Tanium Essentials Set – Questions With Complete
Solutions
Tanium Asset Correct Answer - -Collects asset data on an ongoing basis
-this is then exported to an external database such as a configuration
management database (optional)
- Tanium asset then sends reports via email.
Tanium Asset Use Case? Correct Answer - to collect a updated list of
hardware and software throughout the enterprise network.
- ability to inventory all online clients once per hour with 50k or less
machines.
- ability to link to programs like ServiceNow and CMDB data
- ability to report complete list of information of software including the name,
vendor, version, and number of installed instances.
Reports Correct Answer - View predefined reports or create and
configure custom reports based on specific needs
Views Correct Answer - Create Filtered versions of asset data, used for
exporting to destinations outside of tanium
Inventory Management Correct Answer - Schedule and manage the
importing and exporting of asset data
Software Inventory & usage Correct Answer - Manage the tracking of
software vendors and product information installations, versions and usage
details.
What type of asset data is stored for Reports? Correct Answer - -
installed software
- virtual machines
- Primary user per machine
,- hardware associated with specific department users.
Entities And Attributes Correct Answer - determine what data is
populated in an asset
What do you need to export data to Flexera FNMS Correct Answer - -
Access to connect with user role
-connect 4.3.0 or later
-tanium admin privileges
- have a sql server staging the Flexera data
How do you get to Software Inventory & Usage? Correct Answer - Asset
> Software & Usage > All Products
What is the benifit of integrating Tanium Asset and ServiceNow? Correct
Answer - Taniums inventory data for all managed devices, while Service
now provides network device inventory for data center components that
cannot run Tanium. This reduces the amount of ServiceNow midservers.
What does ServiceNow cover? Correct Answer - Discovers network
devices, storage arrays, and non-endpoint data
What does Flexera FNMS cover? Correct Answer - -XenAoo ACL
information
- oracle databases
- LPAR Details
- PVU Consumptions
- Hyper-V and Solaris
What can you look into if you go to the software Inventory & Usage tab?
Correct Answer - - Vendor
- # of total products
- # of tracked products
- # of installations
- each product record shows usage amount, Versions. endpoints
What are Product Actions for? Correct Answer - Actions are also
available to configure parameters for a product or enable/disable product
usage reporting
, What is best practice with regards to duplicating reports? Correct Answer -
to review the purpose of the "new" report and update the report as necessary.
Where are assessments setup in Tanium? Correct Answer - they are
setup in Tanium Comply
What is Tanium Comply? Correct Answer -
What do assessments do? Correct Answer - They are setup and
configured to target and continuously scan endpoints
What are the rules inside of assessments called? Correct Answer -
Standards
What are Assessment Standards in Tanium Comply? Correct Answer - -
these evaluate compliance,
- Can check for specific configurations Checks
- Check Values
- identify vulnerabilities
What are findings in Tanium Comply? Correct Answer - What is
produced from the assessments. These can then be filtered and grouped and
then saved and exported.
Use cases for Tanium Comply Correct Answer - - continuous
vulnerability scanning
- Evaluate unmanaged devices
- Leverage industry standard benchmarks and compliance checks for security
policy auditing and gap analysis
What is a setup in Tanium Comply? Correct Answer - Manage scan
engines, JRE's and other custom settings for both compliance and
vulnerability
What are standards in Tanium comply? Correct Answer - manage the
library of standards used by assessments, reports, and findings.
Solutions
Tanium Asset Correct Answer - -Collects asset data on an ongoing basis
-this is then exported to an external database such as a configuration
management database (optional)
- Tanium asset then sends reports via email.
Tanium Asset Use Case? Correct Answer - to collect a updated list of
hardware and software throughout the enterprise network.
- ability to inventory all online clients once per hour with 50k or less
machines.
- ability to link to programs like ServiceNow and CMDB data
- ability to report complete list of information of software including the name,
vendor, version, and number of installed instances.
Reports Correct Answer - View predefined reports or create and
configure custom reports based on specific needs
Views Correct Answer - Create Filtered versions of asset data, used for
exporting to destinations outside of tanium
Inventory Management Correct Answer - Schedule and manage the
importing and exporting of asset data
Software Inventory & usage Correct Answer - Manage the tracking of
software vendors and product information installations, versions and usage
details.
What type of asset data is stored for Reports? Correct Answer - -
installed software
- virtual machines
- Primary user per machine
,- hardware associated with specific department users.
Entities And Attributes Correct Answer - determine what data is
populated in an asset
What do you need to export data to Flexera FNMS Correct Answer - -
Access to connect with user role
-connect 4.3.0 or later
-tanium admin privileges
- have a sql server staging the Flexera data
How do you get to Software Inventory & Usage? Correct Answer - Asset
> Software & Usage > All Products
What is the benifit of integrating Tanium Asset and ServiceNow? Correct
Answer - Taniums inventory data for all managed devices, while Service
now provides network device inventory for data center components that
cannot run Tanium. This reduces the amount of ServiceNow midservers.
What does ServiceNow cover? Correct Answer - Discovers network
devices, storage arrays, and non-endpoint data
What does Flexera FNMS cover? Correct Answer - -XenAoo ACL
information
- oracle databases
- LPAR Details
- PVU Consumptions
- Hyper-V and Solaris
What can you look into if you go to the software Inventory & Usage tab?
Correct Answer - - Vendor
- # of total products
- # of tracked products
- # of installations
- each product record shows usage amount, Versions. endpoints
What are Product Actions for? Correct Answer - Actions are also
available to configure parameters for a product or enable/disable product
usage reporting
, What is best practice with regards to duplicating reports? Correct Answer -
to review the purpose of the "new" report and update the report as necessary.
Where are assessments setup in Tanium? Correct Answer - they are
setup in Tanium Comply
What is Tanium Comply? Correct Answer -
What do assessments do? Correct Answer - They are setup and
configured to target and continuously scan endpoints
What are the rules inside of assessments called? Correct Answer -
Standards
What are Assessment Standards in Tanium Comply? Correct Answer - -
these evaluate compliance,
- Can check for specific configurations Checks
- Check Values
- identify vulnerabilities
What are findings in Tanium Comply? Correct Answer - What is
produced from the assessments. These can then be filtered and grouped and
then saved and exported.
Use cases for Tanium Comply Correct Answer - - continuous
vulnerability scanning
- Evaluate unmanaged devices
- Leverage industry standard benchmarks and compliance checks for security
policy auditing and gap analysis
What is a setup in Tanium Comply? Correct Answer - Manage scan
engines, JRE's and other custom settings for both compliance and
vulnerability
What are standards in Tanium comply? Correct Answer - manage the
library of standards used by assessments, reports, and findings.
