Objective 2.1
O11y Cloud Certified Metrics UserData resolution, rollups
Objective 2.1 sits in Metrics Concepts, which carries 15% of the O11y Cloud Certified Metrics User 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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An analyst widens a chart to 30 days and the plotted points spread out to one every few hours. What does resolution mean for a chart?
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Checked against help.splunk.com, August 2026Concept
Resolution decides how much detail a chart can show. Reading a coarse chart as if it were fine is how a short spike gets argued away.
Why D
Splunk documents resolution as the interval at which data points appear on a chart, and a rollup as a statistical function producing one point per period.
Source
Splunk Docs: Data resolution and rollups in charts, checked August 2026In charts, resolution is the interval at which data points appear on a chart, and a rollup is a statistical function that takes all the data points received in a time period and plots a single data point.
Now you: objective 2.1 questions
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Sample question 1 of 3
A host sends a value every 10 seconds, while the chart drawing it plots one point a minute. Which two types of resolution are at work?
Sample question 2 of 3
A chart contains plots whose metric time series have different resolutions. Which resolution does Splunk document the chart uses?
Sample question 3 of 3
An analyst charts AWS CloudWatch metrics alongside Collector metrics. What chart resolution does Splunk document results?
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