Splunk SPLK-2003 Exam Prep
Splunk SOAR Certified Automation Developer (Page 11 )

• A: Configure security groups — Customers define inbound and outbound rules for resources such as Amazon EC2 instances.
• B: Classify company assets — Customers decide how their data and assets should be classified and protected.

• C: Amazon S3 is a regional service; customers select a Region, not individual Availability Zones for buckets.
• D: AWS manages the infrastructure and patching for Amazon DynamoDB.
• E: AWS manages the infrastructure used by AWS Lambda; customers do not select EC2 instances for Lambda functions.

• AWS AppSync is designed for serverless applications that need to retrieve and combine data from multiple sources.
• A pipeline resolver can invoke multiple functions or data-source resolvers, including resolvers connected to different DynamoDB tables.
• The application can receive the combined result through one GraphQL request, without requiring custom aggregation logic in the application.
• This is operationally efficient because AppSync manages the API layer and resolver execution.

• Athena Federated Query is intended primarily for analytics and ad hoc querying, not low-latency application data retrieval.
• Querying DynamoDB through Athena can consume DynamoDB read capacity and may affect table performance.
• It also introduces analytical-query overhead and is not the normal choice for a microservice web application.

• Import: Copies data into the Power BI model. It requires scheduled or manual refresh, so it may not meet the two-minute requirement.
• Live connection: Connects to an existing Power BI semantic model or Analysis Services model; it is not the appropriate choice for connecting directly to the Azure SQL database in this scenario.

• Import — Loads data into Power BI. It requires a refresh, so it may not reflect changes within two minutes unless refresh is configured appropriately.
• Live connection — Connects to an existing Power BI semantic model or Analysis Services model; it is not the normal choice for connecting directly to an Azure SQL database.

• Subject: The entity that initiates an action—here, Derrick/user account.
• Object: The resource being accessed— the file.
• Action: Reading the file.

• Unfamiliar locations or IP addresses
• Anonymous or malicious IP addresses
• Leaked credentials
• Unusual sign-in behavior

• Looking up accounts, contacts, and opportunities
• Logging calls and updating Salesforce records
• Accessing previously available customer information when temporarily offline

• Salesforce Touch App: Primarily an older tablet-focused experience, not the best general solution for the sales team.
• Custom hybrid app: Unnecessary development when Salesforce provides the required capabilities natively.
• SalesforceA: Intended mainly for Salesforce administrators, not sales representatives.

• The VPN gateway is in VirtualNetworkA.
• Gateway transit is configured on the peering associated with the VNet that contains the gateway—here, VirtualNetworkA.
• A peered VNet may use the remote gateway through the appropriate peering option, but this does not automatically update an existing P2S client’s routes.
• The Windows 10 workstation’s P2S VPN client package was created before VirtualNetworkB was peered, so it may not have a route for VirtualNetworkB.

• Use private connectivity from a cloud provider
• Set up SSO for federated authentication

• Private connectivity—such as a cloud provider’s private endpoint—keeps Snowflake access within the company’s private network path instead of exposing access over the public internet. This fits the VPN/VDI requirement.
• SSO for federated authentication allows Snowflake users to authenticate using the credentials already managed by the company’s identity provider—the same identity system used for VDI—eliminating separate Snowflake passwords.

• Tri-Secret Secure protects encryption keys; it does not provide private network access or credential reuse.
• A proxy Snowflake account outside the VPN conflicts with the requirement that Snowflake have no internet visibility and is not the normal solution for federated login reuse.

• AWS Audit Manager continuously collects evidence from AWS services and helps assess whether workloads comply with regulatory frameworks and internal policies. It can produce audit-ready reports.
• AWS Config records resource configurations and evaluates them against compliance rules. For example, it can check whether encryption, logging, or access settings meet company requirements.

• Amazon Inspector identifies software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure, not general policy or regulatory compliance.
• Amazon CloudWatch monitors metrics, logs, and operational events, but is not primarily a compliance assessment service.
• AWS CloudTrail records API activity for auditing and investigation. It supports compliance, but does not itself provide the structured compliance assessment capabilities of Audit Manager and Config.

• Drops packets when traffic exceeds a certain bitrate: This describes traffic policing, not shaping.
• Fragments large packets and queues them: Shaping does not fragment packets as its primary congestion-control action.
• Drops packets randomly from lower-priority queues: Packet dropping may occur if a shaping queue becomes full, but it is not the defining behavior.

• Shaping: buffers and delays excess traffic.
• Policing: drops or marks traffic that exceeds the configured rate.

• A. Modify CommunitiesSelfRegController

• C. Configure Communities registration to use a custom Visualforce page

• B. Modify the self-registration trigger — There is no standard “self-registration trigger” intended for this configuration. The registration logic is handled by the Visualforce controller.
• D. Configure a custom Apex controller — The standard approach is to modify the provided CommunitiesSelfRegController, rather than simply selecting a separate controller configuration.

• Accept: Acknowledging the risk without taking additional action.
• Transfer: Shifting the risk’s impact to a third party, such as through insurance or outsourcing.
• Mitigate: Reducing the likelihood or impact of the risk through security controls.
• Avoid: Eliminating the activity or process that creates the risk.

• Azure creates a corresponding service principal in Microsoft Entra ID.
• The identity’s lifecycle is tied to the Azure resource.
• If the resource is deleted, Azure automatically deletes the identity.
• Only the associated resource can use that identity to request tokens.
• You can grant the identity permissions to access services such as Key Vault or Storage without storing credentials in code.

1. Which host originated the infection

1. Which remaining hosts are infected

• The user starts in the corporate portal.
• The portal launches the Salesforce resource.
• The IdP sends the SAML response to Salesforce.

• Connected App + OAuth is for OAuth authorization and API/app access, not this SAML-based seamless login scenario.
• SP-initiated SSO would begin when the user first requests the Salesforce resource and Salesforce redirects them to the IdP. That is not the described starting point.

• Application management: Controls which apps can be installed or used; it does not remove existing data after theft.
• Full-disk encryption: Protects data when the device is powered off or locked, but it may not help if the attacker has already unlocked the device.
• Containerization: Separates corporate data from personal data, but the attacker may still access the corporate container using the stolen credentials.

• Default network device credentials: More associated with external attackers or poor device configuration.
• Spear phishing emails: Commonly used to compromise users, but less characteristic of an insider who already has access.
• Typosquatting and impersonation: Primarily social-engineering techniques aimed at deceiving users.
• Unidentified removable devices: Provide a direct way to transfer data outside the organization and may bypass network monitoring.

• Periodic vulnerability assessments: Identify technical weaknesses but do not establish governance or ensure risks are managed.
• Established information security metrics: Help measure performance and report status, but measurement alone does not make governance effective.
• Advanced security technologies: Support security operations, but governance is primarily about direction, accountability, decision-making, and alignment with business objectives.

• OpenID Connect (OIDC) is an authentication layer built on OAuth 2.0.
• It returns an ID token, normally a JWT containing identity claims such as the user’s subject, name, email, or other permitted attributes.
• The wellness application can consume those claims without needing a separate user-information call.

• JWT Bearer Token Flow: intended for server-to-server authorization and does not primarily provide an end-user ID token.
• Web Server Flow: is an OAuth authorization-code flow. It can be used with OIDC in some implementations, but “Web Server Flow” alone does not specifically guarantee an ID token.
• User Agent Flow: describes an OAuth flow, not the identity protocol itself.

• Red team: Simulates attackers; exploits weaknesses to test security.
• Blue team: Defends systems; monitors, detects, and responds to attacks.
• Purple team: Combines red- and blue-team efforts to improve detection and defense.
• White team: Oversees or manages the test, defining rules, scope, and authorization.

• R-squared (R²): mede quanto da variação dos valores reais é explicada pelo modelo. É mais usado em regressão, não em classificação.

• Accuracy (acurácia): mede a proporção de previsões corretas em relação ao total. É adequada para a classificação de imagens da questão.

• RMSE (Root Mean Squared Error): mede o tamanho médio dos erros entre valores previstos e reais, penalizando erros maiores. É usado principalmente em regressão.

• Learning rate (taxa de aprendizado): controla o tamanho dos ajustes feitos pelo modelo durante o treinamento. Não é uma métrica de avaliação; é um hiperparâmetro.

1. Start with the Customer table.
2. Use Merge Queries and select the Address table.
3. Match Customer[Address ID] to Address[Address ID].
4. Use a Left Outer join so every customer is retained.
5. Expand only City, State/Region, and Country.

• Append adds rows vertically; it is for stacking similarly structured tables.
• Group By summarizes rows and does not retrieve address columns.
• Transpose swaps rows and columns and is unrelated to table relationships.

• An Azure pay-as-you-go subscription follows an operational expenditure (OpEx) model.
• With OpEx, the organization pays for services as they are used, typically based on consumption.
• There is no need to purchase and maintain physical servers upfront.
• This contrasts with capital expenditure (CapEx), where the company makes a significant upfront investment in infrastructure, such as on-premises Hyper-V hosts.

• Create a record-triggered Flow on Opportunity.
• Run it when the record is created or updated.
• Add entry criteria such as Probability > 50%.
• Use Create Records to create the related Sales Demo Request, populating its Opportunity lookup.

• Apex Trigger: Possible, but unnecessary custom code for a straightforward automation requirement.
• Workflow Rule: Cannot create a related custom record.
• Process Builder: Could create a record, but Flow is Salesforce’s preferred and more capable declarative automation tool.

• Issuer: Identifies the party issuing a SAML message, commonly the IdP in the SAML assertion. It is not the Salesforce setting used to distinguish Salesforce from other service providers.
• Identity Provider Login URL: Specifies where Salesforce sends users for authentication; it does not identify Salesforce.
• SAML Identity Location: Specifies where the user identity is found in the SAML assertion, such as the subject or an attribute.

• Secret scope: A named container that groups related secrets and defines access permissions. Example: finance-prod.
• Secret key: The name of an individual secret stored inside that scope. Example: db-password.

text 
Scope: finance-prod 
  Key: db-username 
  Key: db-password

python 
dbutils.secrets.get( 
    scope="finance-prod", 
    key="db-password" 
)

• NIDS: Monitors network traffic for suspicious activity and network-based attacks targeting the application or its supporting services.
• HIPS: Protects an individual host by monitoring processes, files, and system activity. It can help secure the web server, but it is not focused specifically on the application’s network attack surface.
• SIEM: Aggregates and correlates logs; it does not directly prevent attacks.
• Honeypot: A decoy system, not the primary protection for a production web application.
• Certificate revocation list: Deals with certificate trust, not application exploitation.

• The Subscribe to Reports user permission.
• At least Viewer access to the report’s folder.
• Access to the report itself.

• Subscribe to Reports: Run Reports is not the relevant Salesforce permission.
• Chatter Subscribe to Reports is not a Salesforce permission.
• Set Running User relates to configuring the user whose permissions determine report results—not subscribing to a report.

• 16GB RAM: A 64-bit OS is needed to use more than roughly 4GB effectively, but RAM capacity does not prove the CPU supports 64-bit operation.
• 500GB HDD: Storage capacity has no bearing on OS architecture.
• 1Gbps Ethernet: Network speed is unrelated to CPU architecture.

• tag=Priv searches the tag field for values beginning with Priv. The wildcard can match the remaining characters, so it matches Privileged.
• tag=Priv would search for the exact tag Priv, not Privileged.
• tag=priv* uses lowercase priv; tag matching is treated as case-sensitive here, so it may not match the tag Privileged.
• tag=privileged uses the wrong capitalization for the exact tag.

• The user authenticates with the external Identity Provider.
• Salesforce receives the SAML assertion.
• Salesforce uses attributes in that assertion—such as username, email, first name, last name, and profile/community information—to create the user during the first login.
• On later logins, Salesforce updates or uses the existing user record.

• On-the-fly provisioning is a general phrase; the Salesforce capability being tested is specifically JIT provisioning.
• Salesforce APIs would require a separate integration and provisioning process.
• Identity Connect is designed primarily to synchronize users from an identity directory, not to create users at the moment of their first SAML login.

• Compensating control: The server is end-of-life, so it may no longer receive security patches or support. Placing it on a restricted VLAN provides an alternative layer of protection by reducing who can access it and limiting its exposure.
• Technical control: VLAN segmentation and access control lists (ACLs) are technology-based mechanisms that enforce network access restrictions automatically.

• Managerial: Policies, procedures, and governance—not network configuration.
• Physical: Locks, guards, or barriers.
• Corrective: Restores systems after an incident.
• Detective: Identifies suspicious activity rather than restricting access.
• Deterrent: Discourages behavior but does not enforce access rules.

• A: Reduce management overhead — This is generally an advantage of public cloud, not hybrid cloud. Hybrid environments can increase management complexity.
• B: Cross-platform virtualization — Not the defining advantage of hybrid cloud.
• D: Leverage IaaS and PaaS — Public clouds commonly provide both IaaS and PaaS, so this is not unique to hybrid cloud.

1. Modify the database subnet NACL inbound rules to allow traffic from the new web subnet’s CIDR block on the MySQL port (3306).
2. Modify the database subnet NACL outbound rules to allow return traffic to the new web subnet’s CIDR block on the required ephemeral port range.

• SQL injection (SQLi): Attacks databases by inserting malicious SQL commands.
• Cross-site scripting (XSS): Injects scripts into web pages viewed by other users.
• Sideloading: Installing an application from outside the official app store. It may install unauthorized apps, but it does not generally unlock the operating system or enable restricted system features.

• Separate accounts/domains create a strong administrative boundary between non-production and production.
• Separate projects provide distinct IAM boundaries, billing, quotas, service accounts, and resources.
• Developers can receive permissions in the development project without automatically gaining access to production.
• Production administrators can be restricted from development resources, supporting separation of duties and least privilege.

• A: Creates excessive project fragmentation without being required by the stated requirement.
• C: Keeps development and production under one account and does not clearly separate administrative duties.
• D: Uses one account and only two projects; it provides some project isolation but weaker organizational separation.

• Supervised learning requires labeled examples to learn how to classify customers.
• Reinforcement learning learns through actions, rewards, and penalties, which is not the main task here.
• RLHF uses human feedback to improve model behavior, typically for generative AI, not customer segmentation.

• s3:GetObject for the relevant objects
• s3:ListBucket if listing is required
• Appropriate bucket and object resource permissions

• B: Making the bucket public is insecure and unnecessary.
• C: Prompt engineering cannot override AWS IAM or encryption permissions.
• D: Data sensitivity does not determine whether the role can access it.

• A — Can help keep costs down and improve quality: The provider may have specialist expertise, efficient systems and economies of scale.
• B — There is a known fee if agreed in advance: A fixed or agreed fee can make costs more predictable and support budgeting.
• C — Allows management to focus on core operations and issues: Senior managers spend less time supervising routine finance processes and more time on strategic matters.

• Increased control: Control may decrease because the activity is performed externally.
• Increased independence: The organisation becomes dependent on the supplier.
• Increased understanding of the outsourcing business: The internal organisation usually has greater business knowledge; the provider may initially lack it.
• Increased confidentiality: Sharing financial information externally may create confidentiality risks.
• Internal expertise improved: Outsourcing can reduce opportunities to develop internal finance skills.

• Works across SaaS and internal applications: TOTP is widely supported by authentication systems and can be integrated into many applications.
• Device manufacturer agnostic: A hardware token or authenticator application can generate the code without depending on a specific computer or phone manufacturer.
• Offline capability: The code is generated locally using a shared secret and the current time; an internet connection or cellular service is not required.

• Username and password: May work offline but provides weaker authentication and does not meet the intended improvement in security.
• Biometrics: Can depend on device hardware, operating-system support, and enrollment mechanisms.
• SMS verification: Requires cellular connectivity and is vulnerable to threats such as SIM swapping.

• Restarting the device: may fix software problems, but not a directional connection issue.
• Swollen battery: is a safety concern, but would not typically cause recognition only in one orientation.
• Failing cable: possible in general, but less likely because it works on other similar devices.
• Dirty or damaged port: best matches the symptoms. Inspect and carefully clean the port, or have it serviced if damaged.

• Determining ISP-assigned address space: Usually involves public reconnaissance, such as WHOIS or regional Internet registry information.
• Bypassing DNS sinkholing: Would require evidence that malicious domains are resolving outside the organization’s sinkhole controls.
• Achieving initial access: DNS log entries alone do not demonstrate compromise or entry.
• Exfiltrating data: DNS tunneling generally involves repeated queries containing encoded or unusually long data, not merely internal host discovery.

• Laws and regulations
• Litigation holds
• Industry or contractual obligations
• Tax, financial, health, or privacy requirements

• Business strategy and direction: May influence retention, but cannot override legal requirements.
• Storage capacity and longevity: Practical considerations, not the primary driver.
• Business ease and value analysis: May support decisions after compliance obligations are identified.

• Transfer — przeniesienie skutków lub kosztów ryzyka na inna organizacje, np. przez ubezpieczenie lub umowe.
• Akceptacja — firma swiadomie przyjmuje ryzyko bez dodatkowych dzialan.
• Mitigacja — zmniejszenie prawdopodobienstwa wystapienia ryzyka lub jego wplywu, np. przez wdrozenie kontroli bezpieczenstwa.
• Unikanie — calkowite wyeliminowanie ryzykownej dzialalnosci.

Flat organisation

• Few levels of management
• A wide span of control—managers supervise many employees
• Shorter communication channels
• More employee autonomy and quicker decisions
• Fewer formal promotion levels

Tall organisation

• Many levels of management
• A narrow span of control—managers supervise relatively few employees
• A clear hierarchy and reporting structure
• More formal supervision and communication channels
• More obvious promotion and career stages

• A: Person Accounts cannot be merged directly with standard Contact records.
• C: There is no Account Setup option that automatically merges Person Account duplicates.
• D: Matching rules and duplicate rules can help identify or prevent duplicates, but they do not automatically merge Person Accounts. Also, relationship considerations do not change the basic merge capability.

• vBond — orchestration plane: Authenticates devices, helps them discover each other, and assists with NAT traversal and initial control-connection setup.
• vSmart — control plane: Distributes routing and policy information to WAN Edge devices using the overlay control plane.
• vManage — management plane: Provides centralized configuration, monitoring, and orchestration through its GUI/API.
• WAN Edge — data plane: Forwards user traffic across the SD-WAN fabric.

• Low usage during the first three weeks
• Very high usage during the last week

• High availability: Keeps services running despite failures.
• High latency: Means slow response times; it is not a benefit.
• Load balancing: Distributes traffic across resources but does not specifically address scaling resources up and down.

1. Get Data > Folder

1. Expand the Attributes column

1. Remove the Content column

• Folder connector: lists files and their metadata, but also includes a Content binary column.
• Combine Files: processes and combines the actual CSV contents, which is explicitly disallowed here.