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SPLUNK ADMIN PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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SPLUNK ADMIN PRACTICE QUESTIONS ANDANSWERS
You need a Splunk environment that's customized for your particular use-case. You
want to use Splunk cloud. Which of the following is the best option?
a. Provision a self-service Splunk Cloud directly from the website
b. Work with a splunk sales representative to setup splunk managed cloud
c. Provision a virtual machine in the cloud and install splunk enterprise on it
d. Splunk cloud does not support custom implementations. - Answers-b. Work with a
splunk sales representative to setup splunk managed cloud
To start Splunk from the command line, you need to be in the _____ directory.
a. Bin
b. Etc
c. Lib
d. Var - Answers-a. bin
When installing Splunk in Windows, you can install it as either a local system user, or a
domain account user.
True
False - Answers-true
Which Splunk component receives, indexes, and stores incoming data from forwarders?
a. Forwarder
b. Deployer
c. Indexer
d. Cluster Master - Answers-c. indexer
With which Splunk component can forward data directly to a search head?
a. .conf file
b. Indexer
c. Receiver
d. Forwarder - Answers-d. forwarder
Heavy forwarders cannot parse data, they only forward data.
True
False - Answers-false
,Which Splunk component manages requests from users?
a. Search head
b. Indexer
c. Forwarder
d. Deployer - Answers-a. search head
Which Splunk component manages baselines and apps for search head cluster
members?
a. Deployment Server
b. Deployer
c. Cluster Master
d. License Master - Answers-Deployer
Which of the following are the two categories of Splunk components?
a. Search and Deploying
b. Parsing and indexing
c. Delivery and Installation
d. Processing and Management - Answers-d. Processing and Management
Which of the following cannot receive data?
a. Forwarder
b. Indexer
c. Search head
d. None of the above - Answers-d. none of the above
Splunk licensing is measured by:
a. Amount of ingested data per day
b. Amount of storage used
c. Processor cores
d. Memory(GB) - Answers-A. amount of ingested data per day
Which of the following is not a Splunk license type?
a. Standard
b. Free
c. Advanced
d. Industrial IoT - Answers-advanced
When you exceed your licensed data ingestion quota, search is disabled.
True
, False - Answers-false
A license stack is:
a. A distributed license environment governed by a license master.
b. A quantity of license volume "carved out" for a specific purpose.
c. A collection of licenses whose individual licensing volume amounts aggregate to
serve as a single unified amount of indexing volume.
d. A splunk Enterprise instance controlled by a license master. - Answers-c. A collection
of licenses whose individual licensing volume amounts aggregate to serve as a single
unified amount of indexing volume.
The Splunk Free (perpetual) license allows for __ per day of ingested data.
a. <300MB
b. <500MB
c. <100MB
d. <200MB - Answers-b. <500MB
What happens when there are multiple instances of the same configuration file?
a. Splunk ask which one you want to delete.
b. Splunk combines all stanza from all configuration files and applies them globally.
c. Splunk evaluates them based on precedence
d. Splunk crashes - Answers-b. Splunk combines all stanza from all configuration files
and applies them globally.
Which configuration file defines indexes?
a. Transforms.conf
b. Props.conf
c. Inputs.conf
d. Outputs.conf - Answers-c. Inputs.conf
Global configuration files reside in:
a. /var/lib
b. /etc/user/<username>
c. /etc/apps/<app_name>
d. /etc/system - Answers-d. /etc/system
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