50 XSOAR Engineer Practice Questions: Question Bank 2025

Your organization wants to deploy Cortex XSOAR in a high-availability configuration. Which deployment architecture component is essential for ensuring continuity of operations if the primary server fails?

When developing a playbook, you need to execute multiple tasks in parallel to reduce investigation time. Which playbook component should you use to achieve this?

An integration is failing to fetch incidents from an external SIEM. When you test the integration instance, the connection succeeds, but no incidents are being created. What is the most likely cause?

You need to troubleshoot a playbook that is failing intermittently. Which log level should you set to capture the most detailed information about playbook execution without impacting system performance significantly?

A security team needs to enrich IP addresses in incidents with threat intelligence data from multiple sources. They want to ensure that if one enrichment source fails, the playbook continues with other sources. What is the best approach to implement this requirement?

Your organization operates in multiple geographic regions and needs to process incidents locally due to data residency requirements. Which XSOAR architectural component best addresses this requirement?

You are creating a custom integration that needs to handle API rate limiting from a third-party service that allows 100 requests per minute. What is the best practice for implementing this in your integration code?

An analyst reports that a playbook task using a script is timing out after running for several minutes. The script queries a large dataset and processes results. What is the most appropriate solution?

You are designing a complex playbook that needs to make decisions based on multiple conditions including incident severity, asset criticality, and business hours. The logic requires checking if severity is Critical OR High AND asset criticality is High AND the incident occurred during business hours. How should you structure the conditional logic in XSOAR to implement this correctly?

Your XSOAR deployment needs to integrate with an on-premises application that is not accessible from the XSOAR cloud instance due to network segmentation. The application has a REST API but no direct internet connectivity. What architectural solution should you implement?

An XSOAR engineer needs to configure a playbook to handle incidents from multiple integration instances of the same type. Which approach ensures the playbook automatically uses the correct instance based on the incident source?

When designing a high-availability XSOAR deployment, which component requires external database configuration for proper failover support?

A security analyst reports that a custom integration is returning data, but the context output is not being populated correctly in the War Room. What is the most likely cause?

An organization wants to enrich indicators automatically when they are added to XSOAR from any source. Which feature should be configured to accomplish this requirement?

Which XSOAR automation script language feature allows scripts to maintain state between executions within the same incident context?

A company needs to connect XSOAR to an on-premises SIEM that is not directly accessible from the internet. What component should be deployed to enable this integration?

During playbook development, an engineer needs to execute different sub-playbooks based on the severity of an incident. Which playbook component provides this conditional branching capability?

An XSOAR administrator notices that integration commands are failing with authentication errors after the integration was working correctly for several weeks. The API credentials have not changed. What is the most appropriate first troubleshooting step?

A security team wants to standardize how different EDR products are integrated into XSOAR so that playbooks can work with any EDR without modification. Which XSOAR feature enables this abstraction?

An organization is experiencing performance degradation in XSOAR with slow playbook execution times. Investigation reveals a large number of pending tasks in the work queue. Which architectural consideration would most effectively address this issue?

An XSOAR engineer needs to create a playbook that processes incidents from multiple sources but only executes specific tasks based on the incident type. What is the BEST approach to implement this logic?

A security team wants to measure the effectiveness of their XSOAR implementation. Which metrics are MOST important for demonstrating ROI and operational improvements?

During incident investigation, an analyst needs to enrich multiple IP addresses simultaneously and store the results in a context path for later use. What is the MOST efficient approach in XSOAR?

An organization is deploying XSOAR in a highly regulated environment where audit trails are critical. Which configuration approach ensures comprehensive logging of all user actions and system changes?

A playbook is failing intermittently when calling an external API through an integration. The error message indicates 'Rate limit exceeded'. What is the BEST solution to handle this issue?

An XSOAR engineer needs to parse complex JSON data from a threat intelligence feed and extract nested fields for indicator creation. The JSON structure varies between different indicator types. What is the MOST flexible approach?

A multi-tenant XSOAR deployment requires strict data isolation between tenants while maximizing resource efficiency. What architectural approach BEST meets these requirements?

An organization needs to ingest incidents from a proprietary internal system that doesn't have a pre-built XSOAR integration. The system exposes data through a REST API with OAuth 2.0 authentication. What is the MOST comprehensive approach to integrate this system?

A complex playbook is experiencing performance issues with execution times exceeding acceptable SLAs. After analysis, you identify that multiple sequential enrichment tasks are the bottleneck. What optimization strategy would provide the MOST significant performance improvement?

An XSOAR deployment needs to integrate with multiple security tools in an air-gapped environment with no internet connectivity. The tools require certificate-based authentication and are distributed across different network segments with firewall restrictions. What architecture components are ESSENTIAL for this deployment?

An XSOAR engineer needs to extract IP addresses from email bodies and automatically enrich them with threat intelligence. Which component should be used to parse the email content before enrichment?

A security team wants to ensure that high-severity incidents are automatically assigned to senior analysts while low-severity incidents go to junior analysts. What XSOAR feature should be configured to accomplish this?

During playbook development, an engineer needs to execute different sub-playbooks based on the incident type. The incident could be Phishing, Malware, or Data Breach. What is the most efficient playbook design pattern?

An organization has deployed XSOAR with multiple engines to handle workload distribution. One engine is consistently showing high CPU usage while others remain underutilized. What is the most likely cause?

A custom integration is fetching incidents from an external API, but indicators extracted from the incidents are not appearing in the indicators page. What is the most likely missing configuration?

An XSOAR deployment needs to integrate with systems in an isolated network segment that cannot communicate directly with the XSOAR server. What architectural component should be deployed?

A playbook task is failing intermittently with timeout errors when querying a third-party threat intelligence service. The service documentation indicates rate limiting of 10 requests per minute. What is the best solution to implement in the playbook?

During incident investigation, an analyst needs to preserve the current state of all incident data including indicators, evidence, and notes for compliance purposes before remediation actions begin. What XSOAR feature should be used?

An organization wants to ingest security alerts from multiple AWS accounts into XSOAR. Each AWS account should create incidents with appropriate tagging for the source account. What is the recommended integration configuration approach?

A custom automation script needs to query the XSOAR database to find all incidents from the last 30 days where a specific indicator appears. The script must handle environments with potentially millions of incidents. What is the most performance-efficient approach?

An XSOAR engineer needs to create a custom incident field that will store IP addresses and automatically validate the format. Which field type should be used?

A security team wants to implement role-based access control (RBAC) in XSOAR to restrict analysts from viewing incidents containing PII data. What is the recommended approach?

During playbook execution, an engineer notices that a task using the 'Set' command is not updating the context data as expected. Upon investigation, they find the context path contains special characters. What is the best practice for handling context keys with special characters?

An organization is experiencing performance issues with their XSOAR instance. Investigation reveals that the Elasticsearch cluster is consistently at high CPU utilization. What is the FIRST troubleshooting step to identify the root cause?

A playbook needs to process a large list of 10,000 indicators and perform enrichment on each one. What is the most efficient approach to prevent performance issues and timeouts?

An XSOAR engineer needs to configure an integration to connect to an on-premises system that is not accessible from the internet. What component must be deployed to enable this connectivity?

A company wants to automatically close incidents in XSOAR when the corresponding ticket in their external ticketing system is closed. What is the recommended implementation approach?

An analyst reports that a playbook task is failing with the error 'Context data too large.' What is the most likely cause and solution?

When developing a custom integration in XSOAR, an engineer needs to handle sensitive authentication credentials securely. What is the correct approach for defining credential parameters?

An organization with a multi-tenant XSOAR deployment needs to share specific custom content (playbooks and scripts) across multiple tenants while keeping incident data isolated. What is the appropriate architecture approach?