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Certified Security Sentinel (CSS) VIP Practice Exam
CSS — The Certified Security Sentinel (CSS) is a security practitioner credential focused on security operations, threat monitoring, incident response, and access control; no single globally dominant issuing body administers this exact credential, so this is an original comprehensive practice set modeled on the knowledge domains common to security operations certifications such as CompTIA Security+, GIAC GSEC, and security sentinel/watchman licensing frameworks.
30
Questions
120m
Time Limit
75.00%
To Pass
Question 1 of 30👑 VIP
A security sentinel monitoring a SIEM dashboard notices a spike of 4,200 failed authentication attempts against a single user account over a 3-minute window, followed by one successful login from the same source IP. The account belongs to a senior financial analyst. Which of the following BEST describes the nature of this event, and what should be the sentinel's FIRST action?
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