Palo Alto Networks XSIAM Analyst (XSIAM-Analyst) Free Practice Test

Question 1

Which type of analytics will trigger the alert on the image shown?

A. Baseline

B. Contextual

C. Anomaly

D. Behavioral

Correct Answer: C

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Question 2

During an investigation of an alert with a completed playbook, it is determined that no indicators exist from the email "[email protected]" in the Key Assets & Artifacts tab of the parent incident.
Which command will determine if Cortex XSIAM has been configured to extract indicators as expected?

A. !checkIndicatorExtraction text="[email protected]"

B. !createNewIndicator value="[email protected]"

C. !extractIndicators text="[email protected]" auto-extract=inline

D. !emailvalue="[email protected]"

Correct Answer: A

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Question 3

Which query will hunt for only incoming traffic from 99.99.99.99 when all log sources have been mapped to XDM?

A. xdm.source.ipv4 = "99.99.99.99"
datamodel dataset = * | filter XDM.ALIAS.ipv4 = "99.99.99.99"

B. datamodel preset = * | filter XDM.ALIAS.ip = "99.99.99.99"

C. preset = network_story | filter agent_ip_addresses = "99.99.99.99"

D. datamodel dataset = * | fields fieldset.xdm_network | filter

Correct Answer: D

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Question 4

Which type of alert in Cortex XSIAM is primarily based on endpoint telemetry and behavior?

A. Correlation

B. BIOC

C. XDR Agent

D. IOC

Correct Answer: B

Question 5

You notice multiple endpoints reporting offline in XSIAM. Which actions would help confirm their operational status?

A. Check agent connection timestamps

B. Ping the endpoint from the agent

C. Review recent heartbeat logs

D. Perform a live terminal scan

Correct Answer: A,C

Question 6

Which two statements apply to IOC rules? (Choose two.)

A. They can be used to detect a specific registry key.

B. They can have an expiration date of up to 180 days.

C. They can be excluded using suppression rules but not alert exclusions.

D. They can be uploaded using REST API.

Correct Answer: A,D

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Question 7

A threat hunter discovers a true negative event from a zero-day exploit that is using privilege escalation to launch "Malware.pdf.exe." Which XQL query will always show the correct user context used to launch "Malware.pdf.exe"?
config case_sensitive = false | dataset = xdr_data | filter event_type =

A. ENUM.PROCESS | filter action_process_image_name = "Malware.pdf.exe" |
fields causality_actor_effective_username
config case_sensitive = false | dataset = xdr_data | filter event_type =

B. ENUM.PROCESS | filter action_process_image "Malware.pdf.exe" | fields
actor_process_username

C. ENUM.PROCESS | filter action_process_image_name = "Malware.pdf.exe" |
fields action_process_username
config case_sensitive = false | datamodel dataset = xdr_data | filter

D. xdm.source.process.name = "Malware.pdf.exe" | fields
xdm.target.user.username
config case_sensitive = false | dataset = xdr_data | filter event_type =

Correct Answer: A

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Question 8

What can be used to filter out empty values in the query results table?

A. <name of field> != null or <field name> != ""

B. <name of field> != empty or <field name> != "NA"

C. <name of field> != null or <field name> != "NA"

D. <name of field> != empty or <field name> != ""

Correct Answer: C

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