A SOC is designing its monitoring workflow. The team wants to ensure that all critical assets are monitored 24/7, but they have limited staffing for night shifts. Which approach would best meet this requirement?

Rely on automated alerts without any human review during off-hours.

Use a managed security service provider (MSSP) for after-hours monitoring and alerting.

Require all SOC analysts to work night shifts on a rotating basis.

Only monitor critical assets during business hours.

A SOC team is planning to deploy a new security tool. The team wants to ensure that the tool integrates with their existing SIEM and that alerts from the tool are automatically enriched with threat intelligence. Which type of tool should the team consider?

An EDR solution that can provide endpoint visibility and automatically enrich alerts with threat intelligence.

A SOAR platform that can orchestrate the enrichment process and integrate with both the SIEM and threat intelligence feeds.

An IDS/IPS that can inspect network traffic and automatically enrich alerts with threat intelligence.

A vulnerability scanner that can identify weaknesses and automatically enrich alerts with threat intelligence.

A SOC is experiencing a high volume of low-severity alerts, causing analysts to miss critical incidents. The SOC manager has limited budget and cannot hire additional staff. The team already uses a SIEM and EDR. Which approach would best improve the SOC's effectiveness without additional headcount?

Deploy additional EDR sensors to all endpoints.

Increase the SIEM's log retention period to gather more data.

Implement a SOAR platform to automate triage and response for common alerts.

Create a new analyst tier to handle low-severity alerts.

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21expert · hard
A SOC is designing its monitoring workflow. The team wants to ensure that all critical assets are monitored 24/7, but they have limited staffing for night shifts. Which approach would best meet this requirement?
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22foundation · easy
Which SOC tool is specifically designed to automate and orchestrate response actions, such as blocking an IP address or isolating an endpoint, based on predefined playbooks?
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23application · medium
A SOC team is planning to deploy a new security tool. The team wants to ensure that the tool integrates with their existing SIEM and that alerts from the tool are automatically enriched with threat intelligence. Which type of tool should the team consider?
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24foundation · easy
Which SOC technology is primarily used to aggregate and correlate security logs and events from multiple sources to identify potential incidents?
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25expert · hard
A SOC is experiencing a high volume of low-severity alerts, causing analysts to miss critical incidents. The SOC manager has limited budget and cannot hire additional staff. The team already uses a SIEM and EDR. Which approach would best improve the SOC's effectiveness without additional headcount?
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Questions 21–25

A SOC is designing its monitoring workflow. The team wants to ensure that all critical assets are monitored 24/7, but they have limited staffing for night shifts. Which approach would best meet this requirement?

Which SOC tool is specifically designed to automate and orchestrate response actions, such as blocking an IP address or isolating an endpoint, based on predefined playbooks?

A SOC team is planning to deploy a new security tool. The team wants to ensure that the tool integrates with their existing SIEM and that alerts from the tool are automatically enriched with threat intelligence. Which type of tool should the team consider?

Which SOC technology is primarily used to aggregate and correlate security logs and events from multiple sources to identify potential incidents?

A SOC is experiencing a high volume of low-severity alerts, causing analysts to miss critical incidents. The SOC manager has limited budget and cannot hire additional staff. The team already uses a SIEM and EDR. Which approach would best improve the SOC's effectiveness without additional headcount?

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