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1. How does the Monitoring Console monitor forwarders?

By pulling internal logs from forwarders.

By using the forwarder monitoring add-on

With internal logs forwarded by forwarders.

With internal logs forwarded by deployment server.

2. Which setting in indexes. conf allows data retention to be controlled by time?

maxDaysToKeep

moveToFrozenAfter

maxDataRetentionTime

frozenTimePeriodlnSecs

3. User role inheritance allows what to be inherited from the parent role? (select all that apply)

Parents

Capabilities

Index access

Search history

4. Which valid bucket types are searchable? (select all that apply)

Hot buckets

Cold buckets

Warm buckets

Frozen buckets

5. What type of data is counted against the Enterprise license at a fixed 150 bytes per event?

License data

Metrics data

Internal Splunk data

Internal Windows logs

6. What is the difference between the two wildcards ... and - for the monitor stanza in inputs, conf?

... is not supported in monitor stanzas

There is no difference, they are interchangable and match anything beyond directory boundaries.

* matches anything in that specific directory path segment, whereas ... recurses through subdirectories as well.

... matches anything in that specific directory path segment, whereas - recurses through subdirectories as well.

7. On the deployment server, administrators can map clients to server classes using client filters.

Which of the following statements is accurate?

The blacklist takes precedence over the whitelist.

The whitelist takes precedence over the blacklist.

Wildcards are not supported in any client filters.

Machine type filters are applied before the whitelist and blacklist.

8. What hardware attribute would need to be changed to increase the number of simultaneous searches (ad-hoc and scheduled) on a single search head?

Disk

CPUs

Memory

Network interface cards

9. Which of the following is a benefit of distributed search?

Peers run search in sequence.

Peers run search in parallel.

Resilience from indexer failure.

Resilience from search head failure.

10. The volume of data from collecting log files from 50 Linux servers and 200 Windows servers will require multiple indexers.

Following best practices, which types of Splunk component instances are needed?

Indexers, search head, universal forwarders, license master

Indexers, search head, deployment server, universal forwarders

Indexers, search head, deployment server, license master, universal forwarder

Indexers, search head, deployment server, license master, universal forwarder, heavy forwarder

11. Which of the following are available input methods when adding a file input in Splunk Web? (Choose all that apply.)

Index once.

Monitor interval.

On-demand monitor.

Continuously monitor.

12. When configuring HTTP Event Collector (HEC) input, how would one ensure the events have been indexed?

Enable indexer acknowledgment.

Enable forwarder acknowledgment.

splunk check-integrity -index <index name>

index=_internal component=ACK | stats count by host

13. During search time, which directory of configuration files has the highest precedence?

$SFLUNK_KOME/etc/system/local

$SPLUNK_KCME/etc/system/default

$SPLUNK_HCME/etc/apps/app1/local

$SPLUNK HCME/etc/users/admin/local

14. Which layers are involved in Splunk configuration file layering? (select all that apply)

App context

User context

Global context

Forwarder context

15. Which Splunk forwarder type allows parsing of data before forwarding to an indexer?

Universal forwarder

Parsing forwarder

Heavy forwarder

Advanced forwarder

16. Which is a valid stanza for a network input?

[udp://172.16.10.1:9997]connection = dnssourcetype = dns

[any://172.16.10.1:10001]connection_host = ipsourcetype = web

[tcp://172.16.10.1:9997]connection_host = websourcetype = web

[tcp://172.16.10.1:10001]connection_host = dnssourcetype = dns

17. If an update is made to an attribute in inputs.conf on a universal forwarder, on which Splunk component would the fishbucket need to be reset in order to reindex the data?

Indexer

Forwarder

Search head

Deployment server

18. Which of the following are required when defining an index in indexes. conf? (select all that apply)

coldPath

homePath

frozenPath

thawedPath

19. Which of the following are supported options when configuring optional network inputs?

Metadata override, sender filtering options, network input queues (quantum queues)

Metadata override, sender filtering options, network input queues (memory/persistent queues)

Filename override, sender filtering options, network output queues (memory/persistent queues)

Metadata override, receiver filtering options, network input queues (memory/persistent queues)

20. What is the default character encoding used by Splunk during the input phase?

UTF-8

UTF-16

EBCDIC

ISO 8859

21. When configuring monitor inputs with whitelists or blacklists, what is the supported method of filtering the lists?

Slash notation

Regular expression

Irregular expression

Wildcard-only expression

22. Assume a file is being monitored and the data was incorrectly indexed to an exclusive index. The index is cleaned and now the data must be reindexed.

What other index must be cleaned to reset the input checkpoint information for that file?

_audit

_checkpoint

_introspection

_thefishbucket

23. Which Splunk component consolidates the individual results and prepares reports in a distributed environment?

Indexers

Forwarder

Search head

Search peers

24. Which authentication methods are natively supported within Splunk Enterprise? (select all that apply)

LDAP

SAML

RADIUS

Duo Multifactor Authentication

25. For single line event sourcetypes. it is most efficient to set SHOULD_linemerge to what value?

True

False

<regex string>

Newline Character

26. Which of the following indexes come pre-configured with Splunk Enterprise? (select all that apply)

_license

_lnternal

_external

_thefishbucket

27. What is the correct order of steps in Duo Multifactor Authentication?

1. Request Login 2. Connect to SAML server 3. Duo MFA 4. Create User session 5. Authentication Granted 6. Log into Splunk

1. Request Login 2. Duo MFA 3. Authentication Granted 4. Connect to SAML server 5. Log into Splunk 6. Create User session

1. Request Login 2. Check authentication /group mapping 3. Authentication Granted 4. Duo MFA 5. Create User session 6. Log into Splunk

1. Request Login 2. Duo MFA 3. Check authentication /group mapping 4. Create User session 5. Authentication Granted 6. Log into Splunk

28. How can native authentication be disabled in Splunk?

Remove the $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/passwd file

Create an empty $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/passwd file

Set SPLUNK_AUTHENTICATION=false in splunk-launch.conf

Set nativeAuthentication=false in authentication.conf

29. Social Security Numbers (PII) data is found in log events, which is against company policy. SSN format is as follows: 123-44-5678.

Which configuration file and stanza pair will mask possible SSNs in the log events?

props.conf[mask-SSN]REX = (?ms)^(.)<[SSN>d{3}-?d{2}-?(d{4}.*)$"FORMAT = $1<SSN>###-##-$2KEY = _raw

props.conf[mask-SSN]REGEX = (?ms)^(.)<[SSN>d{3}-?d{2}-?(d{4}.*)$"FORMAT = $1<SSN>###-##-$2DEST_KEY = _raw

transforms.conf[mask-SSN]REX = (?ms)^(.)<[SSN>d{3}-?d{2}-?(d{4}.*)$"FORMAT = $1<SSN>###-##-$2DEST_KEY = _raw

transforms.conf[mask-SSN]REGEX = (?ms)^(.)<[SSN>d{3}-?d{2}-?(d{4}.*)$"FORMAT = $1<SSN>###-##-$2DEST_KEY = _raw

30. Which configuration files are used to transform raw data ingested by Splunk? (Choose all that apply.)

props.conf

inputs.conf

rawdata.conf

transforms.conf

31. Which of the following is valid distribute search group?

A)





B)

Option A

Option B

32. The CLI command splunk add forward-server indexer:<receiving-port> will create stanza(s) in which configuration file?

inputs.conf

indexes.conf

outputs.conf

servers.conf

33. Which Splunk indexer operating system platform is supported when sending logs from a Windows universal forwarder?

Any OS platform

Linux platform only

Windows platform only.

None of the above.

34. Which forwarder type can parse data prior to forwarding?

Universal forwarder

Heaviest forwarder

Hyper forwarder

Heavy forwarder

35. The priority of layered Splunk configuration files depends on the file's:

Owner

Weight

Context

Creation time

36. After configuring a universal forwarder to communicate with an indexer, which index can be checked via the Splunk Web UI for a successful connection?

index=main

index=test

index=summary

index=_internal

37. Where should apps be located on the deployment server that the clients pull from?

$SFLUNK_KOME/etc/apps

$SPLUNK_HCME/etc/sear:ch

$SPLUNK_HCME/etc/master-apps

$SPLUNK HCME/etc/deployment-apps

38. Which Splunk component distributes apps and certain other configuration updates to search head cluster members?

Deployer

Cluster master

Deployment server

Search head cluster master

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

A token-based HTTP input that is secure and scalable and that requires the use of forwarders

A token-based HTTP input that is secure and scalable and that does not require the use of forwarders.

An agent-based HTTP input that is secure and scalable and that does not require the use of forwarders.

A token-based HTTP input that is insecure and non-scalable and that does not require the use of forwarders.

40. Which optional configuration setting in inputs .conf allows you to selectively forward the data to specific indexer(s)?

_TCP_ROUTING

_INDEXER_LIST

_INDEXER_GROUP

_INDEXER ROUTING

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