Objective 5.1
Enterprise Certified ArchitectIdentify non-smart store related storage and disk usage requirements
Objective 5.1 sits in Clustering Overview, 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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A worked example
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Your architecture includes an indexer cluster so the deployment survives the loss of one machine without losing data. What does that cluster consist of?
Correct.
Checked against help.splunk.com, August 2026Concept
A cluster is defined by what its members do for each other rather than by how many there are. Replication is that shared obligation.
Why A
Splunk states that indexer clusters are groups of Splunk Enterprise indexers configured to replicate each other's data so that the system keeps multiple copies of all data.
Source
Splunk Docs: About indexer clusters and index replication, checked August 2026Indexer clusters are groups of Splunk Enterprise indexers configured to replicate each others' data, so that the system keeps multiple copies of all data.
Now you: objective 5.1 questions
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Sample question 1 of 3
You are told to raise the number of data copies your indexer cluster keeps from two to three. How does storage requirement relate to the number of copies?
Sample question 2 of 3
Your cluster must trade storage cost against how many indexer failures it can survive. Which setting do you configure to manage that trade-off?
Sample question 3 of 3
A resilience review lists data recovery as a benefit of index replication in your cluster. What does data recovery mean here?
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