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Splunk SPLK-5001

Splunk Certified Cybersecurity Defense Analyst

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Question 1 of 131

Which Enterprise Security framework provides a mechanism for running preconfigured actions within the Splunk platform or integrating with external applications?

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Correct answer: D

Adaptive Response provides the mechanism for executing preconfigured actions in Splunk Enterprise Security and for integrating response workflows with external applications. It allows analysts to trigger automated or guided actions, such as enriching an event, creating a ticket, blocking an indicator, or invoking a security orchestration tool. Asset and Identity, Notable Event, and Threat Intelligence support context and detection, but they do not provide the action-execution framework.

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Question 2 of 131

Which of the following Splunk Enterprise Security features allows industry frameworks such as CIS Critical Security Controls, MITRE ATT&CK, and the Lockheed Martin Cyber Kill Chain® to be mapped to Correlation Search results?

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Annotations allow correlation search results to be tagged with security-relevant metadata, including mappings to frameworks such as CIS Critical Security Controls, MITRE ATT&CK, and the Cyber Kill Chain. These mappings provide context about the tactic, technique, or control associated with a detected event and support consistent investigation and reporting. Playbooks guide response actions, while comments and enrichments add other forms of context rather than framework mappings.

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Question 3 of 131

Which of the following is the primary benefit of using the CIM in Splunk?

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The Common Information Model normalizes fields and event categories across different data sources, allowing searches, dashboards, and detections to use consistent names and structures. This makes it easier to correlate related activity from products such as firewalls, endpoint tools, authentication systems, and cloud services. CIM does not inherently improve raw search performance, provide machine learning capabilities, or automatically block threats.

Question 4 of 131

Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) are methods or behaviors utilized by attackers. In which framework are these categorized?

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MITRE ATT&CK categorizes adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures based on observed real-world behavior. Tactics describe an attacker’s objective, while techniques and sub-techniques describe the methods used to achieve it. This framework helps defenders map detections, investigations, and controls to specific adversary behaviors. NIST, ISO, and CIS provide security standards or control guidance rather than a detailed behavioral knowledge base of attacker TTPs.

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Question 5 of 131

A threat hunter executed a hunt based on the following hypothesis:

As an actor, I want to plant rundll32 for proxy execution of malicious code and leverage Cobalt Strike for Command and Control.

Relevant logs and artifacts such as Sysmon, netflow, IDS alerts, and EDR logs were searched, and the hunter is confident in the conclusion that Cobalt Strike is not present in the company’s environment.

Which of the following best describes the outcome of this threat hunt?

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The hunt provides strong negative evidence that rundll32-based proxy execution with Cobalt Strike command and control is not present in the environment. The hunter searches multiple relevant telemetry sources and is confident that the expected artifacts would have been detected if the tool or tactic were active. A threat hunt is successful when it produces actionable conclusions, including confirmation that a suspected threat is absent. The hypothesis does not need to be proven for the hunt to deliver value.

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