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Investigation And Risk Management

This domain covers Splunk Enterprise Security investigation workflows and the Risk Framework: how risk rules, risk index retention, risk scores, and notable events fit together. Questions are scenario-based, asking where a specific setting lives or which ES UI, configuration file, or search returns the contributing risk events behind a notable.

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What to know about Investigation And Risk Management

Be able to locate where risk rule weight, risk index retention, and correlation search tuning are configured, and to trace a notable event back to its contributing risk events in the risk index. Getting the correct configuration location right is essential.

Configuring the risk index retention via indexes.conf rather than the ES UI

Adjusting risk rule weight and risk score in the Risk Analysis framework

Using Incident Review to inspect and triage notable events in ES

Drilling into contributing risk events from a notable via risk index searches

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Common Investigation And Risk Management exam traps

  • ▸Assuming risk index retention is changed in ES settings; it is an index setting in indexes.conf.
  • ▸Confusing risk rule weight with correlation search severity or throttle settings.
  • ▸Expecting notable events to store raw contributing events instead of referencing risk index entries.

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All Investigation And Risk Management questions (56)

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1

Which TWO of the following are key components of a successful incident investigation workflow in Splunk ES?

Easy
2

A security analyst is investigating a notable in Splunk ES and needs to determine the potential impact of the threat. The analyst wants to correlate the risk object with asset and identity data to understand the criticality of the affected system and the user's role. Which two actions should the analyst take to enrich the investigation with asset and identity context? (Choose two.)

Hard
3

A SOC analyst is reviewing a notables list in Splunk Enterprise Security and wants to see the individual risk events that contributed to a specific notable's risk score. The analyst opens the notable's detail view and looks for a way to pivot directly to the contributing risk events. Which action should the analyst take?

Medium
4

When configuring an 'Adaptive Response' action, what does the 'Notable' action type do?

Hard
5

A SOC manager wants to review the overall risk posture of the organization by examining the highest-risk users and systems over the past week. Which Splunk Enterprise Security dashboard provides this aggregated view of risk objects and their scores?

Easy
6

Which THREE pieces of information are commonly found in a Splunk ES Case?

Easy
7

Which TWO factors influence an object's final risk score in Splunk ES?

Hard
8

An analyst needs to manually add an event to an existing case in Splunk ES. What is the correct procedure?

Medium
9

A SOC analyst is reviewing an investigation in Splunk Enterprise Security and wants to determine whether a specific threat intelligence indicator has been observed in the environment over the past 90 days. Which investigation technique best supports this requirement?

Medium
10

Which THREE actions are part of the 'Incident Review' investigation workflow?

Easy
11

An analyst is reviewing a notables queue in Splunk Enterprise Security and wants to understand why a particular correlation search generated a high-severity finding. The analyst opens the finding in Incident Review and notices the severity is set to 'high', but the contributing risk score is only 40. Which component of the correlation search configuration most directly determines the severity displayed on the finding?

Medium
12

When reviewing an incident, how can an analyst verify if the notable event was generated by a specific correlation search?

Medium
13

What is the purpose of the 'Investigation Workbench' in Splunk ES?

Easy
14

When investigating a risk notable, which dashboard in Splunk ES provides a visual representation of the risk contributors for a specific user?

Easy
15

In the Incident Review dashboard, what does 'Status' represent?

Easy
16

During an investigation, an analyst determines that a user's risk score is inflated because a single risk rule is firing repeatedly on benign activity. The analyst wants to reduce the impact of this rule on the user's overall risk score without disabling the rule entirely. What is the most appropriate action?

Medium
17

A customer wants to exclude certain low-fidelity risk events from their Risk Notable correlation search. Where is the best place to define these exclusions?

Medium
18

Which TWO metrics are tracked in the 'Incident Review' dashboard's 'Notable Event' list?

Medium
19

Which THREE features are provided by the Splunk ES Incident Review dashboard?

Medium
20

If an analyst needs to modify the default retention for the 'risk' index, where should they make this change?

Hard
21

A risk analyst notices that a user account accumulated a high risk score from multiple contributing risk events, but the score does not reflect the expected sum of the individual risk rule weights. Which factor most likely explains the discrepancy?

Hard
22

Which TWO methods can be used to suppress unwanted notable events?

Medium
23

Which component in Splunk ES is used to manage the lifecycle of an incident, including status updates and assignments?

Easy
24

Which data model does the Risk Analysis adaptive response action typically rely upon to enrich events?

Medium
25

Which THREE settings can be configured within the 'Risk Analysis' adaptive response action?

Hard
26

A SOC manager is defining requirements for a new detection that should contribute to an entity's risk profile in Splunk Enterprise Security. Which TWO characteristics must the detection have to properly contribute risk to an entity? (Choose two.)

Medium
27

An analyst is investigating a notable event in Splunk ES and needs to determine which correlation search generated it and what risk objects contributed to its creation. Which Splunk ES feature provides this information directly from the notable event?

Hard
28

A risk analyst notices that a particular risk rule is generating an excessive number of risk events for low-severity activities, causing alert fatigue. The analyst wants to reduce the impact of this rule on overall risk scores without disabling it entirely. What is the most appropriate action?

Hard
29

A correlation search is failing to generate risk events. You check the 'Search Activity' and see that the search is running but returning 0 results. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
30

A SOC manager is defining a new risk-based alerting (RBA) strategy in Splunk Enterprise Security. The manager wants to ensure that risk events are properly attributed to the correct entities so that risk scores aggregate accurately. Which two actions should the manager take when configuring risk rules? (Choose two.)

Medium
31

During an investigation, you need to group related notables into a single investigation container. Which feature should you use?

Medium
32

A SOC manager is defining a new risk-based alerting strategy and wants to ensure that risk events generated by correlation searches are properly attributed and actionable. Which TWO fields are required in a risk event for the Risk Analysis framework to correctly associate risk with an entity and contribute to its score? (Choose two.)

Medium
33

When calculating a risk score using the 'sum' aggregation method, what happens if multiple risk events for the same object occur within the same time window?

Hard
34

What is the benefit of using the Asset and Identity framework in Splunk ES investigations?

Easy
35

A SOC analyst is reviewing a notable event for a suspected compromised host. The analyst wants to enrich the investigation by viewing the raw event that triggered the detection, along with the associated risk events and threat intelligence matches, directly from the notable event in Splunk Enterprise Security. Which feature should the analyst use to access this consolidated context?

Medium
36

You notice that the risk score for an asset is not decaying. Which configuration controls the risk score lifespan?

Hard
37

Which TWO actions can be taken on a notable event directly from the Incident Review dashboard?

Hard
38

In the context of Splunk ES, what is an 'Asset'?

Easy
39

An analyst is investigating an incident where a user's risk score spiked significantly. Which investigative tool allows the analyst to see the timeline of all contributing risk events?

Hard
40

Which TWO areas of the Splunk ES environment are used to manage risk-based alerting configurations?

Easy
41

When investigating a case, where should an analyst document their findings to ensure they are available to other team members?

Medium
42

A security analyst needs to adjust the weight of a specific risk rule. Where should this configuration be modified?

Medium
43

A SOC analyst is reviewing a notable event in Splunk Enterprise Security that was generated from a correlation search firing against a risk index. The analyst wants to see the individual risk events that contributed to the notable's risk score, including the contributing risk rules and their individual risk scores. Which action should the analyst take?

Medium
44

A Splunk ES analyst is tuning a correlation search that generates a large number of false positives. The analyst wants to reduce noise without disabling the search entirely. The search currently uses a risk rule that assigns a risk score of 20 to each matching event. Which approach best aligns with risk-based alerting best practices?

Hard
45

Which of the following is a primary benefit of Risk-Based Alerting (RBA) over traditional alerting?

Easy
46

A junior analyst is asked to find all risk events associated with a specific user account to assess potential insider threat activity. Which search command should the analyst use to retrieve these risk events from the risk index?

Easy
47

During an investigation, an analyst needs to correlate a series of authentication failures with subsequent successful logins from the same source across multiple indexers. Which Splunk Enterprise Security capability is most appropriate for this task?

Hard
48

A security analyst is documenting the key phases of a Splunk Enterprise Security investigation workflow for a new team member. Which two phases are essential components of this workflow? (Choose two.)

Medium
49

When configuring the 'Risk Analysis' adaptive response, what does the 'risk_score' parameter represent?

Hard
50

What is the primary function of the 'Risk Notable' correlation search in Splunk ES?

Medium
51

An analyst is building a risk rule that assigns a risk score to a user based on the number of failed authentication attempts observed in a 10-minute window. The analyst wants the risk score to increase proportionally with the number of failures, but also wants to avoid generating excessive risk events for every single failure. Which approach best meets these requirements?

Hard
52

Which TWO types of data are commonly enriched by the Asset and Identity framework?

Easy
53

A security analyst is documenting the lifecycle of an investigation in Splunk Enterprise Security. Which statement accurately describes how cases and notables relate within that lifecycle?

Easy
54

A security analyst receives a notable event about suspicious PowerShell execution on a workstation. To gather more context, the analyst wants to see all events related to the involved host from the last 24 hours in a single view. Which Splunk ES feature provides this consolidated timeline of activity for an entity?

Easy
55

A SOC manager wants to ensure that when a notable event is reviewed and closed, the analyst's disposition and any supporting evidence are preserved for audit purposes. Which Splunk ES feature should the manager use to capture this information?

Easy
56

A SOC analyst is building a risk-based alerting workflow and wants to ensure that a specific risk rule only contributes to an entity's risk score when the entity is a user account, not a system or IP address. Which configuration in the risk rule's search definition accomplishes this?

Hard

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What does the Investigation And Risk Management domain cover on the SPLK-5001 exam?
Be able to locate where risk rule weight, risk index retention, and correlation search tuning are configured, and to trace a notable event back to its contributing risk events in the risk index. Getting the correct configuration location right is essential.
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This page lists all 56 Investigation And Risk Management questions in the SPLK-5001 question bank. The actual exam draws from this domain proportionally to its weighting in the official exam blueprint.
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