Splunk SPLK-3003 Exam Practice Test Instant Access

Question 1

Report acceleration has been enabled for a specific use case. In which bucket location is the corresponding CSV file located?

AthawedPath

BsummaryHomePath

CtstatsHomePath

DhomePath, coldPath

Answer : B

Question 2

A customer has been using Splunk for one year, utilizing a single/all-in-one instance. This single Splunk server is now struggling to cope with the daily ingest rate. Also, Splunk has become a vital system in day-to-day operations making high availability a consideration for the Splunk service. The customer is unsure how to design the new environment topology in order to provide this.

Which resource would help the customer gather the requirements for their new architecture?

ADirect the customer to the docs.splunk.com and tell them that all the information to help them select the right design is documented there.

BAsk the customer to engage with the sales team immediately as they probably need a larger license.

CRefer the customer to answers.splunk.com as someone else has probably already designed a system that meets their requirements.

DRefer the customer to the Splunk Validated Architectures document in order to guide them through which approved architectures could meet their requirements.

Answer : D

Question 3

In a large cloud customer environment with many (>100) dynamically created endpoint systems, each with a UF already deployed, what is the best approach for associating these systems with an appropriate serverclass on the deployment server?

AWork with the cloud orchestration team to create a common host-naming convention for these systems so a simple pattern can be used in the serverclass.conf whitelist attribute.

BCreate a CSV lookup file for each severclass, manually keep track of the endpoints within this CSV file, and leverage the whitelist.from_pathname attribute in serverclass.conf.

CWork with the cloud orchestration team to dynamically insert an appropriate clientName setting into each endpoint's local/deploymentclient.conf which can be matched by whitelist in serverclass.conf.

DUsing an installation bootstrap script run a CLI command to assign a clientName setting and permit
serverclass.conf whitelist simplification.

Answer : C

Question 4

A customer has a search cluster (SHC) of six members split evenly between two data centers (DC). The customer is concerned with network connectivity between the two DCs due to frequent outages. Which of the following is true as it relates to SHC resiliency when a network outage occurs between the two DCs?

AThe SHC will function as expected as the SHC deployer will become the new captain until the network communication is restored.

BThe SHC will stop all scheduled search activity within the SHC.

CThe SHC will function as expected as the minimum required number of nodes for a SHC is 3.

DThe SHC will function as expected as the SHC captain will fall back to previous active captain in the remaining site.

Answer : D

Question 5

A customer has asked for a five-node search head cluster (SHC), but does not have the storage budget to use a replication factor greater than 2. They would like to understand what might happen in terms of the users' ability to view historic scheduled search results if they log onto a search head which doesn't contain one of the 2 copies of a given search artifact.

Which of the following statements best describes what would happen in this scenario?

AThe search head that the user has logged onto will proxy the required artifact over to itself from a search head that currently holds a copy. A copy will also be replicated from that search head permanently, so it is available for future use.

BBecause the dispatch folder containing the search results is not present on the search head, the user will not be able to view the search results.

CThe user will not be able to see the results of the search until one of the search heads is restarted, forcing synchronization of all dispatched artifacts across all search heads.

DThe user will not be able to see the results of the search until the Splunk administrator issues the apply shcluster-bundle command on the search head deployer, forcing synchronization of all dispatched artifacts across all search heads.

Answer : A

Question 6

A customer has a Universal Forwarder (UF) with an inputs.conf monitoring its splunkd.log. The data is sent through a heavy forwarder to an indexer. Where does the Index time parsing occur?

AIndexer

BUniversal forwarder

CSearch head

DHeavy forwarder

Answer : D

Question 7

When using SAML, where does user authentication occur?

ASplunk generates a SAML assertion that authenticates the user.

BThe Service Provider (SP) decodes the SAML request and authenticates the user.

CThe Identity Provider (IDP) decodes the SAML request and authenticates the user.

DThe Service Provider (SP) generates a SAML assertion that authenticates the user.

Answer : A

Splunk SPLK-3003 Splunk Core Certified Consultant Exam Practice Test