XSOAR-Engineer Planning Installation And Maintenance Practice Question
During a routine maintenance window, an administrator upgrades a content pack from the Marketplace, which causes several existing playbooks to fail due to a breaking schema change in a custom automation script. What is the fastest method to revert the content pack to the previously working version?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Use the Marketplace interface to select the specific content pack and downgrade to the previous stable version.
Cortex XSOAR Marketplace allows administrators to manage installed content pack versions and roll back to previous versions directly from the Marketplace view.
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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Delete the content pack folder from the file system and restart the server.
Why it's wrong here
Manually deleting system files can leave broken dependencies and orphan references in the database.
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Run 'demisto-sdk downgrade' from the CLI.
Why it's wrong here
demisto-sdk does not manage live server content pack downgrades.
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Restore the entire server from the last nightly database backup.
Why it's wrong here
Restoring the whole database is overly disruptive and time-consuming when only a content pack needs rolling back.
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Use the Marketplace interface to select the specific content pack and downgrade to the previous stable version.
Why this is correct
Marketplace supports version history selection, allowing administrators to seamlessly downgrade specific content packs.
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