Pass the Paloalto Networks Security Operations XSOAR-Engineer Questions and answers with CertsForce

The core issue described isexcessive indicator extraction, causing rate-limit exhaustion on reputation services and overpopulation of indicators within the incident. According to XSOAR’s Indicator Extraction documentation, task-level extraction settings override incident-level defaults. Here, Task 1 (ad-get-user) is configured withIndicator Extract Mode: Inline, meaning every attribute returned by Active Directory—often extremely large datasets—triggers automatic IOC extraction. This leads to unnecessary extraction of usernames, metadata, and system fields that are not threat indicators, resulting in inflated indicator counts and reputation lookups.

Setting Task 1’s extraction mode toNoneprevents extraction of indicators from this verbose command, preventing both rate limiting and IOC bloating.

Changing incident-type defaults (A) does not override explicit task-level extraction. Setting extraction to inline on ServiceNow (C) worsens the problem. Disabling “mark results as notes” (D) has no effect on extraction; notes only influence whether context is stored.

Therefore, per XSOAR’s documented extraction hierarchy, the correct mitigation is to setad-get-user → Indicator Extract Mode = None, makingBthe correct answer.

The Indicator Exclusion List feature in XSOAR is designed to prevent certain IOCs (file hashes, IPs, domains, etc.) from being processed by the platform. The Admin Guide explains that once an indicator is added to the exclusion list, XSOARdoes not extract, enrich, score, or apply verdictsto that indicator during ingestion or field-change extraction. This ensures that benign internal hashes, test indicators, or noisy artifacts do not trigger incidents, enrichments, or correlation rules.

Option B does not reflect platform behavior—XSOAR does not create exclusion tags requiring manual review; instead, itcompletely bypasses extraction and enrichment. Option C is incorrect because excluded indicators do not undergo enrichment or verdict assignment at all. Option D incorrectly suggests that exclusion depends on feed reliability; the exclusion list applies globally and unconditionally.

Therefore, the correct interpretation per the documentation is thatexcluded indicators are never extracted or processed, aligning precisely with optionA.

The SSO (SAML) configuration is performed inside each Cortex XSOAR tenant, under the Authentication settings.

Group mapping (SAML group → XSOAR role/group) is managed at the tenant level, not in the Hub, Gateway, or Support Portal.