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
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A user exists both in your LDAP directory and in the deployment's own user list, holding different roles in each. Which authentication scheme takes precedence?
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 B
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
A deployment's license has expired and nobody can sign in, although its LDAP and SAML settings are unchanged and correct. What does authentication require to work?
Sample question 2 of 2
Your deployment is configured for SAML. A user signs in through the identity provider and reaches exactly the dashboards their role allows. What has SAML acted as here?
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