XSIAM-Engineer Sample Questions Answers

The !setIncidentFields command is used in the Incident War Room to directly update incident fields that are defined in the incident layout, ensuring the incident record reflects the latest information.

When creating a data model rule, the field _event_type is automatically mapped from the dataset to the data model. This ensures events are categorized correctly in alignment with the Cortex XSIAM Data Model (XDM).

When two incidents are merged in Cortex XSIAM, the War Room of the destination incident retains the merged details and activity logs. If a SOC analyst reports missing details, checking the destination incident’s War Room will provide the complete context and history.

A parsing rule in Cortex XSIAM is bound to a specific vendor and product, ensuring accurate parsing logic for that log source. It processes each log individually (once per log) and does not allow grouping, making it distinct from data model rules.

Cortex XSIAM ingests structured third-party logs (such as CEF, LEEF, and JSON) by breaking down the key-value pairs and saving them in a normalized table format. This enables efficient correlation, analytics, and query performance across diverse log sources while preserving data fidelity.

The Multi-select option allows a dashboard widget in Cortex XSIAM to be filtered by more than one dynamic value, enabling flexible data exploration and visualization across multiple selected criteria.

Cortex XSIAM allows configuring Email and Slack as direct alert notification options without requiring a playbook. PagerDuty and SMS integrations, however, require orchestration through playbooks.

Rolling tokens in Cortex XDR are used to perform administration on agents without relying on static credentials. This improves security by providing time-limited, automatically rotating tokens that maintain agent management access without exposing long-lived credentials.

In a Cortex XSIAM parsing rule, the COLLECT section defines the newly created dataset. This section specifies how the parsed fields and data should be structured and stored for further use in analytics and queries.

The correct command is cytool import suex -path , which imports a supplied support exception (suex) file onto a Linux endpoint, ensuring the exception is applied locally.

The most secure approach is to create a Disable Prevention Rule via Exceptions Configuration, scoped specifically to the Exceptions-AppServers profile. This rule should include the hash (SHA256), signer (Microsoft Corporation), and file path (C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe). This ensures the exception is applied only to the trusted, legitimate process on the AppServers group while minimizing the security gap.

To migrate XDR agents without internet from tenant A to tenant B, the engineer must install a new Broker C registered to tenant B to establish communication, and also register Broker A with tenant B so existing agents can transition their communication path smoothly during migration.

The correct approach is to install a Broker VM in the environment and configure its CSV Collector applet to ingest the .csv log files directly from the Ubuntu server. This enables secure ingestion of custom application logs into Cortex XSIAM without modifying the application or requiring an XDR agent on the server.

Cloud Identity Engine must be deployed in the same region as Cortex XSIAM to ensure compliance and proper data handling. Once integrated, the ingestion can be verified by checking the pan_dss_raw dataset, which records the raw directory synchronization logs.