Splunk Power User
Splunk Power User
Question: 4
Which of the following searches show a valid use of macro? (Select all that apply)
A. Option A
B. Option B
C. Option C
D. Option D
Question: 5
Which of the following workflow actions can be executed from search results? (select all that
apply)
A. GET
B. POST
C. LOOKUP
D. Search
Question: 6 (page 279)
Which of the following is the correct way to use the data model command to search field in the
data
model within the web dataset?
A. | datamodel web search | filed web *
B. | Search datamodel web web | filed web*
C. | datamodel web web field | search web*
D. Datamodel=web | search web | filed web*
Question: 7
Which of the following searches will return events contains a tag name Privileged?
A. Tag= Priv
B. Tag= Pri*
C. Tag= priv*
D. Tag= privileged
Question: 8
Which of the following statements describes this search?
sourcetype=access_combined I transaction JSESSIONID | timechart avg (duration)
A. This is a valid search and will display a timechart of the average duration, of each transaction
event.
B. This is a valid search and will display a stats table showing the maximum pause among
transactions.
C. No results will be returned because the transaction command must include the startswith and
endswith options.
D. No results will be returned because the transaction command must be the last command
used in
the search pipeline.
Question: 12
Which of the following statements describes the command below (select all that apply)
Sourcetype=access_combined | transaction JSESSIONID
A. An additional field named maxspan is created.
B. An additional field named duration is created.
C. An additional field named eventcount is created.
D. Events with the same JSESSIONID will be grouped together into a single event.
Question: 13
Which of the following can be used with the eval command tostring function (select all that
apply)
A. ‘’hex’’
B. ‘’commas’’
C. ‘’Decimal’’
D. ‘’duration’’
Question: 14 (page 193&197)
Which of the following statements about tags is true?
A. Tags are case insensitive.
B. Tags are created at index time.
C. Tags can make your data more understandable.
D. Tags are searched by using the syntax tag: : <fieldname>
Question: 17
Which of the following describes the Splunk Common Information Model (CIM) add-on?
A. The CIM add-on uses machine learning to normalize data.
B. The CIM add-on contains dashboards that show how to map data.
C. The CIM add-on contains data models to help you normalize data.
D. The CIM add-on is automatically installed in a Splunk environment.
Question: 21
The Field Extractor (FX) is used to extract a custom field. A report can be created using this
custom field. The created report can then be shared with other people in the organization. If
another person in the organization runs the shared report and no results are returned, why
might this be? (select all that apply)
A. Fast mode is enabled.
B. The dashboard is private.
C. The extraction is private-
D. The person in the organization running the report does not have access to the index.
Question: 22
Which of the following data model are included In the Splunk Common Information Model (CIM)
A. Alerts
B. Email
C. Databases
D. User permissions
Question: 25
Which group of users would most likely use pivots?
A. Users
B. Architects
C. Administrators
D. Knowledge Managers
Question: 31
What does the following search do?
index=corndog type=mysterymeat action=eaten I stats count as corndog_count by user:
A. Creates a table of the total count of users and split by corndogs.
B. Creates a table of the total count of mysterymeat corndogs split by user.
C. Creates a table with the count of all types of corndogs eaten split by user.
D. Creates a table that groups the total number of users by vegetarian corndogs.
Question: 32
Which of the following statements describes Search workflow actions?
A. By default. Search workflow actions will run as a real-time search.
B. Search workflow actions can be configured as scheduled searches,
C. The user can define the time range of the search when created the workflow action.
D. Search workflow actions cannot be configured with a search string that includes the
transaction
command
Question: 33
What do events in a transaction have In common?
A. All events In a transaction must have the same timestamp.
B. All events in a transaction must have the same sourcetype.
C. All events in a transaction must have the exact same set of fields.
D. All events in a transaction must be related by one or more fields.
Question: 34
Which of the following statements describe GET workflow actions?
A. GET workflow actions must be configured with POST arguments.
B. Configuration of GET workflow actions includes choosing a sourcetype.
C. Label names for GET workflow actions must include a field name surrounded by dollar signs.
D. GET workflow actions can be configured to open the URT link in the current window or in a
new window
Question: 35 (pae 231)
Data model are composed of one or more of which of the fo-owing datasets? (select all that
apply.)
A. Events datasets
B. Search datasets
C. Transaction datasets
D. Any child of event, transaction, and search datasets
Question: 36
Which are valid ways to create an event type? (select all that apply)
A. By using the searchtypes command in the search bar.
B. By editing the event_type stanza in the props.conf file.
C. By going to the Settings menu and clicking Event Types > New.
D. By selecting an event in search results and clicking Event Actions > Build Event Type.
Question: 38
What is the relationship between data models and pivots?
A. Data models provide the datasets for pivots.
B. Pivots and data models have no relationship.
C. Pivots and data models are the same thing.
D. Pivots provide the datasets for data models.
Question: 42
Which of the following statements about event types is true? (select all that apply)
A. Event types can be tagged.
B. Event types must include a time range,
C. Event types categorize events based on a search.
D. Event types can be a useful method for capturing and sharing knowledge.
Question: 44
Which of the following knowledge objects represents the output of an oval expression?
A. Eval fields
B. Calculated fields
C. Field extractions
D. Calculated lookups
Question: 46
Which of the following eval command function is valid?
A. Int ()
B. Count ( )
C. Print ()
D. Tostring ()
Question: 47 (page 115)
Which one of the following statements about the search command is true?
A. It does not allow the use of wildcards.
B. It treats field values in a case-sensitive manner.
C. It can only be used at the beginning of the search pipeline.
D. It behaves exactly like search strings before the first pipe.
Question: 48
What does the Splunk Common Information Model (CIM) add-on include? (select all that apply)
A. Custom visualizations
B. Pre-configured data models
C. Fields and event category tags
D. Automatic data model acceleration
Question: 50
Which of the following statements describes macros?
A. A macro is a reusable search string that must contain the full search.
B. A macro is a reusable search string that must have a fixed time range.
C. A macro Is a reusable search string that may have a flexible time range.
D. A macro Is a reusable search string that must contain only a portion of the search.
Question: 51
Which of the following statements describe calculated fields? (select all that apply)
A. Calculated fields can be used in the search bar.
B. Calculated fields can be based on an extracted field.
C. Calculated fields can only be applied to host and sourcetype.
D. Calculated fields are shortcuts for performing calculations using the eval command.
Question: 55
Which of the following statements describe the search below? (select all that apply)
Index=main I transaction clientip host maxspan=30s maxpause=5s
A. Events in the transaction occurred within 5 seconds.
B. It groups events that share the same clientip and host.
C. The first and last events are no more than 5 seconds apart.
D. The first and last events are no more than 30 seconds apart.
Question: 56
Given the macro definition below, what should be entered into the Name and Arguments fileds
to correctly configured the macro?
A. The macro name is sessiontracker and the argument are action, JESSION.
B. The macro name is sessiontracker (2) and the action JESSIONID
C. The macro name is sessiontracker and the argument are sectional ,$ JESSIONIDS.
D. The macro name is sessiontracker (2) and the argument are $action ,$JESSIONIDS.
Question: 57
After manually editing; a regular expression (regex), which of the following statements is true?
A. Changes made manually can be reverted in the Field Extractor (FX) UI.
B. It is no longer possible to edit the field extraction in the Field Extractor (FX) UI.
C. It is not possible to manually edit a regular expression (regex) that was created using the
Field Extractor (FX) UI.
D. The Field Extractor (FX) UI keeps its own version of the field extraction in addition to the one
that was manually edited.
Question: 58
What does the fillnull command replace null values with, it the value argument is not specified?
A. 0
B. N/A
C. NaN
D. NULL
Question: 59 (page 133)
To identify all of the contributing events within a transaction that contains at least one REJECT
event, which syntax is correct?
A. Index-main | REJECT trans sessionid
B. Index-main | transaction sessionid | search REJECT
C. Index=main | transaction sessionid | whose transaction=reject
D. Index=main | transaction sessionid | where transaction=reject’’
Question: 60
Which of the following actions can the aval command perform?
A. Remove fields from results.
B. Create or replace an existing field.
C. Group transactions by one or more fields.
D. Save SPL commands to be reused in other searches.
Question: 61
Which of the following statements describe the Common Information Model (QM)? (select all
that apply)
A. CIM is a methodology for normalizing data.
B. CIM can correlate data from different sources.
C. The Knowledge Manager uses the CIM to create knowledge objects.
D. CIM is ^n app that can coexist with other apps on a single Splunk deployment.
Question: 63
When creating a Search workflow action, which field is required?
A. Search string
B. Data model name
C. Permission setting
D. An eval statement
Question: 64 (page 202)
Selected fields are displayed ______each event in the search results.
A. below
B. interesting fields
C. other fields
D. above
Question: 65
A space is an implied _____ in a search string.
A. OR
B. AND
C. ()
D. NOT
Question: 66
Which of the following search control will not re-rerun the search? (Select all that apply.)
A. zoom out
B. selecting a bar on the timeline
C. deselect
D. selecting a range of bars on the timelines
Question: 67
Highlighted search terms indicate _________ search results in Splunk.
A. Display as selected fields.
B. Sorted
C. Charted based on time
D. Matching
Question: 68
When you mouse over and click to add a search term this these Boolean operators are Not
implied. (Select all that apply).
A.OR
B.( )
C.AND
D.NOT
Question: 69
The time range specified for a historical search defines the ____________ .------questionable on
ans
A.Amount of data shown on the timeline as data streams in
B.Amount of data fetched from index matching that time range
C.Time range for the static results
Question: 70
Using the export function, you can export search results as __________.( Select all that apply)
A.Xml
B.Json
C.Html
D.A php file
Question: 71
The fields sidebar does not show________. (Select all that apply.)
A. interesting fields
B. selected fields
C. all extracted fields
Question: 72
Splunk alerts can be based on search that run______. (Select all that apply.)
A. in real-time
B. on a regular schedule
C. and have no matching events
Question: 73
Alert throttling is used to _______.
A. verify each alert
B. stagger search request in a time sequenced order
C. stop spamming yourself with alerts
D. check severity
Question: 74
A real-time alert is ______________.
A. A scheduled alert
B. constantly running in the background
Question: 75
This tab shows you the event patterns in the results of a specific search.
A. statistics
B. visualization
C. patterns
Question: 76
Which of the following about reports is/are true?
A. Reports are knowledge objects.
B. Reports can be scheduled.
C. Reports can run a script.
D. All of the above.
Question: 77
Select this in the fields sidebar to automatically pipe you search results to the rare command
A. events with this field
B. rare values
C. top values by time
D. top values
Question: 78
A report scheduled to run every 15 mins. but takes 17 mins. to complete is in danger of
being_____.
A. skipped or deferred
B. automatically accelerated
C. deleted
D. all of the above
Question: 79
Which of the following are valid options to speed up reports? (Select all the apply.)
A. Edit permissions
B. Edit description
C. Edit acceleration
D. Edit schedule
Question: 80
Which of the following statements are true for this search? (Select all that apply.) SEARCH:
sourcetype=access* |fields action productld status
A. is looking for all events that include the search terms: fields AND action AND productld AND
status
B. users the table command to improve performance
C. limits the fields are extracted
D. returns a table with 3 columns
Question: 81
Use the dedup command to _____.
A. Rename a field in the index
B. remove duplicate values
C. Provide an additional alias for the field that can D.be used in the search criteria
Question: 82
We can use the rename command to _____ (Select all that apply.)
A. Change indexed fields
B. Exclude fields from our search results
C. Extract new fields from our data using regular expressions
D. Give a field a new name at search time
Question: 83
The limit attribute will___________.
A. override default of 10
B. only work with top command
C. override default of 20
D. override default of 15
Question: 84
This function of the stats command allows you to identify the number of values a field has.
A. max
B. distinct_count
C. fields
D. count
Question: 85
This function of the stats command allows you to return the sample standard deviation of a field.
A. stdev
B. dev
C. count deviation
D. by standarddev
Question: 86
Which of the following commands will show the maximum bytes?
A. sourcetype=access_* | maximum totals by bytes
B. sourcetype=access_* | avg (bytes)
C. sourcetype=access_* | stats max(bytes)
D. sourcetype=access_* | max(bytes)
Question: 87
Which of the following searches will show the number of categoryld used by each host?
A.Sourcetype=access_* |sum bytes by host
B.Sourcetype=access_* |stats sum(categoryld) by host
C.Sourcetype=access_* |sum(bytes) by host
D.Sourcetype=access_* |stats sum by host
Question: 88
This clause is used to group the output of a stats command by a specific name.
A.Rex
B.As
C.List
D.By
Question: 89
This function of the stats command allows you to return the middle-most value of field X.
A. Median(X)
B. Eval by X
C. Fields(X)
D. Values(X)
Question: 90
When a search returns __________, you can view the results as a list.
A. a list of events
B. transactions
C. statistical values
Question: 91
Clicking a SEGMENT on a chart, ________.
A. drills down for that value
B. highlights the field value across the chart
C. adds the highlighted value to the search criteria
Question: 92
Use this command to use lookup fields in a search and see the lookup fields in the field sidebar.
A. inputlookup
B. lookup
Question: 93
It is mandatory for the lookup file to have this for an automatic lookup to work.
A.Source type
B.At least five columns
C.Timestamp
D.Input filed
Question: 94
These users can create global knowledge objects. (Select all that apply.)
A. users
B. power users
C. administrators
Question: 95
This is what Splunk uses to categorize the data that is being indexed.
A. sourcetype
B. index
C. source
D. host
Question: 96
This is what Splunk uses to categorize the data that is being indexed.
A. Host
B. Sourcetype
C. Index
D. Source
Question: 97
By default search results are not returned in ________ order.
A. Chronological
B. Reverser chronological
C. ASCIE
D. Alphabetical
Question: 98
The stats command will create a _____________ by default.
A. Table
B. Report
C. Pie chart
Question: 99
Which is not a comparison operator in Splunk
A. <=
B. =
C. !=
D. >
E. ?=
Question: 100
Which of the following is NOT a stats function:
A. sum
B. addtotals
C. count
D. avg
Question: 101
If a search returns ____________ it can be viewed as a chart.
A. timestamps
B. statistics
C. events
D. keywords
Question: 102
In this search, __________ will appear on the y-axis. SEARCH: sourcetype=access_combined
status!=200 | chart count over host
A. status
B. host
C. count
Question: 103
The timechart command buckets data in time intervals depending on:
A. the number of events returned
B. the selected time range
C. the type of visualization selected
Question: 104
Which of these search strings is NOT valid:
A. index=web status=50* | chart count over host, status
B. index=web status=50* | chart count over host by status
C. index=web status=5-* | chart count by host, status
Question: 105
Which command is used to create choropleth maps?
A. geostats
B. cluster
C. geom
Question: 106
which of the following are valid options with the chart command
A. useother
B. usenull
C. fillfield
D. usefiled
Question: 109
Which of these is NOT a field that is automatically created with the transaction command?
A. maxcount
B. duration
C. eventcount
Question: 111
When extracting fields, we may choose to use our own regular expressions
A. True
B. False
Question: 112
Field aliases are used to __________ data
A. clean
B. transform
C. calculate
D. normalize
Question: 113
What is the correct way to name a macro with two arguments?
A. us_sales2
B. us_sales(1,2)
C. us_sale,2
D. us_sales(2)
Question: 114
When using a field value variable with a Workflow Action, which punctuation mark will escape
the data
A. *
B. !
C. ^
D. #
Question: 115
__________ datasets can be added to root dataset to narrow down the search
A. parent
B. extracted
C. event
D. child
Question: 116
Which function should you use with the transaction command to set the maximum total time
between the earliest and latest events returned?
A. maxpause
B. endswith
C. maxduration
D. maxspan
Question: 118
Which search would limit an "alert" tag to the "host" field?
A. tag=alert
B. host::tag::alert
C. tag==alert
D. tag::host=alert
Question: 119
The transaction command allows you to __________ events across multiple sources
A. duplicate
B. correlate
C. persist
D. tag
Question: 120 (page 73)
which of the following commands are used when creating visualizations(select all that apply.)
A. Geom
B. Choropleth
C. Geostats
D. iplocation
Question: 121
For choropleth maps,splunk ships with the following KMZ files (select all that apply)
A. States of the United States
B. States and provinces of the united states and Canada
C. Countries of the European Union
D. Countries of the World
Question: 122
Complete the search, …. | _____ failure>successes
A. Search
B. Where
C. If
D. Any of the above
Question: 123
These kinds of charts represent a series in a single bar with multiple sections
A. Multi-Series
B. Split-Series
C. Omit nulls
D. Stacked
Question: 124
When using a split series on a chart, the series MUST be displayed using the STACKED option.
A. True
B. False
Question: 125
Which of the following are valid options with the chart command ?(select all that apply)
A. usenull=f
B. useother=f
C. split=t
D. transcation=t
Question: 126
This role is required to install the CIM Add-on.
Select your answer.
A. ADMIN
B. POWER
C. USER
Question: 127
The Splunk CIM Add-on includes data models in a __________ format.
Select your answer.
A. MySQL
B. XML
C. JSON
Question: 128
These allow you to categorize events based on search terms.
Select your answer.
A. Groups
B. Event Types
C. Macros
D. Tags
Question: 129
In the Field Extractor Utility, this button will display events that do not contain extracted fields.
Select your answer.
A. Selected-Fields
B. Non-Matches
C. Non-Extractions
D. Matches
Question: 130
During the validation step of the Field Extractor workflow: Select your answer.
A. You can remove values that aren't a match for the field you want to define
B. You can validate where the data originated from
C. You cannot modify the field extraction
Question: 131
Which of the following search modes automatically returns all extracted fields in the fields
sidebar?
A. Fast
B. Smart
C. Verbose