Objective 14.1
Enterprise Certified ArchitectIdentify Splunk server roles in clusters
Objective 14.1 sits in Large-scale Splunk Deployment Overview, 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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Your six indexers are joined into an indexer cluster and index replication is enabled. What does the cluster do with the data each peer indexes?
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Checked against help.splunk.com, August 2026Concept
Several identical copies mean one lost machine costs neither the data nor the ability to search it. That is the whole trade a cluster makes for extra storage.
Why B
Splunk states that indexer clusters are groups of Splunk Enterprise indexers configured to replicate each other's data so the system keeps multiple copies of all data, and that this process is known as index replication.
Source
Splunk Docs: About indexer clusters and index replication, checked August 2026Indexer clusters are groups of Splunk Enterprise indexers configured to replicate each others' data, so that the system keeps multiple copies of all data. This process is known as index replication.
Now you: objective 14.1 questions
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Sample question 1 of 3
You are drawing the node roles of an indexer cluster before installing it. How many types of node does each cluster have?
Sample question 2 of 3
In your indexer cluster, one node tells the search heads where to find data and helps manage peer configuration. What else does the manager node do?
Sample question 3 of 3
Peer nodes in your cluster receive and index incoming data just as stand-alone indexers do. What do they also do that a stand-alone indexer does not?
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