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Performance Tuning practice questions

Practise Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect (SPLK-2002) (SPLK-2002) Performance Tuning practice questions — original exam-style scenarios with answer choices, explanations, and analysis of common mistakes.

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Common Performance Tuning exam traps

▸Answering from memory before reading the full scenario.
▸Missing a constraint such as cost, availability, security, scope or command context.
▸Choosing a broad answer when the question asks for the most specific fix.
▸Ignoring why the wrong options are tempting.

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Performance Tuning questions

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Question 1hardmultiple choice

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You are tuning a Splunk heavy forwarder. The 'parsingQueue' is consistently full. Which configuration change in props.conf or inputs.conf is recommended?

Trap 1: Reduce the number of indexers in the output group

This would likely increase the queue backup.

Trap 2: Disable 'sourcetype' auto-discovery

This has negligible impact on parsing queue capacity.

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A
Reduce the number of indexers in the output group
Why wrong: This would likely increase the queue backup.
B
Increase the 'maxQueueSize' for the parsing queue in limits.conf
Wait, specifically for the parsingQueue, one must increase the buffer size in limits.conf to handle spikes.
C
Disable 'sourcetype' auto-discovery
Why wrong: This has negligible impact on parsing queue capacity.
D
Increase the number of threads for the parsing pipeline in server.conf
Increasing pipeline threads helps process the queue faster.

Performance Tuning practice questions

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Performance Tuning questions

You are tuning a Splunk heavy forwarder. The 'parsingQueue' is consistently full. Which configuration change in props.conf or inputs.conf is recommended?

When using Data Model acceleration, which setting should be monitored to ensure the background summary search does not starve other searches of resources?

You are configuring a heavy forwarder to filter data before sending it to indexers. Which stanza in props.conf is used to define the filtering criteria?

Which TWO settings in limits.conf are used to control search concurrency for roles?

A Splunk administrator needs to identify why a specific search is experiencing high 'Disk Read' wait times. Which tool or log source should be utilized to correlate search IDs with specific disk latency metrics?

When managing indexer clustering, what is the impact of a high 'replication_factor' on indexing performance?

Which dashboard in the Monitoring Console provides the best overview of resource consumption per search head?

Which setting in indexes.conf should be tuned to balance memory usage and indexing speed for a high-volume indexer?

You are analyzing search performance using the Search Activity dashboard. You observe that 'Result Count' is extremely high for a specific saved search. Which optimization technique is most effective to reduce the load on the indexer?

An administrator notices that searches are slow due to high CPU utilization on indexers. Which configuration change in limits.conf directly controls the maximum number of concurrent searches allowed on an indexer?

A user complains that a search is slow despite having a small time range. The Search Inspector reveals 'event_count' is high, but 'scanned_count' is also high. What is the likely cause?

When performance tuning the 'Splunk Web' interface for users, which configuration helps manage the 'Search Results' cache?

Which Splunk component is responsible for receiving data from forwarders and distributing it to the correct indexers?

In a multi-site indexer cluster, which setting controls the number of copies of data kept per site?

Which command helps you understand if your search is retrieving too much data from the disk by analyzing the 'index_time' and 'search_time'?

When tuning search performance, what is the 'join' command's primary drawback in terms of resource usage?

What is the primary benefit of 'bucket rolling' in an indexer?

What is the impact of placing a very high number of indexes on a single indexer?

Which tool is best for monitoring the health and performance of the entire Splunk environment?

Which Splunk process is responsible for managing the indexer's disk I/O and bucket lifecycle?

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