Question 1

A Splunk architect has inherited the Splunk deployment at Buttercup Games and end users are complaining that the events are inconsistently formatted for a web sourcetype. Further investigation reveals that not all web logs flow through the same infrastructure: some of the data goes through heavy forwarders and some of the forwarders are managed by another department. Which of the following items might be the cause for this issue?

Options :

A : The search head may have different configurations than the indexers.

B : The data inputs are not properly configured across all the forwarders.

C : The indexers may have different configurations than the heavy forwarders.

D : The forwarders managed by the other department are an older version than the rest.

Answer: C

Question 2

What is the expected minimum amount of storage required for data across an indexer cluster with the

following input and parameters?

• Raw data = 15 GB per day

• Index files = 35 GB per day

• Replication Factor (RF) = 2

• Search Factor (SF) = 2

Options :

A : 85 GB per day

B : 50 GB per day

C : 100 GB per day

D : 65 GB per day

Answer: C

Question 3

A Splunk user successfully extracted an ip address into a field called src_ip. Their colleague cannot see that field in their search results with events known to have src_ip. Which of the following may explain the problem? (Select all that apply.)

Options :

A : The field was extracted as a private knowledge object.

B : The events are tagged as communicate, but are missing the network tag.

C : The Typing Queue, which does regular expression replacements, is blocked.

D : The colleague did not explicitly use the field in the search and the search was set to Fast Mode.

Answer: D

Question 4

Which of the following options in limits, conf may provide performance benefits at the forwarding tier?

Options :

A : Enable the indexed_realtime_use_by_default attribute.

B : Increase the maxKBps attribute.

C : Increase the parallellngestionPipelines attribute.

D : Increase the max_searches per_cpu attribute.

Answer: C

Question 5

Consider a use case involving firewall data. There is no Splunk-supported Technical Add-On, but the vendor

has built one. What are the items that must be evaluated before installing the add-on? (Select all that apply.)

Options :

A : Identify number of scheduled or real-time searches.

B : Validate if this Technical Add-On enables event data for a data model.

C : Identify the maximum number of forwarders Technical Add-On can support.

D : Verify if Technical Add-On needs to be installed onto both a search head or indexer.

Answer: A,C

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