Objective 3.2
Cloud Certified AdminIntegrate Splunk with LDAP, Active Directory, or SAML
Objective 3.2 sits in User Authentication and Authorization, which carries 5% of the Cloud Certified Admin exam. The questions below are original, written from the official objective title above, and each explanation cites the Splunk page it rests on.
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A worked example
Shown solved, with the whole explanation open: this is what every question here carries.
An administrator asks which scheme takes precedence over external ones. What does Splunk say?
Correct.
Checked against help.splunk.com, August 2026Concept
A local account that always works keeps an administrator from being locked out by a directory outage. That is why the built in scheme is evaluated first.
Why C
Splunk states that native Splunk authentication takes precedence over any external authentication schemes, and that it provides the Admin, Power and User roles by default.
Source
Splunk Docs: About user authentication, checked August 2026Native Splunk authentication takes precedence over any external authentication schemes. The native scheme provides the Admin , Power , and User roles by default.
Now you: objective 3.2 questions
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Sample question 1 of 2
An administrator asks what is required for authentication to work. What does Splunk say?
Sample question 2 of 2
An administrator asks what an authentication scheme is. How does Splunk describe it?
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Read the sources
These are the official pages the questions above cite. Reading them is studying the objective from the primary source, which is what the explanations point you toward anyway.