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Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect
Exam Questions and Answers 100%
Pass
1
Which of the following will cause the greatest reduction in disk size
requirements for a cluster of N indexers running Splunk Enterprise
Security?
A. Setting the cluster search factor to N-1.
B. Increasing the number of buckets per index.
C. Decreasing the data model acceleration range.
D. Setting the cluster replication factor to N-1. - ✔✔A
2
Stakeholders have identified high availability for searchable data as their
top priority. Which of the following best addresses this requirement?
A. Increasing the search factor in the cluster.
B. Increasing the replication factor in the cluster.
C. Increasing the number of search heads in the cluster.
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D. Increasing the number of CPUs on the indexers in the cluster. - ✔✔A
3 Search dashboards in the Monitoring Console indicate that the distributed
deployment is approaching its capacity. Which of the following options will
provide the most search performance improvement?
A. Replace the indexer storage to solid state drives (SSD).
B. Add more search heads and redistribute users based on the search
type.
C. Look for slow searches and reschedule them to run during an off-peak
time.
D. Add more search peers and make sure forwarders distribute data
evenly across all indexers. - ✔✔D
4
A Splunk architect has inherited the Splunk deployment at Buttercup
Games and end users are complaining that the events are inconsistently
formatted for a web sourcetype. Further investigation reveals that not all
web logs flow through the same infrastructure: some of the data goes
through heavy forwarders and some of the forwarders are managed by
another department. Which of the following items might be the cause for
this issue?
A. The search head may have different configurations than the indexers.
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B. The data inputs are not properly configured across all the forwarders.
C. The indexers may have different configurations than the heavy
forwarders.
D. The forwarders managed by the other department are an older version
than the rest. - ✔✔B
5 A customer has installed a 500GB Enterprise license. They also
purchased and installed a 300GB, no enforcement license on the same
license master. How much data can the customer ingest before search is
locked out?
A. 300GB. After this limit, search is locked out.
B. 500GB. After this limit, search is locked out.
C. 800GB. After this limit, search is locked out.
D. Search is not locked out. Violations are still recorded. - ✔✔D
6 What does the deployer do in a Search Head Cluster (SHC)? (Select all
that apply.)
A. Distributes apps to SHC members.
B. Bootstraps a clean Splunk install for a SHC.
C. Distributes non-search related and manual configuration file changes.
D. Distributes runtime knowledge object changes made by users across
the SHC. - ✔✔A/C
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7
When using the props.conf LINE_BREAKER attribute to delimit multi-line
events, the SHOULD_LINEMERGE attribute should be set to what?
A. Auto
B. None
C. True
D. False - ✔✔D
8 Which of the following should be included in a deployment plan?
A. Business continuity and disaster recovery plans.
B. Current logging details and data source inventory.
C. Current and future topology diagrams of the IT environment.
D. A comprehensive list of stakeholders, either direct or indirect. - ✔✔B/D
9 A multi-site indexer cluster can be configured using which of the
following? (Select all that apply.)
A. Via Splunk Web.
B. Directly edit SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/server.conf
C. Run a splunk edit cluster-config command from the CLI.
D. Directly edit SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/default/server.conf - ✔✔B/C
Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect
Exam Questions and Answers 100%
Pass
1
Which of the following will cause the greatest reduction in disk size
requirements for a cluster of N indexers running Splunk Enterprise
Security?
A. Setting the cluster search factor to N-1.
B. Increasing the number of buckets per index.
C. Decreasing the data model acceleration range.
D. Setting the cluster replication factor to N-1. - ✔✔A
2
Stakeholders have identified high availability for searchable data as their
top priority. Which of the following best addresses this requirement?
A. Increasing the search factor in the cluster.
B. Increasing the replication factor in the cluster.
C. Increasing the number of search heads in the cluster.
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D. Increasing the number of CPUs on the indexers in the cluster. - ✔✔A
3 Search dashboards in the Monitoring Console indicate that the distributed
deployment is approaching its capacity. Which of the following options will
provide the most search performance improvement?
A. Replace the indexer storage to solid state drives (SSD).
B. Add more search heads and redistribute users based on the search
type.
C. Look for slow searches and reschedule them to run during an off-peak
time.
D. Add more search peers and make sure forwarders distribute data
evenly across all indexers. - ✔✔D
4
A Splunk architect has inherited the Splunk deployment at Buttercup
Games and end users are complaining that the events are inconsistently
formatted for a web sourcetype. Further investigation reveals that not all
web logs flow through the same infrastructure: some of the data goes
through heavy forwarders and some of the forwarders are managed by
another department. Which of the following items might be the cause for
this issue?
A. The search head may have different configurations than the indexers.
,©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
B. The data inputs are not properly configured across all the forwarders.
C. The indexers may have different configurations than the heavy
forwarders.
D. The forwarders managed by the other department are an older version
than the rest. - ✔✔B
5 A customer has installed a 500GB Enterprise license. They also
purchased and installed a 300GB, no enforcement license on the same
license master. How much data can the customer ingest before search is
locked out?
A. 300GB. After this limit, search is locked out.
B. 500GB. After this limit, search is locked out.
C. 800GB. After this limit, search is locked out.
D. Search is not locked out. Violations are still recorded. - ✔✔D
6 What does the deployer do in a Search Head Cluster (SHC)? (Select all
that apply.)
A. Distributes apps to SHC members.
B. Bootstraps a clean Splunk install for a SHC.
C. Distributes non-search related and manual configuration file changes.
D. Distributes runtime knowledge object changes made by users across
the SHC. - ✔✔A/C
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7
When using the props.conf LINE_BREAKER attribute to delimit multi-line
events, the SHOULD_LINEMERGE attribute should be set to what?
A. Auto
B. None
C. True
D. False - ✔✔D
8 Which of the following should be included in a deployment plan?
A. Business continuity and disaster recovery plans.
B. Current logging details and data source inventory.
C. Current and future topology diagrams of the IT environment.
D. A comprehensive list of stakeholders, either direct or indirect. - ✔✔B/D
9 A multi-site indexer cluster can be configured using which of the
following? (Select all that apply.)
A. Via Splunk Web.
B. Directly edit SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/server.conf
C. Run a splunk edit cluster-config command from the CLI.
D. Directly edit SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/default/server.conf - ✔✔B/C
