Google Cloud Certified - Professional Security Operations Engineer (PSOE) - Security-Operations-Engineer Exam Practice Test

Your company uses Google-managed images on Compute Engine VM instances extensively and has deployed Security Command Center Enterprise (SCCE) at the organization level Due to a recent increase in vulnerability exploits, you want to improve visibility into operating system (OS) risks for all VMs in your organization. You want to use managed services to enhance security detection capabilities related to these vulnerabilities using minimal effort. What should you do?

During a high-priority phishing incident at your company, Google Security Operations (SecOps) created and assigned the case to a Tier 1 analyst. The analyst added email headers and attached the malicious file as evidence but failed to escalate the case, violating an internal SLA of
30 minutes for a phishing response. The delay led to multiple users opening the file before containment actions were initiated. You want to optimize the case management workflow for future high-priority incidents. What should you do?

Your company recently started pulling JSON logs from a third-party system into Google Security Operations (SecOps). You noticed that some fields are missing, and you want to parse them into UDM fields as quickly as possible. What should you do?

You are responsible for identifying suspicious activity and security events at your organization.
You have been asked to search in Google Security Operations (SecOps) for network traffic associated with an active HTTP backdoor that runs on TCP port 5555. You want to use the most effective approach to identify traffic originating from the server that is running the backdoor. What should you do?

You scheduled a Google Security Operations (SecOps) report to export results to a BigQuery dataset in your Google Cloud project. The report executes successfully in Google SecOps, but no data appears in the dataset. You confirmed that the dataset exists. How should you address this export failure?

You are a senior SOC analyst in your organization. You are receiving alerts of traffic to a command and control (C2) IP address. You want to use Google Security Operations (SecOps) to investigate the IP address associated with the C2 IP address. What should you do?

Your company uses Security Command Center (SCC) and Google Security Operations (SecOps). Last week, an attacker attempted to establish persistence by generating a key for an unused service account. You need to confirm that you are receiving alerts when keys are created for unused service accounts and that newly created keys are automatically deleted. You want to minimize the amount of manual effort required. What should you do?

You have been tasked with developing a new response process in a playbook to contain an endpoint. The new process should take the following actions:
- Send an email to users who do not have a Google Security Operations (SecOps) account to request approval for endpoint containment
- Automatically continue executing its logic after the user responds
You plan to implement this process in the playbook by using the Gmail integration. You want to minimize the amount of effort required by the SOC analyst. What should you do?

Your organization uses Security Command Center (SCC) and relies on Compute Engine instances to run business-critical workloads. SCC has flagged a particular instance for exhibiting a high volume of outbound network connections to geographically diverse and unknown IP addresses. You need to determine whether the instance has been compromised by malware.
What should you do?