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Question 1

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Consider the search shown below.

What is this search's intended function?

A
To return all the web_log events from the web index that occur two hours before and after the most recent high severity, denied event found in the firewall index.
B
To find all the denied, high severity events in the firewall index, and use those events to further search for lateral movement within the web index.
C
To return all the web_log events from the web index that occur two hours before and after all high severity, denied events found in the firewall index.
D
To search the firewall index for web logs that have been denied and are of high severity.

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Correct answerC

Question 2

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

A
Monitoring (via a process), collecting data (modular inputs) from remote systems/applications
B
Modular inputs, HTTP Event Collector (HEC), inputs.conf monitor stanza
C
Actively listening on ports, monitoring (via a process), collecting data from remote systems/applications
D
splunktcp, splunktcp-ssl, HTTP Event Collector (HEC)

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Correct answerB

Question 3

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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.

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Correct answerA

Question 4

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When setting up a multisite search head and indexer cluster, which nodes are required to declare site membership?

A
Search head cluster members, deployer, indexers, cluster master
B
Search head cluster members, deployment server, deployer, indexers, cluster master
C
All splunk nodes, including forwarders, must declare site membership
D
Search head cluster members, indexers, cluster master

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Correct answerD

Explanation

References:
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.1.0/DistSearch/SHCandindexercluster

Question 5

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A customer has a Universal Forwarder (UF) with an inputs.conf monitoring its splunkd.log. The data is sent through a heavy forwarder to an indexer.

Where does the Index time parsing occur?

A
Indexer
B
Universal forwarder
C
Search head
D
Heavy forwarder

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Correct answerD

Explanation

References:
https://www.learnsplunk.com/splunk-interview-questions.html

Question 6

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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?

A
Typing, merging, parsing, input
B
Parsing
C
Typing
D
Indexing, typing, merging, parsing, input

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Correct answerB

Question 7

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When can the Search Job Inspector be used to debug searches?

A
If the search has not expired.
B
If the search is currently running.
C
If the search has been queued.
D
If the search has expired.

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Correct answerA

Explanation

References:
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.1.0/Search/
ViewsearchjobpropertieswiththeJobInspector

Question 8

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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.

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Correct answerA

Question 9

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Which statement is true about subsearches?

A
Subsearches are faster than other types of searches.
B
Subsearches work best for joining two large result sets.
C
Subsearches run at the same time as their outer search.
D
Subsearches work best for small result sets.

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Correct answerA

Explanation

References:
https://community.splunk.com/t5/Archive/Looking-for-way-to-explain-why-subsearches-are-so-slow/m-p/479133

Question 10

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The data in Splunk is now subject to auditing and compliance controls. A customer would like to ensure that at least one year of logs are retained for both Windows and Firewall events.

What data retention controls must be configured?

A
maxTotalDataSizeMB and frozenTimePeriodInSecs
B
coldToFrozenDir and coldToFrozenScript
C
Splunk Volume and maxTotalDataSizMB
D
Splunk Volume and frozenTimePeriodInSecs

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Correct answerA

Explanation

References:
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.1.0/Indexer/Setaretirementandarchivingpolicy

Question 11

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What happens when an index cluster peer freezes a bucket?

A
All indexers with a copy of the bucket will delete it.
B
The cluster master will ensure another copy of the bucket is made on the other peers to meet the replication settings.
C
The cluster master will no longer perform fix-up activities for the bucket.
D
All indexers with a copy of the bucket will immediately roll it to frozen.

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Correct answerC

Explanation

References:
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.1.0/Indexer/Bucketsandclusters

Question 12

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When using SAML, where does user authentication occur?

A
Splunk generates a SAML assertion that authenticates the user.
B
The Service Provider (SP) decodes the SAML request and authenticates the user.
C
The Identity Provider (IDP) decodes the SAML request and authenticates the user.
D
The Service Provider (SP) generates a SAML assertion that authenticates the user.

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Correct answerA

Question 13

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The Splunk Validated Architectures (SVAs) document provides a series of approved Splunk topologies.

Which statement accurately describes how it should be used by a customer?

A
Customer should look at the category tables, pick the highest number that their budget permits, then select this design topology as the chosen design.
B
Customers should identify their requirements, provisionally choose an approved design that meets them, then consider design principles and best practices to come to an informed design decision.
C
Using the guided requirements gathering in the SVAs document, choose a topology that suits requirements, and be sure not to deviate from the specified design.
D
Choose an SVA topology code that includes Search Head and Indexer Clustering because it offers the highest level of resilience.

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Correct answerB

Explanation

References:
https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/tips-and-tricks/splunk-validated-architectures.html

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