Objective 5.1
Cloud Certified AdminList Splunk forwarder types
Objective 5.1 sits in Getting Data in Cloud, which carries 15% 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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You are inventorying the forwarder software Splunk documents before picking one for four hundred new hosts. How many forwarder types are there?
Correct.
Checked against help.splunk.com, August 2026Concept
Two are in current use and one is deprecated, which is why the count and the recommendation differ. Knowing all three keeps older documentation readable.
Why B
Splunk states that there are three types of forwarders: the universal forwarder, the heavy forwarder and the light forwarder.
Source
Splunk Docs: Types of forwarders, checked August 2026There are three types of forwarders: The universal forwarder contains only the components that are necessary to forward data.
Now you: objective 5.1 questions
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Sample question 1 of 3
You install the smallest Splunk package on four hundred web servers so that they send data onward and never index or search it. What does that package contain?
Sample question 2 of 3
An add-on must parse and reroute events on the collection host before they leave it, and the universal forwarder there cannot do that. What can a heavy forwarder do beyond forwarding?
Sample question 3 of 3
A team wants to run a saved alert on the universal forwarder installed on their database host, with no indexer in the picture. What can that forwarder not do?
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Read the sources
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