
GIAC Certified Detection Analyst
Domain 2Objective 2
Defender and Sentinel Overview GCDA Practice Questions (Page 6)
Part of the Cloud and Microsoft Security Analytics domain, which makes up ~17% of our current practice bank. GIAC (SANS) does not publish an official question count, but from its 120-minute exam (~50–80 total, ~9–14 in this domain), expect 5–7 from this objective — we provide 36 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)
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Questions 26–30
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A SOC team is using Sentinel with Defender for Cloud alerts. They notice that some Defender for Cloud alerts are not appearing in Sentinel incidents. They have enabled the data connector and analytics rules. What is the most likely cause?
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A security team wants to implement a comprehensive detection and response strategy using Microsoft Defender and Sentinel. They need to cover identity, endpoint, email, and cloud workloads. Select all the Microsoft Defender products that should be integrated with Sentinel to achieve this coverage.
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An organization uses Microsoft Defender for Identity and Microsoft Sentinel. The security team wants to automatically disable a user account in Azure AD when Sentinel detects a suspicious identity-based attack. What is the recommended way to achieve this?
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An organization uses Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and Microsoft Sentinel. The security team wants to automatically create an incident in Sentinel whenever a high-severity phishing alert is generated in Defender for Office 365. What should they configure?
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In a cloud security context, which statement best describes the role of Microsoft Defender for Cloud?
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