Objective 5.2
Enterprise Certified ArchitectIdentify search head clustering requirements
Objective 5.2 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
Shown solved, with the whole explanation open: this is what every question here carries.
An engineer asks what disaster recovery needs in a cluster. What does Splunk say?
Correct.
Checked against help.splunk.com, August 2026Concept
Surviving the loss of a whole data centre needs copies outside it, which single-site replication cannot provide. Multisite is the feature that places them.
Why A
Splunk states that with multisite clustering your system can tolerate the failure of an entire data center, listing disaster recovery among the key benefits of index replication.
Source
Splunk Docs: About indexer clusters and index replication, checked August 2026Disaster recovery. With multisite clustering, your system can tolerate the failure of an entire data center.
Now you: objective 5.2 questions
No account needed. The explanation opens when you answer.
Sample question 1 of 3
An administrator asks how much processing replication adds. What does Splunk say?
Sample question 2 of 3
An analyst asks what a search head cluster provides. What does Splunk say?
Sample question 3 of 3
A team lead asks what SmartStore changes about cluster storage. What does Splunk say?
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Read the sources
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