Objective 19.1

Enterprise Certified Architect

Search head cluster deployer

Objective 19.1 sits in Search Head Cluster Management and Administration, 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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19-1Search Head Cluster Management and Administration

An analyst asks what the deployer does. How does Splunk describe it?

Distributes apps to membersCorrect · your answerCorrect.
Coordinates job schedulingThe captain coordinates job scheduling.
Replicates search artifactsThe cluster replicates search artifacts itself.
Indexes incoming dataIndexing happens on the search peers.

Correct.

Checked against help.splunk.com, August 2026

Concept

Apps arrive by a deliberate push rather than by replication, which keeps a bad package from spreading instantly. The deployer is the instance that performs that push.

Why A

Splunk states that the deployer is a Splunk Enterprise instance that distributes apps and other configurations to the cluster members.

Source

The deployer . This is a Splunk Enterprise instance that distributes apps and other configurations to the cluster members.

Splunk Docs: Search head clustering architecture, checked August 2026
#search-head-cluster#deployer

Now you: objective 19.1 questions

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Sample question 1 of 3

19-1Search Head Cluster Management and Administration

A team lead asks where the deployer can run. What does Splunk say?

Sample question 2 of 3

19-1Search Head Cluster Management and Administration

An engineer asks what search peers are for a search head cluster. What does Splunk say?

Sample question 3 of 3

19-1Search Head Cluster Management and Administration

An administrator asks what a load balancer adds to a search head cluster. What does Splunk say?

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