Question #1

Topic 1

Which of the following will cause the greatest reduction in disk size requirements for a cluster of N indexers
running Splunk Enterprise Security?

A. Setting the cluster search factor to N-1. Most Voted

B. Increasing the number of buckets per index.

C. Decreasing the data model acceleration range.

D. Setting the cluster replication factor to N-1.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (94%)

6%

Question #2

Topic 1

Stakeholders have identified high availability for searchable data as their top priority. Which of the
following best addresses this requirement?

A. Increasing the search factor in the cluster. Most Voted

B. Increasing the replication factor in the cluster.

C. Increasing the number of search heads in the cluster.

D. Increasing the number of CPUs on the indexers in the cluster.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #3

Topic 1

Search dashboards in the Monitoring Console indicate that the distributed deployment is approaching its
capacity. Which of the following options will provide the most search performance improvement?

A. Replace the indexer storage to solid state drives (SSD).

B. Add more search heads and redistribute users based on the search type.

C. Look for slow searches and reschedule them to run during an off-peak time.

D. Add more search peers and make sure forwarders distribute data evenly across all indexers. Most Voted

Correct Answer: D
Community vote distribution

D (80%)

C (20%)

Question #4

Topic 1

A Splunk architect has inherited the Splunk deployment at Buttercup Games and end users are complaining
that the events are inconsistently formatted for a web sourcetype. Further investigation reveals that not all
web logs flow through the same infrastructure: some of the data goes through heavy forwarders and some
of the forwarders are managed by another department.

Which of the following items might be the cause for this issue?

A. The search head may have different configurations than the indexers.

B. The data inputs are not properly configured across all the forwarders.

C. The indexers may have different configurations than the heavy forwarders. Most Voted

D. The forwarders managed by the other department are an older version than the rest.

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #5

Topic 1

A customer has installed a 500GB Enterprise license. They also purchased and installed a 300GB, no
enforcement license on the same license master. How much data can the customer ingest before search is
locked out?

A. 300GB. After this limit, search is locked out.

B. 500GB. After this limit, search is locked out.

C. 800GB. After this limit, search is locked out.

D. Search is not locked out. Violations are still recorded. Most Voted

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (100%)

Question #6

Topic 1

What does the deployer do in a Search Head Cluster (SHC)? (Select all that apply.)
A. Distributes apps to SHC members. Most Voted

B. Bootstraps a clean Splunk install for a SHC.

C. Distributes non-search related and manual configuration file changes.

D. Distributes runtime knowledge object changes made by users across the SHC.

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #7

Topic 1

When using the props.conf LINE_BREAKER attribute to delimit multi-line events, the SHOULD_LINEMERGE
attribute should be set to what?

A. Auto

B. None

C. True

D. False Most Voted

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (94%)

6%

Question #8

Topic 1

Which of the following should be included in a deployment plan?

A. Business continuity and disaster recovery plans.

B. Current logging details and data source inventory. Most Voted

C. Current and future topology diagrams of the IT environment.

D. A comprehensive list of stakeholders, either direct or indirect.

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #9

Topic 1
A multi-site indexer cluster can be configured using which of the following? (Select all that apply.)

A. Via Splunk Web.

B. Directly edit SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/server.conf Most Voted

C. Run a splunk edit cluster-config command from the CLI. Most Voted

D. Directly edit SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/default/server.conf

Correct Answer: BC

Community vote distribution

BC (100%)

Question #10

Topic 1

Which index-time props.conf attributes impact indexing performance? (Select all that apply.)

A. REPORT

B. LINE_BREAKER Most Voted

C. ANNOTATE_PUNCT Most Voted

D. SHOULD_LINEMERGE

Correct Answer: BC

Community vote distribution

BC (50%)

BD (28%)

CD (22%)

Question #11

Topic 1

Which of the following are client filters available in serverclass.conf? (Select all that apply.)

A. DNS name. Most Voted

B. IP address. Most Voted

C. Splunk server role.

D. Platform (machine type).

Correct Answer: AB

Community vote distribution

AB (50%)

BD (50%)
Question #12

Topic 1

What log file would you search to verify if you suspect there is a problem interpreting a regular expression
in a monitor stanza?

A. btool.log

B. metrics.log

C. splunkd.log Most Voted

D. tailing_processor.log

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #13

Topic 1

Which Splunk tool offers a health check for administrators to evaluate the health of their Splunk
deployment?

A. btool

B. DiagGen

C. SPL Clinic

D. Monitoring Console Most Voted

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (100%)

Question #14

Topic 1

In a four site indexer cluster, which configuration stores two searchable copies at the origin site, one
searchable copy at site2, and a total of four searchable copies?

A. site_search_factor = origin:2, site1:2, total:4

B. site_search_factor = origin:2, site2:1, total:4 Most Voted

C. site_replication_factor = origin:2, site1:2, total:4

D. site_replication_factor = origin:2, site2:1, total:4

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (78%)

D (22%)

Question #15

Topic 1

Which Splunk Enterprise offering has its own license?

A. Splunk Cloud Forwarder

B. Splunk Heavy Forwarder

C. Splunk Universal Forwarder Most Voted

D. Splunk Forwarder Management

Correct Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (79%)

B (21%)

Question #16

Topic 1

Which component in the splunkd.log will log information related to bad event breaking?

A. Audittrail

B. EventBreaking

C. IndexingPipeline

D. AggregatorMiningProcessor Most Voted

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (100%)

Question #17

Topic 1

Which Splunk server role regulates the functioning of indexer cluster?

A. Indexer

B. Deployer

C. Master Node Most Voted

D. Monitoring Console

Correct Answer: C
Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #18

Topic 1

When adding or rejoining a member to a search head cluster, the following error is displayed:

Error pulling configurations from the search head cluster captain; consider performing a destructive
configuration resync on this search head cluster member.

What corrective action should be taken?

A. Restart the search head.

B. Run the splunk apply shcluster-bundle command from the deployer.

C. Run the clean raft command on all members of the search head cluster.

D. Run the splunk resync shcluster-replicated-config command on this member. Most Voted

Correct Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (100%)

Question #19

Topic 1

Which of the following commands is used to clear the KV store?

A. splunk clean kvstore Most Voted

B. splunk clear kvstore

C. splunk delete kvstore

D. splunk reinitialize kvstore

Correct Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (100%)

Question #20

Topic 1

Indexing is slow and real-time search results are delayed in a Splunk environment with two indexers and
one search head. There is ample CPU and memory available on the indexers. Which of the following is most
likely to improve indexing performance?

A. Increase the maximum number of hot buckets in indexes.conf

B. Increase the number of parallel ingestion pipelines in server.conf Most Voted

C. Decrease the maximum size of the search pipelines in limits.conf

D. Decrease the maximum concurrent scheduled searches in limits.conf

Correct Answer: B

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #: 22

Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

A three-node search head cluster is skipping a large number of searches across time. What should be done
to increase scheduled search capacity on the search head cluster?

A. Create a job server on the cluster.

B. Add another search head to the cluster. Most Voted

C. server.conf captain_is_adhoc_searchhead = true.

D. Change limits.conf value for max_searches_per_cpu to a higher value.

Suggested Answer: B

Community vote distribution

Question #: 23

Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

The frequency in which a deployment client contacts the deployment server is controlled by what?

A. polling_interval attribute in outputs.conf

B. phoneHomeIntervalInSecs attribute in outputs.conf

C. polling_interval attribute in deploymentclient.conf

D. phoneHomeIntervalInSecs attribute in deploymentclient.conf Most Voted

Suggested Answer: D

D (100%)
Question #: 24

Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

To activate replication for an index in an indexer cluster, what attribute must be configured in indexes.conf
on all peer nodes?

A. repFactor = 0

B. replicate = 0

C. repFactor = auto Most Voted

D. replicate = auto

Suggested Answer: C

C (100%)

Question #: 25

Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

Which of the following clarification steps should be taken if apps are not appearing on a deployment client?
(Select all that apply.)

A. Check serverclass.conf of the deployment server. Most Voted

B. Check deploymentclient.conf of the deployment client. Most Voted

C. Check the content of SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps of the deployment server.

D. Search for relevant events in splunkd.log of the deployment server. Most Voted

Suggested Answer: ABD

ABD (83%)

AB (17%)

Question #: 26

Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

Which of the following security options must be explicitly configured (i.e. which options are not enabled by
default)?

A. Data encryption between Splunk Web and splunkd.

B. Certificate authentication between forwarders and indexers.

C. Certificate authentication between Splunk Web and search head. Most Voted

D. Data encryption for distributed search between search heads and indexers.
Suggested Answer: B

Community vote distribution

Question #: 27

Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

Which of the following artifacts are included in a Splunk diag file? (Select all that apply.)

A. OS settings. Most Voted

B. Internal logs. Most Voted

C. Customer data.

D. Configuration files.

Suggested Answer: AB

Community vote distribution

AB (75%)

BD (25%)

Question #: 28

Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

Which command will permanently decommission a peer node operating in an indexer cluster?

A. splunk stop -f

B. splunk offline -f

C. splunk offline --enforce-counts Most Voted

D. splunk decommission --enforce counts

Suggested Answer: C

Community vote distribution

C (100%)

Question #: 29

Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

Which CLI command converts a Splunk instance to a license slave?

A. splunk add licenses

B. splunk list licenser-slaves

C. splunk edit licenser-localslave Most Voted

D. splunk list licenser-localslave

Suggested Answer: C

Community vote distribution

Question #: 30

Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

Splunk Enterprise platform instrumentation refers to data that the Splunk Enterprise deployment logs in
the _introspection index. Which of the following logs are included in this index? (Select all that apply.)

A. audit.log

B. metrics.log

C. disk_objects.log Most Voted

D. resource_usage.log Most Voted

Suggested Answer: CD

Community vote distribution

Question #: 31
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

Which of the following can a Splunk diag contain?

 A. Search history, Splunk users and their roles, running processes, indexed data

 B. Server specs, current open connections, internal Splunk log files, index listings Most Voted

 C. KV store listings, internal Splunk log files, search peer bundles listings, indexed data

 D. Splunk platform configuration details, Splunk users and their roles, current open connections,
index listings

Hide Answer

Suggested Answer: B

Question #: 32
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

Which of the following are true statements about Splunk indexer clustering?

 A. All peer nodes must run exactly the same Splunk version. Most Voted
  B. The master node must run the same or a later Splunk version than search heads.

 C. The peer nodes must run the same or a later Splunk version than the master node.

 D. The search head must run the same or a later Splunk version than the peer nodes.

Hide Answer

Suggested Answer: A

Question #: 33
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

A customer plans to ingest 600 GB of data per day into Splunk. They will have six concurrent users, and they
also want high data availability and high search performance. The customer is concerned about cost and
wants to spend the minimum amount on the hardware for Splunk. How many indexers are recommended
for this deployment?

 A. Two indexers not in a cluster, assuming users run many long searches.

 B. Three indexers not in a cluster, assuming a long data retention period.

 C. Two indexers clustered, assuming high availability is the greatest priority. Most Voted

 D. Two indexers clustered, assuming a high volume of saved/scheduled searches.

Hide Answer

Suggested Answer: C

Question #: 34
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

To reduce the captain's work load in a search head cluster, what setting will prevent scheduled searches
from running on the captain?

 A. adhoc_searchhead = true (on all members)

 B. adhoc_searchhead = true (on the current captain)

 C. captain_is_adhoc_searchhead = true (on all members) Most Voted

 D. captain_is_adhoc_searchhead = true (on the current captain)

Hide Answer

Suggested Answer: C

Question #: 35
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

At which default interval does metrics.log generate a periodic report regarding license utilization?
  A. 10 seconds

 B. 30 seconds Most Voted

 C. 60 seconds

 D. 300 seconds

Hide Answer

Suggested Answer: B

Question #: 36
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

Which of the following is a good practice for a search head cluster deployer?

 A. The deployer only distributes configurations to search head cluster members when they "phone
home".

 B. The deployer must be used to distribute non-replicable configurations to search head cluster
members. Most Voted

 C. The deployer must distribute configurations to search head cluster members to be valid
configurations.

 D. The deployer only distributes configurations to search head cluster members with splunk apply
shcluster-bundle.

Hide Answer

Suggested Answer: B

Question #: 37
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

A new Splunk customer is using syslog to collect data from their network devices on port 514. What is the
best practice for ingesting this data into Splunk?

 A. Configure syslog to send the data to multiple Splunk indexers.

 B. Use a Splunk indexer to collect a network input on port 514 directly.

 C. Use a Splunk forwarder to collect the input on port 514 and forward the data.

 D. Configure syslog to write logs and use a Splunk forwarder to collect the logs. Most Voted

Hide Answer

Suggested Answer: D

Question #: 38
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-1002 Questions]

If no value is specified with the fillnull command, what default value will be used?

 A. 0

 B. N/A

 C. ‫ג‬€"

 D. NULL

Hide Answer

Suggested Answer: A

Question #: 39
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

Which of the following statements describe a Search Head Cluster (SHC) captain? (Select all that apply.)

 A. Is the job scheduler for the entire SHC. Most Voted

 B. Manages alert action suppressions (throttling). Most Voted

 C. Synchronizes the member list with the KV store primary.

 D. Replicates the SHC's knowledge bundle to the search peers.

Hide Answer

Suggested Answer: AB

Question #: 40
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

Before users can use a KV store, an admin must create a collection. Where is a collection is defined?

 A. kvstore.conf

 B. collection.conf

 C. collections.conf Most Voted

 D. kvcollections.conf

Hide Answer

Suggested Answer: C

Question #: 41
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

Which search will show all deployment client messages from the client (UF)?

 A. index=_audit component=DC* host=<ds> | stats count by message

  B. index=_audit component=DC* host=<uf> | stats count by message

 C. index=_internal component= DC* host=<uf> | stats count by message Most Voted

 D. index=_internal component=DS* host=<ds> | stats count by message

Hide Answer

Suggested Answer: C

Question #: 42
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

Which search head cluster component is responsible for pushing knowledge bundles to search peers,
replicating configuration changes to search head cluster members, and scheduling jobs across the search
head cluster?

 A. Master

 B. Captain Most Voted

 C. Deployer

 D. Deployment server

Hide Answer

Suggested Answer: B

Question #: 43
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

Configurations from the deployer are merged into which location on the search head cluster member?

 A. SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local

 B. SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/APP_HOME/local

 C. SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/search/default

 D. SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/APP_HOME/default Most Voted

Hide Answer

Suggested Answer: D

Question #: 44
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-1002 Questions]

In what order are the following knowledge objects/configurations applied?

 A. Field Aliases, Field Extractions, Lookups

 B. Field Extractions, Field Aliases, Lookups Most Voted

  C. Field Extractions, Lookups, Field Aliases

 D. Lookups, Field Aliases, Field Extractions

Hide Answer

Suggested Answer: B

Question #: 45
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

How does IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) impact the planning of a Splunk deployment?

 A. ITSI requires a dedicated deployment server.

 B. The amount of users using ITSI will not impact performance.

 C. ITSI in a Splunk deployment does not require additional hardware resources.

 D. Depending on the Key Performance Indicators that are being tracked, additional infrastructure
may be needed. Most Voted

Hide Answer

Suggested Answer: D

Question #: 46
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

The KV store forms its own cluster within a SHC. What is the maximum number of SHC members KV store
will form?

 A. 25

 B. 50 Most Voted

 C. 100

 D. Unlimited

Hide Answer

Suggested Answer: B

Question #: 47
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-3002 Questions]

There are two departments using ITSI. Finance and Sales. Analysts in each department should not be
allowed to see each other’s services. What are the role configuration steps required to accomplish this?

 A. itoa_finance_admin, inherited from itoa_admin; itoa_sales_admin, inherited from

itoa_team_admin; itoa_finance_analyst, inherited from itoa_analyst; itoa_sales_analyst, inherited
from itoa_analyst.
  B. itoa_finance_admin, inherited from itoa_admin; itoa_sales_admin, inherited from
itoa_team_admin; itoa_finance_analyst, inherited from itoa_team_analyst; itoa_sales_analyst,
inherited from itoa_team_analyst.

 C. itoa_finance_admin, inherited from itoa_admin; itoa_sales_admin, inherited from

itoa_team_admin; itoa_finance_analyst, inherited from itoa_analyst; itoa_sales_analyst, inherited
from itoa_team_analyst.

 D. itoa_finance_admin, inherited from itoa_team_admin; itoa_sales_admin, inherited from

itoa_team_admin; itoa_finance_analyst, inherited from itoa_analyst; itoa_sales_analyst, inherited
from itoa_analyst.

Hide Answer

Suggested Answer: C

Question #: 48
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

Which command is used for thawing the archive bucket?

 A. Splunk collect

 B. Splunk convert

 C. Splunk rebuild Most Voted

 D. Splunk dbinspect

Hide Answer

Suggested Answer: C

Question #: 49
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

A Splunk instance has the following settings in SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/server.conf:

[clustering]
mode = master
replication_factor = 2
pass4SymmKey = password123
Which of the following statements describe this Splunk instance? (Select all that apply.)

 A. This is a multi-site cluster.

 B. This cluster's search factor is 2. Most Voted

 C. This Splunk instance needs to be restarted. Most Voted

 D. This instance is missing the master_uri attribute.

Hide Answer
Suggested Answer: BC

Question #: 50
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

Which of the following describe migration from single-site to multisite index replication?

 A. A master node is required at each site.

 B. Multisite policies apply to new data only. Most Voted

 C. Single-site buckets instantly receive the multisite policies.

 D. Multisite total values should not exceed any single-site factors.

Hide Answer

Suggested Answer: B

Question #: 51
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

What does setting site=site0 on all Search Head Cluster members do in a multi-site indexer cluster?

 A. Disables search site affinity. Most Voted

 B. Sets all members to dynamic captaincy.

 C. Enables multisite search artifact replication.

 D. Enables automatic search site affinity discovery.

Hide Answer

Suggested Answer: A

Question #: 52
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

Which of the following is a way to exclude search artifacts when creating a diag?

 A. SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk diag --exclude

 B. SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk diag --debug --refresh

 C. SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk diag --disable=dispatch Most Voted

 D. SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk diag --filter-searchstrings

Hide Answer

Suggested Answer: C
Question #: 53
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

Which of the following statements describe licensing in a clustered Splunk deployment? (Select all that
apply.)

 A. Free licenses do not support clustering. Most Voted

 B. Replicated data does not count against licensing. Most Voted

 C. Each cluster member requires its own clustering license.

 D. Cluster members must share the same license pool and license master.

Hide Answer

Suggested Answer: BD

Question #: 54
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-1002 Questions]

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? (Choose all that apply.)

 A. Fast mode is enabled.

 B. The dashboard is private.

 C. The extraction is private. Most Voted

 D. The person in the organization running the report does not have access to the index. Most Voted

Hide Answer

Suggested Answer: CD

Question #: 55
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

In which phase of the Splunk Enterprise data pipeline are indexed extraction configurations processed?

 A. Input

 B. Search

 C. Parsing Most Voted

 D. Indexing

Hide Answer
Suggested Answer: C

Question #: 56
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

Which server.conf attribute should be added to the master node's server.conf file when decommissioning a
site in an indexer cluster?

 A. site_mappings Most Voted

 B. available_sites

 C. site_search_factor

 D. site_replication_factor

Hide Answer

Suggested Answer: A

Question #: 57
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

Which tool(s) can be leveraged to diagnose connection problems between an indexer and forwarder?
(Select all that apply.)

 A. telnet Most Voted

 B. tcpdump Most Voted

 C. splunk btool

 D. splunk btprobe

Hide Answer

Suggested Answer: AB

Question #: 58
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

A search head has successfully joined a single site indexer cluster. Which command is used to configure the
same search head to join another indexer cluster?

 A. splunk add cluster-config

 B. splunk add cluster-master Most Voted

 C. splunk edit cluster-config

 D. splunk edit cluster-master

Hide Answer
Suggested Answer: B

Question #: 59
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-1002 Questions]

Which of the following statements describes field aliases?

 A. Field alias names replace the original field name.

 B. Field aliases can be used in lookup file definitions. Most Voted

 C. Field aliases only normalize data across sources and sourcetypes.

 D. Field alias names are not case sensitive when used as part of a search.

Hide Answer

Suggested Answer: B

Question #: 60
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

When adding or decommissioning a member from a Search Head Cluster (SHC), what is the proper order of
operations?

 A. 1. Delete Splunk Enterprise, if it exists. 2. Install and initialize the instance. 3. Join the SHC. Most
Voted

 B. 1. Install and initialize the instance. 2. Delete Splunk Enterprise, if it exists. 3. Join the SHC.

 C. 1. Initialize cluster rebalance operation. 2. Remove master node from cluster. 3. Trigger
replication.

 D. 1. Trigger replication. 2. Remove master node from cluster. 3. Initialize cluster rebalance
operation.

Hide Answer

Suggested Answer: A

Question #: 61
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

When troubleshooting monitor inputs, which command checks the status of the tailed files?

 A. splunk cmd btool inputs list | tail

 B. splunk cmd btool check inputs layer

 C. curl https://serverhost:8089/services/admin/inputstatus/TailingProcessor:FileStatus Most Voted

 D. curl https://serverhost:8089/services/admin/inputstatus/TailingProcessor:Tailstatus
Hide Answer

Suggested Answer: C

Question #: 62
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

When should multiple search pipelines be enabled?

 A. Only if disk IOPS is at 800 or better.

 B. Only if there are fewer than twelve concurrent users.

 C. Only if running Splunk Enterprise version 6.6 or later.

 D. Only if CPU and memory resources are significantly under-utilized. Most Voted

Hide Answer

Suggested Answer: D

Question #: 63
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

Of the following types of files within an index bucket, which file type may consume the most disk?

 A. Rawdata

 B. Bloom filter

 C. Metadata (.data)

 D. Inverted index (.tsidx) Most Voted

Hide Answer

Suggested Answer: D

Question #: 64
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

When converting from a single-site to a multi-site cluster, what happens to existing single-site clustered
buckets?

 A. They will continue to replicate within the origin site and age out based on existing policies. Most
Voted

 B. They will maintain replication as required according to the single-site policies, but never age out.

 C. They will be replicated across all peers in the multi-site cluster and age out based on existing
policies.
  D. They will stop replicating within the single-site and remain on the indexer they reside on and age
out according to existing policies.

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Suggested Answer: A

Question #: 65
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

Which of the following should be done when installing Enterprise Security on a Search Head Cluster?
(Select all that apply.)

 A. Install Enterprise Security on the deployer. Most Voted

 B. Install Enterprise Security on a staging instance.

 C. Copy the Enterprise Security configurations to the deployer.

 D. Use the deployer to deploy Enterprise Security to the cluster members. Most Voted

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Suggested Answer: AD

Question #: 66
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

Which of the following is an indexer clustering requirement?

 A. Must use shared storage.

 B. Must reside on a dedicated rack.

 C. Must have at least three members.

 D. Must share the same license pool. Most Voted

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Suggested Answer: D

Question #: 67
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

What is the algorithm used to determine captaincy in a Splunk search head cluster?

 A. Raft distributed consensus. Most Voted

 B. Rapt distributed consensus.

 C. Rift distributed consensus.

 D. Round-robin distribution consensus.

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Suggested Answer: A

Question #: 68
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

Which of the following statements about integrating with third-party systems is true? (Select all that apply.)

 A. A Hadoop application can search data in Splunk.

 B. Splunk can search data in the Hadoop File System (HDFS). Most Voted

 C. You can use Splunk alerts to provision actions on a third-party system. Most Voted

 D. You can forward data from Splunk forwarder to a third-party system without indexing it first.

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Suggested Answer: BC

Question #: 69
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

As a best practice, where should the internal licensing logs be stored?

 A. Indexing layer. Most Voted

 B. License server.

 C. Deployment layer.

 D. Search head layer.

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Suggested Answer: D

Question #: 70
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

How does the average run time of all searches relate to the available CPU cores on the indexers?

 A. Average run time is independent of the number of CPU cores on the indexers.

 B. Average run time decreases as the number of CPU cores on the indexers decreases.

 C. Average run time increases as the number of CPU cores on the indexers decreases. Most Voted

 D. Average run time increases as the number of CPU cores on the indexers increases.

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Suggested Answer: C
Question #: 71
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

Consider a use case involving firewall data. There is no Splunk-supported Technical Add-On, but the vendor
has built one. What are the items that must be evaluated before installing the add-on? (Select all that
apply.)

 A. Identify number of scheduled or real-time searches. Most Voted

 B. Validate if this Technical Add-On enables event data for a data model. Most Voted

 C. Identify the maximum number of forwarders Technical Add-On can support.

 D. Verify if Technical Add-On needs to be installed onto both a search head or indexer.

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Suggested Answer: AB

Question #: 72
Topic #: 1

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When configuring a Splunk indexer cluster, what are the default values for replication and search factor?

 A. replication_factor = 2 search_factor = 2

 B. replication_factor = 2 search factor = 3

 C. replication_factor = 3 search_factor = 2 Most Voted

 D. replication_factor = 3 search factor = 3

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Suggested Answer: C

Question #: 73
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

A Splunk user successfully extracted an ip address into a field called src_ip. Their colleague cannot see that
field in their search results with events known to have src_ip. Which of the following may explain the
problem? (Select all that apply.)

 A. The field was extracted as a private knowledge object. Most Voted

 B. The events are tagged as communicate, but are missing the network tag.

 C. The Typing Queue, which does regular expression replacements, is blocked.

 D. The colleague did not explicitly use the field in the search and the search was set to Fast Mode.

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Suggested Answer: D

Question #: 74
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

What is the default log size for Splunk internal logs?

 A. 10MB

 B. 20 MB

 C. 25MB Most Voted

 D. 30MB

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Suggested Answer: C

Question #: 75
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

What is a Splunk Job? (Select all that apply.)

 A. A user-defined Splunk capability.

 B. Searches that are subjected to some usage quota.

 C. A search process kicked off via a report or an alert. Most Voted

 D. A child OS process manifested from the splunkd process.

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Suggested Answer: C

Question #: 76
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

When Splunk is installed, where are the internal indexes stored by default?

 A. SPLUNK_HOME/bin

 B. SPLUNK_HOME/var/lib Most Voted

 C. SPLUNK_HOME/var/run

 D. SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/default

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Suggested Answer: B
Question #: 77
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

Which of the following options can improve reliability of syslog delivery to Splunk? (Select all that apply.)

 A. Use TCP syslog. Most Voted

 B. Configure UDP inputs on each Splunk indexer to receive data directly.

 C. Use a network load balancer to direct syslog traffic to active backend syslog listeners.

 D. Use one or more syslog servers to persist data with a Universal Forwarder to send the data to
Splunk indexers. Most Voted

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Suggested Answer: AD

Question #: 78
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-2002 Questions]

What is the logical first step when starting a deployment plan?

 A. Inventory the currently deployed logging infrastructure.

 B. Determine what apps and use cases will be implemented.

 C. Gather statistics on the expected adoption of Splunk for sizing.

 D. Collect the initial requirements for the deployment from all stakeholders. Most Voted

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Suggested Answer: D

Question #: 79
Topic #: 1

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Which of the following tasks should the architect perform when building a deployment plan? (Select all
that apply.)

 A. Use case checklist.

 B. Install Splunk apps.

 C. Inventory data sources. Most Voted

 D. Review network topology.

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Suggested Answer: C
Question #: 80
Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-1002 Questions]

A data model can consist of what three types of datasets?

 A. Pivot, searches, and events.

 B. Pivot, events, and transactions.

 C. Searches, transactions, and pivot.

 D. Events, searches, and transactions. Most Voted

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Suggested Answer: D

Question #: 81

Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-1001 Questions]

According to Splunk best practices, which placement of the wildcard results in the most efficient search?

A. f*il Most Voted

B. *fail

C. fail*

D. *fail*

Suggested Answer: C

Community vote distribution

A (50%)

C (50%)

Question #: 82

Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-1002 Questions]

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 URI link in the current window or in a new window.
Most Voted

Suggested Answer: D
Community vote distribution

D (80%)

C (20%)

Question #: 83

Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-1002 Questions]

Which are valid ways to create an event type? (Choose 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.

Suggested Answer: C

Community vote distribution

B (100%)

Question #: 84

Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-1002 Questions]

Which command can include both an over and a by clause to divide results into sub-groupings?

A. chart Most Voted

B. stats

C. xyseries

D. transaction

Suggested Answer: A

Community vote distribution

A (67%)

B (33%)

Question #: 85

Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-1002 Questions]

When should you use the transaction command instead of the stats command?

A. When you need to group on multiple values.

B. When duration is irrelevant in search results.

C. When you have over 1000 events in a transaction.

D. When you need to group based on start and end constraints. Most Voted

Suggested Answer: D

Community vote distribution

D (86%)

14%

Question #: 86

Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-1002 Questions]

Which of the following statements describes POST workflow actions?

A. POST workflow actions are always encrypted.

B. POST workflow actions cannot use field values in their URI.

C. POST workflow actions cannot be created on custom sourcetypes.

D. POST workflow actions can open a web page in either the same window or a new window.

Suggested Answer: D

Question #: 87

Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-1002 Questions]

What does the Splunk Common Information Model (CIM) add-on include? (Choose all that apply.)

A. Custom visualizations

B. Pre-configured data models Most Voted

C. Fields and event category tags Most Voted

D. Automatic data model acceleration

Suggested Answer: BC

Question #: 88

Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-1002 Questions]

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. Most Voted

D. Tags are searched by using the syntax tag::<fieldname>

Suggested Answer: C

Question #: 89

Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-1003 Questions]

How is data handled by Splunk during the input phase of the data ingestion process?

A. Data is treated as streams. Most Voted

B. Data is broken up into events.

C. Data is initially written to disk.

D. Data is measured by the license meter.

Suggested Answer: A

Question #: 90

Topic #: 1

[All SPLK-1002 Questions]

A user wants to create a new field alias for a field that appears in two sourcetypes.

How many field aliases need to be created?

A. One.

B. Two. Most Voted

C. It depends on whether the original fields have the same name.

D. It depends on whether the two sourcetypes are associated with the same index.

Suggested Answer: B