Objective 2.1
Enterprise Certified AdminIdentify license types
Objective 2.1 sits in License Management, which carries 5% of the Enterprise Certified Admin 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
Shown solved, with the whole explanation open: this is what every question here carries.
Your renewal quote lists two numbers and nothing else. Before signing, you need to know what a Splunk software license governs on each instance. Which pair does it specify?
Correct.
Checked against help.splunk.com, August 2026Concept
Licensing in Splunk is measured against ingest rather than seats or queries. That is why the number to watch is a daily volume and why filtering data before indexing changes the bill.
Why D
Splunk states that each software instance requires a license, and that Splunk software licenses specify the features you have access to and how much data can be indexed.
Source
Splunk Docs: Types of Splunk Enterprise licenses, checked August 2026Each Splunk software instance requires a license. Splunk software licenses specify the features you have access to and how much data can be indexed.
Now you: objective 2.1 questions
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Sample question 1 of 3
An administrator compares commercial license options. On what two bases does Splunk say they can be purchased?
Sample question 2 of 3
A team wants to combine a volume based license with an infrastructure one. What does Splunk say?
Sample question 3 of 3
You are sizing an infrastructure license for hosts that run hyper-threading and virtualization, so the count depends on what the platform treats as one vCPU. What does a vCPU cover?
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