Splunk SPLK-1003 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

Splunk SPLK-1003 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 171:

  How is a remote monitor input distributed to forwarders?

  A. As an app.
  B. As a forward.conf file.
  C. As a monitor.conf file.
  D. As a forwarder monitor profile.
  A. As an app.

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  Explanation/Reference:

  https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.5/Data/Usingforwardingagents Scroll down to the section Titled, How to configure forwarder inputs, and subsection Here are the main ways that you can configure data inputs on a forwarder Install the app or add- on that contains the inputs you wants

  Reference: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.5/Data/Usingforwardingagents

• Question 172:

  Local user accounts created in Splunk store passwords in which file?

  A. $ SFLUNK_HOME/etc/passwd
  B. $ SFLUNK_HOME/etc/authentication
  C. $ S?LUNK_HOME/etc/users/passwd.conf
  D. $ SPLUNK HOME/etc/users/authentication.conf
  A. $ SFLUNK_HOME/etc/passwd

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  Explanation/Reference:

  Per the provided reference URLhttps://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.3.1/Admin/User-seedconf "To set the default username and password, place user-seed.conf in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local. You must restart Splunk to enable configurations. If the $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/passwd file is present, the settings in this file (user-seed.conf) are not used."

• Question 173:

  Which of the following is valid distribute search group?

  

  A. Option A
  B. Option B
  C. Option C
  D. Option D
  D. Option D

• Question 174:

  Event processing occurs at which phase of the data pipeline?

  A. Search
  B. Indexing
  C. Parsing
  D. Input
  C. Parsing

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  Explanation/Reference:

  According to the Splunk documentation1, event processing occurs at the parsing phase of the data pipeline. The parsing phase is where Splunk software processes incoming data into individual events, extracts timestamp information, assigns source types, and performs other tasks to make the data searchable1. The parsing phase can also apply field extractions, event type matching, and other transformations to the events2.

• Question 175:

  Which of the following is accurate regarding the input phase?

  A. Breaks data into events with timestamps.
  B. Applies event-level transformations.
  C. Fine-tunes metadata.
  D. Performs character encoding.
  D. Performs character encoding.

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  Explanation/Reference:

  https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Deploy/Datapipeline "The data pipeline segments in depth. INPUT - In the input segment, Splunk software consumes data. It acquires the raw data stream from its source, breaks it into 64K blocks, and annotates each block with some metadata keys. The keys can also include values that are used internally, such as the character encoding of the data stream, and values that control later processing of the data, such as the index into which the events should be stored. PARSING Annotating individual events with metadata copied from the source-wide keys. Transforming event data and metadata according to regex transform rules."

• Question 176:

  How would you configure your distsearch conf to allow you to run the search below?

  sourcetype=access_combined status=200 action=purchase splunk_setver_group=HOUSTON A. Option A

  

  B. Option B
  C. Option C
  D. Option D
  C. Option C

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  Explanation/Reference:

  https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.3/DistSearch/Distributedsearchgroups

• Question 177:

  What will the following inputs. conf stanza do?

  [script://myscript . sh]

  Interval=0

  A. The script will run at the default interval of 60 seconds.
  B. The script will not be run.
  C. The script will be run only once for each time Splunk is restarted.
  D. The script will be run. As soon as the script exits, Splunk restarts it.
  C. The script will be run only once for each time Splunk is restarted.

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  Explanation/Reference:

  The inputs.conf file is used to configure inputs, distributed inputs such as forwarders, and file system monitoring in Splunk. The [script://myscript.sh] stanza specifies a script input, which means that Splunk runs the script and indexes its

  output.

  The interval setting determines how often Splunk runs the script. If the interval is set to 0, the script runs only once when Splunk starts up. If the interval is omitted, the script runs at the default interval of 60 seconds. Therefore, option C is

  correct, and the other options are incorrect.

• Question 178:

  When indexing a data source, which fields are considered metadata?

  A. source, host, time
  B. time, sourcetype, source
  C. host, raw, sourcetype
  D. sourcetype, source, host
  D. sourcetype, source, host

• Question 179:

  Which option accurately describes the purpose of the HTTP Event Collector (HEC)?

  A. A token-based HTTP input that is secure and scalable and that requires the use of forwarders
  B. A token-based HTTP input that is secure and scalable and that does not require the use of forwarders.
  C. An agent-based HTTP input that is secure and scalable and that does not require the use of forwarders.
  D. A token-based HTTP input that is insecure and non-scalable and that does not require the use of forwarders.
  B. A token-based HTTP input that is secure and scalable and that does not require the use of forwarders.

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  Explanation/Reference:

  https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.2.2/Data/UsetheHTTPEventCollector "The HTTP Event Collector (HEC) lets you send data and application events to a Splunk deployment over the HTTP and Secure HTTP (HTTPS) protocols. HEC uses a token- based authentication model. You can generate a token and then configure a logging library or HTTP client with the token to send data to HEC in a specific format. This process eliminates the need for a Splunk forwarder when you send application events."

• Question 180:

  On the deployment server, administrators can map clients to server classes using client filters. Which of the following statements is accurate?

  A. The blacklist takes precedence over the whitelist.
  B. The whitelist takes precedence over the blacklist.
  C. Wildcards are not supported in any client filters.
  D. Machine type filters are applied before the whitelist and blacklist.
  A. The blacklist takes precedence over the whitelist.

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  Explanation/Reference:

  https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.2.1/Updating/Filterclients Reference: https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Can-I-use-both-the-whitelist- AND-blacklist-forthe-same/td-p/390910