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Splunk Certified Cybersecurity Defense Engineer

CYBERSECURITY-DEFENSE-ENGINEER

The Splunk Certified Cybersecurity Defense Engineer certification validates your ability to optimize SOC workflows using Splunk Enterprise Security and Splunk SOAR. You'll learn to craft and tune effective detections, incorporate threat intelligence, and build automations that follow industry best practices. This credential is for security professionals ready to advance from analyst to defense engineering roles.

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5Domains

19Objectives

109Practice pages

512Free questions

CYBERSECURITY-DEFENSE-ENGINEER free practice questions

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Perform effective data review and analysis.

34 questions · 7 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–34

Create and maintain performant data indexing.

24 questions · 5 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–24

Understand and apply Splunk methods of data normalization.

26 questions · 6 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–26

Create and tune detections (i.e. Correlation Search).

25 questions · 5 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25

Incorporate context into detections (i.e. Correlation Search).

13 questions · 3 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–13

Understand and create risk-based modifiers and detections.

23 questions · 5 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–23

Generate effective Notable Events/findings.

28 questions · 6 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–28

Create and maintain a detection lifecycle.

25 questions · 5 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25

Research, incorporate and develop threat intelligence.

32 questions · 7 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–32

Use common methodologies for risk and detection prioritization.

31 questions · 7 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–31

Generate documentation and standard operating procedures.

32 questions · 7 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–32

Develop automation and orchestration for standard operating procedures.

34 questions · 7 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–34

Optimize Case Management.

34 questions · 7 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–34

Describe and utilize REST APIs.

19 questions · 4 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–19

Automate responses using SOAR playbooks.

29 questions · 6 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–29

Compare and validate integrations and automation capabilities of Enterprise Security and SOAR.

23 questions · 5 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–23

Develop and optimize security metrics.

31 questions · 7 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–31

Build and populate effective security reports.

20 questions · 4 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20

Build and populate dashboards for program analytics.

29 questions · 6 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–29

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Splunk Certified Cybersecurity Defense Engineer

CYBERSECURITY-DEFENSE-ENGINEER free practice questions

Domain 1 · Data Engineering16% of practice bank · 3 objectives · 84 questions16%

Domain 2 · Detection Engineering22% of practice bank · 5 objectives · 114 questions22%

Domain 3 · Building Effective Security Processes and Programs19% of practice bank · 3 objectives · 95 questions19%

Domain 4 · Automation and Efficiency27% of practice bank · 5 objectives · 139 questions27%

Domain 5 · Auditing and Reporting on Security Programs16% of practice bank · 3 objectives · 80 questions16%