Objective 20.1
Enterprise Certified ArchitectKV Store collection in Splunk clusters
Objective 20.1 sits in KV Store Collection and Lookup Management, which carries 3% 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
Shown solved, with the whole explanation open: this is what every question here carries.
An engineer asks what the KV store provides. How does Splunk describe it?
Correct.
Checked against help.splunk.com, August 2026Concept
An app that needs to remember something between searches has nowhere to put it in an index. A key value store gives that state a home without touching indexed data.
Why A
Splunk states that the app key value store provides a way to save and retrieve data within your Splunk apps, thereby letting you manage and maintain the state of the application.
Source
Splunk Docs: About the app key value store, checked August 2026The app key value store (or KV store) provides a way to save and retrieve data within your Splunk apps, thereby letting you manage and maintain the state of the application.
Now you: objective 20.1 questions
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Sample question 1 of 3
An administrator asks how the KV store organises data. What does Splunk say?
Sample question 2 of 3
An analyst asks where KV store files reside. What does Splunk say?
Sample question 3 of 3
A team lead asks how writes work in a search head cluster. What does Splunk say?
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Read the sources
These are the official pages the questions above cite. Reading them is studying the objective from the primary source, which is what the explanations point you toward anyway.