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Which component of Cortex XDR is designed to detect insider threats?

A Forensics
B Identity Analytics
C Cloud Identity Engine
D Host Insights

A customer is investigating a security incident in which unusual network traffic is observed and a malicious process is identified on an endpoint.
Which Cortex XDR capability assists with correlating firewall network logs and endpoint data in this environment?

A Log stitching
B User authentication management
C Indicator of compromise (IOC) rule
D Analytics

Which sensor is used by Cortex XSIAM to identify and collect DNS queries, HTTP header, and DHCP information?

A Windows Event Collector logs
B Directory Sync logs
C Pathfinder data collector
D Enhanced application logs

What is enabled by Role Based Access Control (RBAC) in Cortex XDR?

A Management of permissions and assignment of administrator access rights.
B Userility to manage Cortex XDR features based on job function.
C Automated response to detected threats based on user roles.
D Granular control and visibility over network traffic policies based on user roles.

Which two steps belong in the Cortex XSOAR incident lifecycle? (Choose two.)

A Planning
B Incident creation
C Incident notification
D Preparation

Which scripting language would create a custom widget in Cortex XDR that shows the top five accounts with failed Windows logons in the past 24 hours?

A XQL
B JavaScript
C Python
D PowerShell

Which response action in Cortex XSIAM would be unavailable to a SOC analyst investigating an incident involving a Linux server?

A File search and destroy
B Live Terminal session initiation
C Running a script
D Halting network access

What is the role of content packs in Cortex XSOAR?

A To provide rebuilt bundles for supporting security orchestration use cases
B To support technical support teams with relevant information required to troubleshoot
C To serve as a central location for installing, exchanging, and contributing content
D To serve as a major software versioning update

A file hash is evaluated a Cortex XSOAR by using two unique threat feeds:
VirusTotal feed (rating of B- usually reliable) and the file verdict is malicious
AlienVault feed (rating of B- usually reliable) and the file verdict is benign
What is the file verdict in XSOAR?

A Benign
B Malicious
C Unknown
D Suspicious

Which incident should a responder prioritize based on overall functional and informational impact to the company?

A A user in the accounting department receives a pop-up message after visiting a website.
B A public-facing web server has multiple failed login attempts over a short period of time.
C An external-facing company website is currently unavailable.
D A large upload of user data from an internal file server to a public website occurs.

Which action should an administrator take to create automated response actions when a user account is compromised, allowing attacker to upload data to an external IP address and infect a machine on the company network with malware?

A Create automation rules in Cortex XDR that will trigger for each alert.
B Create a script in Cortex XSOAR that will run a playbook based on the scenario.
C Create playbook triggers in Cortex XSIAM and run playbooks for each alert.
D Map the events as type of Cortex XSOAR incident, then run a playbook.

During a sophisticated cyber attack, a company experiences a stealthy, multivector intrusion that evades detection by traditional security tools.
The company requires a solution that will correlate and analyze the disparate attack indicators across its network, endpoints, and cloud environments to uncover the full scope of the breach and take immediate automated response actions.
Which solution should be recommended?

A XDR
B SIEM
C EDR
D XSOAR

What is a difference between cold storage and hot storage in Cortex?

A Cold storage is required, while hot storage is optional.
B Cold storage and hot storage can be stored in different cloud locations.
C Logs in cold storage have more details than logs stored in hot storage.
D Querying logs in cold storage takes more time than querying logs in hot storage.

Where in Cortex XSOAR are analystsle to collaborate and converse with others for joint real-time investigations?

A Investigations tab
B War Room
C Evidence Board
D Work plan

Which Cortex XDR component raises an alert when suspicious activity composed of multiple events is detected and deviates from established baseline behavior?

A Analytics Engine
B Causality Analysis Engine
C XQL Query Engine
D Cloud Identity Engine

Which two types of content can be installed or upgraded through a Cortex XSIAM content pack? (Choose two.)

A Analytics alerts
B Playbook triggers
C Data Model rules
D Behavioral Threat Protection (BTP)

What is required to enable ingestion of on-premises firewall logs into Cortex XDR?

A Broker VM
B API
C PAN-OS content pack
D Cloud Identity Engine

A new incident in Cortex XSIAM contains WildFire malware and Behavioral Threat Protection (BTP) alertsout an unsigned process attempting to dump the memory of Isass.exe.
Which initial verdict applies to this incident?

A False positive
B True positive
C False negative
D True negative

Where can an administrator begin to grant a new non-SSO user access to a Cortex XDR tenant?

A Cortex XDR tenant settings under Access Management
B Cortex Gateway
C Customer Support Portal
D IT Service Portal

Where can the actions taken to stitch alerts together in Cortex XSIAM be viewed?

A Alerts and Insights
B Timeline
C Causality chain
D Key Assets & Artifacts

What determines the indicator layout displayed and the scripts that will run on an indicator of compromise (IOC) in Cortex XSIAM?

A Size
B Type
C Date
D Origin

Which action is performed as the final step of the NIST incident response plan?

A Updating incident response procedures
B Gathering evidence
C Restoring from backups
D Conducting incident response training exercises

What is the purpose of incident types in Cortex XSOAR?

A They categorize manual and automated incidents, trigger playbooks automatically, and require predefined fields and integrations.
B They assist in mapping manual incidents, assign default playbooks, and require inline auto-extraction of indicators.
C They classify events ingested through integrations or the REST API, can trigger specific playbooks, and include customizable layouts and service-level agreement (SLA) parameters.
D They manually create incidents, configure universal playbooks, and enforce strict adherence to preset service-level agreement (SLA) reminders.

Which activities are facilitated through the War Room in Cortex XSOAR?

A Creating, editing, and deleting tasks in the workplan
B Running security playbooks, scripts, and commands
C Conducting initial investigation of incident data and threat intelligence
D Viewing a summary of case details and alerts

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