Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect SPLK-2002 Exam Practice Test

Answer : A, B, C

A deployment plan should include business continuity and disaster recovery plans, current logging details and data source inventory, and current and future topology diagrams of the IT environment. These elements are essential for planning, designing, and implementing a Splunk deployment that meets the business and technical requirements. A comprehensive list of stakeholders, either direct or indirect, is not part of the deployment plan, but rather part of the project charter. For more information, seeDeployment planningin the Splunk documentation.

Answer : C

The default interval at which metrics.log generates a periodic report regarding license utilization is 60 seconds. This report contains information about the license usage and quota for each Splunk instance, as well as the license pool and stack. The report is generated every 60 seconds by default, but this interval can be changed by modifying the license_usage stanza in the metrics.conf file. The other intervals (10 seconds, 30 seconds, and 300 seconds) are not the default values, but they can be set by the administrator if needed. For more information, seeAbout metrics.logandConfigure metrics.login the Splunk documentation.

Answer : B

According to the Splunk documentation1, the Splunk Deployer deploys app content to the etc/slave-apps/ directory on the search head cluster members by default. This directory contains the apps that the deployer distributes to the members as part of the configuration bundle. The other options are false because:

The etc/apps/ directory contains the apps that are installed locally on each member, not the apps that are distributed by the deployer2.

The etc/shcluster/ directory contains the configuration files for the search head cluster, not the apps that are distributed by the deployer3.

The etc/deploy-apps/ directory is not a valid Splunk directory, as it does not exist in the Splunk file system structure4.

Answer : C

According to the Splunk documentation1, the CHARSET setting in props.conf specifies the character set encoding of the source data. This setting has the least impact on indexing performance, as it only affects how Splunk interprets the bytes of the data, not how it processes or transforms the data. The other options are false because:

The SHOULD_LINEMERGE setting in props.conf determines whether Splunk breaks events based on timestamps or newlines.This setting has a significant impact on indexing performance, as it affects how Splunk parses the data and identifies the boundaries of the events2.

The TRUNCATE setting in props.conf specifies the maximum number of characters that Splunk indexes from a single line of a file.This setting has a moderate impact on indexing performance, as it affects how much data Splunk reads and writes to the index3.

The TIME_PREFIX setting in props.conf specifies the prefix that directly precedes the timestamp in the event data.This setting has a moderate impact on indexing performance, as it affects how Splunk extracts the timestamp and assigns it to the event

Answer : D

Adding more search peers and making sure forwarders distribute data evenly across all indexers will provide the most search performance improvement when the distributed deployment is approaching its capacity. Adding more search peers will increase the search concurrency and reduce the load on each indexer. Distributing data evenly across all indexers will ensure that the search workload is balanced and no indexer becomes a bottleneck. Replacing the indexer storage to SSD will improve the search performance, but it is a costly and time-consuming option. Adding more search heads will not improve the search performance if the indexers are the bottleneck. Rescheduling slow searches to run during an off-peak time will reduce the search contention, but it will not improve the search performance for each individual search. For more information, see [Scale your indexer cluster] and [Distribute data across your indexers] in the Splunk documentation.

Answer : C

The master node distributes configuration bundles to peer nodes in theslave-appsdirectory under$SPLUNK_HOME/etc. The configuration bundle method is the only supported method for managing common configurations and app deployment across the set of peers.It ensures that all peers use the same versions of these files1.Bundles typically contain a subset of files (configuration files and assets) from$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system,$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps, and$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/users2.The process of distributing knowledge bundles means that peers by default receive nearly the entire contents of the search head's apps3.

Answer : C

The indexers may have different configurations than the heavy forwarders, which might cause the issue of inconsistently formatted events for a web sourcetype. The heavy forwarders perform parsing and indexing on the data before sending it to the indexers. If the indexers have different configurations than the heavy forwarders, such as different props.conf or transforms.conf settings, the data may be parsed or indexed differently on the indexers, resulting in inconsistent events. The search head configurations do not affect the event formatting, as the search head does not parse or index the data. The data inputs configurations on the forwarders do not affect the event formatting, as the data inputs only determine what data to collect and how to monitor it. The forwarder version does not affect the event formatting, as long as the forwarder is compatible with the indexer. For more information, see [Heavy forwarder versus indexer] and [Configure event processing] in the Splunk documentation.