C1000-162 Exam Information and Outline
IBM Certified Analyst - Security QRadar SIEM V7.5 (Code: C9005200)
C1000-162 Exam Syllabus & Study Guide
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Number of questions: 64
Number of questions to pass: 41
Time allowed: 90 minutes
Status: Live
Section 1: Offense Analysis (23%)
Section 2: Rules and Building Block Design (18%)
Section 3: Threat Hunting (24%)
Section 4: Dashboard Management (14%)
Section 5: Searching and Reporting (21%)
- Offense Analysis
- Triage initial offense
- Analyze fully matched and partially matched rules
- Analyze an offense and associated IP addresses
- Recognize MITRE threat groups and actors
- Perform offense management
- Describe the use of the magnitude within an offense
- Identify Stored and Unknown events and their source
- Outline simple offense naming mechanisms
- Create customized searches
- Rules and Building Block Design
- Interpret rules that test for regular expressions
- Create and manage reference sets and populate them with data
- Identify the need for QRadar Content Packs
- Analyze rules that use Event and Flow data
- Analyze Building Blocks Host definition- category definition- Port definition
- Review and understand the network hierarchy
- Review and recommend updates to building blocks and rules
- Describe the different types of rules- including behavioral- anomaly and threshold rules
- Threat Hunting
- Investigate Event and Flow parameters
- Perform AQL query
- Search & filter logs
- Configure a search to utilize time series
- Analyze potential IoCs
- Break down triggered rules to identify the reason for the offense
- Distinguish potential threats from probable false positives
- Add a reference set based filter in log analysis
- Investigate the payload for additional details on the offense
- Recommend adding new custom properties based on payload data
- Perform "right-click Investigations" on offense data
- Dashboard Management
- Use the default QRadar dashboard to create- view- and maintain a dashboard based on common searches
- Use Pulse to create- view- and maintain a dashboard based on common searches
- Searching and Reporting
- Explain the different uses and benefits for each Ariel search type
- Explain the different uses of each search type
- Perform an advanced search
- Filter search results
- Build threat reports
- Perform a quick search
- View the most commonly triggered rules
- Report events correlated in the offense
- Export Search results in CSV or XML
- Create reports and advanced reports out of offenses
- Share reports with users
- Search using indexed and non-indexed properties
- Create and generate scheduled and manual reports