ISC Security Operations Practice Question
Which SOC metric is most appropriate to present to executive leadership to demonstrate the business value of security investments?
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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Reduction in Mean Time to Remediate (MTTR)
Executive leadership cares about the reduction in risk and the financial impact of incidents, not technical metrics like 'events per second'.
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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Reduction in Mean Time to Remediate (MTTR)
Why this is correct
MTTR demonstrates operational efficiency and reduced risk exposure time.
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Total number of firewall rules
Why it's wrong here
Rule count is an administrative metric, not a performance or value metric.
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Disk space usage of the SIEM
Why it's wrong here
This is a pure infrastructure metric.
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Number of dropped packets per day
Why it's wrong here
This is a low-level technical metric.
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Last reviewed August 2026 · checked against the official (ISC)² exam blueprint
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