What should a security engineer prioritize when building a new security process?
- A . Integrating it with legacy systems
- B . Ensuring it aligns with compliance requirements
- C . Automating all workflows within the process
- D . Reducing the overall number of employees required
Which features of Splunk are crucial for tuning correlation searches? (Choose three)
- A . Using thresholds and conditions
- B . Reviewing notable event outcomes
- C . Enabling event sampling
- D . Disabling field extractions
- E . Optimizing search queries
A security analyst wants to validate whether a newly deployed SOAR playbook is performing as expected.
What steps should they take?
- A . Test the playbook using simulated incidents
- B . Monitor the playbook’s actions in real-time environments
- C . Automate all tasks within the playbook immediately
- D . Compare the playbook to existing incident response workflows
What are the benefits of incorporating asset and identity information into correlation searches? (Choose two)
- A . Enhancing the context of detections
- B . Reducing the volume of raw data indexed
- C . Prioritizing incidents based on asset value
- D . Accelerating data ingestion rates
A company wants to implement risk-based detection for privileged account activities.
What should they configure first?
- A . Asset and identity information for privileged accounts
- B . Correlation searches with low thresholds
- C . Event sampling for raw data
- D . Automated dashboards for all accounts
What is the primary purpose of data indexing in Splunk?
- A . To ensure data normalization
- B . To store raw data and enable fast search capabilities
- C . To secure data from unauthorized access
- D . To visualize data using dashboards
Which features are crucial for validating integrations in Splunk SOAR? (Choose three)
- A . Testing API connectivity
- B . Monitoring data ingestion rates
- C . Verifying authentication methods
- D . Evaluating automated action performance
- E . Increasing indexer capacity
How can you incorporate additional context into notable events generated by correlation searches?
- A . By adding enriched fields during search execution
- B . By using the dedup command in SPL
- C . By configuring additional indexers
- D . By optimizing the search head memory
What is the primary purpose of correlation searches in Splunk?
- A . To extract and index raw data
- B . To identify patterns and relationships between multiple data sources
- C . To create dashboards for real-time monitoring
- D . To store pre-aggregated search results
Which practices strengthen the development of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)? (Choose three)
- A . Regular updates based on feedback
- B . Focusing solely on high-risk scenarios
- C . Collaborating with cross-functional teams
- D . Including detailed step-by-step instructions
- E . Excluding historical incident data
A Splunk administrator needs to integrate a third-party vulnerability management tool to automate remediation workflows.
What is the most efficient first step?
- A . Set up a manual alerting system for vulnerabilities
- B . Use REST APIs to integrate the third-party tool with Splunk SOAR
- C . Write a correlation search for each vulnerability type
- D . Configure custom dashboards to monitor vulnerabilities
Which sourcetype configurations affect data ingestion? (Choose three)
- A . Event breaking rules
- B . Timestamp extraction
- C . Data retention policies
- D . Line merging rules
What is a key feature of effective security reports for stakeholders?
- A . High-level summaries with actionable insights
- B . Detailed event logs for every incident
- C . Exclusively technical details for IT teams
- D . Excluding compliance-related metrics
Which Splunk feature enables integration with third-party tools for automated response actions?
- A . Data model acceleration
- B . Workflow actions
- C . Summary indexing
- D . Event sampling
Which action improves the effectiveness of notable events in Enterprise Security?
- A . Applying suppression rules for false positives
- B . Disabling scheduled searches
- C . Using only raw log data in searches
- D . Limiting the search scope to one index
Which actions can optimize case management in Splunk? (Choose two)
- A . Standardizing ticket creation workflows
- B . Increasing the indexing frequency
- C . Integrating Splunk with ITSM tools
- D . Reducing the number of search heads
Which REST API actions can Splunk perform to optimize automation workflows? (Choose two)
- A . POST for creating new data entries
- B . DELETE for archiving historical data
- C . GET for retrieving search results
- D . PUT for updating index configurations
What is the main purpose of Splunk’s Common Information Model (CIM)?
- A . To extract fields from raw events
- B . To normalize data for correlation and searches
- C . To compress data during indexing
- D . To create accelerated reports
A company’s Splunk setup processes logs from multiple sources with inconsistent field naming conventions.
How should the engineer ensure uniformity across data for better analysis?
- A . Create field extraction rules at search time.
- B . Use data model acceleration for real-time searches.
- C . Apply Common Information Model (CIM) data models for normalization.
- D . Configure index-time data transformations.
Which Splunk configuration ensures events are parsed and indexed only once for optimal storage?
- A . Summary indexing
- B . Universal forwarder
- C . Index time transformations
- D . Search head clustering
Which elements are critical for documenting security processes? (Choose two)
- A . Detailed event logs
- B . Visual workflow diagrams
- C . Incident response playbooks
- D . Customer satisfaction surveys
What is a key advantage of using SOAR playbooks in Splunk?
- A . Manually running searches across multiple indexes
- B . Automating repetitive security tasks and processes
- C . Improving dashboard visualization capabilities
- D . Enhancing data retention policies
What elements are critical for developing meaningful security metrics? (Choose three)
- A . Relevance to business objectives
- B . Regular data validation
- C . Visual representation through dashboards
- D . Avoiding integration with third-party tools
- E . Consistent definitions for key terms
Which REST API method is used to retrieve data from a Splunk index?
- A . POST
- B . GET
- C . PUT
- D . DELETE
What is the primary function of a Lean Six Sigma methodology in a security program?
- A . Automating detection workflows
- B . Optimizing processes for efficiency and effectiveness
- C . Monitoring the performance of detection searches
- D . Enhancing user activity logs
What Splunk process ensures that duplicate data is not indexed?
- A . Data deduplication
- B . Metadata tagging
- C . Indexer clustering
- D . Event parsing
A cybersecurity engineer notices a delay in retrieving indexed data during a security incident investigation. The Splunk environment has multiple indexers but only one search head.
Which approach can resolve this issue?
- A . Increase search head memory allocation.
- B . Optimize search queries to use tstats instead of raw searches.
- C . Configure a search head cluster to distribute search queries.
- D . Implement accelerated data models for faster querying.
How can you ensure that a specific sourcetype is assigned during data ingestion?
- A . Use props.conf to specify the sourcetype.
- B . Define the sourcetype in the search head.
- C . Configure the sourcetype in the deployment server.
- D . Use REST API calls to tag sourcetypes dynamically.
What is the main purpose of incorporating threat intelligence into a security program?
- A . To automate response workflows
- B . To proactively identify and mitigate potential threats
- C . To generate incident reports for stakeholders
- D . To archive historical events for compliance
What are the key components of Splunk’s indexing process? (Choose three)
- A . Parsing
- B . Searching
- C . Indexing
- D . Alerting
- E . Input phase