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IBM Certified Analyst - Security QRadar SIEM V7.5
Intermediate-level IBM certification validating security analysts' comprehensive knowledge of IBM Security QRadar SIEM V7.5.
Licensing authority: IBM
Initial by examination
- Basis
- The current C9005200 record requires one examination and identifies C1000-162; the exam record reciprocally identifies this credential and lists no prerequisite examination.
- Current Applicability
- Current Live credential and exam records support adoption on the evaluation date. No withdrawal boundary is published. Creation, publication, update and go-live timestamps are not used as official effective dates.
- Issuance
- Certification is automatically issued when requirements have been achieved; its badge and printable certificate represent the certification award.
- Preparation
- Practical experience and foundational knowledge are assumed; the guide expressly says listed prerequisite foundations are not measured. Recommended classes do not guarantee certification. The assessment and sample questions are preparedness resources, not additional certification dependencies.
- Registration
- Create an IBM-testing Pearson VUE account, schedule the exam, present approved government identification and accept the IBM Certification Agreement. Methods and seats depend on the actual booking. Online delivery requires a successful system check and a private, quiet, clean environment. The current one-exam requirement record establishes no separate school-arrangement or completed-course dependency.
IBM Security QRadar SIEM V7.5 Analysis
- Provider
- Pearson VUE
- Format
- Proctored question-based examination; the current record enables multiple choice, build list and hot area item types.
- Exam questions
- Total questions: 64.
- Time limit
- 90 minutes
- Passing score
- 41 correct answers required to pass
Examination outline
Offense Analysis (23%)
- Triage initial offense
- Analyze fully matched and partially matched rules
- Analyze an offense and associated IP addresses
- Recognize MITRE threat groups and actors
- Perform offense management
- Describe the use of the magnitude within an offense
- Identify Stored and Unknown events and their source
- Outline simple offense naming mechanisms
- Create customized searches
Rules and Building Block Design (18%)
- Interpret rules that test for regular expressions
- Create and manage reference sets and populate them with data
- Identify the need for QRadar Content Packs
- Analyze rules that use Event and Flow data
- Analyze Building Blocks: Host definition, category definition, Port definition
- Review and understand the network hierarchy
- Review and recommend updates to building blocks and rules
- Describe the different types of rules, including behavioral, anomaly and threshold rules
Threat Hunting (24%)
- Investigate Event and Flow parameters
- Perform AQL query
- Search & filter logs
- Configure a search to utilize time series
- Analyze potential IoCs
- Break down triggered rules to identify the reason for the offense
- Distinguish potential threats from probable false positives
- Add a reference set based filter in log analysis
- Investigate the payload for additional details on the offense
- Recommend adding new custom properties based on payload data
- Perform "right-click Investigations" on offense data
Dashboard Management (14%)
- Use the default QRadar dashboard to create, view, and maintain a dashboard based on common searches
- Use Pulse to create, view, and maintain a dashboard based on common searches
Searching and Reporting (21%)
- Explain the different uses and benefits for each Ariel search type
- Explain the different uses of each search type
- Perform an advanced search
- Filter search results
- Build threat reports
- Perform a quick search
- View the most commonly triggered rules
- Report events correlated in the offense
- Export Search results in CSV or XML
- Create reports and advanced reports out of offenses
- Share reports with users
- Search using indexed and non-indexed properties
- Create and generate scheduled and manual reports
Examination sources
- IBM C1000-162 official record
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- IBM C1000-162 Exam Study Guide
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- IBM C1000-162 Exam Study Guide
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- IBM C1000-162 Exam Study Guide
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- IBM C1000-162 official record
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- IBM C1000-162 official record
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- IBM Professional Certification Program FAQ
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- Pearson VUE IBM program
Register to take your IBM certification exam online or at a test center
- IBM Professional Certification Program FAQ
Becoming Certified FAQ / Where can I take a test?
- IBM C1000-162 official record
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- IBM Professional Certification Program FAQ
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- IBM Professional Certification Program FAQ
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- IBM C1000-162 official record
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