John, SOC analyst wants to monitor the attempt of process creation activities from any of their Windows endpoints.
Which of following Splunk query will help him to fetch related logs associated with process creation?
A mid-sized hospital's SOC team has recently detected multiple malware incidents that disrupted access to patient records and caused operational inefficiencies. The SOC analysts have been tasked with eradicating current infections and preventing future attacks by addressing the underlying vulnerabilities that allowed the malware to breach defenses. As a SOC analyst, you need to recommend a step that directly targets weaknesses in the hospital’s network infrastructure or system configurations exploited by the malware. Which eradication step would best address these root causes?
Which of the following Windows Event Id will help you monitors file sharing across the network?
Pearl is a Level 1 SOC analyst at a global financial institution using SQL Server to store sensitive customer information. She investigates an alert showing multiple failed web app logins from the same IP, followed by a successful login as a server administrator. She then reviews SQL Server logs and finds the attacker used compromised credentials to access the SQL Server database. Which log will help identify whether the intruder performed unauthorized modifications in the database?
NationalHealth, a government agency responsible for managing sensitive patient health records, is subject to strict data sovereignty regulations requiring all data to be stored and processed within the country’s borders. Leadership is concerned about outsourcing security operations and needs complete control over patient data handling. The agency faces increasing cyber threats and requires 24/7 security monitoring. They have a large budget and can hire many security professionals. Which SOC model is most suitable?
Jannet works in a multinational corporation that operates multiple data centers, cloud environments, and on-premises systems. As a SOC analyst, she notices that security incidents are taking too long to detect and investigate. After analyzing this, she discovers that logs from firewalls, endpoint security solutions, authentication servers, and cloud applications are scattered across different systems in various formats. Her team has to manually convert logs into a readable format before investigating incidents. What approach should she implement to accept logs from heterogeneous sources with different formats, convert them into a common format, and improve incident detection and response time?
Chloe, a SOC analyst with Jake Tech, is checking Linux systems logs. She is investigating files at /var/log/ wtmp.
What Chloe is looking at?
You are a Level 1 SOC analyst at a critical infrastructure provider. Threat actors infiltrated the network and exfiltrated sensitive system blueprints. Before detection, they executed commands that altered system logs, wiped forensic artifacts, and modified timestamps to mimic normal activity. They also manipulated security monitoring tools to prevent unusual login events from being recorded. Which APT lifecycle phase does this represent?
A SOC team at a major financial institution detects unauthorized access attempts on its web application. Logs indicate the web application is compromised. To determine the exact attack technique and implement mitigation, forensic investigators assess cookie attributes (such as HttpOnly, Secure, and SameSite) for security weaknesses and track anomalous request patterns that deviate from normal user behavior. Which attack vector is the forensic team investigating?
TESTED 10 Mar 2026
