Monitoring Detection and Incident Response Questions

Focuses on designing and operating logging, detection, and incident response capabilities. Candidates should be able to describe building logging pipelines, selecting and instrumenting telemetry sources, retention and indexing strategies, and integration with security information and event management systems. Topics include event modelling and structured logging, observability with metrics and distributed tracing, collection of platform audit logs such as Amazon Web Services CloudTrail and virtual private cloud flow logs, detection engineering and analytic rule design, alerting policies and threshold tuning to reduce false positives, incident classification and severity models, escalation procedures, runbooks and playbooks, incident commander and coordination responsibilities, stakeholder communication during incidents, and blameless postmortem practices to capture learning. Assessment focuses on measurable detection and response metrics such as mean time to detect and mean time to respond, design of automated mitigations and playbooks, and how detection feedback loops inform development and deployment.