SPLK-1002 Advanced Visualization and Lookups Practice Question
An analyst needs to add a field called 'Region' to events based on a lookup table that maps 'StoreID' to 'Region'. The lookup table is defined in transforms.conf as a CSV lookup. Which command should be used in the search to perform this enrichment?
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lookup
The lookup command enriches events with fields from a lookup table. inputlookp reads a lookup as results, outputlookp writes events to a lookup, others are irrelevant.
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inputlookp
Why it's wrong here
inputlookp returns the lookup table as search results, not for enrichment.
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outputlookp
Why it's wrong here
outputlookp writes events to a lookup table.
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table
Why it's wrong here
table organizes fields but does not perform lookups.
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lookup
Why this is correct
lookup matches fields and adds output fields to events.
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