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SPLK-1001 Practice Question: Working as a Splunk consultant for a financial…
You are working as a Splunk consultant for a financial services firm. They have multiple data sources: application logs, database audit logs, and network firewall logs. The security team needs to correlate events across these sources to detect potential fraud. You decide to create a data model named 'Security_Events'. The data model will be used with tstats for real-time dashboards. The logs vary in volume: application logs are 200 GB/day, audit logs are 50 GB/day, and firewall logs are 100 GB/day. The firm wants to optimize performance and storage. The data model currently has one root event with no constraints and three child objects with constraints based on sourcetype. The admin is concerned about acceleration storage costs. Which of the following is the best approach to balance performance and storage?
⚠ Common exam trap
Many candidates assume accelerating the root event is more efficient because it covers all data, but they miss that root acceleration without constraints still processes all events, wasting storage and not providing the targeted performance gains that child object acceleration offers.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Enable acceleration only on the child objects that are used in the most critical dashboards, and leave others unaccelerated.
Enabling acceleration only on the child objects used in the most critical dashboards balances performance and storage. The tstats command can leverage accelerated child objects for fast queries, while unaccelerated objects avoid unnecessary storage overhead. Given the high volume of logs (350 GB/day total), selective acceleration minimizes storage costs while still providing real-time performance for key fraud detection dashboards.
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Option-by-option breakdown
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Disable acceleration on all objects and rely on the base search for queries.
Why it's wrong here
No acceleration would degrade dashboard performance.
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Enable acceleration only on the child objects that are used in the most critical dashboards, and leave others unaccelerated.
Why this is correct
Selective acceleration saves storage.
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Enable acceleration on the root event only and disable acceleration on child objects.
Why it's wrong here
Root event includes all data; child object queries would use unaccelerated root.
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Remove the child objects and merge all constraints into the root event.
Why it's wrong here
Loses ability to filter quickly by event type.
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