XSIAM Engineer Intermediate Practice Exam: Medium Difficulty 2025

An organization is planning an XSIAM deployment for three subsidiaries. Security leadership wants a single place to manage detection rules and playbooks, but each subsidiary must retain separate incident queues and restricted visibility (analysts in one subsidiary cannot view another’s cases). Which design best meets these requirements?

A customer is onboarding endpoint telemetry, network security logs, and identity events into XSIAM. They want to minimize data gaps during an internet outage and still forward data securely once connectivity returns. Which approach best addresses this requirement?

After onboarding firewall logs, an analyst notices two problems: (1) the same event appears multiple times in searches, and (2) some dashboards show inflated counts. What is the most likely cause and the best remediation?

A team onboards identity provider (IdP) logs and wants detections to reliably identify the same user across UPN, email, and shortname formats (e.g., jdoe, jdoe@company.com). Which action best supports consistent correlation in XSIAM?

You are onboarding a high-volume DNS dataset. The SOC wants to keep full fidelity for 7 days for hunting, but only aggregated metrics (counts by domain and client) beyond that to reduce storage usage. Which strategy best fits this requirement?

A phishing detection creates an incident when a suspicious URL is clicked. The SOC wants an automated response that: (1) enriches the URL reputation, (2) checks if the endpoint has related alerts, and (3) only isolates the endpoint if the URL is malicious AND the endpoint shows execution indicators. Which playbook design is most appropriate?

A playbook pulls indicators from an external threat intel API. The API enforces strict rate limits and occasionally times out. You need to reduce failures and avoid blocking the entire incident workflow when the API is unavailable. What is the best improvement?

You created a playbook that triggers on every low-severity alert and automatically opens incidents. The SOC complains about noise and wants incidents only when multiple related alerts occur within 15 minutes for the same host. Which change best meets the requirement?

A playbook uses a service account to disable user accounts in an identity system. During a security review, auditors request proof that actions are attributable and permissions are least-privilege. Which operational approach best satisfies both requirements?

After onboarding a new log source, detection coverage seems incomplete. Searches show events are ingested, but a detection rule that relies on a normalized field (e.g., source IP or action) is not firing. What is the most likely issue and the best next step?