Objective 5.5
Cloud Certified AdminDescribe optional forwarder settings
Objective 5.5 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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A team wants content based routing from a universal forwarder. What does Splunk say?
Correct.
Checked against help.splunk.com, August 2026Concept
Deciding where an event goes by what it says requires parsing it first, and parsing is what the light agent leaves out. That is the practical line between the forwarder types.
Why D
Splunk states that the universal forwarder does not parse data except in certain limited situations, and that you cannot use it to route data to different Splunk indexers based on its contents.
Source
Splunk Docs: Types of forwarders, checked August 2026The universal forwarder does not parse data except in certain limited situations. You cannot use it to route data to different Splunk indexers based on its contents.
Now you: objective 5.5 questions
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Sample question 1 of 2
A team plans Python scripts on a universal forwarder. What does Splunk say it lacks?
Sample question 2 of 2
An administrator asks why the heavy forwarder disables features. What reason does Splunk give?
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