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Search Tuning Performance And Dashboards
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Which attribute in an input element sets the label that the user sees?
Easy2Which THREE of the following are components of a drilldown interaction in a dashboard?
Hard3A dashboard user reports that a drilldown is not passing the expected token to a target dashboard. The source panel uses a chart where the click event is defined. Which configuration detail should you verify first?
Hard4What is the primary performance difference between using a 'lookup' command and a 'join' command?
Easy5Which THREE of the following dashboard elements can be customized using tokens?
Medium6Which THREE of the following are valid ways to troubleshoot a slow dashboard?
Hard7You want to dynamically set the value of a token based on the result of a search. Which element should be used within the search block?
Hard8Which menu path in Splunk Web allows you to view the list of saved dashboards?
Easy9What is the best way to manage a search that is used in multiple panels of the same dashboard?
Medium10Which TWO of the following are benefits of using a lookup instead of a join?
Medium11Which XML component in a dashboard is used to define a custom search that is not tied to any specific visual panel?
Medium12Which THREE of the following are valid ways to optimize subsearches?
Hard13You want to create a dropdown input that populates based on search results. Which XML element is required to define the source of the search for the input?
Easy14Which of the following is an effective strategy to optimize a search that filters by a specific user?
Medium15A user wants to pass multiple values from a multiselect input to a search. Which option must be enabled in the input configuration for the token value to be formatted correctly for an 'IN' clause?
Hard16Which THREE of the following are required to successfully implement a dependent dropdown?
Hard17You have a dashboard with a form input that triggers a search. To prevent the search from running automatically when the page loads, which attribute must you configure?
Hard18Which Splunk tool should you use to identify specific search components that are consuming excessive CPU or I/O resources?
Medium19When using the 'post-process' search feature in a dashboard, what is the main benefit?
Medium20When using the 'drilldown' tag, what is the purpose of the 'eval' element?
Hard21You want to hide a panel based on the value of a token. Which attribute should you use in the dashboard XML?
Hard22Which TWO of the following are valid methods to share a dashboard in Splunk?
Easy23When a dashboard panel uses a base search and a post-process search, which command is NOT allowed in the post-process search?
Medium24Which TWO of the following are valid ways to improve search performance?
Medium25You are using a dependent dropdown. When the first dropdown changes, the second dropdown needs to re-run its search. How do you trigger this?
Hard26A dashboard has multiple inputs. When a user changes one, you want the others to reset. How can you achieve this using Simple XML?
Hard27Which TWO of the following are true regarding dashboard tokens?
Medium28Which Search Inspector metric most directly indicates that a search is reading more data than necessary from the disk?
Medium29Which element in the dashboard XML is used to create a link to another dashboard?
Easy30When creating a dashboard token, what is the correct syntax for referencing it in a search string?
Easy31You are investigating a slow-running search that uses a subsearch. Which of the following is the most effective way to optimize the subsearch performance by limiting the result set returned to the outer search?
Medium32What is the benefit of using the 'tstats' command for dashboard panels?
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