Objective 6.4
Cybersecurity Defense AnalystExplain the use of SOAR playbooks and list the basic ways they can be triggered from Enterprise Security
Objective 6.4 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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A worked example
Shown solved, with the whole explanation open: this is what every question here carries.
An analyst asks what Splunk SOAR combines to support automated security workflows. Which set does the documentation give?
Correct.
Checked against help.splunk.com, August 2026Concept
Automation alone speeds up whatever the team already does. Adding case management is what keeps the record of it, which is the part an audit later asks for.
Why B
Splunk documents the SOAR platform as combining security infrastructure orchestration, playbook automation and case management capabilities.
Source
Splunk Docs: About Splunk SOAR (Cloud), checked August 2026The Splunk SOAR (Cloud) platform combines security infrastructure orchestration, playbook automation, and case management capabilities to integrate your team, processes, and tools to help you orchestrate security workflows, automate repetitive security tasks, and quickly respond to threats.
Now you: objective 6.4 questions
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Sample question 1 of 2
An analyst starts an investigation with summary data in Enterprise Security. What does Splunk document happens to playbooks at that point?
Sample question 2 of 2
An analyst wants to run a SOAR playbook by hand against an open case in Enterprise Security. Which tab does Splunk document for that?
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More objectives in Threat Hunting and Remediation
- 6.1 Identify threat hunting techniques including configuration, modeling (anomalies), indicators, and behavioral analytics
- 6.2 Define long tail analysis, outlier detection, and some common steps of hypothesis hunting with Splunk
- 6.3 Determine when to use adaptive response actions and configure them as needed