Cisco 350-201 Practice Test 48
Question 470
For an original CBRCOR educational scenario, consider: A shift handover dashboard hides detection backlog and unresolved containment actions behind a single green compliance score. Select TWO complementary steps: the targeted correction and its strongest prechange validation.
- Report an enormous number of blocked events as proof of zero residual risk and omit active confirmed incidents.
- Check: Compare dashboard labels, metric definitions, incidents in progress and evidence drilldowns for each audience.
- Change: Stage deployment on representative systems, define health checks and rollback methods and phase production rollout by risk.
- Check: Compare model output with documented source links, DNS events, temporal context and known-benign collisions.
- Change: Tailor dashboards to stakeholder decisions using incident severity, asset exposure, response outcomes and contextual trends.
Explanation
Correct Answer
B:Technical analysts need actionable evidence while executives need accurate risk and service impact rather than uncontextualized event totals. Acceptance: Leaders and responders can make appropriate decisions without misinterpreting raw alert volume as business risk.
E:Technical analysts need actionable evidence while executives need accurate risk and service impact rather than uncontextualized event totals. Evidence: Compare dashboard labels, metric definitions, incidents in progress and evidence drilldowns for each audience.
Incorrect Answers
A:For this select two assessment, the shortcut changes or bypasses the necessary correctness, governance or operational boundary rather than correcting it. Technical analysts need actionable evidence while executives need accurate risk and service impact rather than uncontextualized event totals.
C:This option addresses a different security operations topic (Patch testing and rollback planning) rather than the documented Security dashboard audience and risk communication decision.
D:Check: Compare model output with documented source links, DNS events, temporal context and known-benign collisions. Technical analysts need actionable evidence while executives need accurate risk and service impact rather than uncontextualized event totals.
Question 471
A SOC analyst is examining this cybersecurity operations situation: A developer account accesses restricted financial tables for the first time from an unmanaged workstation late at night after a role grant. A proposed shortcut is: Disable every account whose login location changes without validating proxy, travel or device context. What should the SOC analyst recommend as the narrowly scoped correction? Select ONE best answer.
- Correlate identity, authorization and endpoint or network events by principal, timeline and relevant device context.
- Reconcile authoritative asset inventory, ownership, supported vulnerability scanning, configuration and sensor coverage before assigning posture.
- Disable every account whose login location changes without validating proxy, travel or device context.
- Evaluate behavioral baselines with device, identity, network and business context before deciding whether anomalies indicate misuse.
Explanation
Correct Answer
D:This targeted action addresses the observed security or operational control gap without discarding necessary controls. UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes.
Incorrect Answers
A:Correlate identity, authorization and endpoint or network events by principal, timeline and relevant device context. UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes.
B:Reconcile authoritative asset inventory, ownership, supported vulnerability scanning, configuration and sensor coverage before assigning posture. UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes.
C:UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes. For this best change assessment, the shortcut changes or bypasses the necessary correctness, governance or operational boundary rather than correcting it.
Question 472
A Cisco cybersecurity incident response review finds: A developer account accesses restricted financial tables for the first time from an unmanaged workstation late at night after a role grant. The team proposes: Evaluate behavioral baselines with device, identity, network and business context before deciding whether anomalies indicate misuse. Which engineering principle most strongly supports the recommended response? Select ONE best answer.
- TCP transport artifacts distinguish failed connectivity and loss from application-layer requests or multiple unique payload transfers.
- Hardening guidance is platform and workload specific; a relevant benchmark needs a tested applicability and exception review.
- Patching reduces vulnerability exposure but unvalidated mass change can disrupt availability or disable protective agents.
- UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes.
Explanation
Correct Answer
D:Demonstrable success requires: Elevated alerts receive proportionate investigation and documented benign causes are used to improve detection quality. This principle explains the proposed technical approach, which is: Evaluate behavioral baselines with device, identity, network and business context before deciding whether anomalies indicate misuse.
Incorrect Answers
A:TCP transport artifacts distinguish failed connectivity and loss from application-layer requests or multiple unique payload transfers. UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes.
B:Hardening guidance is platform and workload specific; a relevant benchmark needs a tested applicability and exception review. UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes.
C:Patching reduces vulnerability exposure but unvalidated mass change can disrupt availability or disable protective agents. UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes.
Question 473
The SOC team has not yet approved changes. Current evidence indicates: A developer account accesses restricted financial tables for the first time from an unmanaged workstation late at night after a role grant. Which evidence best tests the technical diagnosis before approving a disruptive change? Select ONE best answer.
- Cross-check discovery records, network reachability, patch inventory and security agent last-seen timestamps.
- Associate each event with observed operation, target, timestamp and independently justified tactic and technique mapping.
- Reproduce authorized and restricted USB and print operations with test documents and inspect enforcement events.
- Review baseline access patterns, session source, VPN egress, new permissions and correlated endpoint telemetry.
Explanation
Correct Answer
D:UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes. Confirm afterward that: Elevated alerts receive proportionate investigation and documented benign causes are used to improve detection quality.
Incorrect Answers
A:Cross-check discovery records, network reachability, patch inventory and security agent last-seen timestamps. UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes.
B:Associate each event with observed operation, target, timestamp and independently justified tactic and technique mapping. UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes.
C:Reproduce authorized and restricted USB and print operations with test documents and inspect enforcement events. UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes.
Question 474
A candidate correction has been tested and the platform team requires a post-change acceptance check. Original problem: A developer account accesses restricted financial tables for the first time from an unmanaged workstation late at night after a role grant. The response owner needs positive and negative results and evidence that legitimate security and business workflows still function. Which acceptance result demonstrates correct security operations behavior without disrupting authorized workflows? Select ONE best answer.
- Unapproved vulnerabilities or credential exposure stop deployment and authorized releases remain reproducible.
- Elevated alerts receive proportionate investigation and documented benign causes are used to improve detection quality.
- The fleet reaches the intended secure version while key network and endpoint controls remain functional and rollback is tested.
- Approved baseline settings reduce unnecessary exposure while documented required functions continue operating.
Explanation
Correct Answer
B:UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes. The result must be validated using the documented device, service or access context.
Incorrect Answers
A:Unapproved vulnerabilities or credential exposure stop deployment and authorized releases remain reproducible. UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes.
C:The fleet reaches the intended secure version while key network and endpoint controls remain functional and rollback is tested. UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes.
D:Approved baseline settings reduce unnecessary exposure while documented required functions continue operating. UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes.
Question 475
An implementation sign-off request identifies the following problem: A developer account accesses restricted financial tables for the first time from an unmanaged workstation late at night after a role grant. Which paired technical change and validation should close the implementation review? Select ONE best answer.
- Change: Correlate AI-suggested threats with sourced intelligence, local telemetry and confidence or false-match checks before containment. Verify: Compare model output with documented source links, DNS events, temporal context and known-benign collisions.
- Change: Evaluate behavioral baselines with device, identity, network and business context before deciding whether anomalies indicate misuse. Verify: Review baseline access patterns, session source, VPN egress, new permissions and correlated endpoint telemetry.
- Change: Tailor dashboards to stakeholder decisions using incident severity, asset exposure, response outcomes and contextual trends. Verify: Compare dashboard labels, metric definitions, incidents in progress and evidence drilldowns for each audience.
- Change: Segment access by workload and identity context, device posture and required ports rather than broad source-network membership alone. Verify: Map service dependencies, evaluate permitted identity posture and test denied lateral flows and legitimate service paths.
Explanation
Correct Answer
B:UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes. The change is successful only when: Elevated alerts receive proportionate investigation and documented benign causes are used to improve detection quality.
Incorrect Answers
A:Change: Correlate AI-suggested threats with sourced intelligence, local telemetry and confidence or false-match checks before containment. UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes.
C:Change: Tailor dashboards to stakeholder decisions using incident severity, asset exposure, response outcomes and contextual trends. UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes.
D:Change: Segment access by workload and identity context, device posture and required ports rather than broad source-network membership alone. UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes.
Question 476
A SOC analyst is examining this cybersecurity operations situation: An employee travels internationally and generates impossible-travel alerts even though the sign-in location is a corporate VPN exit. A proposed shortcut is: Disable every account whose login location changes without validating proxy, travel or device context. What should the SOC analyst recommend as the narrowly scoped correction? Select ONE best answer.
- Disable every account whose login location changes without validating proxy, travel or device context.
- Evaluate behavioral baselines with device, identity, network and business context before deciding whether anomalies indicate misuse.
- Apply cloud and application DLP policies to sharing permissions, sensitive-content detection and sanctioned app activity.
- Segment access by workload and identity context, device posture and required ports rather than broad source-network membership alone.
Explanation
Correct Answer
B:This targeted action addresses the observed security or operational control gap without discarding necessary controls. The required acceptance condition is: Elevated alerts receive proportionate investigation and documented benign causes are used to improve detection quality.
Incorrect Answers
A:UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes. Use this instead: Evaluate behavioral baselines with device, identity, network and business context before deciding whether anomalies indicate misuse.
C:Apply cloud and application DLP policies to sharing permissions, sensitive-content detection and sanctioned app activity. UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes.
D:Segment access by workload and identity context, device posture and required ports rather than broad source-network membership alone. UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes.
Question 477
A Cisco cybersecurity incident response review finds: An employee travels internationally and generates impossible-travel alerts even though the sign-in location is a corporate VPN exit. The team proposes: Evaluate behavioral baselines with device, identity, network and business context before deciding whether anomalies indicate misuse. Which engineering principle most strongly supports the recommended response? Select ONE best answer.
- A SIEM can correlate only what its collectors and parsers accurately ingest; incorrect fields create false investigative conclusions.
- UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes.
- Least-privilege segmentation limits trust to approved flows and can incorporate authenticated workload or user attributes.
- DNS and TLS metadata support behavioral hypotheses but cannot by themselves reveal encrypted application contents or prove compromise.
Explanation
Correct Answer
B:Demonstrable success requires: Elevated alerts receive proportionate investigation and documented benign causes are used to improve detection quality. Applied case: An employee travels internationally and generates impossible-travel alerts even though the sign-in location is a corporate VPN exit.
Incorrect Answers
A:A SIEM can correlate only what its collectors and parsers accurately ingest; incorrect fields create false investigative conclusions. UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes.
C:Least-privilege segmentation limits trust to approved flows and can incorporate authenticated workload or user attributes. UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes.
D:DNS and TLS metadata support behavioral hypotheses but cannot by themselves reveal encrypted application contents or prove compromise. UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes.
Question 478
The SOC team has not yet approved changes. Current evidence indicates: An employee travels internationally and generates impossible-travel alerts even though the sign-in location is a corporate VPN exit. Which evidence best tests the technical diagnosis before approving a disruptive change? Select ONE best answer.
- Review resolver responses, name patterns, certificate or SNI visibility and corresponding host activity within a bounded interval.
- Test legitimate transaction flows and disallowed administrative connections from each relevant source VLAN or zone.
- Review baseline access patterns, session source, VPN egress, new permissions and correlated endpoint telemetry.
- Compare source image digest, package scan, approved baseline and a fresh deployment against the operational policy.
Explanation
Correct Answer
C:UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes. Applied case: An employee travels internationally and generates impossible-travel alerts even though the sign-in location is a corporate VPN exit.
Incorrect Answers
A:Review resolver responses, name patterns, certificate or SNI visibility and corresponding host activity within a bounded interval. UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes.
B:Test legitimate transaction flows and disallowed administrative connections from each relevant source VLAN or zone. UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes.
D:Compare source image digest, package scan, approved baseline and a fresh deployment against the operational policy. UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes.
Question 479
A candidate correction has been tested and the platform team requires a post-change acceptance check. Original problem: An employee travels internationally and generates impossible-travel alerts even though the sign-in location is a corporate VPN exit. The response owner needs positive and negative results and evidence that legitimate security and business workflows still function. Which acceptance result demonstrates correct security operations behavior without disrupting authorized workflows? Select ONE best answer.
- Unnecessary listeners disappear and critical application dependencies and security management continue functioning.
- True attack test cases alert again while authorized activity no longer triggers the identified false-positive pattern.
- High-confidence current indicators receive proportionate treatment while stale or untrusted feed entries are reviewed.
- Elevated alerts receive proportionate investigation and documented benign causes are used to improve detection quality.
Explanation
Correct Answer
D:UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes. The approved implementation step was: Evaluate behavioral baselines with device, identity, network and business context before deciding whether anomalies indicate misuse.
Incorrect Answers
A:Unnecessary listeners disappear and critical application dependencies and security management continue functioning. UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes.
B:True attack test cases alert again while authorized activity no longer triggers the identified false-positive pattern. UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes.
C:High-confidence current indicators receive proportionate treatment while stale or untrusted feed entries are reviewed. UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes.
Question 480
For an original CBRCOR educational scenario, consider: An employee travels internationally and generates impossible-travel alerts even though the sign-in location is a corporate VPN exit. Select TWO complementary steps: the targeted correction and its strongest prechange validation.
- Check: Replay false-positive and true-positive events through enrichment outputs, human approval gates and cancellation paths.
- Check: Review baseline access patterns, session source, VPN egress, new permissions and correlated endpoint telemetry.
- Disable every account whose login location changes without validating proxy, travel or device context.
- Change: Tune specific signatures, thresholds and scoped allowlists using known benign workloads and preserved malicious test coverage.
- Change: Evaluate behavioral baselines with device, identity, network and business context before deciding whether anomalies indicate misuse.
Explanation
Correct Answer
B:UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes. Acceptance: Elevated alerts receive proportionate investigation and documented benign causes are used to improve detection quality.
E:UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes. Evidence: Review baseline access patterns, session source, VPN egress, new permissions and correlated endpoint telemetry.
Incorrect Answers
A:Check: Replay false-positive and true-positive events through enrichment outputs, human approval gates and cancellation paths. UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes.
C:For this select two assessment, the shortcut changes or bypasses the necessary correctness, governance or operational boundary rather than correcting it. UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes.
D:Change: Tune specific signatures, thresholds and scoped allowlists using known benign workloads and preserved malicious test coverage. UEBA scores deviations from learned behavior; contextual evidence distinguishes genuine account compromise from legitimate operational changes.