SPLK-5001 Exam Details

  • Exam Code
    :SPLK-5001
  • Exam Name
    :Splunk Certified Cybersecurity Defense Analyst
  • Certification
    :Splunk Certifications
  • Vendor
    :Splunk
  • Total Questions
    :66 Q&As
  • Last Updated
    :Jul 11, 2026

Splunk SPLK-5001 Online Questions & Answers

  • Question 21:

    A Risk Rule generates events on Suspicious Cloud Share Activity and regularly contributes to confirmed incidents from Risk Notables. An analyst realizes the raw logs these events are generated from contain information which helps them

    determine what might be malicious.

    What should they ask their engineer for to make their analysis easier?

    A. Create a field extraction for this information.
    B. Add this information to the risk message.
    C. Create another detection for this information.
    D. Allowlist more events based on this information.

  • Question 22:

    When threat hunting for outliers in Splunk, which of the following SPL pipelines would filter for users with over a thousand occurrences?

    A. | sort by user | where count > 1000
    B. | stats count by user | where count > 1000 | sort - count
    C. | top user
    D. | stats count(user) | sort - count | where count > 1000

  • Question 23:

    What goal of an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group aims to disrupt or damage on behalf of a cause?

    A. Hacktivism
    B. Cyber espionage
    C. Financial gain
    D. Prestige

  • Question 24:

    An analyst is examining the logs for a web application's login form. They see thousands of failed logon attempts using various usernames and passwords. Internet research indicates that these credentials may have been compiled by combining account information from several recent data breaches.

    Which type of attack would this be an example of?

    A. Credential sniffing
    B. Password cracking
    C. Password spraying
    D. Credential stuffing

  • Question 25:

    A Risk Notable Event has been triggered in Splunk Enterprise Security, an analyst investigates the alert, and determines it is a false positive. What metric would be used to define the time between alert creation and close of the event?

    A. MTTR (Mean Time to Respond)
    B. MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)
    C. MTTA (Mean Time to Acknowledge)
    D. MTTD (Mean Time to Detect)

  • Question 26:

    Which of the following is not a component of the Splunk Security Content library (ESCU, SSE)?

    A. Dashboards
    B. Reports
    C. Correlation searches
    D. Validated architectures

  • Question 27:

    An analyst would like to visualize threat objects across their environment and chronological risk events for a Risk Object in Incident Review. Where would they find this?

    A. Running the Risk Analysis Adaptive Response action within the Notable Event.
    B. Via a workflow action for the Risk Investigation dashboard.
    C. Via the Risk Analysis dashboard under the Security Intelligence tab in Enterprise Security.
    D. Clicking the risk event count to open the Risk Event Timeline.

  • Question 28:

    An analyst is investigating how an attacker successfully performs a brute-force attack to gain a foothold into an organizations systems. In the course of the investigation the analyst determines that the reason no alerts were generated is because the detection searches were configured to run against Windows data only and excluding any Linux data.

    This is an example of what?

    A. A True Positive.
    B. A True Negative.
    C. A False Negative.
    D. A False Positive.

  • Question 29:

    An organization is using Risk-Based Alerting (RBA). During the past few days, a user account generated multiple risk observations. Splunk refers to this account as what type of entity?

    A. Risk Factor
    B. Risk Index
    C. Risk Analysis
    D. Risk Object

  • Question 30:

    Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) are methods or behaviors utilized by attackers. In which framework are these categorized?

    A. NIST 800-53
    B. ISO 27000
    C. CIS18
    D. MITRE ATTandCK

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