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Splunk Basics and Interface Navigation questions

20 questions · select your answer, then reveal the explanation

Question 1easymultiple choice
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A new Splunk user wants to view the raw event data for the last hour. Which interface should they use?

Question 2mediummultiple choice
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An analyst notices that searches take long to complete. They want to understand how many events are indexed per second. Which tab in the Monitoring Console provides this information?

Question 3hardmultiple choice
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A search returns no results. The user has verified that data is being indexed. What is the most likely cause?

Question 4easymultiple choice
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After running a search, a user wants to save the search for later use. Which button should they click?

Question 5mediummultiple choice
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A user wants to see a visual representation of search results over time. Which tab should they use?

Question 6hardmultiple choice
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During onboarding, a new user can't find any data in Splunk. They see 'No results found' for all searches. The data is being forwarded from a universal forwarder. What should they check first?

Question 7easymultiple choice
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Which of the following is the default time range in a new Splunk search?

Question 8mediummultiple choice
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A user wants to view only the fields that appear in the current search results, without seeing all extracted fields. Which option should they use?

Question 9mediummulti select
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Which TWO of the following are valid ways to share a Splunk dashboard?

Question 10hardmulti select
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Which THREE of the following are features available in the Splunk Settings menu?

Question 11easymulti select
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Which TWO of the following are default Splunk roles?

Question 12hardmultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. What can be determined about the license usage?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

```
> splunk show licenser-pool -name auto_generated_pool_enterprise
Pool: auto_generated_pool_enterprise
    Description: Automatically created pool.
    Max Size: 500 MB
    Used Size: 320 MB
    Allowed Slaves: *
    Stack ID: enterprise
```
Question 13mediummultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. What is the most likely cause of the error?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

```
2019-06-15 10:23:45,123 ERROR [main] com.splunk.service.Splunkd - Could not connect to KV Store: Connection refused
2019-06-15 10:23:46,456 WARN [main] com.splunk.service.Splunkd - KV Store not available, retrying...
```
Question 14hardmultiple choice
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A medium-sized enterprise uses Splunk Enterprise with a single indexer and one search head. They have 50 universal forwarders sending data from web servers, application servers, and database logs. Recently, the indexer crashed during peak hours. The administrator restarted the indexer and it came back up. After analyzing the crash log, they found that the indexer ran out of memory. The indexer has 16 GB RAM and the default memory settings. The daily indexing volume is about 20 GB. The administrator is concerned about stability. They want to prevent future crashes without adding hardware. What should they do?

Question 15mediummultiple choice
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A user at a large organization runs a search that returns 50,000 events. They need to export these events to a CSV file for further analysis in Excel. However, when they click the Export button and select CSV, only 10,000 events are exported. What is the most likely reason and how should they export all 50,000 events?

Question 16mediummultiple choice
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A security analyst wants to investigate a suspicious IP address that appeared in multiple log sources. Which Splunk feature is best suited to quickly find all events containing that IP across all indexed data?

Question 17hardmultiple choice
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A Splunk administrator notices that a new user cannot see any data in the Search & Reporting app, even though the user has the 'user' role. What is the most likely cause?

Question 18mediummulti select
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Which TWO of the following are valid ways to add data to Splunk?

Question 19easymultiple choice
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Refer to the exhibit. After running the search, the user wants to see only events where the HTTP status is 404. Which change to the search is correct?

Exhibit

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index=main sourcetype=access_combined
| stats count by status
| sort - count

Results:
status   count
200      1234
404      56
500      12
403      5
Question 20hardmultiple choice
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You are a Splunk administrator at a mid-sized company that uses Splunk Enterprise to monitor application logs from a web server cluster. The cluster has five servers, each sending logs via a universal forwarder to a single indexer. The indexer has ample resources. Recently, users have complained that searches for the last 24 hours are slow, but searches for the last hour are fast. The data volume is about 50 GB per day. You suspect the issue is related to how data is stored or indexed. Which action should you take first to improve search performance for the 24-hour time range?

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Splunk Basics and Interface Navigation questions test whether you can apply the concept in context, not just recognise a definition.
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