Objective 4.2
Enterprise Certified ArchitectIdentify disk storage requirements
Objective 4.2 sits in Infrastructure Planning: Resource Planning, 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
Shown solved, with the whole explanation open: this is what every question here carries.
An analyst asks what splunk-optimize does. What does Splunk say?
Correct.
Checked against help.splunk.com, August 2026Concept
Many small index files make a search do more work than one merged file. Running the merge intermittently is what keeps search efficient as data lands.
Why B
Splunk states that while the indexer is indexing data, one or more instances of the splunk-optimize process run intermittently, merging index files together to optimize performance when searching the data.
Source
Splunk Docs: Optimize indexes, checked August 2026While the indexer is indexing data, one or more instances of the splunk-optimize process will run intermittently, merging index files together to optimize performance when searching the data.
Now you: objective 4.2 questions
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Sample question 1 of 3
A team lead asks what happens if splunk-optimize runs too rarely. What does Splunk say?
Sample question 2 of 3
An engineer asks which buckets splunk-optimize runs on. What does Splunk say?
Sample question 3 of 3
An administrator asks what CPU splunk-optimize uses. What does Splunk say?
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