XSIAM Analyst Intermediate Practice Exam: Medium Difficulty 2025

You are onboarding a new environment into Cortex XSIAM. Security leadership wants to understand which data sources are sending telemetry, whether ingestion is healthy, and where visibility gaps exist before tuning detections. Which approach best meets this requirement?

A SOC lead wants to reduce duplicate investigations. They ask you to explain how XSIAM avoids creating separate incidents for multiple alerts that are likely part of the same attack chain. Which platform capability should you highlight?

An analyst is investigating a suspected credential-theft incident. They have a user entity and want to quickly determine whether the same user authenticated from two geographically distant locations in a short time window and whether that user’s endpoint also spawned suspicious processes. What is the most effective investigation approach in XSIAM?

Your team is seeing alerts for a known malicious IP, but analysts disagree about whether it is truly threatening in your environment. You need to determine if the IP contacted multiple internal hosts and whether it is tied to other indicators (domains, hashes) within the same incidents. Which action best supports this investigation?

A detection fired for suspicious PowerShell activity. The incident includes process lineage, command-line, and user context. You suspect a false positive caused by an internal IT script, but you must prove it. What is the best next step in XSIAM?

An incident indicates a likely malware execution on an endpoint. You want to automate response but avoid isolating critical servers unless confidence is high. Which automation design best fits this requirement in XSIAM?

After an alert for suspicious login activity, the recommended response is to disable the user account. However, the organization requires an approval step before any identity changes. How should you implement this in XSIAM automation?

Your playbook enriches indicators using external threat intelligence and then blocks malicious domains on a security control. You want to prevent blocking when the indicator has low confidence or is too common (high false-positive risk). What is the best control to add?

SOC management asks for a weekly report showing: (1) incident volume by severity, (2) mean time to acknowledge (MTTA), and (3) which detection types generate the most escalations. What is the most appropriate way to produce this in XSIAM?

You are tasked with improving detection quality. You want to identify rules or analytics that generate high alert volume but low true-positive rate, so you can tune them. Which reporting approach best supports this goal in XSIAM?