Objective 13.2
Enterprise Certified ArchitectDeployment server issues
Objective 13.2 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
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You open forwarder management in Splunk Web to check the status of deployment updates. Which component is that interface built on top of?
Correct.
Checked against help.splunk.com, August 2026Concept
The interface and the machinery underneath are one capability seen two ways. That explains why a change made in the interface appears in a configuration file.
Why A
Splunk states that forwarder management is a graphical interface built on top of deployment server that provides an easy way to configure it and monitor the status of deployment updates.
Source
Splunk Docs: About deployment server and forwarder management, checked August 2026Forwarder management is a graphical interface built on top of deployment server that provides an easy way to configure the deployment server and monitor the status of deployment updates.
Now you: objective 13.2 questions
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Sample question 1 of 3
A deployment server cannot install software on new hosts. What does Splunk say?
Sample question 2 of 3
You plan to push app updates from a deployment server across an estate of forwarders, non-clustered indexers and search heads. Which components can it update?
Sample question 3 of 3
An inventory of your estate turns up two light forwarders still running on old hosts. What is the status of the light forwarder?
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