ELASTICElastic Certified SIEM Analyst
The Elastic Certified SIEM Analyst certification validates your ability to investigate threats and analyze security data using Elastic Security for SIEM. Built for security analysts, this credential proves you can detect, investigate, and respond to evolving threats with AI-driven security analytics. Earning it demonstrates hands-on proficiency with the Elastic Security solution, enhancing your professional visibility and career opportunities.
421 practice questions · Updated 2026-07-30
ELASTIC-CERTIFIED-SIEM-ANALYST Curriculum
Every domain, objective, and concept the ELASTIC-CERTIFIED-SIEM-ANALYST exam measures.
- Identify Stack Components
- Describe Data Flow
- Explain Elasticsearch Role
- Explain Kibana Role
- Explain Beats Role
- Explain Logstash Role
- Describe Deployment Architecture
- Fleet overview
- Elastic Agent installation
- Agent enrollment
- Agent policies
- Integrations
- Data ingestion verification
- Agent health monitoring
- ECS Overview
- ECS Field Categories
- ECS Field Naming Conventions
- ECS Data Types and Formats
- ECS Guidelines for Field Usage
- ECS Compliance and Validation
- Customize the Discover interface
- Search for data in Discover
- Manage saved searches
- Customize table columns
- Use field statistics
- Sort and paginate results
- Aggregation types
- Date histograms
- Terms aggregations
- Filters aggregations
- Composite aggregations
- Metric aggregations
- Percentile aggregations
- Cardinality aggregations
- Nested aggregations
- Visualization types
- Kibana Lens
- Saved visualizations
- Time range controls
- Bucket sorting and ordering
- Handling large result sets
- Lens interface basics
- Data source selection
- Metric configuration
- Bucket configuration
- Filtering and querying
- Visualization types
- Breakdown and split series
- Time series analysis
- Value formatting
- Saving and adding to dashboard
- Security Use Case Identification
- Data Source Selection for Security Dashboards
- Dashboard Layout Design for Security
- Visualization Configuration for Security Metrics
- Filtering and Querying for Security Context
- Correlating Security Events
- Dashboard Interactivity for Security Analysis
- Sharing and Exporting Security Dashboards
- Dashboard Overview
- Creating Dashboards
- Adding Visualizations
- Editing Dashboard Panels
- Using Dashboard Filters
- Interacting with Dashboard Data
- Saving and Sharing Dashboards
- Managing Dashboards
- Security App Overview
- Navigation and Interface
- Detection Alerts Management
- Case Management
- Timeline Investigation
- Host and User Pages
- Network and External Alerts
- Visualizations and Dashboards
- Data Sources and Integrations
- Customization and Configuration
- Detection Engine Overview
- Search Activity Mechanisms
- Alert Generation Process
- Rule Types and Execution
- Alert Lifecycle and Status
- Detection rule alert anatomy
- Alert triage workflow
- Correlating alerts with events
- Alert enrichment and context
- False positive analysis
- Alert response actions
- Documentation and reporting
- Timeline basics
- Creating and managing Timelines
- Adding data to a Timeline
- Timeline correlation techniques
- Timeline investigation workflow
- Case creation
- Case details management
- Case assignment
- Case comments
- Case attachments
- Case linking to alerts
- Case status tracking
- Case search and filtering
- Case metrics and reporting
- AI in Security App overview
- AI-driven threat detection
- AI-assisted investigation
- AI-powered alert triage
- Natural language processing in Security App
- AI model management and configuration
- Limitations and considerations of AI
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