XSIAM-Engineer Palo Alto Networks XSIAM Engineer Questions and Answers

Rolling tokens in Cortex XDR are used to perform administration on agents without relying on static credentials. This improves security by providing time-limited, automatically rotating tokens that maintain agent management access without exposing long-lived credentials.

The correct command is cytool import suex -path , which imports a supplied support exception (suex) file onto a Linux endpoint, ensuring the exception is applied locally.

The applied transformers extract the value of @dirtyId from the root-level Data2 object. The sequence includes trimming using "Id:" and ending with a quotation mark ". As a result, the root @dirtyId value (1) is returned with a leading quotation mark, so the Test result will display "1.

The MODEL section in a data model rule is used to map log fields to the corresponding Cortex XSIAM Data Model (XDM) fields. This ensures that ingested data aligns with XDM, enabling consistent analytics, detections, and queries across different data sources.

The correct approach is to install a Broker VM in the environment and configure its CSV Collector applet to ingest the .csv log files directly from the Ubuntu server. This enables secure ingestion of custom application logs into Cortex XSIAM without modifying the application or requiring an XDR agent on the server.

The correct query is the one using preset = metrics_view with

comp sum(total_event_count) as total_events by _reporting_device_name and filtering total_events = 0.

This query directly checks event counts reported by the NGFW ("MainFW"). If no logs are received in the last 30 minutes, the total event count will be 0, which triggers the correlation rule alert.

The correct command is !ToTable data=${parentIncidentFields.custom_fields.incidentassignment}, which converts the specified context data into a tabular format. This allows fields such as runStatus and startDate to be clearly displayed in a table when troubleshooting playbook tasks.

The Multi-select option allows a dashboard widget in Cortex XSIAM to be filtered by more than one dynamic value, enabling flexible data exploration and visualization across multiple selected criteria.

The correct command is cytool config proxy --host crtxbroker01.company.net --port 8888, which configures the Cortex XDR agent to route its traffic through the Broker VM acting as a proxy. This allows the agent to register and download updates without requiring direct internet access.

In a Broker VM cluster, the Syslog Collector applet runs in active/standby mode (active on the primary node, standby on others), while the Kafka Collector applet runs in active/active mode (active on all nodes). This design ensures both high availability and scalability for ingestion.

To leverage Cortex XSIAM analytics on custom-ingested firewall data, a data model rule must be created with the key network fields (source IP, source port, target IP, target port, IP protocol) mapped. This enables the data to align with XSIAM’s analytics engine and be used for BIOCs, correlation rules, and advanced detections.

In a Cortex XSIAM parsing rule, the COLLECT section defines the newly created dataset. This section specifies how the parsed fields and data should be structured and stored for further use in analytics and queries.

The correct query is the preset = host_inventory_applications with filters for application_name contains "ai_app" and version in ("12.1", "12.2", "12.4", "12.5"). This directly identifies hosts that have the vulnerable application and specific versions installed, matching the analyst’s request to find assets exposed to the zero-day CVE.

To enable Cloud Identity Engine on Cortex XSIAM, it must first be activated on HUB, Palo Alto Networks’ centralized service management platform. Once activated, it can be configured and integrated with Cortex XSIAM for identity-based visibility and enforcement.