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Objective 6.2

Cybersecurity Defense Analyst

Define long tail analysis, outlier detection, and some common steps of hypothesis hunting with Splunk

Objective 6.2 sits in Threat Hunting and Remediation, which carries 10% 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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6-2Threat Hunting and Remediation

An analyst wants to find the low-scoring behaviors that never trip a single detection. Which documented approach in Enterprise Security surfaces them?

Shortening the search windowA shorter window hides exactly the pattern being sought.
Raising every detection severityRaising severity everywhere increases volume rather than insight.
Aggregating risk over timeCorrect · your answerCorrect.
Disabling suppression rulesSuppression rules control noise rather than reveal slow activity.

Correct.

Checked against help.splunk.com, August 2026

Concept

A hunt for slow activity needs a memory. Adding contributions across days is what makes a pattern visible that no single day contains.

Why C

Splunk documents risk-based alerting as detecting complex behavior over a period of time instead of a point in time, with alerting criteria over varying durations.

Source

Similarly, RBA helps detect complex behavior over a period of time instead of a point in time. For example, an impatient hacker might try various techniques to attack a single server over a period of time.

Splunk Docs: Analyze risk with risk-based alerting in Splunk Enterprise Security, checked August 2026
#threat hunting#risk based alerting

Now you: objective 6.2 questions

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Sample question 1 of 3

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An analyst wants an alert when one entity's behavior spans three or more MITRE tactics across two weeks. What does Splunk say this achieves?

Sample question 2 of 3

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A SOC is writing its first risk-based alerts and needs examples of what to key them on. Which set of criteria do the documented examples use?

Sample question 3 of 3

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A SOC is deciding where to apply risk-based alerting first among the detections it struggles to write. Which use cases is RBA suited to finding?

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