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
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Your risk register requires the deployment to keep running through the loss of an entire data center. Which capability does that disaster recovery requirement need?
Correct.
Checked against help.splunk.com, August 2026Concept
Surviving the loss of a whole data center needs copies outside it, which single-site replication cannot provide. Multisite is the feature that places them.
Why C
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
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Sample question 1 of 3
You already run an indexer cluster, and now you group six search heads into a search head cluster as well. What does the search head cluster provide?
Sample question 2 of 3
Your indexer cluster uses SmartStore indexes, so most index data lives in an object store. What ensures high availability and data recovery for that data?
Sample question 3 of 3
One indexer in your cluster fails at midday. Under automatic failover, what continues across the rest of the cluster?
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