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Objective 6.2

Enterprise Certified Architect

Understand configuration management for all Splunk components, using Splunk deployment tools

Objective 6.2 sits in Forwarder and Deployment Best Practices, which carries 6% 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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6-2Forwarder and Deployment Best Practices

An engineer asks what the deployment server distributes. What does Splunk say?

Licence poolsLicence pools are managed by the licence manager.
Indexed eventsIndexed data moves between forwarders and indexers.
Search artifactsSearch artifacts are replicated inside a search head cluster.
Configurations and appsCorrect · your answerCorrect.

Correct.

Checked against help.splunk.com, August 2026

Concept

One tool pushing configuration to many instances keeps a large estate consistent. It moves settings rather than data, which is why it never touches an index.

Why D

Splunk states that the deployment server is the tool for distributing configurations, apps and content updates to groups of Splunk Enterprise instances.

Source

The deployment server is the tool for distributing configurations, apps, and content updates to groups of Splunk Enterprise instances.

Splunk Docs: About deployment server and forwarder management, checked August 2026
#deployment-server#configuration

Now you: objective 6.2 questions

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Sample question 1 of 3

6-2Forwarder and Deployment Best Practices

An administrator asks how to configure indexer cluster peers. What does Splunk say?

Sample question 2 of 3

6-2Forwarder and Deployment Best Practices

An analyst asks how to update search head cluster members. Which tool does Splunk name?

Sample question 3 of 3

6-2Forwarder and Deployment Best Practices

A team lead asks which cluster node the deployment server may update. Which does Splunk name?

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