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As a Splunk Core Certified Consultant, you’ll be able to properly size, install and implement Splunk environments. This includes expert-level knowledge and the ability to advise on how to make the most of the solutions.
Level: Expert
Prerequisite certification:
Splunk Core Certified Power User
Splunk Core Certified Advanced Power User
Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin
Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect
Prerequisite coursework:
Core Consultant Labs
Services: Core Implementation
Length: 120 minutes
Format: 86 multiple choice questions
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Question 1:
Which statement is correct?
A. In general, search commands that can be distributed to the search peers should occur as early as possible in a well-tuned search.
B. As a streaming command, streamstats performs better than stats since stats is just a reporting command.
C. When trying to reduce a search result to unique elements, the dedup command is the only way to achieve this.
D. Formatting commands such as fieldformat should occur as early as possible in the search to take full advantage of the often larger number of search peers.
Correct Answer: D
Question 2:
In a single indexer cluster, where should the Monitoring Console (MC) be installed?
A. Deployer sharing with master cluster.
B. License master that has 50 clients or more.
C. Cluster master node
D. Production Search Head
Correct Answer: C
Reference: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.1.0/DMC/WheretohostDMC
Question 3:
A new single-site three indexer cluster is being stood up with replication_factor:2, search_factor:2. At
which step would the Indexer Cluster be classed as `Indexing Ready\' and be able to ingest new data?
Step 1: Install and configure Cluster Master (CM)/Master Node with base clustering stanza settings,
restarting CM.
Step 2: Configure a base app in etc/master-apps on the CM to enable a splunktcp input on port 9997 and
deploy index creation configurations.
Step 3: Install and configure Indexer 1 so that once restarted, it contacts the CM, download the latest
config bundle.
Step 4: Indexer 1 restarts and has successfully joined the cluster.
Step 5: Install and configure Indexer 2 so that once restarted, it contacts the CM, downloads the latest
config bundle
Step 6: Indexer 2 restarts and has successfully joined the cluster.
Step 7: Install and configure Indexer 3 so that once restarted, it contacts the CM, downloads the latest
config bundle.
Step 8: Indexer 3 restarts and has successfully joined the cluster.
A. Step 2
B. Step 4
C. Step 6
D. Step 8
Correct Answer: A
Question 4:
A Splunk Index cluster is being installed and the indexers need to be configured with a license master. After the customer provides the name of the license master, what is the next step?
A. Enter the license master configuration via Splunk web on each indexer before disabling Splunk web.
B. Update /opt/splunk/etc/master-apps/_cluster/default/server.conf on the cluster master and apply a cluster bundle.
C. Update the Splunk PS base config license app and copy to each indexer.
D. Update the Splunk PS base config license app and deploy via the cluster master.
Correct Answer: C
Question 5:
A customer has written the following search:
How can the search be rewritten to maximize efficiency?
A. Option A
B. Option B
C. Option C
D. Option D
Correct Answer: C
Question 6:
Which of the following server roles should be configured for a host which indexes its internal logs locally?
A. Cluster master
B. Indexer
C. Monitoring Console (MC)
D. Search head
Correct Answer: B
Question 7:
When monitoring and forwarding events collected from a file containing unstructured textual events, what is the difference in the Splunk2Splunk payload traffic sent between a universal forwarder (UF) and indexer compared to the Splunk2Splunk payload sent between a heavy forwarder (HF) and the indexer layer? (Assume that the file is being monitored locally on the forwarder.)
A. The payload format sent from the UF versus the HF is exactly the same. The payload size is identical because they\'re both sending 64K chunks.
B. The UF sends a stream of data containing one set of medata fields to represent the entire stream, whereas the HF sends individual events, each with their own metadata fields attached, resulting in a lager payload.
C. The UF will generally send the payload in the same format, but only when the sourcetype is specified in the inputs.conf and EVENT_BREAKER_ENABLE is set to true.
D. The HF sends a stream of 64K TCP chunks with one set of metadata fields attached to represent the entire stream, whereas the UF sends individual events, each with their own metadata fields attached.
Correct Answer: B
Question 8:
A customer with a large distributed environment has blacklisted a large lookup from the search bundle to decrease the bundle size using distsearch.conf. After this change, when running searches utilizing the lookup that was blacklisted they see error messages in the Splunk Search UI stating the lookup file does not exist.
What can the customer do to resolve the issue?
A. The search needs to be modified to ensure the lookup command specifies parameter local=true.
B. The blacklisted lookup definition stanza needs to be modified to specify setting allow_caching=true.
C. The search needs to be modified to ensure the lookup command specified parameter blacklist=false.
D. The lookup cannot be blacklisted; the change must be reverted.
Correct Answer: A
Question 9:
The data in Splunk is now subject to auditing and compliance controls. A customer would like to ensure that at least one year of logs are retained for both Windows and Firewall events. What data retention controls must be configured?
A. maxTotalDataSizeMB and frozenTimePeriodInSecs
B. coldToFrozenDir and coldToFrozenScript
C. Splunk Volume and maxTotalDataSizMB
D. Splunk Volume and frozenTimePeriodInSecs
Correct Answer: A
Reference: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.1.0/Indexer/Setaretirementandarchivingpolicy
Question 10:
In which of the following scenarios should base configurations be used to provide consistent, repeatable, and supportable configurations?
A. For non-production environments to keep their configurations in sync.
B. To ensure every customer has exactly the same base settings.
C. To provide settings that do not need to be customized to meet customer requirements.
D. To provide settings that can be customized to meet customer requirements.
Correct Answer: C
Reference: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Wheretofindtheconfigurationfiles
Question 11:
A customer has a multisite cluster (two sites, each site in its own data center) and users experiencing a slow response when searches are run on search heads located in either site. The Search Job Inspector shows the delay is being caused by search heads on either site waiting for results to be returned by indexers on the opposing site. The network team has confirmed that there is limited bandwidth available between the two data centers, which are in different geographic locations.
Which of the following would be the least expensive and easiest way to improve search performance?
A. Configure site_search_factor to ensure a searchable copy exists in the local site for each search head.
B. Move all indexers and search heads in one of the data centers into the same site.
C. Install a network pipe with more bandwidth between the two data centers.
D. Set the site setting on each indexer in the server.conf clustering stanza to be the same for all indexers regardless of site.
Correct Answer: A
Question 12:
A customer has implemented their own Role Based Access Control (RBAC) model to attempt to give the Security team different data access than the Operations team by creating two new Splunk roles ?security and operations. In the srchIndexesAllowed setting of authorize.conf, they specified the network index under the security role and the operations index under the operations role. The new roles are set up to inherit the default user role.
If a new user is created and assigned to the operations role only, which indexes will the user have access to search?
A. operations, network, internal, audit
B. operations
C. No Indexes
D. operations, network
Correct Answer: A
Question 13:
In a large cloud customer environment with many (>100) dynamically created endpoint systems, each with a UF already deployed, what is the best approach for associating these systems with an appropriate serverclass on the deployment server?
A. Work with the cloud orchestration team to create a common host-naming convention for these systems so a simple pattern can be used in the serverclass.conf whitelist attribute.
B. Create a CSV lookup file for each severclass, manually keep track of the endpoints within this CSV file, and leverage the whitelist.from_pathname attribute in serverclass.conf.
C. Work with the cloud orchestration team to dynamically insert an appropriate clientName setting into each endpoint\'s local/deploymentclient.conf which can be matched by whitelist in serverclass.conf.
D. Using an installation bootstrap script run a CLI command to assign a clientName setting and permit serverclass.conf whitelist simplification.
Correct Answer: C
Question 14:
A customer\'s deployment server is overwhelmed with forwarder connections after adding an additional 1000 clients. The default phone home interval is set to 60 seconds. To reduce the number of connection failures to the DS what is recommended?
A. Create a tiered deployment server topology.
B. Reduce the phone home interval to 6 seconds.
C. Leave the phone home interval at 60 seconds.
D. Increase the phone home interval to 600 seconds.
Correct Answer: A
Question 15:
Which statement is true about subsearches?
A. Subsearches are faster than other types of searches.
B. Subsearches work best for joining two large result sets.
C. Subsearches run at the same time as their outer search.
D. Subsearches work best for small result sets.
Correct Answer: A
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