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Cisco DevSecOps interview questions

67 interview questions for DevSecOps roles at Cisco, written from Cisco’s 8 current postings on its own careers page. These are what the postings say to prepare for — not questions Cisco has asked.

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Three of the questions

  1. Walk me through how you'd design a continuous security monitoring pipeline that ingests telemetry from tools like Axonius, Wiz, and Splunk and surfaces configuration drift to application owners. What does the data flow look like from source to dashboard?
    Technical depth · from the posting: “Build and maintain integrations across tools like Axonius, Wiz, Splunk, ServiceNow, Jira, Tines, identity, endpoint, code, and CI/CD systems.ncentralised in our tools and design solutions for remaining coverage gaps.”
  2. Your monitoring rules for SaaS configuration drift are producing a flood of alerts that application owners have started ignoring. How do you diagnose and fix this?
    Scenarios & troubleshooting · from the posting: “Create and tune monitoring rules to improve detection accuracy and reduce false positives.”
  3. Describe a time when you had to translate a security requirement into technical monitoring or validation logic. How did you work with the security stakeholder to get it right, and what would you have done differently if you had more time or information?
    Behavioural · from the posting: “Experience translating security requirements into technical monitoring and validation logic”
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What the full prep holds

  • Common questions · 8
  • Your background · 3
  • Quick-fire technical · 27
  • Technical depth · 12
  • System design · 5
  • Scenarios & troubleshooting · 6
  • The company & the problem · 3
  • Behavioural · 3
  • Questions to ask them · 3

A free account shows the 8 common questions and the 3 above. Basic and Elite show every question with how to answer it; Elite also writes your own answers from your resume. See plans.

The Cisco postings it is written from