SPLK-1003 Indexes And Data Management Practice Question
You need to ensure that Data Models are accelerated. Where are the acceleration summaries stored?
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Within the index itself in a sub-directory.
Data model acceleration summaries are stored in the indexer where the data resides, specifically within the index's bucket structure.
Answer analysis
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In the system/bin directory.
Why it's wrong here
This is for binaries.
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Within the index itself in a sub-directory.
Why this is correct
Summaries reside in the _summary directory within the index.
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On the Search Head in a separate index.
Why it's wrong here
Summaries are stored on indexers.
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In the Splunk KV Store.
Why it's wrong here
The KV Store is for structured app data, not acceleration summaries.
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