QRadar SIEM V7.5 Admin study guide
QRadar SIEM V7.5 Admin · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
QRadar SIEM V7.5 Administration is the administrator-level credential for security operations staff who install, configure, and keep an IBM QRadar deployment healthy. It suits SOC engineers, SIEM administrators, and platform owners who already work with log sources and rules and want formal recognition of the operational side: architecture, ingestion, network hierarchy, offense tuning, parsing, access control, backup and recovery, storage, and troubleshooting. The QRadar SIEM V7.5 Admin study guide has 9 sections and about 2,285 words.
01Architecture, Deployment, and Initial Configuration
This domain tests deployment topology choices, adding managed hosts, and first-run configuration that makes the pipeline work. An All-in-One console runs the UI, rules, and Ariel; a distributed deployment separates Event Collectors (receive and parse with DSMs), Event Processors (run rules and store events), Flow Collectors/Processors, and Data Nodes.
278 words, about 1 min02Data Sources, Log Source Management, and Event Ingestion
Questions here focus on how events enter QRadar, how a log source is bound to a parser, and why events land as Unknown. A log source combines a DSM (parser), a Log Source Identifier, a protocol, and an assigned Event Collector.
288 words, about 1 min03Network Hierarchy, Flow Collection, and Asset Discovery
This domain covers the network hierarchy, flow ingestion, and how QRadar learns assets. The network hierarchy defines local networks and groups.
246 words, about 1 min04Rules, Building Blocks, and Offense Management
Exam items test rule logic, reusable building blocks, and the offense lifecycle. Rule types include event, flow, offense, and common rules.
257 words, about 1 min05Custom Properties, Extracted Properties, and Parsing
Parsing questions test whether you can pull a field out of a raw event and make it searchable. A Custom Event Property is defined in Admin Custom Event Properties using a regex over a field or the payload; an Extracted Property is defined in the DSM Editor or Log Source Extension and uses a capture group.
264 words, about 1 min06Users, Roles, Tenants, and Security Profiles
This domain tests least-privilege access, role composition, and tenant isolation. Authentication can be local, LDAP/AD, SAML, or PKI.
237 words, about 1 min07Backup, Restore, High Availability, and Disaster Recovery
Backup, restore, HA, and DR questions test what is protected, what is not, and how to recover. Backup and Restore offers configuration-only and full backups, on demand or scheduled, to a local or remote target.
246 words, about 1 min08Performance Tuning, Retention, and Storage Management
This domain covers EPS and flow capacity, retention policy, and storage pressure. Monitor licensed versus actual EPS and flow rate, CPU, memory, and disk in System Health and the performance dashboards.
252 words, about 1 min09Troubleshooting, Health Checks, and Log File Analysis
Troubleshooting items ask you to localize a failure: ingestion, parsing, deployment, or storage. Start with System Health and health metrics; confirm the host, service, and disk are healthy.
217 words, about 1 min