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Practice Exam 1

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  1. Question 1 of 5

    4-1Splunk Indexes

    A new engineer traces an event from a forwarder to the indexer and needs a name for where Splunk Enterprise finally stores the events it creates. What is an index?

  2. Question 2 of 5

    14-1Agentless Inputs

    A team wants Splunk Cloud Platform to collect WMI data directly from a Windows machine. What does Splunk say?

  3. Question 3 of 5

    11-1Forwarder Management

    You must push the same inputs.conf and a shared app out to 300 forwarders without logging into any of them. What does the deployment server distribute to those instances?

  4. Question 4 of 5

    8-2Distributed Search

    In your distributed deployment the indexers hold all the data and run the searches across it. Which functions are left for the search heads to perform?

  5. Question 5 of 5

    10-1Configuring Forwarders

    You find a light forwarder still running on an old server and have to explain in the decommission ticket what it was originally built for. What was its purpose?

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What this exam covers

  • Splunk Admin Basics3 questions / 5% of the exam
  • License Management3 questions / 5% of the exam
  • Splunk Configuration Files3 questions / 5% of the exam
  • Splunk Indexes5 questions / 10% of the exam
  • Splunk User Management3 questions / 5% of the exam
  • Splunk Authentication Management3 questions / 5% of the exam
  • Getting Data In3 questions / 5% of the exam
  • Distributed Search5 questions / 10% of the exam
  • Getting Data In: Staging3 questions / 5% of the exam
  • Configuring Forwarders3 questions / 5% of the exam
  • Forwarder Management5 questions / 10% of the exam
  • Monitor Inputs3 questions / 5% of the exam
  • Network and Scripted Inputs3 questions / 5% of the exam
  • Agentless Inputs3 questions / 5% of the exam
  • Fine Tuning Inputs3 questions / 5% of the exam
  • Parsing Phase and Data3 questions / 5% of the exam
  • Manipulating Raw Data2 questions / 5% of the exam

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