Objective 20.1

Core Certified Advanced Power User

Customize chart and panel properties

Objective 20.1 sits in Customizing Dashboards, which carries 6% of the Core Certified Advanced Power User 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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20-1Customizing Dashboards

An analyst wants to highlight part of a chart and view the detail separately. Which feature does Splunk document?

Panel refresh delayA refresh delay governs how often a panel reruns.
Event annotationsEvent annotations mark points of interest on a chart.
Chart overlaysAn overlay places a second series over a chart.
Pan and zoom controlsCorrect · your answerCorrect.

Correct.

Checked against help.splunk.com, August 2026

Concept

A chart drawn over a week hides what happened in an hour. Selecting a span and reading it on its own is what keeps a wide view useful for narrow questions.

Why D

Splunk states that the pan and zoom feature allows you to highlight chart details and optionally view the details in a separate panel.

Source

The pan and zoom feature allows you to highlight chart details and optionally view the details in a separate panel.

Splunk Docs: Chart controls, checked August 2026
#dashboards#charts

Now you: objective 20.1 questions

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Sample question 1 of 2

20-1Customizing Dashboards

An engineer asks which chart types support pan and zoom. Which does Splunk list?

Sample question 2 of 2

20-1Customizing Dashboards

A team asks why a chart in Splunk's example uses a logarithmic Y-axis. What reason does Splunk give?

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