SPLK-3003 practice test

1. Question 1 · 1

   How does Monitoring Console (MC) initially identify the server role(s) of a new Splunk Instance?

   Choose one answer.

   • The MC uses a REST endpoint to query the server.
   • Roles are manually assigned within the MC.
   • Roles are read from distsearch.conf.
   • The MC assigns all possible roles by default.

2. Question 2 · 1

   A customer has downloaded the Splunk App for AWS from Splunkbase and installed it in a search head cluster following the instructions using the deployer. A power user modifies a dashboard in the app on one of the search head cluster members. The app containing an updated dashboard is upgraded to the latest version by following the instructions via the deployer. What happens?

   Choose one answer.

   • The updated dashboard will not be deployed globally to all users, due to the conflict with the power user's modified version of the dashboard.
   • Applying the search head cluster bundle will fail due to the conflict.
   • The updated dashboard will be available to the power user.
   • The updated dashboard will not be available to the power user; they will see their modified version.

3. Question 3 · 1

   A customer's deployment server is overwhelmed with forwarder connections after adding an additional 1000 clients. The default phone home interval is set to 60 seconds. To reduce the number of connection failures to the DS what is recommended?

   Choose one answer.

   • Create a tiered deployment server topology.
   • Reduce the phone home interval to 6 seconds.
   • Leave the phone home interval at 60 seconds.
   • Increase the phone home interval to 600 seconds.

4. Question 4 · 1

   What is the Splunk PS recommendation when using the deployment server and building deployment apps?

   Choose one answer.

   • Carefully design smaller apps with specific configuration that can be reused.
   • Only deploy Splunk PS base configurations via the deployment server.
   • Use $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local configurations on forwarders and only deploy TAs via the deployment server.
   • Carefully design bigger apps containing multiple configs.

5. Question 5 · 1

   Which of the following processor occur in the indexing pipeline?

   Choose one answer.

   • tcp out, syslog out
   • Regex replacement, annotator
   • Aggregator
   • UTF-8, linebreaker, header

6. Question 6 · 1

   Which configuration item should be set to false to significantly improve data ingestion performance?

   Choose one answer.

   • AUTO_KV_JSON
   • BREAK_ONLY_BEFORE_DATE
   • SHOULD_LINEMERGE
   • ANNOTATE_PUNCT

7. Question 7 · 1

   A customer has a new set of hardware to replace their aging indexers. What method would reduce the amount of bucket replication operations during the migration process?

   Choose one answer.

   • Disable the indexing ports on the old indexers.
   • Disable replication ports on the old indexers.
   • Put the old indexers into manual detention.
   • Put the old indexers into automatic detention.

8. Question 8 · 1

   When a bucket rolls from cold to frozen on a clustered indexer, which of the following scenarios occurs?

   Choose one answer.

   • All replicated copies will be rolled to frozen; original copies will remain.
   • Replicated copies of the bucket will remain on all other indexers and the Cluster Master (CM) assigns a new primary bucket.
   • The bucket rolls to frozen on all clustered indexers simultaneously.
   • Nothing. Replicated copies of the bucket will remain on all other indexers until a local retention rule causes it to roll.

9. Question 9 · 1

   A site from a multi-site indexer cluster needs to be decommissioned. Which of the following actions must be taken?

   Choose one answer.

   • Nothing. Decommissioning a site is not possible.
   • Create an alias for where the new data should be sent.
   • Remove the site from the list of available sites.
   • Remove the site from the list of available sites and create an alias for where the new data should be sent.

10. Question 10 · 1

    A customer wants to implement LDAP because managing local Splunk users is becoming too much of an overhead. What configuration details are needed from the customer to implement LDAP authentication?

    Choose one answer.

    • API: Python script with PAM/RADIUS details.
    • LDAP server: port, bind user credentials, path/to/groups, path/to/user.
    • LDAP server: port, bind user credentials, base DN for groups, base DN for users.
    • LDAP REST details, base DN for groups, base DN for users.

11. Question 11 · 1

    A customer has asked for a five-node search head cluster (SHC), but does not have the storage budget to use a replication factor greater than 2. They would like to understand what might happen in terms of the users' ability to view historic scheduled search results if they log onto a search head which doesn't contain one of the 2 copies of a given search artifact. Which of the following statements best describes what would happen in this scenario?

    Choose one answer.

    • The search head that the user has logged onto will proxy the required artifact over to itself from a search head that currently holds a copy. A copy will also be replicated from that search head permanently, so it is available for future use.
    • Because the dispatch folder containing the search results is not present on the search head, the user will not be able to view the search results.
    • The user will not be able to see the results of the search until one of the search heads is restarted, forcing synchronization of all dispatched artifacts across all search heads.
    • The user will not be able to see the results of the search until the Splunk administrator issues the apply shcluster-bundle command on the search head deployer, forcing synchronization of all dispatched artifacts across all search heads.

12. Question 12 · 1

    A customer has a search cluster (SHC) of six members split evenly between two data centers (DC). The customer is concerned with network connectivity between the two DCs due to frequent outages. Which of the following is true as it relates to SHC resiliency when a network outage occurs between the two DCs?

    Choose one answer.

    • The SHC will function as expected as the SHC deployer will become the new captain until the network communication is restored.
    • The SHC will stop all scheduled search activity within the SHC.
    • The SHC will function as expected as the minimum required number of nodes for a SHC is 3.
    • The SHC will function as expected as the SHC captain will fall back to previous active captain in the remaining site.

13. Question 13 · 1

    A [script://] input sends data to a Splunk forwarder using which method?

    Choose one answer.

    • UDP stream
    • TCP stream
    • Temporary file
    • STDOUT/STDERR

14. Question 14 · 1

    A customer wants to understand how Splunk bucket types (hot, warm, cold) impact search performance within their environment. Their indexers have a single storage device for all data. What is the proper message to communicate to the customer?

    Choose one answer.

    • The bucket types (hot, warm, or cold) have the same search performance characteristics within the customer's environment.
    • While hot, warm, and cold buckets have the same search performance characteristics within the customers environment, due to their optimized structure, the thawed buckets are the most performant.
    • Searching hot and warm buckets result in best performance because by default the cold buckets are miniaturized by removing TSIDX files to save on storage cost.
    • Because the cold buckets are written to a cheaper/slower storage volume, they will be slower to search compared to hot and warm buckets which are written to Solid State Disk (SSD).

15. Question 15 · 1

    An index receives approximately 50GB of data per day per indexer at an even and consistent rate. The customer would like to keep this data searchable for a minimum of 30 days. In addition, they have hourly scheduled searches that process a week's worth of data and are quite sensitive to search performance. Given ideal conditions (no restarts, nor drops/bursts in data volume), and following PS best practices, which of the following sets of indexes.conf settings can be leveraged to meet the requirements?

    Choose one answer.

    • frozenTimePeriodInSecs, maxDataSize, maxVolumeDataSizeMB, maxHotBuckets
    • maxDataSize, maxTotalDataSizeMB, maxHotBuckets, maxGlobalDataSizeMB
    • maxDataSize, frozenTimePeriodInSecs, maxVolumeDataSizeMB
    • frozenTimePeriodInSecs, maxWarmDBCount, homePath.maxDataSizeMB, maxHotSpanSecs

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