SPLK-2002 Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect Exam Dumps

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1. Which of the following will cause the greatest reduction in disk size requirements for a cluster of N indexers running Splunk Enterprise Security?

Setting the cluster search factor to N-1.

Increasing the number of buckets per index.

Decreasing the data model acceleration range.

Setting the cluster replication factor to N-1.

2. Stakeholders have identified high availability for searchable data as their top priority.

Which of the following best addresses this requirement?

Increasing the search factor in the cluster.

Increasing the replication factor in the cluster.

Increasing the number of search heads in the cluster.

Increasing the number of CPUs on the indexers in the cluster.

3. Search dashboards in the Monitoring Console indicate that the distributed deployment is approaching its capacity.

Which of the following options will provide the most search performance improvement?

Replace the indexer storage to solid state drives (SSD).

Add more search heads and redistribute users based on the search type.

Look for slow searches and reschedule them to run during an off-peak time.

Add more search peers and make sure forwarders distribute data evenly across all indexers.

4. 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 source. Further investigation reveals that not all weblogs 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 of this issue?

The search head may have different configurations than the indexers.

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

The indexers may have different configurations than the heavy forwarders.

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

5. A customer has installed a 500GB Enterprise license. They also purchased and installed a 300GB, no enforcement license on the same license master.

How much data can the customer ingest before the search is locked out?

300G

After this limit, the search is locked out.

500G

After this limit, the search is locked out.

800G

After this limit, the search is locked out.

Search is not locked out. Violations are still recorded.

6. What does the deployer do in a Search Head Cluster (SHC)? (Select all that apply.)

Distributes apps to SHC members.

Bootstraps a clean Splunk install for a SH

Distributes non-search-related and manual configuration file changes.

Distributes runtime knowledge object changes made by users across the SH

7. When using the props.conf LINE_BREAKER attribute to delimit multi-line events, the SHOULD_LINEMERGE attribute should be set to what?

Auto

None

True

False

8. Which of the following should be included in a deployment plan?

Business continuity and disaster recovery plans.

Current logging details and data source inventory.

Current and future topology diagrams of the IT environment.

A comprehensive list of stakeholders, either direct or indirect.

9. A multi-site indexer cluster can be configured using which of the following? (Select all that apply.)

Via Splunk Web.

Directly edit SPLUNK_HOME/etc./system/local/server.conf

Run a Splunk edit cluster-config command from the CL

Directly edit SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/default/server.conf

10. Which index-time props.conf attributes impact indexing performance? (Select all that apply.)

REPORT

LINE_BREAKER

ANNOTATE_PUNCT

SHOULD_LINEMERGE

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11. Which of the following are client filters available in serverclass.conf? (Select all that apply.)

DNS name.

IP address.

Splunk server role.

Platform (machine type).

12. What log file would you search to verify if you suspect there is a problem interpreting a regular expression in a monitor stanza?

btool.log

metrics.log

splunkd.log

tailing_processor.log

13. Which Splunk tool offers a health check for administrators to evaluate the health of their Splunk deployment?

btool

DiagGen

SPL Clinic

Monitoring Console

14. In a four site indexer cluster, which configuration stores two searchable copies at the origin site, one searchable copy at site2, and a total of four searchable copies?

site_search_factor = origin:2, site1:2, total:4

site_search_factor = origin:2, site2:1, total:4

site_replication_factor = origin:2, site1:2, total:4

site_replication_factor = origin:2, site2:1, total:4

15. Which of the following is true regarding Splunk Enterprise's performance? (Select all that apply.)

Adding search peers increases the maximum size of search results.

Adding RAM to existing search heads provides additional search capacity.

Adding search peers increases the search throughput as the search load increases.

Adding search heads provides additional CPU cores to run more concurrent searches.

16. Which Splunk Enterprise offering has its own license?

Splunk Cloud Forwarder

Splunk Heavy Forwarder

Splunk Universal Forwarder

Splunk Forwarder Management

17. Which component in the splunkd.log will log information related to bad event breaking?

Audittrail

EventBreaking

IndexingPipeline

AggregatorMiningProcessor

18. Which Splunk server role regulates the functioning of indexer cluster?

Indexer

Deployer

Master Node

Monitoring Console

19. When adding or rejoining a member to a search head cluster, the following error is displayed: Error pulling configurations from the search head cluster captain; consider performing a destructive configuration resync on this search head cluster member.

What corrective action should be taken?

Restart the search head.

Run the splunk apply shcluster-bundle command from the deployer.

Run the clean raft command on all members of the search head cluster.

Run the splunk resync shcluster-replicated-config command on this member.

20. Which of the following commands is used to clear the KV store?

splunk clean kvstore

splunk clear kvstore

splunk delete kvstore

splunk reinitialize kvstore

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21. Indexing is slow and real-time search results are delayed in a Splunk environment with two indexers and one search head. There is ample CPU and memory available on the indexers.

Which of the following is most likely to improve indexing performance?

Increase the maximum number of hot buckets in indexes.conf

Increase the number of parallel ingestion pipelines in server.conf

Decrease the maximum size of the search pipelines in limits.conf

Decrease the maximum concurrent scheduled searches in limits.conf

22. The guidance Splunk gives for estimating size on for syslog data is 50% of original data size.

How does this divide between files in the index?

rawdata is: 10%, tsidx is: 40%

rawdata is: 15%, tsidx is: 35%

rawdata is: 35%, tsidx is: 15%

rawdata is: 40%, tsidx is: 10%

23. In an existing Splunk environment, the new index buckets that are created each day are about half the size of the incoming data. Within each bucket, about 30% of the space is used for raw data and about 70% for index files.

What additional information is needed to calculate the daily disk consumption, per indexer, if indexer clustering is implemented?

Total daily indexing volume, number of peer nodes, and number of accelerated searches.

Total daily indexing volume, number of peer nodes, replication factor, and search factor.

Total daily indexing volume, replication factor, search factor, and number of search heads.

Replication factor, search factor, number of accelerated searches, and total disk size across cluster.

24. A three-node search head cluster is skipping a large number of searches across time.

What should be done to increase scheduled search capacity on the search head cluster?

Create a job server on the cluster.

Add another search head to the cluster.

server.conf captain_is_adhoc_searchhead = true.

Change limits.conf value for max_searches_per_cpu to a higher value.

25. The frequency in which a deployment client contacts the deployment server is controlled by what?

polling_interval attribute in outputs.conf

phoneHomeIntervalInSecs attribute in outputs.conf

polling_interval attribute in deploymentclient.conf

phoneHomeIntervalInSecs attribute in deploymentclient.conf

26. To activate replication for an index in an indexer cluster, what attribute must be configured in indexes.conf on all peer nodes?

repFactor = 0

replicate = 0

repFactor = auto

replicate = auto

27. Which of the following clarification steps should be taken if apps are not appearing on a deployment client? (Select all that apply.)

Check serverclass.conf of the deployment server.

Check deploymentclient.conf of the deployment client.

Check the content of SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps of the deployment server.

Search for relevant events in splunkd.log of the deployment server.

28. What is the minimum reference server specification for a Splunk indexer?

12 CPU cores, 12GB RAM, 800 IOPS

16 CPU cores, 16GB RAM, 800 IOPS

24 CPU cores, 16GB RAM, 1200 IOPS

28 CPU cores, 32GB RAM, 1200 IOPS

29. Which of the following security options must be explicitly configured (i.e. which options are not enabled by default)?

Data encryption between Splunk Web and splunkd.

Certificate authentication between forwarders and indexers.

Certificate authentication between Splunk Web and search head.

Data encryption for distributed search between search heads and indexers.

30. Which of the following artifacts are included in a Splunk diag file? (Select all that apply.)

OS settings.

Internal logs.

Customer data.

Configuration files.

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31. Which command will permanently decommission a peer node operating in an indexer cluster?

splunk stop -f

splunk offline -f

splunk offline --enforce-counts

splunk decommission --enforce counts

32. Which CLI command converts a Splunk instance to a license slave?

splunk add licenses

splunk list licenser-slaves

splunk edit licenser-localslave

splunk list licenser-localslave

33. Splunk Enterprise platform instrumentation refers to data that the Splunk Enterprise deployment logs in the _introspection index.

Which of the following logs are included in this index? (Select all that apply.)

audit.log

metrics.log

disk_objects.log

resource_usage.log

34. Which of the following can a Splunk diag contain?

Search history, Splunk users and their roles, running processes, indexed data

Server specs, current open connections, internal Splunk log files, index listings

KV store listings, internal Splunk log files, search peer bundles listings, indexed data

Splunk platform configuration details, Splunk users and their roles, current open connections, index listings

35. Which of the following are true statements about Splunk indexer clustering?

All peer nodes must run exactly the same Splunk version.

The master node must run the same or a later Splunk version than search heads.

The peer nodes must run the same or a later Splunk version than the master node.

The search head must run the same or a later Splunk version than the peer nodes.

36. A customer plans to ingest 600 GB of data per day into Splunk. They will have six concurrent users, and they also want high data availability and high search performance. The customer is concerned about cost and wants to spend the minimum amount on the hardware for Splunk.

How many indexers are recommended for this deployment?

Two indexers not in a cluster, assuming users run many long searches.

Three indexers not in a cluster, assuming a long data retention period.

Two indexers clustered, assuming high availability is the greatest priority.

Two indexers clustered, assuming a high volume of saved/scheduled searches.

37. To reduce the captain's work load in a search head cluster, what setting will prevent scheduled searches from running on the captain?

adhoc_searchhead = true (on all members)

adhoc_searchhead = true (on the current captain)

captain_is_adhoc_searchhead = true (on all members)

captain_is_adhoc_searchhead = true (on the current captain)

38. At which default interval does metrics.log generate a periodic report regarding license utilization?

10 seconds

30 seconds

60 seconds

300 seconds

39. Which of the following is a good practice for a search head cluster deployer?

The deployer only distributes configurations to search head cluster members when they “phone home”.

The deployer must be used to distribute non-replicable configurations to search head cluster members.

The deployer must distribute configurations to search head cluster members to be valid configurations.

The deployer only distributes configurations to search head cluster members with splunk apply shcluster-bundle.

40. A new Splunk customer is using syslog to collect data from their network devices on port 514.

What is the best practice for ingesting this data into Splunk?

Configure syslog to send the data to multiple Splunk indexers.

Use a Splunk indexer to collect a network input on port 514 directly.

Use a Splunk forwarder to collect the input on port 514 and forward the data.

Configure syslog to write logs and use a Splunk forwarder to collect the logs.

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41. Which Splunk internal index contains license-related events?

_audit

_license

_internal

_introspection

42. Which of the following statements describe a Search Head Cluster (SHC) captain? (Select all that apply.)

Is the job scheduler for the entire SH

Manages alert action suppressions (throttling).

Synchronizes the member list with the KV store primary.

Replicates the SHC's knowledge bundle to the search peers.

43. Before users can use a KV store, an admin must create a collection. Where is a collection is defined?

kvstore.conf

collection.conf

collections.conf

kvcollections.conf

44. Which search will show all deployment client messages from the client (UF)?

index=_audit component=DC* host=<ds> | stats count by message

index=_audit component=DC* host=<uf> | stats count by message

index=_internal component= DC* host=<uf> | stats count by message

index=_internal component=DS* host=<ds> | stats count by message

45. To optimize the distribution of primary buckets; when does primary rebalancing automatically occur? (Select all that apply.)

Rolling restart completes.

Master node rejoins the cluster.

Captain joins or rejoins cluster.

A peer node joins or rejoins the cluster.

46. Which search head cluster component is responsible for pushing knowledge bundles to search peers, replicating configuration changes to search head cluster members, and scheduling jobs across the search head cluster?

Master

Captain

Deployer

Deployment server

47. Configurations from the deployer are merged into which location on the search head cluster member?

SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local

SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/APP_HOME/local

SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/search/default

SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/APP_HOME/default

48. When Splunk indexes data in a non-clustered environment, what kind of files does it create by default?

Index and .tsidx files.

Rawdata and index files.

Compressed and .tsidx files.

Compressed and meta data files.

49. How does IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) impact the planning of a Splunk deployment?

ITSI requires a dedicated deployment server.

The amount of users using ITSI will not impact performance.

ITSI in a Splunk deployment does not require additional hardware resources.

Depending on the Key Performance Indicators that are being tracked, additional infrastructure may be needed.

50. In the deployment planning process, when should a person identify who gets to see network data?

Deployment schedule

Topology diagramming

Data source inventory

Data policy definition

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51. The KV store forms its own cluster within a SHC.

What is the maximum number of SHC members KV store will form?

100

Unlimited

SPLK-2002 Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect Exam Dumps

SPLK-2002 Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect Exam Dumps

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