Objective 6.3
Core Certified Power UserCreate an event type
Objective 6.3 sits in Creating Tags and Event Types, 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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A user saves a search as an event type. What does Splunk say happens to matching events afterwards?
Correct.
Checked against help.splunk.com, August 2026Concept
The category is attached to events as they are returned, so it travels with them into any search at all. That is why an event type defined once shows up in work that has nothing to do with it.
Why A
Splunk states that if you save a search as an event type, any event that can be returned by that search gets the eventtype field with that name added to it at search time, even when you are searching for something completely different.
Source
Splunk Docs: About event types, checked August 2026If you save that search as an event type named successful_purchase , any event that can be returned by that search gets eventtype=successful_purchase added to it at search time. This happens even if you are searching for something completely different.
Now you: objective 6.3 questions
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Sample question 1 of 3
An analyst wants to search using an event type they created. What does Splunk say to include as a search term?
Sample question 2 of 3
A user finds one event carrying two event types. What does Splunk say the eventtype field becomes?
Sample question 3 of 3
An engineer tries to define an event type from a search containing a pipe and a subsearch. What does Splunk say?
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