SPLK-5001 Investigation And Risk Management Practice Question
An analyst needs to manually add an event to an existing case in Splunk ES. What is the correct procedure?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Select the event in Incident Review and choose 'Add to Case'.
From the Incident Review dashboard, analysts can select a notable event and use the 'Action' menu to assign it to an existing case.
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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Edit the correlation search definition.
Why it's wrong here
This modifies the alert generation logic, not the case management workflow.
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Modify the risk index directly.
Why it's wrong here
Manual modification of the index is not a standard investigation workflow.
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Use the Case Management dashboard to search for the event ID.
Why it's wrong here
You add events via Incident Review, not by searching for event IDs in Case Management.
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Select the event in Incident Review and choose 'Add to Case'.
Why this is correct
The 'Add to Case' action is directly available in the Incident Review interface.
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Written and reviewed by Johnson Ajibi, MSc IT Security
Senior Network & Security Engineer · founder of Courseiva
Last reviewed August 2026 · checked against the official Splunk exam blueprint
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