Objective 9.2

Core Certified Power User

Identify data model attributes

Objective 9.2 sits in Creating Data Models, 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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9-2Creating Data Models

An analyst asks which knowledge object types go into building a typical data model. Which does Splunk list?

Roles and capabilitiesRoles and apps govern permissions and scope.
Alerts and dashboardsAlerts and dashboards consume knowledge rather than defining it.
Lookups and transactionsCorrect · your answerCorrect.
Indexes and forwardersIndexes and forwarders belong to the data platform beneath the model.

Correct.

Checked against help.splunk.com, August 2026

Concept

A model is assembled out of the objects that already describe the data rather than invented from nothing. That is why building one usually starts by taking stock of what has already been defined.

Why C

Splunk states that in building a typical data model, knowledge managers use knowledge object types such as lookups, transactions, search-time field extractions and calculated fields.

Source

In building a typical data model, knowledge managers use knowledge object types such as lookups , transactions , search-time field extractions , and calculated fields .

Splunk Docs: About data models, checked August 2026
#data-models#knowledge-objects

Now you: objective 9.2 questions

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Sample question 1 of 3

9-2Creating Data Models

An engineer asks how many types of data model dataset field Splunk documents. How many are there?

Sample question 2 of 3

9-2Creating Data Models

A team wants to add an auto-extracted field to a child dataset. What does Splunk say?

Sample question 3 of 3

9-2Creating Data Models

An analyst asks where dataset fields can come from besides the events themselves. What does Splunk name?

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