PCSE Practice Question: Managing Operations in a Cloud Solution Environment
A company uses Chronicle as their SIEM. They need to ingest logs from an on-premises firewall that does not support direct integration with Chronicle. What is the recommended approach to ingest these logs?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Install a Chronicle forwarder on a local server to collect and forward logs to Chronicle.
Chronicle provides forwarders (software agents) that can be installed on a machine to collect logs from various sources like firewalls and forward them to Chronicle. The forwarder normalizes logs into UDM. The forwarder can be deployed on-premises or in a VM.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Use the firewall's syslog capabilities to send logs directly to a Chronicle endpoint.
Why it's wrong here
Chronicle does not accept raw syslog; it requires the forwarder.
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Export firewall logs to Cloud Storage and then create a BigQuery external table for Chronicle.
Why it's wrong here
Chronicle does not natively read from BigQuery; forwarders are needed.
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Use a Cloud Function to pull logs from the firewall and push them to Chronicle via API.
Why it's wrong here
Cloud Functions are not designed for continuous log ingestion from firewalls.
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Install a Chronicle forwarder on a local server to collect and forward logs to Chronicle.
Why this is correct
The forwarder is the standard way to ingest third-party logs.
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