XSIAM Analyst Practice Exam 2025: Latest Questions

An analyst wants to understand what Cortex XSIAM primarily provides compared to a traditional SIEM. Which statement best describes Cortex XSIAM?

A newly onboarded log source appears in Cortex XSIAM, but the analyst sees no detections from it. What is the MOST likely first step to validate whether the data is usable for analytics?

During triage, an analyst needs to quickly answer: "Which users and hosts are related to this alert?" Which XSIAM artifact is typically used to pivot and preserve investigative context across related data?

An analyst wants to reduce mean time to respond (MTTR) for phishing incidents by ensuring the same steps happen every time (enrichment, containment, notification). What is the BEST XSIAM capability to use?

A detection triggers for suspicious PowerShell activity. The analyst needs to confirm whether the command was launched by a legitimate management tool or by a user from an unusual device. Which approach is MOST effective in XSIAM?

After enabling an automated containment action, the security team reports that legitimate administrative activity was blocked. What is the BEST practice to minimize impact while maintaining automation?

An analyst is building a dashboard for leadership that should show trendlines of incident volume and the most common attack categories over time. Which data presentation choice is MOST appropriate?

An XSIAM alert shows a 'suspicious login' for a user. The analyst suspects it may be caused by missing geo/IP context from the identity provider logs. Which troubleshooting step is MOST likely to improve detection fidelity?

A high-confidence incident is created from multiple low-level alerts across endpoint, identity, and network sources. The analyst wants to understand why these were grouped into one incident and which evidence drove the incident severity. What should the analyst review FIRST?

Your organization wants to automatically isolate endpoints only when both conditions are met: (1) malware prevention alert is high severity, and (2) the device is not tagged as a critical server. Which design is MOST appropriate in XSIAM?

An analyst is triaging an alert in Cortex XSIAM and wants to understand the sequence of related events (login, process start, and network connection) on the same endpoint. Which view is best suited for seeing a chronological chain of activity tied to the alert?

You need to onboard a new log source into Cortex XSIAM and ensure that fields like source IP and username are consistently searchable across sources. What is the best practice to achieve this?

An incident has been confirmed as malicious, and you need to prevent the compromised endpoint from communicating with the network while maintaining access for investigation. Which response action is most appropriate?

A playbook is triggered on every low-severity alert and is causing too many automated actions. You want automation only when the alert includes a high-confidence indicator (e.g., known bad hash) or when severity is high. What is the best way to control this?

You suspect an alert is related to credential stuffing. Which set of evidence would most strongly support this hypothesis in Cortex XSIAM investigation?

Your team wants a weekly report showing incident volume by MITRE ATT&CK tactic and the top affected hosts. What is the most appropriate approach in Cortex XSIAM?

A new data source is onboarded, but detections based on IP address are not correlating with existing sources. You notice the new source stores IPs in a field named "client_ip" while detections expect a normalized field. What should you do to fix correlation without rewriting all detections?

During investigation, you want to validate whether multiple alerts belong to the same attack campaign affecting a subset of hosts. Which approach is most effective in Cortex XSIAM?

A containment playbook blocks a suspected malicious IP at the firewall. Later, you discover the IP was a shared CDN endpoint and the block caused business disruption. Which design change best reduces the risk of similar false positives while keeping response fast?

An analyst sees an incident where endpoint telemetry shows a suspicious process, but there are no corresponding network logs for the host during the time window. The SOC suspects a visibility gap rather than a truly offline host. Which troubleshooting step is most appropriate to identify the root cause in XSIAM?

A new analyst wants to quickly understand the scope of an ongoing case by identifying the impacted users, endpoints, and key timeline events in Cortex XSIAM. Which view is best suited for this task?

You are tuning detections and notice an analytics rule is generating many false positives during scheduled vulnerability scans. What is the best practice to reduce noise while preserving detection value?

An incident response playbook is intended to automatically contain compromised endpoints by isolating the host. In production, the playbook runs but no containment occurs, and there are no obvious task failures. What is the most likely cause?

You need to provide management with a weekly report showing trends for incidents by severity and mean time to respond (MTTR). Which approach best fits Cortex XSIAM capabilities and reporting best practices?

You are designing ingestion for a remote site with intermittent connectivity. Security leadership requires that logs are not lost during outages and that investigation data is available once connectivity is restored. What architecture decision best meets this requirement in Cortex XSIAM?