SPLK-1002 Advanced Searching and Statistics Practice Question
Which THREE of the following are correct characteristics of the transaction command? (Choose three.)
⚠ Common exam trap
It's easy for candidates to assume the transaction command can merge events across indexes or that it preserves all fields by default, but Splunk's transaction command is index-scoped and field-retention is minimal without explicit configuration.
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It groups related events based on common field values.
The transaction command groups related events that share common field values, such as a session ID or user ID, to form a single transaction. This is a core function of the command, allowing you to correlate events across a dataset based on matching field content.
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It groups related events based on common field values.
Why this is correct
Transaction groups events that share a common field, like session ID.
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It can group events from different indexes.
Why it's wrong here
Transaction works on the search results, so it can only group events that are already combined in the search.
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It can use maxspan to set the maximum total duration of a transaction.
Why this is correct
maxspan limits the entire transaction's time window.
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It can use maxpause to set the maximum time between events in a transaction.
Why this is correct
maxpause defines the idle time before closing a transaction.
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By default, it retains all original fields from all events in the transaction.
Why it's wrong here
By default, only transaction-level fields are kept; keepevents=true is needed.
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