What are the PRIMARY responsibilities of security operations for handling and reporting violations and incidents?

This choice is incomplete as presented and omits the critical real-time response actions of alerting key personnel and containing events, which are essential primary responsibilities during an active incident.

Scheduling patches is a vulnerability management or change management function, not a primary incident response responsibility, making this choice incorrect for security operations incident handling.

Monitoring and identifying system failures covers the detection phase, alerting key personnel ensures proper escalation to decision-makers and stakeholders, and containing events limits the blast radius of an incident to prevent further damage. These three functions represent the core operational duties of a security operations team during an active incident response lifecycle, aligning with standard incident handling frameworks such as NIST SP 800-61.

Notifying end users is generally not a primary security operations responsibility during incident handling, as end-user notification is typically a secondary or compliance-driven activity managed by communications or management, not the SOC itself.