Objective 2.2
Core Certified Power UserUse the search and where commands to filter results
Objective 2.2 sits in Filtering and Formatting Results, which carries 10% of the Core Certified 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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A worked example
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An analyst needs to filter results using a calculation rather than a keyword. Which command does Splunk document for that?
Correct.
Checked against help.splunk.com, August 2026Concept
Filtering on a computed comparison is different from filtering on a term that appears in the text. The command that takes an expression is the one that can compare two fields to each other.
Why A
Splunk states that the where command uses eval-expressions to filter search results, that those expressions must be Boolean, and that it returns only the results for which the expression returns true.
Source
Splunk Docs: where command, checked August 2026The where command uses eval-expressions to filter search results. These eval-expressions must be Boolean expressions, where the expression returns either true or false. The where command returns only the results for which the eval expression returns true.
Now you: objective 2.2 questions
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Sample question 1 of 3
You filter search results with the where command, and it keeps only some of the rows it is given. What must the eval expression you hand it return for each result?
Sample question 2 of 3
A team wants to keep only results where one field is larger than another field. Which command handles that comparison?
Sample question 3 of 3
A new analyst types index=web status=500 into the search bar, gets events back, and never names a command first. What is the position of the search command here?
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