Assets
Any real or personal property, tangible or intangible, that a company or individual owns that can be given or assigned a monetary value.
What is an asset?
-takes action
These characteristics describe what type of leader?
effective
Preventing all possible hazards from becoming threats is one of the core functions of
a protection officer
When one talks about “security awareness,” one is talking about which of the following?
A. the establishment of links with external professionals to instill a
sense of partnership through interactive activities
B. the need to focus attention on security throughout the organization
C. the orientation of all employees, at the time of hiring, to the policies
and procedures of the company relative to safety and security
D. All the above
D. All the above
The protection officer must always prioritize his/her attention to the
most critical resources requiring protection. Which of the following is an
example of that priority list?
A. assets, people, information, reputation, and environment
B. people, information, assets, reputation, and environment
C. reputation, people, assets, information, and environment
D. None of the above
B. people, information, assets, reputation, and environment
All of the following are questions leaders must consider except:
A. Can one see potential in others?
B. Does one accept responsibility for mistakes made by those under his/her leadership?
C. Does one successfully sidetrack attacks regarding his/her own mistakes to preserve one's integrity?
D. Is one patient?
C. Does one successfully sidetrack attacks regarding his/her own mistakes to preserve one's integrity?
A professional protection officer must adhere to a strict set of requirements to reach the status to be considered by others as a “professional” in security. Which of the following is not one of those requirements?
A. checks with his/her superiors before making major decisions
B. is loss conscious
C. follows a code of ethics
D. supports and works with colleagues
B. is loss conscious
Contemporary cruise ships in the United States regularly face all the following security issues many times each year except:
A. assault.
B. Internet hacking.
C. piracy.
D. theft.
B. Internet hacking
Asset protection through risk mitigation typically involves a concept of layered protection. The principle behind layered protection consists of what?
deterrence
Additional characteristics that can identify a leader in any organization include all the following except:
A. advocates teamwork.
B. encourages top-down communications.
C. reinforces desired work behaviors.
D. seeks out and eliminates organizational weaknesses.
B. encourages top-down communications.
A professional protection officer is a person whose primary job function is which of the following?
A. arresting criminals and reducing crime in the workplace
B. driving patrol cars and protecting the secured perimeter
C. protection of assets and people
D. protection of the corporate brand
C. protection of assets and people
When designing a security program, there are several key security tactics
that are imperative. Which of the following is one of those tactics?
A. installing basic-level protection officers
B. installing intermediate-level protection officers
C. training non-protection employees to protect themselves and report hazards and threats
D. All the above
D. All the above
Next to the protection of employees, companies are interested in the protection of company assets. Possibly the most important asset worth protecting would be which of the following?
A. corporate vehicles, including the corporate jet
B. expensive equipment
C. good reputation
D. All the above
C. good reputation
A leader depends on the critical character of trust. Trust must be earned because it cannot be purchased. Of the following, which is not a practice that leads to trust?
A. Be cost-effective with “carrot dangling” practices.
B. Be honest so people can believe what one says.
C. Keep promises.
D. Maintain transparency by being open with what one knows.
A. Be cost-effective with “carrot dangling” practices.
What is the primary mobile communications device that almost all protection officers use?
two-way radio
A recurrent theme concerning the history of security and that of policing
is the presence of which of the following?
A. class struggles
B. effects of “color of law” on police and security officers working together
C. the emergence of public policing
D. the emergence of the cop wannabe in the security ranks
A. class struggles