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.
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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.
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Defining and documenting the deployment architecture creates the underlying basis for successfully installing QRadar. The architecture defines a clear scope of the project based on the use cases. Here, the deployment specialist designs the solution and required components, such as the individual QRadar appliances (physical or virtual). The architecture also addresses topics such as high availability and disaster recovery, data retention, and licensing.
Based on the architecture documentation and scope, the deployment specialist installs and configures the QRadar components.
After all QRadar components have been successfully deployed, it is time to add and configure the organization's log and flow sources. This includes automatically discovered and manually configured log sources as well as any custom properties or content extensions to satisfy the client's use cases.
The deployment specialist configures the included QRadar apps to function properly within the organization's environment as well as setting up the IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Feeds. The deployment specialist also leads the client to properly populate and use the asset database (to the extent that has been identified in the use cases and scope of the project).
The deployment specialist performs initial system performance and troubleshooting, demonstrating the use of appropriate tools to perform these tasks. This does not entail ongoing support but is focused on the scope defined in the project objectives and architecture.
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As defined in the scope, project objectives and architecture, the deployment specialist performs initial tuning of offenses and guides the client on how to best approach this task going forward.
In case the project objectives and scope contain QRadar migration and/or upgrades, the deployment specialist has to investigate several migrations or upgrade related topics, such as data and content migration, app framework use cases, and other upgrade prerequisites.
The deployment specialist needs to be skilled to support an organization that needs to implement a QRadar multi-tenant deployment.
This learning collection includes courses designed to help professionals learn to deploy, configure, and maintain the overall QRadar infrastructure based on a holistic deployment architecture.
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