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SPLK-1001 Practice Question: That a data model acceleration is consuming…
A user reports that a data model acceleration is consuming excessive disk space on the indexer. The data model has a summary range of 90 days. Which action is best to reduce disk space usage while maintaining acceptable query performance?
⚠ Common exam trap
Candidates often confuse summary range with acceleration frequency or think that deleting raw data is the primary way to free space, when in fact the acceleration summaries themselves are the direct cause of the disk space issue.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Reduce the summary range to 30 days.
Reducing the summary range from 90 days to 30 days directly decreases the amount of data that the acceleration precomputes and stores on the indexer. This minimizes disk space consumption while still accelerating queries for the most recent, commonly accessed data. Maintaining a shorter summary range ensures acceptable performance for recent queries without the overhead of storing summaries for older, less frequently accessed time periods.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
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Increase the acceleration frequency to rebuild summaries more often.
Why it's wrong here
More frequent rebuilds may increase disk I/O but not reduce space.
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Reduce the summary range to 30 days.
Why this is correct
A shorter summary range reduces the amount of summary data, saving disk space.
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Disable acceleration for the data model.
Why it's wrong here
Disabling acceleration removes all summaries, impacting query performance.
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Delete old indexed data that is not frequently queried.
Why it's wrong here
Deleting indexed data is drastic and may violate retention policies.
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