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Google Security-Operations-Engineer Exam Syllabus Topics:
| Section | Weight | Objectives |
|---|---|---|
| Detection engineering | 22% | - Develop detection rules (YARA-L, Sigma) - Implement threat intelligence into detections - Manage detection lifecycle - Optimize detection logic and reduce false positives |
| Platform operations | 14% | - Manage access and permissions - Manage Google Security Operations platform - Monitor platform health and performance - Configure Security Command Center |
| Threat hunting | 19% | - Use threat intelligence in hunting - Document and share findings - Analyze anomalies and behaviors - Design and execute threat hunts |
| Observability | 10% | - Improve security visibility - Analyze telemetry and metrics - Report security posture and risks - Design monitoring and alerting strategies |
| Incident response | 21% | - Contain and eradicate threats - Investigate security incidents - Develop and use response playbooks - Automate response workflows |
| Data management | 14% | - Validate data quality and completeness - Ingest and normalize logs and data - Manage data retention and storage - Implement Unified Data Model (UDM) |
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The official Google Cloud Certified - Professional Security Operations Engineer (PSOE) outline defines 6 domains. The leading three are Data management (14%), Incident response (21%), and Threat hunting (19%). The full list is in the topics section above, and PracticeVCE's 143 practice questions cover each one.
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Google Cloud Certified - Professional Security Operations Engineer (PSOE) Sample Questions:
Your company is taking a more proactive approach to security. You want to generate an alert when a binary hash first appears in your environment. What should you do?
- A. Create a table by using the Google Security Operations (SecOps) statistics in search to examine file-related events for the current day. Verify that the first_seen_time value predates the current day.
- B. Enable the Applied Threat Intelligence - Curated Prioritization rule set in curated detections.
- C. Navigate to the Alerts & IOCs page in Google Security Operations (SecOps). Create a filter that targets hashes and specifies a first_seen_time value excluding the current date.
- D. Write a rule to examine file-related events that join with derived context for hashes in the entity graph. Compare the timestamp of the hash with the first_seen_time field.
Correct Answer: D 🗳️
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You have noticed that a Google Security Operations (SecOps) detection rule that detects excessive network connections is triggering too frequently and creating too many false positive alerts. You want to improve the rule to reduce the noise without reducing the effectiveness of the rule. What change to the detection rule should you implement?
- A. Assign a risk score in the YARA-L outcome: section to prioritize alerts more effectively in the alert queue.
- B. Update the YARA-L events: section to exclude the most common IP addresses involved in the network connection alerts to reduce the number of alerts.
- C. Add a threshold in the YARA-L condition: section to ensure that the rule only alerts after a certain number of connections.
- D. Include a 10 minute timeframe for the same source and destination of network connections in the YARA-L match: section to aggregate the alerts.
Correct Answer: C 🗳️
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You are working with your company's analyst team to automate the investigation of phishing alerts ingested directly into Google Security Operations (SecOps) SOAR from an email inbox.
The analyst team currently uses a SIEM query to search for related information. You need to design a solution to automatically include the query results in the Google SecOps case without writing any new code. What should you do?
- A. Create a custom action in Google SecOps IDE that runs the SIEM query from a playbook through an API call and returns the results.
- B. Add an action to the playbook that runs the SIEM query and returns the results.
- C. Modify the detection rule in the SIEM to include the query results as part of the detection.
- D. Add a widget to the Default Case View in Google SecOps SOAR that allows the analyst team to query directly from the widget.
Correct Answer: B 🗳️
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You work for a telecommunications company that wants to monitor their multi-region 5G network logs in Google Security Operations (SecOps). The logs are currently only available on-premises and are stored in a standalone network-attached storage (NAS) located in four different regions.
You need to ingest the logs into Google SecOps and tag each NAS as a specific log source to avoid IP address aliasing. What should you do?
- A. Configure a Bindplane agent that collects Syslog from each log's location, and configure a namespace for each log source.
- B. Configure feed management to pull data from each log's location, and configure a namespace for each log source.
- C. Configure feed management to pull data from each log's location, and configure an ingestion label for each log source.
- D. Configure a Bindplane agent that collects Syslog from each log's location and configure an ingestion label for each log source.
Correct Answer: C 🗳️
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Your organization plans to ingest logs from an on-premises MySQL database as a new log source into its Google Security Operations (SecOps) instance. You need to create a solution that minimizes effort. What should you do?
- A. Configure direct ingestion from your Google Cloud organization.
- B. Configure a third-party API feed in Google SecOps.
- C. Configure and deploy a Bindplane collection agent.
- D. Configure and deploy a Google SecOps forwarder.
Correct Answer: D 🗳️
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