such as fire alarms or power outages. It is a critical safety requirement in most building codes.

A may be true for integrated systems but doesn’t define fail-safe.

B describes fail-secure, which keeps the door locked during power failure.

D (Tamper resistance) relates to durability, not fail-safe function.

Recovery of critical processes depends heavily on identifying and assessing the resources needed—such as personnel, facilities, IT systems, and communication tools. Without a proper resource assessment, recovery plans may fail to address key operational dependencies.

Under the pure comparative negligence approach, a plaintiff can recover damages even if they were primarily responsible for their own injury. For example, if the plaintiff was 90% at fault, they could still recover 10% of the damages from the defendant. This model allows for partial recovery based on proportional fault, regardless of the level of the plaintiff’s responsibility.

50/50 rule and 51 percent rule prevent recovery when the plaintiff is found equally or more at fault.