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Splunk Certified Cybersecurity Defense Architect Questions 33–40 (page: 6)

Updated On: 11-Aug-2026

Buttercup Games needs to provide its SOC team access to a wide range of security data sources located across different regions and cloud providers.
Which architectural solution allows the SOC analysts to query these data sources as a single logical source without having to migrate or copy all the raw data?

  1. Data mesh
  2. Message bus
  3. Centralized data warehouse
  4. Federated search

Answer(s): D

Explanation:

Federated search allows analysts to query data across distributed regions, environments, and cloud providers as though it were a single logical source. It avoids the need to migrate or duplicate all raw data into one central platform while still supporting investigation and search across multiple locations.



An architect is consulting with an organization that requires data to be sent to various destination data stores based on a combination of criteria. This includes, but is not limited to, the presence of personally identifiable information (PII), specific key/value pairs in each event, and the required retention duration for specific data sources.
Which of the following types of technology would be most appropriate to address these requirements?

  1. Data Vault
  2. Data Router
  3. Data Warehouse
  4. Data Lake

Answer(s): B

Explanation:

A data router is most appropriate because it can inspect event content and route data to different destinations based on defined conditions, such as PII presence, key/value fields, source type, compliance needs, and retention requirements. This supports selective delivery without forcing all data into a single storage architecture.



A U.S. based company has recently purchased a German company. The U.S. organization is planning to consolidate their customer rewards program globally and begin collecting purchasing information on the German customers to send back to their U.S. data center.
Which data privacy law would they violate if they did not update the German End User Agreement?

  1. FERPA
  2. GDPR
  3. HIPAA
  4. CCPA

Answer(s): B

Explanation:

GDPR applies to personal data of individuals in Germany and the broader European Union. Collecting German customers’ purchasing information and transferring it to a U.S. data center would require appropriate notice, consent or lawful basis, and updated user agreement terms covering the new processing and transfer.



While working with the Security Automation team, an architect is reviewing a playbook that automates the handling of compromised credentials. The playbook contains the following stages:
-Examine account to ensure that it is not a service or control account.
-Access all identity platforms and lock the user account.
-Revoke all current sessions (email, VPN, etc.).
The architect points out the potential for the compromised credentials to be used remotely again.
Which of the following actions need to be added to the playbook to alleviate this?

  1. Revoke all users MFA tokens.
  2. Create service desk ticket for the locked account.
  3. Quarantine compromised users endpoint.
  4. Revoke access to code repositories.

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

Revoking the compromised user’s MFA tokens helps prevent the attacker from reusing stolen authentication material to regain remote access. This closes a common persistence path after account lockout and session revocation by forcing re-enrollment or reauthentication through trusted recovery processes.



Danielle is a security architect at a multinational retail company. She is evaluating threat intelligence feeds to add to her company’s security monitoring program.
What is the primary benefit that threat intelligence data can provide?

  1. Reduce long term data storage needs.
  2. Enrich detections with internal asset information.
  3. Add context to detection content.
  4. Correlate user activity to security alerts.

Answer(s): C

Explanation:

Threat intelligence data adds external context to detection content by identifying known malicious indicators, adversary tactics, infrastructure, malware, and campaign details. This helps security monitoring distinguish higher-risk activity, prioritize investigations, and create more actionable detections.



Melinda’s team is responsible for maintaining detection content for a large organization. Her team consists of ten detection engineers, who need to log in to multiple SIEMs in order to make any changes to rules. Melinda wants to evaluate a “detection as code” methodology using the organization’s version control and continuous integration systems.
What benefits can detection as code provide her team? (Choose all that apply.)

  1. Automated integration can reduce manual errors and speed up deployment.
  2. Version control adds the ability to audit and rollback changes.
  3. Security events can be triaged and closed more quickly.
  4. Reusable components can reduce duplication and simplify rule writing.

Answer(s): A,B,D

Explanation:

Detection as code improves detection engineering by using CI/CD automation to validate and deploy rules consistently, reducing manual changes across multiple SIEMs. Version control provides change history, auditability, peer review, and rollback capability, while reusable components such as shared logic, templates, and macros reduce duplication and make detection development easier to maintain.



Which of the following are key advantages of providing “paved road” security engineering templates? (Choose all that apply.)

  1. They enable rapid onboarding of new projects by offering standardized, security-hardened infrastructure patterns.
  2. They can integrate with CI/CD pipelines to ensure security and compliance checks are automated as part of the development workflow.
  3. They eliminate the need for teams to perform any additional security reviews or testing after initial deployment.
  4. They help enforce consistent security controls across diverse environments and reduce human error in manual configuration.

Answer(s): A,B,D

Explanation:

“Paved road” security engineering templates provide approved, reusable patterns that help teams start projects faster with secure defaults. They can be built into CI/CD workflows to automate security and compliance checks, while also improving consistency across environments and reducing manual configuration mistakes.



A new vulnerability has been announced in a software library. Leadership would like to understand what exposure this has caused.
What can be used to determine which vendor provided executables use that library?

  1. Git file list
  2. Vulnerability scan results
  3. Release notes
  4. Software Bill of Materials

Answer(s): D

Explanation:

A Software Bill of Materials identifies the components, libraries, and dependencies included in software. It can be used to determine which vendor-provided executables contain the vulnerable library and assess exposure across the environment.



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