IBM Certified Deployment Professional - Security QRadar SIEM V7.5

Certification Overview

This intermediate level certification is intended for professionals who wish to validate their comprehensive knowledge of the planning, installation, configuration, performance optimization, tuning, troubleshooting, and initial system administration tasks for IBM Security QRadar SIEM V7.5. This includes the apps installed with the product: Use Case Manager, QRadar Assistant, Log Source Management, and Pulse. This does not include the SaaS offering of QRadar on Cloud (QRoC). Questions for this exam were developed based upon IBM Security QRadar SIEM V7.5.0 Update Package 5.

Note: The usage of specific apps, apart from those bundled with the product, is out of scope, but the concept of extending the capability of using apps is in scope. A knowledge of the basic functions of these key IBM-supported apps should be understood: User Behavior Analytics, QRadar Deployment Intelligence, Reference Data Management, Threat Intelligence, and QRadar Advisor with Watson, Network Threat Analytics.

Recommended Skills

Key Areas of Competency

• Ability to deploy IBM Security QRadar SIEM
• Knowledge of database and directory configuration
• Ability to configure IBM Security QRadar SIEM interfaces and networking for connectivity
• Understanding of QRadar component architecture

Prerequisite Knowledge

Knowledge and foundational skills one must possess before acquiring skills measured on the certification test. These foundational skills are NOT measured on the test.

• TCP/IP networking
• Unix command line knowledge
• Basic security technologies (including PKI concepts)
• Regular Expression (RegEx)
• Enterprise logging
• Network monitoring using flows
• Working knowledge of cloud environments

Requirements

• Exam C1000-163 : IBM Security QRadar SIEM V7.5 Deployment

Exam Objectives

During exam development, the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) define all of the tasks, knowledge and experience that an individual would need in order to successfully fulfill their role with the product or solution. These are represented by the objectives below and the questions on the exam are based upon these objectives.

Number of questions : 63

Number of questions to pass : 42

Time allowed : 90 minutes

Status : Live