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Security Operations Practice Questions

Security Operations is the single largest domain on the SY0-701 exam at 28% — and the one most grounded in real-world analyst work. This domain covers what a security team does every day: detecting threats through SIEM and IDS/IPS, running the incident response playbook, scanning and patching vulnerabilities, protecting data, and keeping change management locked down. Exam questions are almost entirely scenario-based. You will be handed a situation — ransomware hits a file server, a SIEM alert fires at 2am, a critical CVE drops for a system you own — and asked what to do next, in what order, and with which tool. The NIST SP 800-61 incident response lifecycle (Preparation → Detection and Analysis → Containment → Eradication and Recovery → Post-Incident Activity) appears on nearly every exam version. Treat it as a required memorisation.