Objective 2.2

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Objective 2.2 sits in Project Requirements, 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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2-2Project Requirements

A team lead asks what management components are. How does Splunk describe them?

Cloud servicesThey run on your own instances.
Third party softwareThey are Splunk Enterprise instances rather than third party software.
Hardware appliancesThey are software rather than appliances.
Configured Splunk instancesCorrect · your answerCorrect.

Correct.

Checked against help.splunk.com, August 2026

Concept

Every management role is the same software configured differently, which keeps the estate uniform to install and upgrade. It also means a role can move between hosts.

Why D

Splunk states that management components support the activities of the processing components, and that as with processing components, management components are specially configured versions of Splunk Enterprise instances.

Source

Management components support the activities of the processing components. As with processing components, management components are specially configured versions of Splunk Enterprise instances.

Splunk Docs: Components that help to manage your deployment, checked August 2026
#planning#components

Now you: objective 2.2 questions

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Sample question 1 of 3

2-2Project Requirements

An engineer asks what the monitoring console does. What does Splunk say?

Sample question 2 of 3

2-2Project Requirements

An administrator asks what the cluster manager node does. What does Splunk say?

Sample question 3 of 3

2-2Project Requirements

An analyst asks what the search head cluster deployer handles. What does Splunk say?

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