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1. Which of the following is a best practice when creating performant searches within Splunk?

Utilize the transaction command to aggregate data for faster analysis.

Utilize Aggregating commands to ensure all data is available prior to Streaming commands.

Utilize specific fields to return only the data that is required.

Utilize multiple wildcards across fields to ensure returned data is complete and available.

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2. Which search command allows an analyst to match whatever is inside the parentheses as a single term in the index, even if it contains characters that are usually recognized as minor breakers such as periods or underscores?

CASE()

LIKE()

FORMAT ()

TERM ()

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3. Which of the following is not a component of the Splunk Security Content library (ESCU, SSE)?

Dashboards

Reports

Correlation searches

Validated architectures

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4. What is the main difference between a DDoS and a DoS attack?

A DDoS attack is a type of physical attack, while a DoS attack is a type of cyberattack.

A DDoS attack uses a single source to target a single system, while a DoS attack uses multiple sources to target multiple systems.

A DDoS attack uses multiple sources to target a single system, while a DoS attack uses a single source to target a single or multiple systems.

A DDoS attack uses a single source to target multiple systems, while a DoS attack uses multiple sources to target a single system.

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5. An analysis of an organization’s security posture determined that a particular asset is at risk and a new process or solution should be implemented to protect it. Typically, who would be in charge of implementing the new process or solution that was selected?

Security Architect

SOC Manager

Security Engineer

Security Analyst

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6. An analyst is investigating a network alert for suspected lateral movement from one Windows host to another Windows host.

According to Splunk CIM documentation, the IP address of the host from which the attacker is moving would be in which field?

host

dest

src_nt_host

src_ip

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7. An analyst is not sure that all of the potential data sources at her company are being correctly or completely utilized by Splunk and Enterprise Security.

Which of the following might she suggest using, in order to perform an analysis of the data types available and some of their potential security uses?

Splunk ITSI

Security Essentials

SOAR

Splunk Intelligence Management

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8. Which stage of continuous monitoring involves adding data, creating detections, and building drilldowns?

Implement and Collect

Establish and Architect

Respond and Review

Analyze and Report

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9. A threat hunter executed a hunt based on the following hypothesis:

As an actor, I want to plant rundll32 for proxy execution of malicious code and leverage Cobalt Strike for Command and Control.

Relevant logs and artifacts such as Sysmon, netflow, IDS alerts, and EDR logs were searched, and the hunter is confident in the conclusion that Cobalt Strike is not present in the company’s environment.

Which of the following best describes the outcome of this threat hunt?

The threat hunt was successful because the hypothesis was not proven.

The threat hunt failed because the hypothesis was not proven.

The threat hunt failed because no malicious activity was identified.

The threat hunt was successful in providing strong evidence that the tactic and tool is not present in the environment.

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10. Which pre-packaged app delivers security content and detections on a regular, ongoing basis for Enterprise Security and SOAR?

SSE

ESCU

Threat Hunting

InfoSec

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11. Which of the following is a best practice for searching in Splunk?

Streaming commands run before aggregating commands in the Search pipeline.

Raw word searches should contain multiple wildcards to ensure all edge cases are covered.

Limit fields returned from the search utilizing the cable command.

Searching over All Time ensures that all relevant data is returned.

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12. The field file_acl contains access controls associated with files affected by an event. In which data model would an analyst find this field?

Malware

Alerts

Vulnerabilities

Endpoint

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13. The Security Operations Center (SOC) manager is interested in creating a new dashboard for typosquatting after a successful campaign against a group of senior executives.

Which existing ES dashboard could be used as a starting point to create a custom dashboard?

IAM Activity

Malware Center

Access Anomalies

New Domain Analysis

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14. While testing the dynamic removal of credit card numbers, an analyst lands on using the rex command.

What mode needs to be set to in order to replace the defined values with X?

| makeresults

| eval ccnumber="511388720478619733"

| rex field=ccnumber mode=??? "s/(d{4}-){3)/XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-/g"

Please assume that the above rex command is correctly written.

sed

replace

mask

substitute

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15. Which field is automatically added to search results when assets are properly defined and enabled in Splunk Enterprise Security?

asset_category

src_ip

src_category

user

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16. An analyst is investigating how an attacker successfully performs a brute-force attack to gain a foothold into an organizations systems. In the course of the investigation the analyst determines that the reason no alerts were generated is because the detection searches were configured to run against Windows data only and excluding any Linux data.

This is an example of what?

A True Positive.

A True Negative.

A False Negative.

A False Positive.

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17. The Lockheed Martin Cyber Kill Chain® breaks an attack lifecycle into several stages.

A threat actor modified the registry on a compromised Windows system to ensure that their malware would automatically run at boot time. Into which phase of the Kill Chain would this fall?

Act on Objectives

Exploitation

Delivery

Installation

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18. An analyst investigates an IDS alert and confirms suspicious traffic to a known malicious IP.

What Enterprise Security data model would they use to investigate which process initiated the network connection?

Endpoint

Authentication

Network traffic

Web

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19. The United States Department of Defense (DoD) requires all government contractors to provide adequate security safeguards referenced in National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-171. All DoD contractors must continually reassess, monitor, and track compliance to be able to do business with the US government.

Which feature of Splunk Enterprise Security provides an analyst context for the correlation search mapping to the specific NIST guidelines?

Comments

Moles

Annotations

Framework mapping

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20. An analyst would like to test how certain Splunk SPL commands work against a small set of dat

a.

What command should start the search pipeline if they wanted to create their own data instead of utilizing data contained within Splunk?

makeresults

rename

eval

stats

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21. While the top command is utilized to find the most common values contained within a field, a Cyber Defense Analyst hunts for anomalies.

Which of the following Splunk commands returns the least common values?

least

uncommon

rare

base

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