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A security analyst needs to find all events where the field 'user' has a value that is either 'admin' or 'root', but the search is returning too many results from a noisy source. Which search best filters the events to only include those where the 'user' field exactly matches 'admin' or 'root'?
Option D is correct because using unquoted field comparisons with the OR operator performs an exact match for simple values like 'admin' and 'root'. In Splunk, when field values do not contain spaces or special characters, unquoted values are treated as exact match tokens. Theref…Read full explanation
A Splunk administrator runs the following search and notices that the results include events where the 'status' field is 200 or 404, but also includes events where the 'status' field is missing. What is the most efficient way to modify the search to exclude events where the 'status' field does not exist?
Option C is correct because it uses the `where isnotnull(status)` command after the initial search, which is a valid and efficient way to filter out events where the `status` field does not exist. The `isnotnull()` function returns true if the field exists and is not null, so thi…Read full explanation
An analyst wants to find the top 5 users who have the highest total bytes transferred. The data has fields 'user' and 'bytes'. Which search should be used?
Option B is correct because it uses `stats sum(bytes) as total_bytes by user` to aggregate the total bytes transferred per user, then sorts the results in descending order with `sort - total_bytes`, and finally limits the output to the top 5 users with `head 5`. This directly ans…Read full explanation
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