Objective 13.1
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Objective 13.1 sits in Deployment 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
Shown solved, with the whole explanation open: this is what every question here carries.
An engineer asks what a forwarder does with data it reads. What does Splunk say?
Correct.
Checked against help.splunk.com, August 2026Concept
The forwarder's job ends at delivery, which is what keeps it small. Anything that happens to the data afterwards is the receiver's concern.
Why C
Splunk states that you can forward data from one Splunk Enterprise instance to another or to a non-Splunk system, and that the instance performing the forwarding is called a forwarder.
Source
Splunk Docs: Types of forwarders, checked August 2026The universal forwarder can get data from a variety of inputs and forward the data to a Splunk deployment for indexing and searching. It can also forward data to another forwarder as an intermediate step before sending the data onward to an indexer.
Now you: objective 13.1 questions
No account needed. The explanation opens when you answer.
Sample question 1 of 3
A forwarding problem appears only after an upgrade. What does Splunk say to consider?
Sample question 2 of 3
An administrator asks where the universal forwarder can send data. Which does Splunk name?
Sample question 3 of 3
A team plans scripts on a universal forwarder and they fail. What does Splunk say it lacks?
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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.