Objective 10.2

Enterprise Certified Architect

Crash issues

Objective 10.2 sits in Licensing and Crash Problems, which carries 5% of the Enterprise Certified Architect 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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10-2Licensing and Crash Problems

An analyst asks about summary indexing and the license. What does Splunk say?

It counts once moreSummary data is excluded rather than counted again.
It counts doubleSplunk states it does not count.
It does not countCorrect · your answerCorrect.
It counts as metricsMetric rollup summaries are excluded alongside summary indexing.

Correct.

Checked against help.splunk.com, August 2026

Concept

Charging again for data derived from data already paid for would discourage the very technique that reduces search cost. Excluding it keeps the incentive right.

Why C

Splunk states that the use of summary indexing and metric rollup summaries do not count against your license volume quota.

Source

The use of summary indexing and metric rollup summaries do not count against your license volume quota.

Splunk Docs: How Splunk Enterprise licensing works, checked August 2026
#licensing#summary-indexing

Now you: objective 10.2 questions

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Sample question 1 of 2

10-2Licensing and Crash Problems

You are forecasting license usage for a deployment that will ingest millions of metric points a day. How is each metrics event measured?

Sample question 2 of 2

10-2Licensing and Crash Problems

Your license stack is 60 GB per day and a set number of license warnings have accumulated. What happens next?

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