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SPLK-3003 Real Exam Questions

Splunk Core Certified Consultant

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Question 1 Single choice

A customer has a number of inefficient regex replacement transforms being applied. When under heavy load the indexers are struggling to maintain the expected indexing rate.
In a worst case scenario, which queue(s) would be expected to fill up?

  1. A

    Typing, merging, parsing, input

  2. B

    Parsing

  3. C

    Typing

  4. D

    Indexing, typing, merging, parsing, input

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Correct answer: B

Question 2 Single choice

As data enters the indexer, it proceeds through a pipeline where event processing occurs.
In which pipeline does line breaking occur?

  1. A

    Indexing

  2. B

    Typing

  3. C

    Merging

  4. D

    Parsing

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Correct answer: D

Explanation

References:
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.1.0/Indexer/Howindexingworks#Event_processing_and_the_data_pipeline

Question 3 Single choice

A customer would like to remove the output_file capability from users with the default user role to stop them from filling up the disk on the search head with lookup files.

What is the best way to remove this capability from users?

  1. A

    Create a new role without the output_file capability that inherits the default user role and assign it to the users.

  2. B

    Create a new role with the output_file capability that inherits the default user role and assign it to the users.

  3. C

    Edit the default user role and remove the output_file capability.

  4. D

    Clone the default user role, remove the output_file capability, and assign it to the users.

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Correct answer: C

Question 4 Single choice

In the diagrammed environment shown below, the customer would like the data read by the universal forwarders to set an indexed field containing the UF's host name.

Where would the parsing configurations need to be installed for this to work?

  1. A

    All universal forwarders.

  2. B

    Only the indexers.

  3. C

    All heavy forwarders.

  4. D

    On all parsing Splunk instances.

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Correct answer: D

Question 5 Single choice

Which event processing pipeline contains the regex replacement processor that would be called upon to run event masking routines on events as they are ingested?

  1. A

    Merging pipeline

  2. B

    Indexing pipeline

  3. C

    Typing pipeline

  4. D

    Parsing pipeline

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Correct answer: A

Question 6 Single choice

A customer has a new set of hardware to replace their aging indexers.

What method would reduce the amount of bucket replication operations during the migration process?

  1. A

    Disable the indexing ports on the old indexers.

  2. B

    Disable replication ports on the old indexers.

  3. C

    Put the old indexers into manual detention.

  4. D

    Put the old indexers into automatic detention.

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Correct answer: D

Question 7 Single choice

A customer has three users and is planning to ingest 250GB of data per day. They are concerned with search uptime, can tolerate up to a two-hour downtime for the search tier, and want advice on single search head versus a search head cluster. (SHC).

Which recommendation is the most appropriate?

  1. A

    The customer should deploy two active search heads behind a load balancer to support HA.

  2. B

    The customer should deploy a SHC with a single member for HA; more members can be added later.

  3. C

    The customer should deploy a SHC, because it will be required to support the high volume of data.

  4. D

    The customer should deploy a single search head with a warm standby search head and an rsync process to synchronize configurations.

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Correct answer: D

Question 8 Single choice

As a best practice which of the following should be used to ingest data on clustered indexers?

  1. A

    Monitoring (via a process), collecting data (modular inputs) from remote systems/applications

  2. B

    Modular inputs, HTTP Event Collector (HEC), inputs.conf monitor stanza

  3. C

    Actively listening on ports, monitoring (via a process), collecting data from remote systems/applications

  4. D

    splunktcp, splunktcp-ssl, HTTP Event Collector (HEC)

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Correct answer: B

Question 9 Single choice

Which of the following is the most efficient search?

  1. A

    Option A

  2. B

    Option B

  3. C

    Option C

  4. D

    Option D

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Correct answer: C

Question 10 Single choice

When utilizing a subsearch within a Splunk SPL search query, which of the following statements is accurate?

  1. A

    Subsearches have to be initiated with the | subsearch command.

  2. B

    Subsearches can only be utilized with | inputlookup command.

  3. C

    Subsearches have a default result output limit of 10000.

  4. D

    There are no specific limitations when using subsearches.

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Correct answer: C

Explanation

References:
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.6/Search/Aboutsubsearches#:~:text=By%20default%2C%20subsearches%20return%20a,will%20timeout%20before%20it%20completes