Clearance Basics
Obtaining this makes you eligible to access classified information
What is a Security Clearance?
Form completed within e-QIP for a position needing a national security clearance.
What is a Standard Form (SF) 86?
The frequency required for collateral clearance refresher training.
What is annually?
Filing for bankruptcy, having a vehicle repossessed, and debts being charged-off.
What are financial issues?
The capital of Djibouti.
What is Djibouti?
This type of information, if not protected, can cause a threat to national security.
What is classified information?
The concept an adjudicator uses when determining if an employee is eligible for a security clearance.
What is the "Whole Person" concept?
Investigations that occur every 5 years following an initial investigation.
What is a periodic reinvestigation?
Renewing a foreign passport, voting in another country's elections, and accepting education benefits from another country.
What is foreign preference?
Fifth branch of the military.
What is the Coast Guard?
This is a requirement for a sensitive position.
What is a security clearance?
The number of guidelines used to determine eligibility for a security clearance.
What is 13?
As a clearance holder, what you are required to do if you get a DWI/DUI.
What is self-report?
Smoking marijuana while on vacation in Colorado, taking your roommate's prescription medication, or eating brownies your friend made with marijuana.
What is drug involvement or substance abuse?
Number of FAS Posts around the world.
What is 93?
The initial offer HR makes to a candidate selected for a sensitive position.
What is a tentative offer?
The normal scope of a Tier 5 investigation.
What is 10 years?
(or back to the 16th birthday, whichever time period is shortest)
The document required when carrying classified material out of the USDA headquarters.
What is a Courier Card?
Engaging in bar fights, purposefully ramming into the car that just cut you off in traffic, and shoplifting.
What is criminal activity?
Name of the war fought in 1812.
What is the War of 1812?
Two things that must be confirmed about someone who is requesting access to specific classified information.
What is whether the requestor holds the proper clearance level and do they have a need-to-know?
The only authority for making security clearance eligibility determinations at USDA.
Who is the Personnel and Document Security Division (PDSD)?
Also accepted: Who is the Office of Homeland Security (OHS)?
You must report traffic tickets in excess of this amount.
What is $300?
Not answering questions on your security form truthfully, refusing to complete your requested security package when requested, and failing to report you were ordered by a court to go into counseling for alcohol abuse or addiction.
What is personal conduct?
The 2018 World Series Champions.
Who are the Boston Red Sox?