Basic Searching and Transforming Commands

A medium-sized company uses Splunk to monitor its e-commerce platform. The platform generates around 10 million events per day from web servers, application logs, and databases. The security team wants to identify the top 10 IP addresses that trigger the most 403 Forbidden errors in the last 24 hours. However, when they run the search: index=ecom sourcetype=web status=403 | top src_ip, the search takes over 5 minutes to complete and sometimes times out. The team needs a faster approach that still accurately identifies the top IPs. The team's Splunk environment uses indexers and a search head. The data is not accelerated. What should the team do to improve search performance?

Refer to the exhibit. An analyst wants to see the top 10 most visited URI paths, but the result also includes a 'percent' column. To remove the percent column, which command should be added?

A search returns many duplicate events due to data source redundancy. Which command can remove duplicate events based on a specific field?

Refer to the exhibit. A security analyst runs the search and sees the result table. The analyst wants to see only the top 3 URI paths with their counts, without the percentage column. Which command modification achieves this?

A large financial institution uses Splunk to consolidate logs from thousands of ATMs. Each ATM sends a heartbeat event every 5 minutes containing fields: atm_id, timestamp, status (OK or ERROR), and firmware_version. The operations team wants to find the number of ATMs that have reported at least one ERROR status in the last hour. The initial search is: index=atm sourcetype=heartbeat status=ERROR | dedup atm_id | stats count. However, this search returns a count that is too high because some ATMs report multiple errors within the hour. The team needs an accurate count of ATMs that had any error, regardless of how many error events each ATM generated. The search must be efficient due to the high volume of events. Which approach should be used?

Which two components are required to create a time-based chart of average CPU usage per host over the last 4 hours? (Choose two.)

Which THREE of the following are valid uses of the stats command?

An analyst wants to remove duplicate events based on the 'user' field, keeping only the first occurrence. Which command should be used?

A user wants to see the top 5 most common values of the 'action' field in the web access logs. Which command should be used?

An analyst wants to find all events where the field 'status' is not 200. Which search is correct?

Which TWO of the following commands will return exactly one result row when there is at least one event?

Which of the following statements about the `top` and `rare` commands in Splunk are correct? Choose all that apply. (There are four correct answers.)

A search `index=main | top limit=10 user | fields - percent` is running slowly on a large dataset. Which change would likely improve performance the most?

Refer to the exhibit. The search runs but the user field is not modified. What is the most likely cause?

Drag and drop the steps to configure a Splunk forwarder to send data to an indexer into the correct order.

Match each Splunk license type to its description.

A user runs a search that returns thousands of results. They need to see only the first 100 events after sorting by time descending. Which command should they use?

Which two of the following search commands are transforming commands? (Choose two.)

A user wants to see the top 10 source IP addresses generating 404 errors. Which SPL is correct?

An analyst wants to find events where the field 'user' is not present. Which search correctly identifies such events?

A user needs to create a report showing the average response time per endpoint for the last hour. Which command would produce this result?

An analyst runs the search `index=web | stats count by status | sort - count` and wants to show only status codes with count greater than 100. Which command should be added before the sort?

Drag and drop the steps to create a Splunk dashboard with a single panel into the correct order.

Refer to the exhibit. The search returns zero results. What is a likely cause?

A search returns 1,000 events. The analyst wants to see the first 10 events sorted by the '_time' field in descending order. Which search is correct?

Refer to the exhibit. A Splunk analyst wants to find the top users generating syslog events. If the analyst wants to include all users, not just the top 5, which command modification is correct?

Which TWO commands can be used to filter events based on a field value? (Choose two.)

A search returns events with a field 'ip' that contains both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. An analyst wants to count events for each IP type (IPv4 vs IPv6). Which command should be used to create a new field that categorizes the IP type?

A junior Splunk user is tasked with investigating slow search performance in a large Splunk environment. The user runs a search over a week of data from the main index (containing 500 GB of data per day) using the following command: `index=main | search error | stats count by host`. The search takes over 10 minutes to complete. The user wants to improve search performance while still getting accurate results. Which of the following actions should the user take first?

A large e-commerce company uses Splunk to monitor their web application. The operations team has noticed that the search for tracking user sessions is taking too long and consuming excessive resources. The current search is: index=web sourcetype=access_combined | stats count by clientip, sessionid, productid | sort - count The index contains over 10 billion events per day. The team wants to reduce the search time while still being able to identify the top 10 most active sessions (combinations of clientip and sessionid) that involve more than 5 product views. They also need to exclude any sessions that originated from internal IPs (10.0.0.0/8). Which approach would achieve this most efficiently?

Refer to the exhibit. An analyst runs this search and expects to see a table of status codes with their counts, filtered to those with count greater than 100. The search returns zero results even though there are many events. What is the most likely reason?

A security analyst needs to find the number of failed login attempts per user. Which command group should be used?

Refer to the exhibit. A Splunk admin runs a search using a lookup file. What is the result of the stats command?

Which three of the following are valid ways to filter events before a transforming command? (Choose three.)

Refer to the exhibit. A user runs this search. The results show only Error and Warning, but no Info. What is the most likely reason?

Refer to the exhibit. A user gets an error: 'Error in 'where' command: The field 'count' is not a numeric type.' What is the issue?

A search returns events with a field 'duration' in milliseconds. The analyst wants to create a new field 'duration_sec' that divides duration by 1000. Which command accomplishes this?

A network operations team uses Splunk to monitor netflow data stored in index='net' and sourcetype='netflow'. The events contain fields: src_ip, dest_ip, bytes, and protocols. The team needs to identify the top 5 source IPs by total bytes transferred (based on the bytes field). For each of those top source IPs, they also want to list the destination IPs and the number of times they communicated. The data volume is large, so performance is important. Which SPL approach returns the desired results efficiently?

Which three of the following are valid uses of the `stats` command in Splunk? (Choose three.)

What is the purpose of this search? `index=web | top limit=5 status`

Which TWO of the following commands can be used to create a new field from existing fields?

A security analyst needs to identify the top 5 source IP addresses generating the most web traffic. Which command should be used?

Which TWO commands can be used to create a chart that shows the count of events over time?

An analyst runs a search that returns 10,000 events. They want to see the distribution of the 'status' field across the 'method' field. Which command should be used?

A security analyst needs to find the number of failed login attempts per user in the last hour. The events contain a field 'result' with value 'failure'. Which search is correct?

A search uses `eval memory_MB = memory_bytes / 1024 / 1024`. The field memory_bytes contains values like '2,048,000'. The eval results memory_MB is often null. What is the most likely cause?

Which THREE of the following are valid uses of the 'eval' command? (Choose three.)

Which TWO factors should be considered when deciding to use the rare command instead of top?

An analyst executes the following search: index=main sourcetype=access | stats dc(user) by host. What does dc(user) do?

Which TWO of the following statements about the `stats` command in Splunk are correct? (Choose two.)

Refer to the exhibit. A security analyst runs a search to count failed login attempts by hour. Which hour has the highest number of failed login attempts?

A Splunk administrator is troubleshooting a slow search on firewall logs. The index is 'firewall', sourcetype is 'cisco:asa', and there is about 500 GB of data per day. The search is: index=firewall sourcetype=cisco:asa action=block | stats count by src_ip | where count > 1000. This search takes over 5 minutes to return results. The administrator needs the same results faster. The index has a data model named 'firewall_dm' that is accelerated with a summary range of 7 days. Which change to the search will improve performance the most while still returning the same results?

An analyst runs: index=app sourcetype=log ERROR | stats count by host | where count > 5. What is the function of the where command in this search?

A large enterprise uses Splunk to monitor 500+ servers. A search returns results slowly due to high data volume. Which best practice can improve performance when using the top command?

A team needs to calculate the average response time for each URL path from web server logs. The response time is in a field 'duration'. Which search is correct?

Refer to the exhibit. A data analyst is analyzing web traffic and wants to find the most accessed products. The rex command extracts product IDs from URI paths. Why might the top command return inaccurate results?

Refer to the exhibit. The search returns only events where src_zone is 'external'. What is the problem?

Which THREE of the following are transforming commands in Splunk?

Refer to the exhibit. The search returns no results. What is the most likely reason?

A search includes the command '| stats dc(user) by host'. What does this command return?

A user wants to remove duplicate events based on the 'transaction_id' field, keeping only the first occurrence. Which command is appropriate?

Match each Splunk role to its typical permission scope.

Refer to the exhibit. A user runs the search and gets no results. Which is the most likely cause?

An administrator wants to count events by status code and show only codes with more than 100 events. Which search correctly accomplishes this?

An analyst needs to find the count of events by source type for each day in the past week, but only for source types with more than 1000 events. Which search is correct?

Refer to the exhibit. A user runs this search and gets 10 results as expected. However, they want to see the top 10 hosts for the past week. The search still returns results, but the counts are lower than expected. What is the most likely reason?

Refer to the exhibit. A security analyst runs a search to identify HTTP 500 errors over time. Which time period shows the highest count of 500 errors?

Refer to the exhibit. What will be the output of this search?

A user wants to find events where the status code is 500 or 503 and the response time is greater than 2 seconds. Which TWO SPL commands will correctly limit the results to only these events?