Question 1
In a SOC environment, a Tier 1 analyst receives an alert for a suspicious outbound connection on port 443 to an unknown IP. After verifying the IP is flagged as malicious in threat intelligence feeds, what is the MOST appropriate immediate next step?
Correct Answer:
Escalate to Tier 2/3 with full context, preserve evidence, and initiate the incident response process
Question 2
Which NIST SP 800-61 incident response phase focuses on stopping an attacker's foothold from spreading to additional systems?
Correct Answer:
Containment
Question 3
A threat hunter analyzing Elastic SIEM logs wants to identify processes that spawned cmd.exe from a browser process (e.g., chrome.exe). Which KQL query pattern correctly targets this parent-child relationship?
Correct Answer:
process.name: cmd.exe AND process.parent.name: chrome.exe
Question 4
During memory forensics with Volatility 3, which plugin is used to list all active network connections and listening sockets on a Windows memory image?
Correct Answer:
windows.netscan
Question 5
An investigator examining a Windows disk image finds the file path C:\Users\victim\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\CustomDestinations. What forensic artifact type is stored here?
Correct Answer:
Windows Jump Lists (custom destinations)
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