Splunk SPLK-3003 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

Splunk SPLK-3003 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 1:

  Which configuration item should be set to false to significantly improve data ingestion performance?

  A. AUTO_KV_JSON
  B. BREAK_ONLY_BEFORE_DATE
  C. SHOULD_LINEMERGE
  D. ANNOTATE_PUNCT
  C. SHOULD_LINEMERGE

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  Reference: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.6/Data/Configureeventlinebreaking

• Question 2:

  What does Splunk do when it indexes events?

  A. Extracts the top 10 fields.
  B. Extracts metadata fields such as host, source, sourcetype.
  C. Performs parsing, merging, and typing processes on universal forwarders.
  D. Create report acceleration summaries.
  B. Extracts metadata fields such as host, source, sourcetype.

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  Reference: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.1.0/Indexer/Howindexingworks#:~:text=Splunk%20Enterprise%20can%20index%20any,events%20indexes%20and%20metrics%20indexes

• Question 3:

  What should be considered when running the following CLI commands with a goal of accelerating an index cluster migration to new hardware?

  

  A. Data ingestion rate
  B. Network latency and storage IOPS
  C. Distance and location
  D. SSL data encryption
  B. Network latency and storage IOPS

• Question 4:

  What is required to setup the HTTP Event Collector (HEC)?

  A. Each HEC input requires a unique name but token values can be shared.
  B. Each HEC input requires an existing forwarder output group.
  C. Each HEC input entry must contain a valid token.
  D. Each HEC input requires a Source name field.
  C. Each HEC input entry must contain a valid token.

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  Reference: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.1.0/Data/UsetheHTTPEventCollector

• Question 5:

  Which command is most efficient in finding the pass4SymmKey of an index cluster?

  A. find / -name server.conf -print | grep pass4SymKey
  B. $SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk search | rest splunk_server=local /servicesNS/-/unhash_app/storage/passwords
  C. $SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk btool server list clustering | grep pass4SymmKey
  D. $SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk btool clustering list clustering --debug | grep pass4SymmKey
  D. $SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk btool clustering list clustering --debug | grep pass4SymmKey

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  Reference: https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Which-instance-or-configuration-file-in-my-Splunk-environment/m-p/241486

• Question 6:

  A [script://] input sends data to a Splunk forwarder using which method?

  A. UDP stream
  B. TCP stream
  C. Temporary file
  D. STDOUT/STDERR
  C. Temporary file

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  Reference: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/inputsconf

• Question 7:

  In which of the following scenarios is a subsearch the most appropriate?

  A. When joining results from multiple indexes.
  B. When dynamically filtering hosts.
  C. When filtering indexed fields.
  D. When joining multiple large datasets.
  A. When joining results from multiple indexes.

• Question 8:

  In which of the following scenarios should base configurations be used to provide consistent, repeatable, and supportable configurations?

  A. For non-production environments to keep their configurations in sync.
  B. To ensure every customer has exactly the same base settings.
  C. To provide settings that do not need to be customized to meet customer requirements.
  D. To provide settings that can be customized to meet customer requirements.
  C. To provide settings that do not need to be customized to meet customer requirements.

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  Reference: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Wheretofindtheconfigurationfiles

• Question 9:

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

  A. Subsearches have to be initiated with the | subsearch command.
  B. Subsearches can only be utilized with | inputlookup command.
  C. Subsearches have a default result output limit of 10000.
  D. There are no specific limitations when using subsearches.
  C. Subsearches have a default result output limit of 10000.

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

• Question 10:

  A customer has 30 indexers in an indexer cluster configuration and two search heads. They are working on writing SPL search for a particular use-case, but are concerned that it takes too long to run for short time durations.

  How can the Search Job Inspector capabilities be used to help validate and understand the customer concerns?

  A. Search Job Inspector provides statistics to show how much time and the number of events each indexer has processed.
  B. Search Job Inspector provides a Search Health Check capability that provides an optimized SPL query the customer should try instead.
  C. Search Job Inspector cannot be used to help troubleshoot the slow performing search; customer should review index=_introspection instead.
  D. The customer is using the transaction SPL search command, which is known to be slow.
  A. Search Job Inspector provides statistics to show how much time and the number of events each indexer has processed.