Objective 5.3
Cloud Certified AdminConfigure a forwarder to Splunk Cloud
Objective 5.3 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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An administrator asks the most common way to get data into Splunk Cloud. What does Splunk say?
Correct.
Checked against help.splunk.com, August 2026Concept
Collection has to happen where the data lives, and a hosted platform cannot reach in. That makes the agent the default answer rather than an option.
Why B
Splunk states that the most common approach is to install the Splunk Universal Forwarder on the machines where your source data resides and configure them to send data to Splunk Cloud Platform.
Source
Splunk Docs: Splunk Cloud Platform Quick Start, checked August 2026To get data into Splunk Cloud Platform, the most common approach is to install the Splunk Universal Forwarder on the machines where your source data resides, and configure them to send data to Splunk Cloud Platform.
Now you: objective 5.3 questions
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Sample question 1 of 3
A deployment server in your data center pushes app bundles to three hundred forwarders that poll it every minute. What are those forwarders called?
Sample question 2 of 3
You are drawing where data lands once a forwarder in a Splunk Cloud Platform deployment has finished sending it. What does the index do?
Sample question 3 of 3
Your team is about to send its first data into a new Splunk Cloud Platform deployment. What should they understand before they start?
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Read the sources
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