Google Security-Operations-Engineer Exam Dumps - Actual Questions Answers

Comprehensive and Detailed Explanation

The key requirement is to programmatically build a data structure to query the connections (i.e., a graph) between resources. Security Command Center (SCC) Enterprise is built upon the data provided by Cloud Asset Inventory (CAI).1

Cloud Asset Inventory provides two primary types of data: resources (the "nodes" of a graph) and relationships (the "edges" of a graph).2

Option B is incorrect because it focuses on the resource table. While the resource table contains the assets themselves, it is the relationship table that specifically stores the connections between them (e.g., a compute.googleapis.com/Instance is ATTACHED_TO a compute.googleapis.com/Network).

Option A (attack path simulation) is a feature that consumes this graph data; it is not the method used to build the data structure for programmatic querying.

Option C (Bash script) is a manual, inefficient, and incomplete method that would fail to capture the complex relationships that CAI tracks automatically.

Option D is the correct solution. The Cloud Asset Inventory relationship table is the precise source for all resource connections. To effectively query these connections as an entity data structure (a graph), the ideal destination is a graph database. Spanner Graph is Google Cloud's managed graph database service, designed specifically for storing and querying highly interconnected data, making it the perfect tool for analyzing resource relationships and potential attack paths.3

Exact Extract from Google Security Operations Documents:

Relationships in Cloud Asset Inventory: Cloud Asset Inventory (CAI) provides relationship data, which allows you to understand the connections between your Google Cloud resources.4 CAI models relationships as a graph. You can export this relationship data for analysis. The relationship service stores information about the relationships between resources. For example, a Compute Engine instance might have a relationship with a persistent disk, or an IAM policy binding might have a relationship with a project.

Spanner Graph: Spanner Graph is a graph database built on Cloud Spanner that lets you store and query your graph data at scale.5 It is suitable for use cases that involve complex relationships, such as security analysis, fraud detection, and recommendation engines. By ingesting the Cloud Asset Inventory relationship table into Spanner Graph, you can programmatically execute graph queries to explore connections, identify high-risk assets, and model potential lateral movement paths.

The correct, low-impact solution for augmenting a Google-managed parser is to use a parser extension. The problem states that the base parser is still working, but needs to be supplemented to map two new fields.

Copying the entire parser (Option A) is a high-impact, high-maintenance solution ("Customer Specific Parser"). This action makes the organization responsible for all future updates and breaks the link to Google's managed updates, which is not a minimal-impact solution.

The intended, modern solution is the parser extension. This feature allows an engineer to write a small, targeted snippet of Code-Based Normalization (CBN) code that executes after the Google-managed base parser. This extension code can access the raw_log and perform the specific logic needed to extract the two unmapped fields and assign them to their proper Universal Data Model (UDM) fields.

This approach is the fastest to deploy and minimizes change management impact because the core parser remains managed and updated by Google, while the extension simply adds the custom logic on top. Option B, "Extract Additional Fields," is a UI-driven feature, but the underlying mechanism that saves and deploys this logic is the parser extension. Option D is the more precise description of the technical solution.

(Reference: Google Cloud documentation, "Manage parsers"; "Parser extensions"; "Code-Based Normalization (CBN) syntax")

Comprehensive and Detailed Explanation

The goal is to automate a decision-making process within a SOAR playbook based on data from an integration. This requires two steps: getting the specific data point (Option E) and then using it in a logical operator (Option A).

Get the Data Point (Option E): The VirusTotal integration returns a detailed JSON object. The most critical data point for determining maliciousness is the number of detections (i.e., how many scanning engines flagged the URL). The playbook must parse this specific value from the JSON output.

Use the Data in Logic (Option A): Once the playbook has the number of detections, it must use a conditional statement (an "If/Then" block) to act on it. This logic is how the playbook makes a recommendation and sets the severity. For example: IF number_of_detections > 3, THEN set severity to CRITICAL and add a comment URL is suspicious. ELSE, set severity to LOW and add a comment URL appears benign.

Option C is incorrect as it describes a manual process, which defeats the purpose of automation. Option D is incorrect as widgets are for displaying data in the case UI, not for executing logic within a playbook.

Exact Extract from Google Security Operations Documents:

Playbook logic and conditional actions: SOAR playbooks execute a series of actions to automate incident response. A core component of this automation is the conditional statement. After an enrichment action (like querying VirusTotal) runs, the playbook can use a conditional block to evaluate the results.

The playbook can parse the JSON output from the integration to extract key values, such as the number of positive detections. This value can then be used in the conditional (e.g., IF detections > 0) to determine the next step, such as setting the alert's severity, escalating to an analyst, or automatically determining if an indicator should be treated as suspicious or benign.