Free Practice Questions for Splunk Certified Cybersecurity Defense Analyst Certification

1.1: Summarize the organization of a typical SOC and the tasks belonging to Analyst, Engineer and Architect roles.

1.2: Recognize common cyber industry controls, standards and frameworks and how Splunk incorporates those frameworks.

1.3: Describe key security concepts surrounding information assurance including confidentiality, integrity and availability and basic risk management.

2.1: Recognize common types of attacks and attack vectors.

2.2: Define common terms including supply chain attack, ransomware, registry, exfiltration, social engineering, DoS, DDoS, bot and botnet, C2, zero trust, account takeover, email compromise, threat actor, APT, adversary.

2.3: Identify the common tiers of Threat Intelligence and how they might be applied to threat analysis.

2.4: Outline the purpose and scope of annotations within Splunk Enterprise Security.

2.5: Define tactics, techniques and procedures and how they are regarded in the industry.

3.1: Identify common types of cyber defense systems, analysis tools and the most useful data sources for threat analysis.

3.2: Describe SIEM best practices and basic operation concepts of Splunk Enterprise Security, including the interaction between CIM, Data Models and acceleration, Asset and Identity frameworks, and common CIM fields that may be used in investigations.

3.3: Describe how Splunk Security Essentials and Splunk Enterprise Security can be used to assess data sources, including common sourcetypes for on-prem and cloud based deployments and how to find content for a given sourcetype.

4.1: Describe continuous monitoring and the five basic stages of investigation according to Splunk.

4.2: Explain the different types of analyst performance metrics such as MTTR and dwell time.

4.3: Demonstrate ability to recognize common event dispositions and correctly assign them.

4.4: Define terms and aspects of Splunk Enterprise Security and their uses including SPL, Notable Event, Risk Notable, Adaptive Response Action, Risk Object, Contributing Events.

4.5: Identify common built-in dashboards in Enterprise Security and the basic information they contain.

4.6: Understand and explain the essentials of Risk Based Alerting, the Risk framework and creating correlation searches within Enterprise Security.

5.1: Explain common SPL terms and how they can be used in security analysis, including TSTATS, TRANSACTION, FIRST/LAST, REX, EVAL, FOREACH, LOOKUP, and MAKERESULTS.

5.2: Give examples of Splunk best practices for composing efficient searches.

5.3: Identify SPL resources included within ES, Splunk Security Essentials, and Splunk Lantern.

6.1: Identify threat hunting techniques including configuration, modeling (anomalies), indicators, and behavioral analytics.

6.2: Define long tail analysis, outlier detection, and some common steps of hypothesis hunting with Splunk.

6.3: Determine when to use adaptive response actions and configure them as needed.

6.4: Explain the use of SOAR playbooks and list the basic ways they can be triggered from Enterprise Security.