SPLK-2003 Exam Dumps - Splunk SOAR Certified Automation Developer Exam

Creating smaller and more focused playbooks in Splunk SOAR is considered good design practice for several reasons:

•B: It reduces complexity, making playbooks easier to maintain. Large, complex playbooks can become unwieldy and difficult to troubleshoot or update.

•C: Encourages code reuse, as smaller playbooks can be designed to handle specific tasks that can be reused across different scenarios.

•D: Avoids duplication of code, as common functionalities can be centralized within specific playbooks, rather than having the same code replicated across multiple playbooks.

This approach has several benefits, such as:

•Reducing large complex playbooks which become difficult to maintain. Smaller playbooks are easier to read, debug, and update1.

•Encouraging code reuse in a more compartmentalized form. Smaller playbooks can be used as building blocks for multiple scenarios, reducing the need to write duplicate code12.

•Improving performance and scalability. Smaller playbooks can run faster and consume less resources than larger playbooks2.

The other options are not valid reasons for creating smaller and more focused playbooks. Reducing the amount of playbook data stored in each repo is not a significant benefit, as the playbook data is not very large compared to other types of data in Splunk SOAR. Avoiding duplication of code across multiple playbooks is a consequence of code reuse, not a separate goal.

Within Splunk SOAR, containers (which represent incidents, cases, or events) have a lifecycle that is tracked through their status. The default statuses available without any customization are "New", "In Progress", and "Closed". These statuses help in organizing and managing the incident response process, allowing users to easily track the progress of investigations and responses from initial detection through to resolution.

The severity of a container in Splunk Phantom can be set manually or automatically during the ingestion process. In addition to these methods, playbooks can also change the severity of a container. Playbooks are automated workflows that define a series of actions based on certain triggers and conditions. Within a playbook, actions can be defined to adjust the severity level of a container depending on the analysis of the event data, the outcome of actions taken, or other contextual factors. This dynamic adjustment allows for a more accurate and responsive incident prioritization as new information becomes available during the investigation process.

The Splunk SOAR Automation Broker does not require inbound/ingress network connections from the Splunk SOAR (Cloud) or (On-premises) instance. Instead, it requires only outbound/egress connectivity. The Automation Broker is responsible for securely communicating with SOAR to execute actions, retrieve data, and send results, but this communication is initiated from the Automation Broker towards SOAR, using outbound connections (typically over TCP port 443). This ensures that no inbound connections need to be established, which simplifies firewall and security configurations.

Thus, option D is the incorrect statement, making it the right answer for this question.

References:

Splunk SOAR Documentation: Automation Broker Requirements.

Splunk SOAR Cloud and On-Premises Deployment Guide.

 The correct answer is A because after a successful POST to a Phantom REST endpoint to create a new object, the result returned is the new object ID. The object ID is a unique identifier for each object in Phantom, such as a container, an artifact, an action, or a playbook. The object ID can be used to retrieve, update, or delete the object using the Phantom REST API. The answer B is incorrect because after a successful POST to a Phantom REST endpoint to create a new object, the result returned is not the new object name, which is a human-readable name for the object. The object name can be used to search for the object using the Phantom web interface. The answer C is incorrect because after a successful POST to a Phantom REST endpoint to create a new object, the result returned is not the full CEF name, which is a standard format for event data. The full CEF name can be used to access the CEF fields of an artifact using the Phantom REST API. The answer D is incorrect because after a successful POST to a Phantom REST endpoint to create a new object, the result returned is not the PostGres UUID, which is a unique identifier for each row in a PostGres database. The PostGres UUID is not exposed to the Phantom REST API. Reference: Splunk SOAR REST API Guide, page 17. When a POST request is made to a Phantom REST endpoint to create a new object, such as an event, artifact, or container, the typical response includes the ID of the newly created object. This ID is a unique identifier that can be used to reference the object within the system for future operations, such as updating, querying, or deleting the object. The response does not usually include the full name or other specific details of the object, as the ID is the most important piece of information needed immediately after creation for reference purposes.