Splunk SPLK-3003 Exam Questions Instant Access

Question 1

Which statement is true about subsearches?

ASubsearches are faster than other types of searches.

BSubsearches work best for joining two large result sets.

CSubsearches run at the same time as their outer search.

DSubsearches work best for small result sets.

Answer : D

Question 2

A customer has written the following search:

How can the search be rewritten to maximize efficiency?

AOption A

BOption B

COption C

DOption D

Answer : C

Question 3

A customer has 30 indexers in an indexer cluster configuration and two search heads. They are working on writing SPL search for a particular use-case, but are concerned that it takes too long to run for short time durations.

How can the Search Job Inspector capabilities be used to help validate and understand the customer concerns?

ASearch Job Inspector provides statistics to show how much time and the number of events each indexer has processed.

BSearch Job Inspector provides a Search Health Check capability that provides an optimized SPL query the customer should try instead.

CSearch Job Inspector cannot be used to help troubleshoot the slow performing search; customer should review index=_introspection instead.

DThe customer is using the transaction SPL search command, which is known to be slow.

Answer : A

Question 4

How does Monitoring Console (MC) initially identify the server role(s) of a new Splunk Instance?

AThe MC uses a REST endpoint to query the server.

BRoles are manually assigned within the MC.

CRoles are read from distsearch.conf.

DThe MC assigns all possible roles by default.

Answer : C

Question 5

A customer would like to remove the output_file capability from users with the default user role to stop them from filling up the disk on the search head with lookup files. What is the best way to remove this capability from users?

ACreate a new role without the output_file capability that inherits the default user role and assign it to the users.

BCreate a new role with the output_file capability that inherits the default user role and assign it to the users.

CEdit the default user role and remove the output_file capability.

DClone the default user role, remove the output_file capability, and assign it to the users.

Answer : C

Question 6

What happens to the indexer cluster when the indexer Cluster Master (CM) runs out of disk space?

AA warm standby CM needs to be brought online as soon as possible before an indexer has an outage.

BThe indexer cluster will continue to operate as long as no indexers fail.

CIf the indexer cluster has site failover configured in the CM, the second cluster master will take over.

DThe indexer cluster will continue to operate as long as a replacement CM is deployed within 24 hours.

Answer : C

Question 7

Which of the following is the most efficient search?

Aindex=www status=200 uri=/cart/checkout | append [search index = sales] | stats count, sum(revenue) as total_revenue by session_id | table total_revenue session_id

B(index=www status=200 uri=/cart/checkout) OR (index=sales) | stats count, sum (revenue) as total_revenue by session_id | table total_revenue session_id

Cindex=www | append [search index = sales] | stats count, sum(revenue) as total_revenue by session_id | table total_revenue session_id

D(index=www) OR (index=sales) | search (index=www status=200 uri=/cart/checkout) OR (index=sales) | stats count, sum(revenue) as total_revenue by session_id | table total_revenue session_id

Answer : B

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