Objective 4.3
Cybersecurity Defense AnalystDemonstrate ability to recognize common event dispositions and correctly assign them
Objective 4.3 sits in Investigation, Event Handling, Correlation, and Risk, which carries 20% of the Cybersecurity Defense Analyst exam. The questions below are original, written from the official objective title above, and each explanation cites the Splunk page it rests on.
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A worked example
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An analyst adds a disposition to a notable on the Incident Review page. What does Splunk document that this identifies?
Correct.
Checked against help.splunk.com, August 2026Concept
Status says where an item is in the queue. Disposition says what it turned out to be. Keeping them separate lets a false positive be closed without pretending it was never raised.
Why A
Splunk documents that adding a disposition identifies the threat level associated with the notable and accelerates triage.
Source
Splunk Docs: Triage notables on Incident Review, checked August 2026Add a disposition to any notable on the Incident Review page to identify the threat level associated with the notable accurately and accelerate the triage process.
Now you: objective 4.3 questions
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Sample question 1 of 3
An analyst opens the Disposition menu on a notable that nobody has judged yet. Which value does Splunk document as the default?
Sample question 2 of 3
An administrator wants analysts to be unable to close a notable without recording what it turned out to be. Which documented setting achieves that?
Sample question 3 of 3
An analyst finds that a detection fires on activity that is real but sanctioned by the business. Which documented disposition fits?
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- 4.5 Identify common built-in dashboards in Enterprise Security and the basic information they contain
- 4.6 Understand and explain the essentials of Risk Based Alerting, the Risk framework and creating correlation searches within Enterprise Security