Objective 17.4
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Objective 17.4 sits in Indexer Cluster Management and Administration, which carries 7% 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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The manager node goes down. What does Splunk say the peers can continue doing?
Correct.
Checked against help.splunk.com, August 2026Concept
A cluster degrades gradually rather than stopping, which buys time to replace the coordinator. It also means a downed manager can go unnoticed.
Why D
Splunk states that if a manager goes down the cluster can continue to run as usual as long as there are no other failures, and that peers can continue to ingest data, stream copies to other peers, replicate buckets and respond to search requests.
Source
Splunk Docs: What happens when the manager node goes down, checked August 2026If a manager goes down, the cluster can continue to run as usual, as long as there are no other failures. Peers can continue to ingest data, stream copies to other peers, replicate buckets, and respond to search requests from the search head.
Now you: objective 17.4 questions
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Sample question 1 of 3
Your cluster manager is down and a peer rolls a hot bucket in the meantime. How does that peer choose its replication targets?
Sample question 2 of 3
A downed manager node is a serious failure, and your runbook has no answer for one. What do you put in place to prepare for it?
Sample question 3 of 3
Your cluster manager goes down while analysts keep searching. What does the search head work from until the manager returns?
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