Splunk Certification Exam
Questions with Accurate Answers
5 Main components of Splunk ES - -Index Data, Search & investigate, Add
knowledge, Monitor & Alert, Report & Analyze.
- What does index data do? (3) - -1. Collects data
2. Label data with source type
3. Stored in splunk index
- Three main roles in splunk? (3) - -Admin, Power, User
- An admin does what? - -Install apps, create knowledge objects for all users
(what apps a user will see by default)
- A power user does what? - -Creates and shares knowledge objects for
users of app, real-time searches
- A Splunk user does what? - -Only see own knowledge objects and those
shared to them.
- Apps in Splunk? - -1. Pre-built dashboards, reports, alerts and workflows
2. In-depth data analysis for power users
3. Search & Reporting
- What does the search and reporting app do in splunk? - -Creates
knowledge objects, reports, and dashboards
- The seven main components in splunk searching and reporting? - -1.
Splunk bar
2. App bar
3. Search bar
4. Time range picker
5. How to search panel
6. What to search panel
7. Search History
- What does the time range picker do? - -Allow search by preset times,
relative times. Real time (earliest, latest), date range. Retrieve events over a
specific time period.
- Limiting search by ___________ is key to faster results and is a best practice
- -time
, - The time range picker is set to _________ by default. - -All-time
- Search jobs are available after ____ minutes by default. - -10
- ________ commands create statistics and visualizations. - -Transforming
- ________ tab is default tab for searches - -Event
- What are the three main search modes? - -Fast, Verbose, and Smart
- _______ mode discovery off for event searches. No event or field data for
stats searches. - -Fast
- ______ mode all events and field data; switches to this mode after
visualization - -Verbose
- ______ mode (default-based on search string data). Field discovery ON for
event searches. No event or field data for stats searches. - -Smart
- This search action button "Job V" does what? - -Edit job settings, send job
to background, inspect and delete job.
- Saved searches are set to ______ by default. - -private
- Timestamp seen in events is based on______setting in user account profile -
-time zone
- List the three booleans - -AND OR NOT
- ________boolean is used if none is implied. - -AND
- Exact phrases use______ - -quotes
- Use a _______ for searching a string with quotes in the string. - -Backslash
Example: info="user "chrisV4" not in database" info="user\"chrisV4\" not in
database "
- _______ fields have values in at least 20% of the events - -Interesting
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