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How does Monitoring Console (MC) initially identify the server role(s) of a
new Splunk Instance?
A. The MC uses a REST endpoint to query the server.
B. Roles are manually assigned within the MC.
C. Roles are read from distsearch.conf.
D. The MC assigns all possible roles by default. - -A (Core slides pg. 67,
initially guesses using REST, then looks at distsearch.conf)
- The universal forwarder (UF) should be used whenever possible, as it is
smaller and more efficient. In which of the following scenarios would a heavy
forwarder (HF) be a more appropriate choice?
A. When a predictable version of Python is required.
B. When filtering 10%-15% of incoming events.
C. When monitoring a log file.
D. When running a script. - -A ( Use the universal forwarder whenever
possible, it is smaller and more efficient. Only use a heavy forwarder when: •
The UI is needed • Advanced event-level routing is needed • You are filtering
more than 80% of incoming events • Anonymizing or masking data before
forwarding to indexer • Predictable version of Python is needed • Required
by an app/modular input (HEC, DBX, Checkpoint OPSEC LEA)
- When monitoring and forwarding events collected from a file containing
unstructured textual events, what is the difference in the Splunk2Splunk
payload traffic sent between a universal forwarder (UF) and indexer
compared to the Splunk2Splunk payload sent between a heavy forwarder
(HF) and the indexer layer? (Assume that the file is being monitored locally
on the forwarder.)
A. The payload format sent from the UF versus the HF is exactly the same.
The payload size is identical because they're both sending 64K chunks.
B. The UF sends a stream of data containing one set of medata fields to
represent the entire stream, whereas the HF sends individual events, each
with their own metadata fields attached, resulting in a larger payload.
C. The UF will generally send the payload in the same format, but only when
the sourcetype is specified in the inputs.conf and EVENT_BREAKER_ENABLE
is set to true.
D. The HF sends a stream - -B (HF adds data / parsing resulting in larger
payload)
, - A non-ES customer has a concern about data availability during a disaster
recovery event. Which of the following Splunk Validated Architectures (SVAs)
would be recommended for that use case?
A. Topology Category Code: M4
B. Topology Category Code: M14
C. Topology Category Code: C13
D. Topology Category Code: C3 - -A
Non-ES means it will not start with 10+
Data Availability means an indexer is always available
Disaster Recovery means it can tolerate a site outage
(pg 36 & 333, Core Notes)
- 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?
A. Merging pipeline
B. Indexing pipeline
C. Typing pipeline
D. Parsing pipeline - -C
(https://wiki.splunk.com/Community:HowIndexingWorks)
- Which statement is correct?
A. In general, search commands that can be distributed to the search peers
should occur as early as possible in a well-tuned search.
B. As a streaming command, streamstats performs better than stats since
stats is just a reporting command.
C. When trying to reduce a search result to unique elements, the dedup
command is the only way to achieve this.
D. Formatting commands such as fieldformat should occur as early as
possible in the search to take full advantage of the often larger number of
search peers. - -A
- In addition to the normal responsibilities of a search head cluster captain,
which of the following is a default behavior?
A. The captain is not a cluster member and does not perform normal search
activities.
B. The captain is a cluster member who performs normal search activities.
C. The captain is not a cluster member but does perform normal search
activities.
D. The captain is a cluster member but does not perform normal search
activities. - -B
, - What happens to the indexer cluster when the indexer Cluster Master (CM)
runs out of disk space?
A. A warm standby CM needs to be brought online as soon as possible before
an indexer has an outage.
B. The indexer cluster will continue to operate as long as no indexers fail.
C. If the indexer cluster has site failover configured in the CM, the second
cluster master will take over.
D. The indexer cluster will continue to operate as long as a replacement CM
is deployed within 24 hours. - -B
(https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.2.1/Indexer/Whathappens
whenamanagernodegoesdown)
- A working search head cluster has been set up and used for 6 months with
just the native/local Splunk user authentication method. In order to integrate
the search heads with an external Active Directory server using LDAP, which
of the following statements represents the most appropriate method to
deploy the configuration to the servers?
A. Configure the integration in a base configuration app located in shcluster-
apps directory on the search head deployer, then deploy the configuration to
the search heads using the splunk apply shcluster-bundle command.
B. Log onto each search using a command line utility. Modify the
authentication.conf and authorize.conf files in a base configuration app to
configure the integration.
C. Configure the LDAP integration on one Search Head using the Settings >
Access Controls > Authentication Method and Settings > Access Controls >
Roles Splunk UI menus. The configuration setting will - -A (best practice)
- In an environment that has Indexer Clustering, the Monitoring Console
(MC) provides dashboards to monitor environment health. As the
environment grows over time and new indexers are added, which steps
would ensure the MC is aware of the additional indexers?
A. No changes are necessary, the Monitoring Console has self-configuration
capabilities.
B. Using the MC setup UI, review and apply the changes.
C. Remove and re-add the cluster master from the indexer clustering UI page
to add new peers, then apply the changes under the MC setup UI.
D. Each new indexer needs to be added using the distributed search UI, then
settings must be saved under the MC setup UI. - -B?
None of these
(pg 62, Core Notes)
- 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
- 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?
A. Create a new role without the output_file capability that inherits the
default user role and assign it to the users.
B. Create a new role with the output_file capability that inherits the default
user role and assign it to the users.
C. Edit the default user role and remove the output_file capability.
D. Clone the default user role, remove the output_file capability, and assign
it to the users. - -D
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.0.1/Security/
Addandeditusers
- In a large cloud customer environment with many (>100) dynamically
created endpoint systems, each with a UF already deployed, what is the best
approach for associating these systems with an appropriate serverclass on
the deployment server?
A. Work with the cloud orchestration team to create a common host-naming
convention for these systems so a simple pattern can be used in the
serverclass.conf whitelist attribute.
B. Create a CSV lookup file for each serverclass, manually keep track of the
endpoints within this CSV file, and leverage the whitelist.from_pathname
attribute in serverclass.conf.
C. Work with the cloud orchestration team to dynamically insert an
appropriate clientName setting into each endpoint's
local/deploymentclient.conf which can be matched by whitelist in
serverclass.conf.
D. Using an installation bootstrap script run a CLI command to assign a
clientName setting and permit serverclass.conf whitelis - -C
- Which of the following is the most efficient search?
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