Which of the following is a typical use case for a script in Cortex XSOAR?

Sending a weekly summary email to the security team

Automatically updating threat intelligence feeds every hour

Running a daily backup of the incident database

Extracting file hashes from an email attachment during an investigation

In which scenario would you most likely use a script in Cortex XSOAR?

To perform nightly database maintenance on the XSOAR server

To automatically enrich all new incidents every 15 minutes

To run a one-time data transformation on an incident's indicators

To generate a weekly report of all closed incidents

In Cortex XSOAR, what is the primary purpose of a script?

To define a sequence of automated actions that run on a schedule

To store incident data for long-term retention and reporting

To schedule recurring automation tasks on a timer

To automate a specific task or action that can be run on demand or within a playbook

An organization needs to periodically clean up old investigation data and close stale incidents that have been inactive for more than 30 days. This cleanup should run automatically every night. Which component should be used to implement this recurring maintenance task?

A playbook triggered by an incident creation rule

A script executed manually by an analyst

Which statement correctly describes a script in Cortex XSOAR?

It is a scheduled automation that runs at predefined intervals

It is a containerized application that runs independently of the XSOAR platform

It is a workflow that orchestrates multiple tasks across different integrations

It is a piece of code that performs a specific action and can be called manually or from a playbook

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An organization needs to periodically clean up old investigation data and close stale incidents that have been inactive for more than 30 days. This cleanup should run automatically every night. Which component should be used to implement this recurring maintenance task?
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