Splunk Consultant 2024/2025 Exam
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Define Splunk SVAs
Indexers
S - Single Instance
D - Distributed
C - Clustered
M - Multi Site Cluster
Search Heads
1 - Single Search Head
2 - Distributed Search Head
3 - Search Head Cluster
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,4 - Multi Site Search Head Cluster
10+ - Dedicated Enterprise Security Search Head Cluster - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔C3 - Index Cluster w/ Search Head Cluster
D1 - Distributed Indexes and 1 Search Head
C12 - Index Cluster w/ 1 Core Search Head and 1 Enterprise Security
Search Head Cluster
M14 - Multi Site Index Cluster w/ Multi Site Search Head Cluster and
Dedicated Enterprise Security Search Head Cluster
Articulate how and why Splunk grows from standalone environment to
distributed environment with indexer and search head clustering - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔- More Data
- Distributed Search
- High availability
- Security Data
- Disaster Recovery
- Cloud/Hybrid
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,Explain the difference between high availability and Disaster Recovery and
how both can be addressed in Splunk - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- High Availability
(Distributed Search within an Indexer Cluster)
- Disaster Recovery (Failover with Multi Site Clustering)
Are SVA's topologies that provide customers proven architectures? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔No, they're starter points and then you have to talk to the
Sales Manager
Customer has been using an AIO box for years. Lately it's been struggling
to keep up with the ingest rates as of lately. How would you approach
changing the architecture? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Option 1 was to give them to
the sales team because they probably need a new license.
Option 4 was to point them to the SVAs
What's the SVA architecture for a multisite indexer cluster and multisite
Search Head Cluster without Enterprise Security? What about with ES? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔M4, M14
Customer is worried about Disaster Recovery, what would you suggest to
deploy? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Multisite
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, Describe which instances are suitable to configure as a MC - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Standalone Search Head
Articulate how to configure the MC for single or distributed environment - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Distributed Search Peers are:
- Search Heads or Clustered Search Heads
- Deployment Server
- License Master
- Non-Clustered indexers
- For an Index Cluster, add the Cluster Master
- Heavy Forwarder's
- Forwarders are indirectly monitored via Forwarder Monitoring
Examine how the MC uses server roles and groups - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Roles
are setup in the Distributed MC. And then put into distsearch.conf
You can segregate roles into groups by editing distsearch.conf directly
- [distributedSearch:NYC]
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Define Splunk SVAs
Indexers
S - Single Instance
D - Distributed
C - Clustered
M - Multi Site Cluster
Search Heads
1 - Single Search Head
2 - Distributed Search Head
3 - Search Head Cluster
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,4 - Multi Site Search Head Cluster
10+ - Dedicated Enterprise Security Search Head Cluster - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔C3 - Index Cluster w/ Search Head Cluster
D1 - Distributed Indexes and 1 Search Head
C12 - Index Cluster w/ 1 Core Search Head and 1 Enterprise Security
Search Head Cluster
M14 - Multi Site Index Cluster w/ Multi Site Search Head Cluster and
Dedicated Enterprise Security Search Head Cluster
Articulate how and why Splunk grows from standalone environment to
distributed environment with indexer and search head clustering - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔- More Data
- Distributed Search
- High availability
- Security Data
- Disaster Recovery
- Cloud/Hybrid
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,Explain the difference between high availability and Disaster Recovery and
how both can be addressed in Splunk - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- High Availability
(Distributed Search within an Indexer Cluster)
- Disaster Recovery (Failover with Multi Site Clustering)
Are SVA's topologies that provide customers proven architectures? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔No, they're starter points and then you have to talk to the
Sales Manager
Customer has been using an AIO box for years. Lately it's been struggling
to keep up with the ingest rates as of lately. How would you approach
changing the architecture? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Option 1 was to give them to
the sales team because they probably need a new license.
Option 4 was to point them to the SVAs
What's the SVA architecture for a multisite indexer cluster and multisite
Search Head Cluster without Enterprise Security? What about with ES? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔M4, M14
Customer is worried about Disaster Recovery, what would you suggest to
deploy? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Multisite
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, Describe which instances are suitable to configure as a MC - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Standalone Search Head
Articulate how to configure the MC for single or distributed environment - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Distributed Search Peers are:
- Search Heads or Clustered Search Heads
- Deployment Server
- License Master
- Non-Clustered indexers
- For an Index Cluster, add the Cluster Master
- Heavy Forwarder's
- Forwarders are indirectly monitored via Forwarder Monitoring
Examine how the MC uses server roles and groups - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Roles
are setup in the Distributed MC. And then put into distsearch.conf
You can segregate roles into groups by editing distsearch.conf directly
- [distributedSearch:NYC]
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