SPLK-3003 Online Practice Questions and Answers

How does Monitoring Console (MC) initially identify the server role(s) of a new Splunk Instance?

A. The MC uses a REST endpoint to query the server.

B. Roles are manually assigned within the MC.

C. Roles are read from distsearch.conf.

D. The MC assigns all possible roles by default.

Monitoring Console (MC) health check configuration items are stored in which configuration file?

A. healthcheck.conf

B. alert_actions.conf

C. distsearch.conf

D. checklist.conf

What should be considered when running the following CLI commands with a goal of accelerating an index cluster migration to new hardware?

A. Data ingestion rate

B. Network latency and storage IOPS

C. Distance and location

D. SSL data encryption

A customer has a new set of hardware to replace their aging indexers. What method would reduce the amount of bucket replication operations during the migration process?

A. Disable the indexing ports on the old indexers.

B. Disable replication ports on the old indexers.

C. Put the old indexers into manual detention.

D. Put the old indexers into automatic detention.

When a bucket rolls from cold to frozen on a clustered indexer, which of the following scenarios occurs?

A. All replicated copies will be rolled to frozen; original copies will remain.

B. Replicated copies of the bucket will remain on all other indexers and the Cluster Master (CM) assigns a new primary bucket.

C. The bucket rolls to frozen on all clustered indexers simultaneously.

D. Nothing. Replicated copies of the bucket will remain on all other indexers until a local retention rule causes it to roll.

A customer wants to migrate from using Splunk local accounts to use Active Directory with LDAP for their Splunk user accounts instead. Which configuration files must be modified to connect to an Active Directory LDAP provider?

A. authentication.conf, authorize.conf, ldap.conf

B. authentication.conf, ldap.conf

C. authentication.conf

D. authorize.conf, authentication.conf

A customer is having issues with truncated events greater than 64K. What configuration should be deployed to a universal forwarder (UF) to fix the issue?

A. None. Splunk default configurations will process the events as needed; the UF is not causing truncation.

B. Configure the best practice magic 6 or great 8 props.conf settings.

C. EVENT_BREAKER_ENABLE and EVENT_BREAKER regular expression settings per sourcetype.

D. Global EVENT_BREAKER_ENABLE and EVENT_BREAKER regular expression settings.

When utilizing a subsearch within a Splunk SPL search query, which of the following statements is accurate?

A. Subsearches have to be initiated with the | subsearch command.

B. Subsearches can only be utilized with | inputlookup command.

C. Subsearches have a default result output limit of 10000.

D. There are no specific limitations when using subsearches.

In an environment that has Indexer Clustering, the Monitoring Console (MC) provides dashboards to monitor environment health. As the environment grows over time and new indexers are added, which steps would ensure the MC is aware of the additional indexers?

A. No changes are necessary, the Monitoring Console has self-configuration capabilities.

B. Using the MC setup UI, review and apply the changes.

C. Remove and re-add the cluster master from the indexer clustering UI page to add new peers, then apply the changes under the MC setup UI.

D. Each new indexer needs to be added using the distributed search UI, then settings must be saved under the MC setup UI.

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.