CCFA-200 practice question 2 of 35

You are a CrowdStrike Falcon administrator tasked with creating a dashboard that tracks endpoint security across your organization. You want to add widgets to display real-time data on detections, managed hosts, and policy compliance. Which of the following statements about customizing dashboards in CrowdStrike Falcon is correct?

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Answer options
A: Dashboards can only display data from the last 24 hours.
B: Widgets can be resized and repositioned to tailor the dashboard layout to your needs. Correct answer
C: Dashboards cannot be shared with other users in your organization.
D: Dashboards can only display preconfigured widgets provided by CrowdStrike.
Correct Answer:
B. Widgets can be resized and repositioned to tailor the dashboard layout to your needs.
Explanation

CrowdStrike Falcon dashboards are designed to be highly customizable to meet the specific monitoring needs of an organization. A core feature of this customization is the ability for administrators to manipulate the dashboard's layout. Users can add widgets from a library, and then freely resize and reposition them on the dashboard grid. This allows for the creation of tailored views that prioritize the most critical security information, such as new detections, host management status, or policy compliance metrics, ensuring that key data is immediately visible and logically organized.

Why Incorrect

A. Time ranges for dashboards and individual widgets are flexible and configurable (e.g., last 7 days, 30 days, custom), not restricted to only the last 24 hours.
C. Dashboards can be kept private or shared with other users and roles within the same Customer ID (CID), facilitating collaboration among security teams.
D. While users select from a library of preconfigured widgets, these widgets are highly configurable. More importantly, this statement misses the key layout customization feature described in option B.

References

1. CrowdStrike, Inc. (2023). Falcon Platform Documentation: Dashboards. CrowdStrike Support Portal. In the section "Creating and managing dashboards," the documentation states, "You can add, remove, resize, and rearrange widgets to create a personalized view of your security posture." This directly supports the ability to resize and reposition widgets.

2. CrowdStrike, Inc. (2023). Falcon Platform Documentation: Dashboard widgets. CrowdStrike Support Portal. The section "Working with widgets" details the user interface controls for dragging to reposition and using corner handles to resize each widget on the dashboard canvas.

3. CrowdStrike, Inc. (2023). Falcon Platform Documentation: Dashboards. CrowdStrike Support Portal. The documentation specifies the sharing functionality: "Dashboards can be private (visible only to you) or shared with other users in your customer account (CID)." This explicitly refutes the claim that dashboards cannot be shared.

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