Splunk Certified Cybersecurity Defense Architect Practice Questions - Splunk Certified Cybersecurity Defense Architect (SPLK-5003) Exam - Splunk Certified Cybersecurity Defense Architect Practice Questions - Splunk Certified Cybersecurity Defense Architect (SPLK-5003) Exam

Question 1

An enterprise SOC architect is designing a Splunk Enterprise Security deployment that must ingest 5 TB/day of security data with sub-second notable event creation. Which deployment topology BEST meets these requirements?

Single-instance ES on a stand-alone search head with co-located indexer Distributed deployment with an indexer cluster, dedicated ES search head (or SHC), and separate forwarder tier All-in-one indexer/search head pair plus universal forwarders only Single indexer with a search head pool

Correct Answer:

Distributed deployment with an indexer cluster, dedicated ES search head (or SHC), and separate forwarder tier

Question 2

Which Splunk Enterprise Security index stores risk modifiers contributed by correlation searches in a risk-based alerting design?

notable risk threat_intel summary

Correct Answer:

risk

Question 3

An architect must define the data residency strategy for a multinational customer with offices in the EU, US, and Singapore. Which Splunk pattern BEST supports GDPR, US compliance, and APAC laws while still enabling SOC-wide search?

Single global indexer cluster in the US with all data centralized Federated search across regional Splunk Cloud or on-prem deployments where raw data stays in-region Forward all EU events to the US indexer cluster after pseudonymization at search time Separate per-region SIEM products with no cross-region search

Correct Answer:

Federated search across regional Splunk Cloud or on-prem deployments where raw data stays in-region

Question 4

When designing an ES asset and identity framework for a 100,000-employee enterprise, which combination of lookups should be configured to enrich notable events with business context?

asset_lookup_by_str only asset_lookup_by_str, asset_lookup_by_cidr, identity_lookup_expanded kvstore_lookup with a custom CSV only Active Directory ldapsearch at search time

Correct Answer:

asset_lookup_by_str, asset_lookup_by_cidr, identity_lookup_expanded

Question 5

A new business unit will onboard 800 GB/day of EDR telemetry. Which architectural step is MOST critical BEFORE writing any correlation searches against the new data?

Build risk-incident rules first Normalize the data to the relevant CIM data model (e.g., Endpoint, Authentication, Network_Traffic) using a TA Enable Splunk Edge Processor for filtering Send the data to the threat_intel index

Correct Answer:

Normalize the data to the relevant CIM data model (e.g., Endpoint, Authentication, Network_Traffic) using a TA

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