SPLK-1002 Advanced Visualization and Lookups Practice Question
A company has a lookup table that contains product prices that change over time. The lookup has a 'valid_from' and 'valid_to' field. Which lookup type should be defined in transforms.conf to automatically match events to the correct price based on the event timestamp?
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Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Time-based lookup
Time-based lookups use event time to match against time ranges in the lookup table.
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CSV lookup
Why it's wrong here
CSV lookups do not inherently support time-based matching.
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KV Store lookup
Why it's wrong here
KV Store can be time-based but requires additional configuration; not automatic.
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Time-based lookup
Why this is correct
Time-based lookups are designed for temporal matching.
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External lookup
Why it's wrong here
External lookups run scripts, not time-matching.
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