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
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An app your team wrote must keep per-user state between sessions without indexing it. What does the KV store provide?
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 C
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
You are planning where an app's reference records will live in the KV store. How does the KV store organize that data?
Sample question 2 of 3
An analyst asks where KV store files reside. What does Splunk say?
Sample question 3 of 3
A user's lookup edit lands on a member of your search head cluster that is not the captain. What happens to that KV store write?
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