Google Security Operations Engineer (Beta) Sample Questions:

1. Your company's SOC analysts frequently submit manual change requests to a system administrator to make changes to the firewall rules on a specific router. You have the integration for the firewall installed and configured with credentials. You want to use the integration to trigger firewall rule changes directly from the Google Security Operations (SecOps) SOAR. Your system administrator requires the ability to manually approve the requested changes prior to deployment. How should you implement the workflow for analysts to trigger on demand?

A) Create a playbook where the firewall rule change is a manual step, allowing the analyst to edit the firewall rule as a pending action. Have the analyst email the system administrator with the change. Once approved, the analyst lets the playbook continue.
B) Create an account for the system administrator in your Google SecOps instance to allow the system administrator to make the changes from Google SecOps directly. Add an escalation step to enable the analyst to assign the case to the system administrator.
C) Create an email template for the analyst to get approval for the change from the system administrator. Have the analyst fill out the needed fields, and send the email for approval. Once approved, use a manual action to make the change to the firewall rule from any open case.
D) Create a request in the Google SecOps SOAR settings that includes a field for the firewall rule.Create a playbook that is triggered by this request. Configure the playbook step that makes the firewall rule change to send an approval request from the system administrator. The approval request must include the parameter being changed.

2. Your company's Google Security Operations (SecOps) instance has three roles: Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3. Currently, analysts in all tiers can access all cases in Google SecOps. Your company's SOC has a new requirement to restrict access to cases assigned to the Tier 3 role from the other tiers. You need to ensure cases that are assigned to the Tier 3 role can only be accessed by Tier 3 analysts. What should you do?

A) Assign the cases to a user in the Tier 3 role.
B) Instruct analysts in Tier 1 and Tier 2 to create a case queue filter to exclude cases assigned to the Tier 3 role.
C) Configure the Cross Environment Policy to allow users to move cases between environments. Move Tier 3 cases to an environment that only Tier 3 analysts can access.
D) Revoke additional role access from Tier 1 and Tier 2 analysts.

3. You are a security analyst at an organization that uses Google Security Operations (SecOps). You have identified a new IP address that is known to be used by a malicious threat actor to launch network attacks. You need to search for this IP address in Google SecOps using all normalized logs to determine whether any malicious activity has occurred. You want to use the most effective approach. What should you do?

A) Write a YARA-L 2.0 detection rule that searches for events with the IP address.
B) Write UDM searches using YARA-L 2.0 syntax to find events where the IP address appears.
C) On the Alerts & IOCS page, review results and entries where the IP address appears.
D) Run raw log searches using the IP address as a search term.

4. You are the SOC manager at a large enterprise that uses Google Security Operations (SecOps).
You need to create a report that shows the Return on Investment (ROI) attributed to analyst activities in Google SecOps SOAR for the previous month. The report should include the time saved and efficiency gains from using SOAR's features. You need to generate this report using the most efficient and accurate approach while providing the required level of detail. What should you do?

A) Develop a Google SecOps SOAR playbook that automatically aggregates analyst performance metrics, incorporates custom weighted factors for different case types, calculates ROI based on predefined formulas, and generates a PDF report on a monthly schedule.
B) Use the ROI - Analysts Benchmark report in SOAR Reports. Configure the report to display data for the desired time period, and filter by individual analysts.
C) Use the filters and visualizations in the Management - SOC Status report in SOAR Reports to extract case-specific performance data.
D) Create a custom Google SecOps SOAR search query that filters for all cases handled by specific analysts in the last month. Export the results to a spreadsheet for analysis and ROI calculation.

5. Your company uses Security Command Center (SCC) and Google Security Operations (SecOps). Last week, an attacker attempted to establish persistence by generating a key for an unused service account. You need to confirm that you are receiving alerts when keys are created for unused service accounts and that newly created keys are automatically deleted. You want to minimize the amount of manual effort required. What should you do?

A) Use the Initial Access: Dormant Service Account Key Created finding from SCC, and write this finding to a Pub/Sub topic. Create a Cloud Run function that subscribes to the Pub/Sub topic and deletes the service account key.
B) Configure a Cloud Logging sink to write logs to a Pub/Sub topic that filters for the methodName: "google.iam.admin.v1.CreateServiceAccountKey" field. Create a Cloud Run function that subscribes to the Pub/Sub topic and deletes the service account key.
C) Use the Initial Access: Dormant Service Account Key Created finding from SCC, and ingest this finding into Google SecOps. Create a custom action in Google SecOps SOAR that is triggered on this finding. Use the built-in IDE to build code to delete the service account key.
D) Generate a YARA-L rule in Google SecOps that detects when a service account key is created. Using the built-in IDE, create a custom action in Google SecOps SOAR that deletes the service account key.

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