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Objective 6.2

Enterprise Certified Admin

List other user authentication options

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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6-2Splunk Authentication Management

You restore a Splunk Enterprise instance from backup and nobody can log in, not even with a native account. What must be in place for authentication to work at all?

An LDAP serverLDAP is one optional scheme among several.
An active Splunk licenseCorrect · your answerCorrect.
A search head clusterClustering affects search availability rather than authentication.
A dedicated deployment serverA deployment server distributes configuration to forwarders.

Correct.

Checked against help.splunk.com, August 2026

Concept

Authentication is a licensed feature like any other, so a lapsed license is a plausible cause of a login problem. Checking it first saves debugging the directory.

Why B

Splunk states that you must have an active Splunk license for authentication to work, and that if you have an active license native authentication is on by default.

Source

The Splunk platform has several schemes that you can use for authentication. You must have an active Splunk license for authentication to work.

Splunk Docs: About user authentication, checked August 2026
#authentication#licensing

Now you: objective 6.2 questions

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Sample question 1 of 2

6-2Splunk Authentication Management

You finish installing Splunk Enterprise with a valid license and need to know whether native authentication still has to be turned on before you create users. What is its state?

Sample question 2 of 2

6-2Splunk Authentication Management

An administrator needs a role finer than the three Splunk ships. What does Splunk say they can do?

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