[Aug-2026] EC-COUNCIL 312-39 Official Cert Guide PDF [Q67-Q86]

Q67. Jennifer, a SOC analyst, initiates an investigation after receiving an alert about potential unauthorized activity on Marcus’s workstation. She starts by retrieving EDR logs from the endpoint, analyzing network traffic patterns in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system, and inspecting email gateway logs for signs of malicious attachments. Her objective is to determine whether this alert represents a legitimate security incident. In which phase of the Incident Response process is Jennifer currently operating?

Q68. What is the correct sequence of SOC Workflow?

Q69. John, SOC analyst wants to monitor the attempt of process creation activities from any of their Windows endpoints.
Which of following Splunk query will help him to fetch related logs associated with process creation?

Q70. Global Bank relies heavily on Microsoft Azure to host critical banking applications and services. The SOC must ensure continuous monitoring, compliance, and real-time threat detection across Azure resources. They need a comprehensive solution to collect, analyze, and visualize telemetry from cloud resources, VMs, storage, and applications, and integrate with security tools to detect anomalies and monitor performance.
Which Azure service is best suited?

Q71. A SOC team at a major financial institution detects unauthorized access attempts on its web application. Logs indicate the web application is compromised. To determine the exact attack technique and implement mitigation, forensic investigators assess cookie attributes (such as HttpOnly, Secure, and SameSite) for security weaknesses and track anomalous request patterns that deviate from normal user behavior. Which attack vector is the forensic team investigating?

Q72. Mike is an incident handler for PNP Infosystems Inc. One day, there was a ticket raised regarding a critical incident and Mike was assigned to handle the incident. During the process of incident handling, at one stage, he has performed incident analysis and validation to check whether the incident is a true incident or a false positive.
Identify the stage in which he is currently in.

Q73. The Security Operations Center (SOC) team at Rapid Response Group, a leading cybersecurity firm, is facing challenges in managing security incidents efficiently. With an increasing volume of alerts and security events being generated daily in their Microsoft Sentinel environment, the team is struggling to respond to threats quickly and consistently. To enhance their incident response capabilities, they aim to automate routine security tasks, such as log collection, alert triaging, remediation steps, and notifications to stakeholders. By implementing automated workflows, they seek to reduce response times, eliminate manual intervention for repetitive actions, and ensure a standardized approach to handling security threats across the organization.
Which component of Microsoft Sentinel should they utilize to create these automated workflows for incident response?

Q74. Where will you find the reputation IP database, if you want to monitor traffic from known bad IP reputation using OSSIM SIEM?

Q75. Sarah, a financial analyst at a multinational corporation, is suspected of leaking sensitive financial data to an unauthorized external party. The SOC team observed anomalous data transfer patterns originating from her account, flagged by the SIEM, indicating potential data exfiltration. The incident response team must contain the incident swiftly to minimize data loss and protect critical assets. As a SOC analyst, which should be prioritized as the initial containment measure?

Q76. Which of the following technique protects from flooding attacks originated from the valid prefixes (IP addresses) so that they can be traced to its true source?

Q77. What does [-n] in the following checkpoint firewall log syntax represents?
fw log [-f [-t]] [-n] [-l] [-o] [-c action] [-h host] [-s starttime] [-e endtime] [-b starttime endtime] [-u unification_scheme_file] [-m unification_mode(initial|semi|raw)] [-a] [-k (alert name|all)] [-g] [logfile]

Q78. Which of the following data source can be used to detect the traffic associated with Bad Bot User-Agents?

Q79. Harley is working as a SOC analyst with Powell Tech. Powell Inc. is using Internet Information Service (IIS) version 7.0 to host their website.
Where will Harley find the web server logs, if he wants to investigate them for any anomalies?

Q80. Which of the following contains the performance measures, and proper project and time management details?

Q81. John as a SOC analyst is worried about the amount of Tor traffic hitting the network. He wants to prepare a dashboard in the SIEM to get a graph to identify the locations from where the TOR traffic is coming.
Which of the following data source will he use to prepare the dashboard?

Q82. Emmanuel is working as a SOC analyst in a company named Tobey Tech. The manager of Tobey Tech recently recruited an Incident Response Team (IRT) for his company. In the process of collaboration with the IRT, Emmanuel just escalated an incident to the IRT.
What is the first step that the IRT will do to the incident escalated by Emmanuel?

Q83. The Syslog message severity levels are labelled from level 0 to level 7.
What does level 0 indicate?

Q84. A type of threat intelligent that find out the information about the attacker by misleading them is known as
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Q85. Which of the following tool can be used to filter web requests associated with the SQL Injection attack?

Q86. Which of the following Windows features is used to enable Security Auditing in Windows?