Objective 5.2
Core Certified UserThe rare command
Objective 5.2 sits in Using Basic Transforming Commands, which carries 15% of the Core Certified 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 engineer hunting for unusual activity wants the values that appear least often in a field. Which command does Splunk document?
Correct.
Checked against help.splunk.com, August 2026Concept
The tail of a distribution is often where the interesting events are, because a value almost nobody produces is either a mistake or somebody unusual. A command for the bottom of the ranking makes that a one line question.
Why D
Splunk states that this command displays the least common values in a field and finds the least frequent tuple of values of all fields in the field list.
Source
Splunk Docs: rare command, checked August 2026Displays the least common values in a field. Finds the least frequent tuple of values of all fields in the field list.
Now you: objective 5.2 questions
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Sample question 1 of 3
You swap top for rare in a working search of yours and change nothing else, and it still runs. How do the two commands compare?
Sample question 2 of 3
An analyst gives the rare command two field names rather than one. What does Splunk say it finds?
Sample question 3 of 3
You add showcount=true to the rare command at the end of your search. What does that argument do to the results?
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