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Splunk Certified Cybersecurity Defense Analyst

SPLK-5001

The Splunk Certified Cybersecurity Defense Analyst certification validates your ability to detect, analyze, and combat cyber threats using Splunk Enterprise and Enterprise Security. Designed for SOC analysts and cybersecurity professionals, it demonstrates hands-on skills in threat hunting, risk-based alerting, and continuous monitoring. Earning this credential proves you can help protect businesses and mitigate risk with industry best practices.

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6Domains

24Objectives

121Practice pages

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SPLK-5001 free practice questions

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Summarize the organization of a typical SOC and the tasks belonging to Analyst, Engineer and Architect roles.

29 questions · 6 pages

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

Recognize common cyber industry controls, standards and frameworks and how Splunk incorporates those frameworks.

22 questions · 5 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–22

Describe key security concepts surrounding information assurance including confidentiality, integrity and availability and basic risk management.

25 questions · 5 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25

Recognize common types of attacks and attack vectors.

22 questions · 5 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–22

Identify the common tiers of Threat Intelligence and how they might be applied to threat analysis.

22 questions · 5 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–22

Outline the purpose and scope of annotations within Splunk Enterprise Security.

15 questions · 3 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15

Define tactics, techniques and procedures and how they are regarded in the industry.

17 questions · 4 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–17

Identify common types of cyber defense systems, analysis tools and the most useful data sources for threat analysis.

25 questions · 5 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25

Describe SIEM best practices and basic operation concepts of Splunk Enterprise Security, including the interaction between CIM, Data Models and acceleration, Asset and Identity frameworks, and common CIM fields that may be used in investigations.

27 questions · 6 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–27

Describe how Splunk Security Essentials and Splunk Enterprise Security can be used to assess data sources, including common sourcetypes for on-prem and cloud based deployments and how to find content for a given sourcetype.

25 questions · 5 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25

Describe continuous monitoring and the five basic stages of investigation according to Splunk.

34 questions · 7 pages

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

Explain the different types of analyst performance metrics such as MTTR and dwell time.

18 questions · 4 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–18

Demonstrate ability to recognize common event dispositions and correctly assign them.

11 questions · 3 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–11

Define terms and aspects of Splunk Enterprise Security and their uses including SPL, Notable Event, Risk Notable, Adaptive Response Action, Risk Object, Contributing Events.

23 questions · 5 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–23

Identify common built-in dashboards in Enterprise Security and the basic information they contain.

29 questions · 6 pages

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

Understand and explain the essentials of Risk Based Alerting, the Risk framework and creating correlation searches within Enterprise Security.

28 questions · 6 pages

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

Explain common SPL terms and how they can be used in security analysis, including TSTATS, TRANSACTION, FIRST/LAST, REX, EVAL, FOREACH, LOOKUP, and MAKERESULTS.

19 questions · 4 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–19

Give examples of Splunk best practices for composing efficient searches.

26 questions · 6 pages

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

Identify SPL resources included within ES, Splunk Security Essentials,

14 questions · 3 pages

Questions 1–5 6–10 11–14

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Splunk Certified Cybersecurity Defense Analyst

SPLK-5001 free practice questions

Summarize the organization of a typical SOC and the tasks belonging to Analyst, Engineer and Architect roles.

Recognize common cyber industry controls, standards and frameworks and how Splunk incorporates those frameworks.

Describe key security concepts surrounding information assurance including confidentiality, integrity and availability and basic risk management.

Recognize common types of attacks and attack vectors.

Identify the common tiers of Threat Intelligence and how they might be applied to threat analysis.

Outline the purpose and scope of annotations within Splunk Enterprise Security.

Define tactics, techniques and procedures and how they are regarded in the industry.

Identify common types of cyber defense systems, analysis tools and the most useful data sources for threat analysis.

Describe SIEM best practices and basic operation concepts of Splunk Enterprise Security, including the interaction between CIM, Data Models and acceleration, Asset and Identity frameworks, and common CIM fields that may be used in investigations.

Describe how Splunk Security Essentials and Splunk Enterprise Security can be used to assess data sources, including common sourcetypes for on-prem and cloud based deployments and how to find content for a given sourcetype.

Describe continuous monitoring and the five basic stages of investigation according to Splunk.

Explain the different types of analyst performance metrics such as MTTR and dwell time.

Demonstrate ability to recognize common event dispositions and correctly assign them.

Define terms and aspects of Splunk Enterprise Security and their uses including SPL, Notable Event, Risk Notable, Adaptive Response Action, Risk Object, Contributing Events.

Identify common built-in dashboards in Enterprise Security and the basic information they contain.

Understand and explain the essentials of Risk Based Alerting, the Risk framework and creating correlation searches within Enterprise Security.

Explain common SPL terms and how they can be used in security analysis, including TSTATS, TRANSACTION, FIRST/LAST, REX, EVAL, FOREACH, LOOKUP, and MAKERESULTS.

Give examples of Splunk best practices for composing efficient searches.

Identify SPL resources included within ES, Splunk Security Essentials,

Identify threat hunting techniques including configuration, modeling (anomalies), indicators, and behavioral analytics.

Define long tail analysis, outlier detection, and some common steps of hypothesis hunting with Splunk.

Determine when to use adaptive response actions and configure them as needed.

Explain the use of SOAR playbooks and list the basic ways they can be triggered from Enterprise Security.

Splunk Certified Cybersecurity Defense Analyst

SPLK-5001 free practice questions

Domain 1 · The Cyber Landscape, Frameworks, and Standards14% of practice bank · 3 objectives · 76 questions14%

Domain 2 · Threat and Attack Types, Motivations, and Tactics22% of practice bank · 5 objectives · 122 questions22%

Domain 3 · Defenses, Data Sources, and SIEM Best Practices14% of practice bank · 3 objectives · 77 questions14%

Domain 4 · Investigation, Event Handling, Correlation, and Risk25% of practice bank · 6 objectives · 143 questions25%

Domain 5 · SPL and Efficient Searching10% of practice bank · 3 objectives · 59 questions10%

Domain 6 · Threat Hunting and Remediation15% of practice bank · 4 objectives · 85 questions15%