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An exam for network and security professionals who design, deploy, operate, and monitor a Fortinet SOC solution. It covers FortiSIEM and FortiSOAR configuration and operation, along with incident analysis, integration, troubleshooting, threat hunting, and playbook development. Passing demonstrates applied knowledge of Fortinet security operations solutions at the NSE 7 level.

Exam Topics

  • SOC Concepts and Frameworks25%
  • Detection Capabilities25%
  • SOAR Incident Handling and Threat Hunting25%
  • SOAR Playbook Development25%

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QuestionQ1

SOAR Incident Handling and Threat Hunting

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You are attempting to find traffic flows to destinations in Europe or Asia for hosts in the local LAN segment. However, the query returns no results. Assume that these logs exist on FortiSIEM.

Which three mistakes are present in the query shown in the exhibit?

Choose three
  • A The logical operator for the first row (Group: Europe) must be OR.
  • B The null value cannot be used with the IS NOT operator.
  • C The time range must be Absolute for queries that use configuration management database (CMDB) groups.
  • D The Source IP row operator must be BETWEEN 10.0.0.0, 10.200.200.254.
  • E There are missing parentheses between the first row (Group: Europe) and the second row (Group: Asia).
Explanation

The destination criteria must be grouped as (Destination Country IN Europe OR Destination Country IN Asia) before applying the remaining AND conditions; otherwise the query requires a destination to be in both geographic groups. A local LAN address span must use the BETWEEN range operator rather than IN, which is for discrete listed values. FortiSIEM supports IS NOT NULL, and its search filters support AND/OR operators and parentheses to control evaluation order.

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QuestionQ2

SOAR Incident Handling and Threat Hunting

Which three of the following are threat-hunting activities?

Choose three
  • A Generate a hypothesis.
  • B Tune correlation rules.
  • C Perform packet analysis.
  • D Automate workflows.
  • E Enrich records with threat intelligence.
Explanation

Threat hunting is a proactive investigative practice that starts with a testable hypothesis, analyzes available evidence such as network packets, and uses threat-intelligence enrichment to add context to records and indicators. Correlation-rule tuning is detection engineering, and workflow automation is security orchestration.

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QuestionQ3

SOAR Playbook Development

When you configure an Ingest Bulk Feed playbook step, which two restrictions must be considered?

Choose two
  • A It will not trigger On Create triggers.
  • B It is slower than the Create Record step.
  • C It will not trigger On Update triggers.
  • D It cannot use step output from a connector action.
Explanation

Records created or updated through the Ingest Bulk Feed step do not trigger playbooks that use the On Create or On Update trigger. The step is designed for high-volume ingestion and is significantly faster than the Create Record step.

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QuestionQ4

SOC Concepts and Frameworks

Based on the Pyramid of Pain model, which two statements correctly describe an indicator’s value and the difficulty an adversary faces in changing it?

Choose two
  • A Tactics, techniques, and procedures are hard because adversaries must adapt their methods.
  • B Tools are easy because often, multiple alternatives exist.
  • C IP addresses are easy because adversaries can spoof them or move them to new resources.
  • D Artifacts are easy because adversaries can alter file paths or registry keys.
Explanation

Tactics, techniques, and procedures are difficult for adversaries to change because they must adapt their underlying methods of operation. IP addresses are comparatively easy to change because adversaries can shift infrastructure or use alternative addresses.

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QuestionQ5

Detection Capabilities

You are setting up a new FortiSIEM rule to trigger incidents after receiving a specified number of either Fortigate-Traffic-Violation or Fortigate-Traffic-Denied event types. Although a single subpattern could accomplish this, you choose to create two separate subpatterns—one for each event type—and correlate them with the OR operator.

Which two benefits does this method provide?

Choose two
  • A Each subpattern can use a different group by condition.
  • B Each subpattern can use a different time window condition.
  • C Each subpattern can use a different aggregate condition.
  • D Each subpattern can trigger its own notification policy.
Explanation

Each FortiSIEM subpattern is independently defined with its own group-by attributes and aggregate conditions (thresholds). Using OR makes the rule trigger when either subpattern meets its own criteria, allowing the two event types to be grouped and thresholded differently. Notification policies and the rule time window are rule-level settings rather than separate per-subpattern benefits.

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