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SPLK-1001 Basic Searching and Transforming Commands Practice Question

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

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Splunk often tests the misconception that `top` and `rare` require explicit `limit` arguments to function, when in fact they have default limits of 10, and the trap also includes the false idea that `rare` is restricted to regex-extracted fields, which is not true.

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The `top` command returns the most common values of a field based on count.

The `top` command returns the most common values of a field based on count, and the `rare` command returns the least common values. Both commands support a `by` clause to group results by another field. Importantly, by default, `top` and `rare` include events with null or empty values for the specified field as a separate value, rather than removing them automatically. Therefore, statement D is incorrect. Statements E and F are also false: `rare` can be used on any field, not just regex-extracted; and both commands have default limits (10 results) so the `limit` argument is optional.

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