Objective 6.2
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Objective 6.2 sits in Splunk Authentication 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
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An administrator asks what is required for authentication to work at all. What does Splunk say?
Correct.
Checked against help.splunk.com, August 2026Concept
Authentication is a licensed feature like any other, so a lapsed licence is a plausible cause of a login problem. Checking it first saves debugging the directory.
Why D
Splunk states that you must have an active Splunk licence for authentication to work, and that if you have an active licence native authentication is on by default.
Source
Splunk Docs: About user authentication, checked August 2026The Splunk platform has several schemes that you can use for authentication. You must have an active Splunk license for authentication to work.
Now you: objective 6.2 questions
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Sample question 1 of 2
An administrator asks whether native authentication has to be switched on. What does Splunk say?
Sample question 2 of 2
An administrator needs a role finer than the three Splunk ships. What does Splunk say they can do?
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Read the sources
These are the official pages the questions above cite. Reading them is studying the objective from the primary source, which is what the explanations point you toward anyway.