Objective 5.2
Cloud Certified AdminDescribe the role of forwarders
Objective 5.2 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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One Splunk Enterprise instance in your estate sends its collected data on to a second instance and to a non-Splunk system. What is the sending instance called?
Correct.
Checked against help.splunk.com, August 2026Concept
The name describes the job rather than the software, since the same product can take several roles. Collection is the one this role exists for.
Why B
Splunk states that you can forward data from one Splunk Enterprise instance to another or to a non-Splunk system, and that the instance performing the forwarding is called a forwarder.
Source
Splunk Docs: About forwarding and receiving, checked August 2026You can forward data from one Splunk Enterprise instance to another Splunk Enterprise instance or even to a non-Splunk system. The Splunk instance that performs the forwarding is called a forwarder.
Now you: objective 5.2 questions
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Sample question 1 of 3
Twenty forwarders in a branch office send their data to one indexer in your data center. What is that indexer called in this relationship?
Sample question 2 of 3
An administrator asks where forwarded data can be sent. What does Splunk say?
Sample question 3 of 3
A branch site runs a universal forwarder that must hand its data to an intermediate host before it reaches the indexers. What can a universal forwarder send to?
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