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Splunk Administrator Exam Questions
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Which installer would you use to install a search head?
A. Splunk Enterprise
B. Universal Forwarder
C. Splunk Light Forwarder - ✔✔A
When you install Splunk on Windows, you're required to configure if Splunk
starts on system boot.
True or False? - ✔✔False, this is only required for Linux installations
The default Splunk Web port is set to 8000.
True or False? - ✔✔True
Splunk provides separate licenses for metrics and events data.
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True or False? - ✔✔False, metrics data draws from the same license quota
as event data
Search Heads also need an Enterprise License (or set as a slave to a
License Master with an Enterprise License) even though you have not
configured any inputs.
True or False? - ✔✔True
If the indexing exceeds the daily license quota in a pool, your license will go
into a violation.
True or False? - ✔✔False, if the indexing exceeds the allocated daily quota
in a pool, an alert is raised. If it is not fixed by midnight then the alert turns
into a warning.
5 or more warnings on an enforced Enterprise license or 3 warnings on a
Free license (in a rolling 30-day period), results in a violation.
True or False? - ✔✔True
Write permissions to an App means the user's role is able to modify the
App.
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True or False? - ✔✔False, the user's role with write permissions can only
manipulate knowledge objects used in the App.
Universal forwarders don't have a web interface, but they can still benefit
from an app.
True or False? - ✔✔True
Which configuration file tells a Splunk instance to ingest data?
A. transforms.conf
B. props.conf
C. outputs.conf
D. inputs.conf - ✔✔D
When Splunk starts, configuration files are merged together into a single
run time model for each file type.
True or False? - ✔✔True
btool shows on-disk configurations for a requested file.
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True or False? - ✔✔True
By default, Splunk automatically sets the frozen path when you create an
index.
True or False? - ✔✔False, frozen path is not set by default. Data is set to
delete by default.
When hot buckets roll to warm, they go to a different directory.
True or False? - ✔✔False, hot and warm buckets stay in the same
directory. When hot buckets roll to warm, they are renamed.
_introspection index tracks system performance and Splunk resource
usage data.
True or False? - ✔✔True
Frozen buckets roll to Thawed automatically.
True or False? - ✔✔False, to thaw a frozen bucket, you have to start by
copying the bucket directory from the frozen directory to the index's
thaweddb directory
Splunk Administrator Exam Questions
and Answers 100% Solved
Which installer would you use to install a search head?
A. Splunk Enterprise
B. Universal Forwarder
C. Splunk Light Forwarder - ✔✔A
When you install Splunk on Windows, you're required to configure if Splunk
starts on system boot.
True or False? - ✔✔False, this is only required for Linux installations
The default Splunk Web port is set to 8000.
True or False? - ✔✔True
Splunk provides separate licenses for metrics and events data.
,©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
True or False? - ✔✔False, metrics data draws from the same license quota
as event data
Search Heads also need an Enterprise License (or set as a slave to a
License Master with an Enterprise License) even though you have not
configured any inputs.
True or False? - ✔✔True
If the indexing exceeds the daily license quota in a pool, your license will go
into a violation.
True or False? - ✔✔False, if the indexing exceeds the allocated daily quota
in a pool, an alert is raised. If it is not fixed by midnight then the alert turns
into a warning.
5 or more warnings on an enforced Enterprise license or 3 warnings on a
Free license (in a rolling 30-day period), results in a violation.
True or False? - ✔✔True
Write permissions to an App means the user's role is able to modify the
App.
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True or False? - ✔✔False, the user's role with write permissions can only
manipulate knowledge objects used in the App.
Universal forwarders don't have a web interface, but they can still benefit
from an app.
True or False? - ✔✔True
Which configuration file tells a Splunk instance to ingest data?
A. transforms.conf
B. props.conf
C. outputs.conf
D. inputs.conf - ✔✔D
When Splunk starts, configuration files are merged together into a single
run time model for each file type.
True or False? - ✔✔True
btool shows on-disk configurations for a requested file.
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True or False? - ✔✔True
By default, Splunk automatically sets the frozen path when you create an
index.
True or False? - ✔✔False, frozen path is not set by default. Data is set to
delete by default.
When hot buckets roll to warm, they go to a different directory.
True or False? - ✔✔False, hot and warm buckets stay in the same
directory. When hot buckets roll to warm, they are renamed.
_introspection index tracks system performance and Splunk resource
usage data.
True or False? - ✔✔True
Frozen buckets roll to Thawed automatically.
True or False? - ✔✔False, to thaw a frozen bucket, you have to start by
copying the bucket directory from the frozen directory to the index's
thaweddb directory
