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Everything Splunk publishes about Enterprise Certified Architect, in one place: what the exam asks, how the domains are weighted, and what it takes to be ready.
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Practise Enterprise Certified Architect questions in the meantimeWhat the exam actually asks you to do
85 multiple choice questions and nothing else. Splunk sets no lab and no simulation on this exam, so the practice that matters is reading a scenario and choosing well under the clock.
Item formats
- Multiple choice
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Domain breakdown and official weightings
From the official Splunk certification tracks. Infrastructure Planning: Resource Planning is the heaviest domain at 7 percent, followed by Indexer Cluster Management and Administration at 7 percent.
- Introduction2%
- Project Requirements5%
- Infrastructure Planning: Index Design5%
- Infrastructure Planning: Resource Planning7%
- Clustering Overview5%
- Forwarder and Deployment Best Practices6%
- Performance Monitoring and Tuning5%
- Splunk Troubleshooting Methods and Tools5%
- Clarifying the Problem5%
- Licensing and Crash Problems5%
- Configuration Problems5%
- Search Problems5%
- Deployment Problems5%
- Large-scale Splunk Deployment Overview5%
- Single-site Indexer Cluster5%
- Multisite Indexer Cluster5%
- Indexer Cluster Management and Administration7%
- Search Head Cluster5%
- Search Head Cluster Management and Administration5%
- KV Store Collection and Lookup Management3%
Where to focus: Six troubleshooting sections, from Splunk Troubleshooting Methods through to Deployment Problems, are 30% of the paper between them. Resource Planning and Indexer Cluster Management are the heaviest single sections at 7% each.
What comes after passing
Enterprise Certified Architect is valid for 3 years. All Splunk certifications run a three year life cycle from the date of the highest certification exam passed. Splunk stopped renewing certifications through coursework on 1 March 2026, so renewal now means either retaking the same exam in the final year of the window or earning a higher level certification in the same track. Splunk says a certification you let lapse is marked inactive, and that you then restart the programme at the Splunk Core Certified Power User level.
Costs across the full renewal cycle are on the Enterprise Certified Architect cost page.
Frequently asked questions
How much does the Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect exam cost?
Splunk lists the exam at $130 USD per exam attempt and delivers it through its testing partner Pearson VUE, at a test centre or with an online proctor. A retake costs the same $130 again.
How long is the exam and how many questions does it have?
Splunk publishes 85 multiple choice questions in 90 minutes. Splunk notes on the test blueprint that the 90 minutes include three minutes to review the exam agreement, so the working time is 87.
What is the passing score?
Splunk publishes no passing score for this exam, and no exam code either. It states the question count, the time limit and the section weightings on its test blueprint and stops there, so any percentage you see quoted elsewhere is somebody's estimate rather than Splunk's number.
What do I need before I can sit it?
Splunk lists the prerequisite as: Splunk Core Certified Power User and Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin, plus four named courses.
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