SPLK-3003 — Free Practice Questions
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1How does Monitoring Console (MC) initially identify the server role(s) of a new Splunk Instance?
- The MC uses a REST endpoint to query the server.
- Roles are manually assigned within the MC.
- Roles are read from distsearch.conf.
- The MC assigns all possible roles by default.
Answer: A
2A customer has downloaded the Splunk App for AWS from Splunkbase and installed it in a search head cluster following the instructions using the deployer. A power user modifies a dashboard in the app on one of the search head cluster members. The app containing an updated dashboard is upgraded to the latest version by following the instructions via the deployer.
What happens?
- The updated dashboard will not be deployed globally to all users, due to the conflict with the power user's modified version of the dashboard.
- Applying the search head cluster bundle will fail due to the conflict.
- The updated dashboard will be available to the power user.
- The updated dashboard will not be available to the power user; they will see their modified version.
Answer: D
3A 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?
- Create a tiered deployment server topology.
- Reduce the phone home interval to 6 seconds.
- Leave the phone home interval at 60 seconds.
- Increase the phone home interval to 600 seconds.
Answer: D
4Which of the following server.conf stanzas indicates the Indexer Discovery feature has not been fully configured (restart pending) on the Master Node?
A. B. C. D.
Answer:
5What is the Splunk PS recommendation when using the deployment server and building deployment apps?
- Carefully design smaller apps with specific configuration that can be reused.
- Only deploy Splunk PS base configurations via the deployment server.
- Use $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local configurations on forwarders and only deploy TAs via the deployment server.
- Carefully design bigger apps containing multiple configs.
Answer: A
6Which of the following processor occur in the indexing pipeline?
- tcp out, syslog out
- Regex replacement, annotator
- Aggregator
- UTF-8, linebreaker, header
Answer: A
7Which configuration item should be set to false to significantly improve data ingestion performance?
- AUTO_KV_JSON
- BREAK_ONLY_BEFORE_DATE
- SHOULD_LINEMERGE
- ANNOTATE_PUNCT
Answer: C
8A 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?
- Disable the indexing ports on the old indexers.
- Disable replication ports on the old indexers.
- Put the old indexers into manual detention.
- Put the old indexers into automatic detention.
Answer: C
9When a bucket rolls from cold to frozen on a clustered indexer, which of the following scenarios occurs?
- All replicated copies will be rolled to frozen; original copies will remain.
- Replicated copies of the bucket will remain on all other indexers and the Cluster Master (CM) assigns a new primary bucket.
- The bucket rolls to frozen on all clustered indexers simultaneously.
- Nothing. Replicated copies of the bucket will remain on all other indexers until a local retention rule causes it to roll.
Answer: B
10A site from a multi-site indexer cluster needs to be decommissioned. Which of the following actions must be taken?
- Nothing. Decommissioning a site is not possible.
- Create an alias for where the new data should be sent.
- Remove the site from the list of available sites.
- Remove the site from the list of available sites and create an alias for where the new data should be sent.
Answer: D
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