C1000-175 Foundations of IBM Security QRadar SIEM V7.5 Practice Questions
Prepare for C1000-175 with more than an answer.
- Exam fee
- $200 USD
- Time limit
- 90 minutes
- Questions on the exam
- 62
- Passing score
- 66% (41 out of 62 correct)
- Level
- Associate
- Valid for
- Not specified by IBM
Domains covered on the exam 14
- SIEM Concepts10%
- QRadar Architecture10%
- User Interface5%
- Extensions5%
- Flows6%
- Rules and Building Blocks10%
- Working with Offenses8%
- Search, Filtering, and AQL8%
- Assets5%
- Reporting and Dashboards6%
- Events10%
- Configuration and Tuning6%
- QRadar System Errors6%
- User and Role Management5%
- 1
A user needs to download a new content extension that provides custom rules and reports for a specific firewall vendor. Which QRadar integrated application facilitates the browsing, downloading, and installation of these extensions directly from the console?
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Correct answer: A
The QRadar Assistant App provides a centralized interface to browse the IBM Security App Exchange, download content extensions (apps, rule packs), and install them directly into the QRadar environment.
- 2
In the QRadar Asset database, how does the system determine the 'Asset Confidence' or reliability of the data when merging asset profiles?
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Correct answer: C
QRadar resolves asset updates based on the trustworthiness of the log source. Administrators can assign a higher identity confidence to reliable sources (like a DHCP server or VPN concentrator) compared to less reliable ones, ensuring the asset profile is updated by the most accurate data.
- 3
A QRadar administrator receives a system notification: 'Disk Sentry: System partition usage is high'. What is the most immediate operational impact if this partition reaches 95% usage?
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Correct answer: B
When the system partition (often / or /store) reaches critical thresholds (like 95%), QRadar is designed to stop services (hostcontext, tomcat, etc.) to prevent file system corruption and ensure the OS remains bootable.
- 4
A security architect is designing a distributed QRadar deployment for a multinational corporation. The organization requires long-term retention of event data for compliance but needs to minimize the load on the primary console during heavy search operations. Which architectural component should be introduced to scale storage and search performance without adding correlation load?
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Correct answer: B
Data Nodes are designed specifically to add storage and search processing power to a deployment. They attach to Event Processors or Flow Processors to distribute the data, allowing for faster search execution and extended retention without performing event correlation themselves.
- 5
While investigating a potential data exfiltration incident, an analyst observes that multiple similar events from the same source IP are occurring rapidly. QRadar is displaying these as a single line item in the Log Activity tab with a 'Count' greater than 1. What process is responsible for this behavior, and what is the primary benefit?
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Correct answer: B
Coalescing is the process where QRadar groups events that have the same properties (Source IP, Destination IP, Destination Port, Username, and Event ID) occurring within a short time window. This significantly reduces the number of records written to disk.
- 6
A QRadar administrator is troubleshooting a custom log source that is not parsing correctly. The administrator opens the DSM Editor to adjust the parsing logic. Which of the following elements is primarily responsible for mapping a raw event to a specific QRadar Identifier (QID)?
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Correct answer: B
In the DSM Editor, the combination of the extracted 'Event ID' and 'Event Category' is used to map the incoming raw event to a specific QID in the QRadar taxonomy. If this mapping is incorrect or missing, the event appears as 'Unknown'.
