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SY0-701 · Question #560

Which of the following enables the ability to receive a consolidated report from different devices on the network?

The correct answer is C. SIEM. SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) is correct because it is specifically designed to aggregate, correlate, and report on log and event data collected from multiple devices across a network - firewalls, servers, endpoints, IDS/IPS systems, and more - into a single…

Submitted by ngozi_ng· Mar 6, 2026Security operations

Question

Which of the following enables the ability to receive a consolidated report from different devices on the network?

Options

  • AIPS
  • BDLP
  • CSIEM
  • DFirewall

How the community answered

(32 responses)
  • B
    3% (1)
  • C
    91% (29)
  • D
    6% (2)

Explanation

SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) is correct because it is specifically designed to aggregate, correlate, and report on log and event data collected from multiple devices across a network - firewalls, servers, endpoints, IDS/IPS systems, and more - into a single consolidated view.

Why the distractors are wrong:

  • A. IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) actively blocks malicious traffic on the network but only reports on its own activity - it does not aggregate data from other devices.
  • B. DLP (Data Loss Prevention) monitors and prevents unauthorized data exfiltration, but its scope is data movement, not consolidated multi-device reporting.
  • D. Firewall controls inbound/outbound traffic based on rules and generates its own logs, but it does not collect or consolidate reports from other network devices.

Memory tip: Think of SIEM as a "Security Command Center" - just as a command center pulls intelligence from many sources into one dashboard, a SIEM pulls logs and events from many devices into one consolidated report.

Topics

#SIEM#Security Monitoring#Log Management#Event Correlation

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