Cisco 350-201 Practice Test 89
Question 880
For an original CBRCOR educational scenario, consider: A high-impact identity-service patch misses the organization SLA and the ticket is silently marked resolved to improve dashboard metrics. Select TWO complementary steps: the targeted correction and its strongest prechange validation.
- Check: Compare import symbols, section entropy, readable references and trusted metadata under a nonexecuting analysis tool.
- Change: Tie vulnerability priority to risk-based deadlines, verified mitigations, accountable exception approvals and post-change rescan.
- Check: Compare scan findings, actual versions, ticket due dates, firewall test results and exception approval records.
- Mark every finding fixed when the change request is approved even if the vulnerable software remains installed.
- Change: Compare service health, source distribution, protocol anomalies and traffic baseline before classifying and escalating availability events.
Explanation
Correct Answer
B:Vulnerability management needs verified remediation and governance for overdue exposure rather than cosmetic ticket closure. Evidence: Compare scan findings, actual versions, ticket due dates, firewall test results and exception approval records.
C:Vulnerability management needs verified remediation and governance for overdue exposure rather than cosmetic ticket closure. Required intervention: Tie vulnerability priority to risk-based deadlines, verified mitigations, accountable exception approvals and post-change rescan.
Incorrect Answers
A:Check: Compare import symbols, section entropy, readable references and trusted metadata under a nonexecuting analysis tool. Vulnerability management needs verified remediation and governance for overdue exposure rather than cosmetic ticket closure.
D:For this select two assessment, the shortcut changes or bypasses the necessary correctness, governance or operational boundary rather than correcting it. Vulnerability management needs verified remediation and governance for overdue exposure rather than cosmetic ticket closure.
E:Change: Compare service health, source distribution, protocol anomalies and traffic baseline before classifying and escalating availability events. Vulnerability management needs verified remediation and governance for overdue exposure rather than cosmetic ticket closure.
Question 881
A SOC analyst is examining this cybersecurity operations situation: A SOC runs separate scripts for indicator enrichment, ticket creation and identity containment but has no coordinated incident state between them. A proposed shortcut is: Label any unattended script a complete SOAR playbook and ignore coordination or response authorization. What should the SOC analyst recommend as the narrowly scoped correction? Select ONE best answer.
- Label any unattended script a complete SOAR playbook and ignore coordination or response authorization.
- Validate status and media type before decoding an optional body, and follow documented headers for limits and continuation.
- Handle asynchronous acceptance and throttling according to provider documentation, tracking final job status and deferred lookup results.
- Use a SOAR case workflow that coordinates enrichments, decisions, tickets and authorized response actions with visible state and handoffs.
Explanation
Correct Answer
D:This targeted action addresses the observed security or operational control gap without discarding necessary controls. Applied case: A SOC runs separate scripts for indicator enrichment, ticket creation and identity containment but has no coordinated incident state between them.
Incorrect Answers
A:Automation performs a task, whereas orchestration coordinates dependent tasks, approvals and incident lifecycle across tools. For this best change assessment, the shortcut changes or bypasses the necessary correctness, governance or operational boundary rather than correcting it.
B:Validate status and media type before decoding an optional body, and follow documented headers for limits and continuation. Automation performs a task, whereas orchestration coordinates dependent tasks, approvals and incident lifecycle across tools.
C:Handle asynchronous acceptance and throttling according to provider documentation, tracking final job status and deferred lookup results. Automation performs a task, whereas orchestration coordinates dependent tasks, approvals and incident lifecycle across tools.
Question 882
A Cisco cybersecurity incident response review finds: A SOC runs separate scripts for indicator enrichment, ticket creation and identity containment but has no coordinated incident state between them. The team proposes: Use a SOAR case workflow that coordinates enrichments, decisions, tickets and authorized response actions with visible state and handoffs. Which engineering principle most strongly supports the recommended response? Select ONE best answer.
- Rate-limit responses describe client throughput constraints, not necessarily the security status of the queried artifact.
- Automation performs a task, whereas orchestration coordinates dependent tasks, approvals and incident lifecycle across tools.
- Python control flow and exception boundaries determine whether an isolated lookup error corrupts a batch or leaves misleading state.
- Orchestration can magnify an incorrect detector decision unless risky response actions are controlled and reversible.
Explanation
Correct Answer
B:Demonstrable success requires: The team can distinguish individual automated jobs from a governed multi-step response with recoverable execution history. Applied case: A SOC runs separate scripts for indicator enrichment, ticket creation and identity containment but has no coordinated incident state between them.
Incorrect Answers
A:Rate-limit responses describe client throughput constraints, not necessarily the security status of the queried artifact. Automation performs a task, whereas orchestration coordinates dependent tasks, approvals and incident lifecycle across tools.
C:Python control flow and exception boundaries determine whether an isolated lookup error corrupts a batch or leaves misleading state. Automation performs a task, whereas orchestration coordinates dependent tasks, approvals and incident lifecycle across tools.
D:Orchestration can magnify an incorrect detector decision unless risky response actions are controlled and reversible. Automation performs a task, whereas orchestration coordinates dependent tasks, approvals and incident lifecycle across tools.
Question 883
The SOC team has not yet approved changes. Current evidence indicates: A SOC runs separate scripts for indicator enrichment, ticket creation and identity containment but has no coordinated incident state between them. Which evidence best tests the technical diagnosis before approving a disruptive change? Select ONE best answer.
- Replay false-positive and confirmed malicious cases and inspect approval, timeout, cancellation and rollback outputs.
- Trace one rule change from commit to test results, approvals, artifact identity and observed production monitoring.
- Trace one incident through trigger ingestion, contextual enrichment, analyst approval, action outcome and case closure.
- Inspect mock 200, 202 and 204 responses with headers and query continuation metadata for all paths.
Explanation
Correct Answer
C:Confirm afterward that: The team can distinguish individual automated jobs from a governed multi-step response with recoverable execution history. Applied case: A SOC runs separate scripts for indicator enrichment, ticket creation and identity containment but has no coordinated incident state between them.
Incorrect Answers
A:Replay false-positive and confirmed malicious cases and inspect approval, timeout, cancellation and rollback outputs. Automation performs a task, whereas orchestration coordinates dependent tasks, approvals and incident lifecycle across tools.
B:Trace one rule change from commit to test results, approvals, artifact identity and observed production monitoring. Automation performs a task, whereas orchestration coordinates dependent tasks, approvals and incident lifecycle across tools.
D:Inspect mock 200, 202 and 204 responses with headers and query continuation metadata for all paths. Automation performs a task, whereas orchestration coordinates dependent tasks, approvals and incident lifecycle across tools.
Question 884
A candidate correction has been tested and the platform team requires a post-change acceptance check. Original problem: A SOC runs separate scripts for indicator enrichment, ticket creation and identity containment but has no coordinated incident state between them. 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.
- Operations and engineering can reproduce, diagnose and safely roll back the same release.
- The team can distinguish individual automated jobs from a governed multi-step response with recoverable execution history.
- Automated fields are derived from documented machine-readable sources while analyst views escape untrusted content.
- The script fails safely on absent configuration and writes controlled evidence without exposing credentials.
Explanation
Correct Answer
B:Automation performs a task, whereas orchestration coordinates dependent tasks, approvals and incident lifecycle across tools. Applied case: A SOC runs separate scripts for indicator enrichment, ticket creation and identity containment but has no coordinated incident state between them.
Incorrect Answers
A:Operations and engineering can reproduce, diagnose and safely roll back the same release. Automation performs a task, whereas orchestration coordinates dependent tasks, approvals and incident lifecycle across tools.
C:Automated fields are derived from documented machine-readable sources while analyst views escape untrusted content. Automation performs a task, whereas orchestration coordinates dependent tasks, approvals and incident lifecycle across tools.
D:The script fails safely on absent configuration and writes controlled evidence without exposing credentials. Automation performs a task, whereas orchestration coordinates dependent tasks, approvals and incident lifecycle across tools.
Question 885
An implementation sign-off request identifies the following problem: A SOC runs separate scripts for indicator enrichment, ticket creation and identity containment but has no coordinated incident state between them. Which paired technical change and validation should close the implementation review? Select ONE best answer.
- Change: Enforce authenticated TLS, follow the documented authentication mechanism and scope credentials to the minimum operation. Verify: Test TLS certificate validation and low-privilege access with intended reads and denied administrative operations.
- Change: Use a SOAR case workflow that coordinates enrichments, decisions, tickets and authorized response actions with visible state and handoffs. Verify: Trace one incident through trigger ingestion, contextual enrichment, analyst approval, action outcome and case closure.
- Change: Respect published quota and Retry-After behavior, use bounded backoff and distinguish lookup failure from indicator verdict. Verify: Simulate 429 and timeouts against a mock enrichment provider and inspect retry intervals and result classification.
- Change: Automate deterministic enrichment and routing while reserving ambiguous or high-impact decisions for evidence-based human approval. Verify: Measure repetitive analyst effort, validation accuracy, false-positive rate and impact for each proposed automated step.
Explanation
Correct Answer
B:The change is successful only when: The team can distinguish individual automated jobs from a governed multi-step response with recoverable execution history.
Incorrect Answers
A:Change: Enforce authenticated TLS, follow the documented authentication mechanism and scope credentials to the minimum operation. Automation performs a task, whereas orchestration coordinates dependent tasks, approvals and incident lifecycle across tools.
C:Change: Respect published quota and Retry-After behavior, use bounded backoff and distinguish lookup failure from indicator verdict.
D:Change: Automate deterministic enrichment and routing while reserving ambiguous or high-impact decisions for evidence-based human approval.
Question 886
A SOC analyst is examining this cybersecurity operations situation: An orchestration designer calls a daily CSV cleanup cron job a complete security incident workflow despite lacking alerts or responder approvals. A proposed shortcut is: Label any unattended script a complete SOAR playbook and ignore coordination or response authorization. What should the SOC analyst recommend as the narrowly scoped correction? Select ONE best answer.
- Use a SOAR case workflow that coordinates enrichments, decisions, tickets and authorized response actions with visible state and handoffs.
- Label any unattended script a complete SOAR playbook and ignore coordination or response authorization.
- Automate deterministic enrichment and routing while reserving ambiguous or high-impact decisions for evidence-based human approval.
- Enforce authenticated TLS, follow the documented authentication mechanism and scope credentials to the minimum operation.
Explanation
Correct Answer
A:This targeted action addresses the observed security or operational control gap without discarding necessary controls. The required acceptance condition is: The team can distinguish individual automated jobs from a governed multi-step response with recoverable execution history.
Incorrect Answers
B:Automation performs a task, whereas orchestration coordinates dependent tasks, approvals and incident lifecycle across tools. Use this instead: Use a SOAR case workflow that coordinates enrichments, decisions, tickets and authorized response actions with visible state and handoffs.
C:Automate deterministic enrichment and routing while reserving ambiguous or high-impact decisions for evidence-based human approval. Automation performs a task, whereas orchestration coordinates dependent tasks, approvals and incident lifecycle across tools.
D:Enforce authenticated TLS, follow the documented authentication mechanism and scope credentials to the minimum operation. Automation performs a task, whereas orchestration coordinates dependent tasks, approvals and incident lifecycle across tools.
Question 887
A Cisco cybersecurity incident response review finds: An orchestration designer calls a daily CSV cleanup cron job a complete security incident workflow despite lacking alerts or responder approvals. The team proposes: Use a SOAR case workflow that coordinates enrichments, decisions, tickets and authorized response actions with visible state and handoffs. Which engineering principle most strongly supports the recommended response? Select ONE best answer.
- Python data structures and Boolean conditions determine which events contribute to an analytic; ambiguous text matching changes results.
- Automation performs a task, whereas orchestration coordinates dependent tasks, approvals and incident lifecycle across tools.
- IaC expresses reproducible managed infrastructure and should detect drift rather than blindly duplicate or destroy existing resources.
- HTTP responses carry a status, headers and optional body; successful no-content responses need not contain JSON.
Explanation
Correct Answer
B:Demonstrable success requires: The team can distinguish individual automated jobs from a governed multi-step response with recoverable execution history. This principle explains the proposed technical approach, which is: Use a SOAR case workflow that coordinates enrichments, decisions, tickets and authorized response actions with visible state and handoffs.
Incorrect Answers
A:Python data structures and Boolean conditions determine which events contribute to an analytic; ambiguous text matching changes results. Automation performs a task, whereas orchestration coordinates dependent tasks, approvals and incident lifecycle across tools.
C:IaC expresses reproducible managed infrastructure and should detect drift rather than blindly duplicate or destroy existing resources. Automation performs a task, whereas orchestration coordinates dependent tasks, approvals and incident lifecycle across tools.
D:HTTP responses carry a status, headers and optional body; successful no-content responses need not contain JSON. Automation performs a task, whereas orchestration coordinates dependent tasks, approvals and incident lifecycle across tools.
Question 888
The SOC team has not yet approved changes. Current evidence indicates: An orchestration designer calls a daily CSV cleanup cron job a complete security incident workflow despite lacking alerts or responder approvals. Which evidence best tests the technical diagnosis before approving a disruptive change? Select ONE best answer.
- Simulate 429 and timeouts against a mock enrichment provider and inspect retry intervals and result classification.
- Exercise malformed indicators, valid samples and an induced error while inspecting outbound requests and sanitized logging.
- Apply the same configuration twice in a sandbox and compare planned diffs, object counts and collection connectivity.
- Trace one incident through trigger ingestion, contextual enrichment, analyst approval, action outcome and case closure.
Explanation
Correct Answer
D:Confirm afterward that: The team can distinguish individual automated jobs from a governed multi-step response with recoverable execution history. Applied case: An orchestration designer calls a daily CSV cleanup cron job a complete security incident workflow despite lacking alerts or responder approvals.
Incorrect Answers
A:Simulate 429 and timeouts against a mock enrichment provider and inspect retry intervals and result classification. Automation performs a task, whereas orchestration coordinates dependent tasks, approvals and incident lifecycle across tools.
B:Exercise malformed indicators, valid samples and an induced error while inspecting outbound requests and sanitized logging. Automation performs a task, whereas orchestration coordinates dependent tasks, approvals and incident lifecycle across tools.
C:Apply the same configuration twice in a sandbox and compare planned diffs, object counts and collection connectivity. Automation performs a task, whereas orchestration coordinates dependent tasks, approvals and incident lifecycle across tools.
Question 889
A candidate correction has been tested and the platform team requires a post-change acceptance check. Original problem: An orchestration designer calls a daily CSV cleanup cron job a complete security incident workflow despite lacking alerts or responder approvals. 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.
- Operations and engineering can reproduce, diagnose and safely roll back the same release.
- The team can distinguish individual automated jobs from a governed multi-step response with recoverable execution history.
- Authorized calls succeed and no reusable credential appears in the recorded request URL or output logs.
- A repeat execution preserves one logical incident and retrieves all permitted enrichment pages.
Explanation
Correct Answer
B:Automation performs a task, whereas orchestration coordinates dependent tasks, approvals and incident lifecycle across tools. The result must be validated using the documented device, service or access context.
Incorrect Answers
A:Operations and engineering can reproduce, diagnose and safely roll back the same release. An orchestration designer calls a daily CSV cleanup cron job a complete security incident workflow despite lacking alerts or responder approvals.
C:Authorized calls succeed and no reusable credential appears in the recorded request URL or output logs. Automation performs a task, whereas orchestration coordinates dependent tasks, approvals and incident lifecycle across tools.
D:A repeat execution preserves one logical incident and retrieves all permitted enrichment pages. Automation performs a task, whereas orchestration coordinates dependent tasks, approvals and incident lifecycle across tools.
Question 890
For an original CBRCOR educational scenario, consider: An orchestration designer calls a daily CSV cleanup cron job a complete security incident workflow despite lacking alerts or responder approvals. Select TWO complementary steps: the targeted correction and its strongest prechange validation.
- Label any unattended script a complete SOAR playbook and ignore coordination or response authorization.
- Check: Compare parsed sample counts and fields for quoted CSV, nested JSON and namespaced XML reference records.
- Check: Trace one incident through trigger ingestion, contextual enrichment, analyst approval, action outcome and case closure.
- Change: Use a SOAR case workflow that coordinates enrichments, decisions, tickets and authorized response actions with visible state and handoffs.
- Change: Define desired collectors, roles and network policies in reviewed IaC with state, plans and idempotent convergence checks.
Explanation
Correct Answer
C:Acceptance: The team can distinguish individual automated jobs from a governed multi-step response with recoverable execution history. Applied case: An orchestration designer calls a daily CSV cleanup cron job a complete security incident workflow despite lacking alerts or responder approvals.
D:Acceptance: The team can distinguish individual automated jobs from a governed multi-step response with recoverable execution history. Automation performs a task, whereas orchestration coordinates dependent tasks, approvals and incident lifecycle across tools.
Incorrect Answers
A:Automation performs a task, whereas orchestration coordinates dependent tasks, approvals and incident lifecycle across tools. Applied case: An orchestration designer calls a daily CSV cleanup cron job a complete security incident workflow despite lacking alerts or responder approvals.
B:Check: Compare parsed sample counts and fields for quoted CSV, nested JSON and namespaced XML reference records. Automation performs a task, whereas orchestration coordinates dependent tasks, approvals and incident lifecycle across tools.
E:Change: Define desired collectors, roles and network policies in reviewed IaC with state, plans and idempotent convergence checks. Automation performs a task, whereas orchestration coordinates dependent tasks, approvals and incident lifecycle across tools.
