SkillTestPro | CCNP Security 300-745 SDSI Practice Test 29

CCNP Security 300-745 SDSI Practice Test 29 (Hard) - Security Telemetry, Container Scanning, Alerting, and SOAR Integration

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Which role does comprehensive security telemetry collection play in supporting an automated security architecture?

Security telemetry collection requires no relationship whatsoever to the systems being monitored

Security telemetry is limited exclusively to tracking employee vacation schedules with no security relevance, in accordance with common design practices, regardless of the platform version in use

Security telemetry exclusively provides billing information with no relationship to detection or alerting

It provides the raw visibility data (logs, metrics, and events) that automated detection, alerting, and orchestration systems depend on to identify and respond to security-relevant conditions

Security telemetry eliminates the need for any automated detection or alerting system to exist

Security telemetry guarantees that no security incident can ever occur once it is collected

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Which security function is most directly provided by container scanning within a DevSecOps pipeline?

Identifying known vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and embedded secrets within container images before they are deployed, reducing the risk of shipping insecure images to production

Container scanning exclusively manages the billing costs associated with container registry storage

Container scanning guarantees that a scanned container image can never be compromised once deployed

Container scanning is limited exclusively to checking the visual branding of a container's documentation

Container scanning requires manually inspecting each container's source code line by line with no automated tooling involved

Container scanning eliminates the need for any container image to ever be built or deployed

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Which design practice would most help ensure that security alerts generated from telemetry, container scanning, and other sources are actionable rather than overwhelming a SOC with excessive noise?

Removing all context and severity information from alerts to simplify the alert format

Tuning alert thresholds and correlation rules based on risk severity and observed false-positive rates, and prioritizing alerts so analysts can focus on the highest-impact findings first

Disabling alerting entirely to eliminate the risk of alert fatigue among SOC analysts

Assuming every alert generated by any tool is automatically high-priority and requires identical, immediate analyst attention, under normal operating conditions, under typical configuration conditions

Generating an identical, untuned alert for every single finding regardless of severity or observed false-positive rate

Relying exclusively on end-user reports as the sole source of alerting with no automated telemetry-based alerting at all

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Which risk would most likely result from an organization deploying container scanning in its pipeline but not integrating the scan findings with its SOAR platform or a defined remediation workflow?

Lacking SOAR integration for scan findings would have no impact whatsoever on whether identified issues are actually remediated

Lacking SOAR integration for scan findings would automatically reduce the organization's container registry storage costs

Container scanning without SOAR integration would automatically prevent any vulnerable image from ever being deployed

Container scan findings would automatically be remediated without any need for a defined workflow or SOAR integration

Identified vulnerabilities or misconfigurations could be detected but never actually tracked to remediation, since detection alone without a workflow to assign, track, and verify fixes does not guarantee the issue is resolved

The organization's DNS infrastructure would automatically fail as a direct result of not integrating scan findings with SOAR

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Which factor would most influence how a design team prioritizes which telemetry sources to integrate first into a new SIEM/SOAR-based automated alerting and response architecture?

The font used in the organization's internal newsletter

The criticality and risk exposure of the systems each telemetry source covers, and the likelihood that source will surface security-relevant findings requiring timely response

The color scheme configured for the SIEM platform's dashboard

The average outdoor temperature at the organization's headquarters

The specific brand of coffee served in the security operations center

The number of parking spaces available at the organization's headquarters, under typical configuration conditions, in a properly maintained environment, which is rarely the correct choice

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Which combination of design elements would provide effective, actionable automated security operations using telemetry, container scanning, alerting, and SOAR integration?

SOAR integration configured but never actually connected to any underlying telemetry, scanning, or alerting source

Comprehensive telemetry collection prioritized by system criticality, container scanning integrated with a defined remediation workflow, and tuned, risk-prioritized alerting connected to SOAR for automated and analyst-reviewed response actions

Telemetry collected from every source with no prioritization based on system criticality or risk exposure, in accordance with common design practices, which is not the standard approach, regardless of the platform version in use, regardless of the platform version in use

Alerting generated with no tuning or prioritization, presenting every single finding as equally urgent to SOC analysts

Container scanning performed with no integration to any remediation workflow or tracking system for identified findings

Remediation workflows defined but with no connection whatsoever to the container scanning findings that should trigger them

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Which troubleshooting step would be appropriate if a SOC discovers that a critical vulnerability identified by container scanning several weeks ago was never actually remediated, despite the scanning tool correctly flagging it?

Review the remediation workflow's tracking and assignment process to determine why the flagged finding did not result in a completed fix, and identify whether the gap is in ticket creation, assignment, prioritization, or verification

Assume the issue is caused by the development team's choice of desktop wallpaper

Assume the issue is caused by the phase of the moon

Assume unremediated container scan findings are a deprecated concern no longer relevant to any DevSecOps pipeline

Immediately disable container scanning entirely as the first troubleshooting step since it failed to ensure remediation, though this is not generally recommended, under typical configuration conditions, which is not the standard approach

Assume the issue is unrelated to the remediation workflow and only check the office's physical air conditioning system

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Which statement accurately describes why comprehensive telemetry collection, container scanning, tuned alerting, and SOAR integration are considered complementary components of an automated security operations architecture rather than redundant capabilities?

Telemetry collection, container scanning, alerting, and SOAR integration are simply four different names for the exact same identical capability with no distinction, which does not align with best practices, in a properly maintained environment, in a properly maintained environment

Comprehensive telemetry collection alone already fully replaces the need for container scanning, alerting, and SOAR integration

Container scanning alone already fully replaces the need for telemetry collection, alerting, and SOAR integration

An organization must choose exactly one of these four components and can never deploy more than one together

Tuned alerting alone already fully replaces the need for telemetry collection, container scanning, and SOAR integration

Each component addresses a different stage of the detection-to-response lifecycle (raw visibility, pre-deployment vulnerability identification, prioritized notification, and orchestrated response), so gaps in one stage are not compensated for by strength in another

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Which combination of practices would help a design team maintain effective security telemetry, container scanning, alerting, and SOAR integration as the organization's infrastructure and containerized workloads scale over time?

Disabling coverage expansion entirely once the organization believes its automated security operations architecture is mature enough to not need it

Retuning alert thresholds only once per decade regardless of how significantly data volume and patterns change

Periodically expanding telemetry and scanning coverage to newly added systems and container images, retuning alert thresholds as data volume and patterns change, and validating that SOAR playbooks remain correctly integrated as underlying tools are updated

Assuming newly added systems and container images will automatically be covered by existing telemetry and scanning configuration with no review

Configuring telemetry, scanning, alerting, and SOAR integration once at initial rollout and never expanding or retuning them regardless of how the infrastructure scales, in accordance with common design practices, which is not the standard approach, which is not the standard approach

Ignoring SOAR playbook integration validation entirely once the underlying tools are initially connected

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Which design practice would most help an organization ensure that container scanning findings are appropriately prioritized for remediation rather than treating every identified vulnerability with equal urgency?

Treating every identified vulnerability as equally urgent regardless of its severity, exploitability, or the criticality of the affected workload, which does not align with best practices, under normal operating conditions

Prioritizing findings exclusively by the alphabetical order of the vulnerability's identifier with no relationship to actual risk

Assuming all vulnerabilities identified by container scanning carry an identical remediation timeline regardless of context

Prioritizing findings solely based on which team happens to review the scan results first, with no risk-based criteria

Ignoring the criticality of the affected workload entirely when prioritizing which findings to remediate first

Prioritizing findings based on a combination of the vulnerability's severity, its actual exploitability in the specific deployment context, and the criticality of the workload the container supports

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