Exam 7: Splunk Core Certified Consultant

As a best practice which of the following should be used to ingest data on clustered indexers?

As data enters the indexer, it proceeds through a pipeline where event processing occurs. In which pipeline does line breaking occur?

A customer has a new set of hardware to replace their aging indexers. What method would reduce the amount of bucket replication operations during the migration process?

When a bucket rolls from cold to frozen on a clustered indexer, which of the following scenarios occurs?

Which configuration item should be set to false to significantly improve data ingestion performance?

A customer with a large distributed environment has blacklisted a large lookup from the search bundle to decrease the bundle size using distsearch.conf . After this change, when running searches utilizing the that was blacklisted they see error messages in the Splunk Search UI stating the file does not exist. What can the customer do to resolve the issue?

A customer has downloaded the Splunk App for AWS from Splunkbase and installed it in a search head cluster following the instructions using the deployer. A power user modifies a dashboard in the app on one of the search head cluster members. The app containing an updated dashboard is upgraded to the latest version by following the instructions via the deployer. What happens?

A customer wants to implement LDAP because managing local Splunk users is becoming too much of an overhead. What configuration details are needed from the customer to implement LDAP authentication?

Which event processing pipeline contains the regex replacement processor that would be called upon to run event masking routines on events as they are ingested?

A customer wants to understand how Splunk bucket types (hot, warm, cold) impact search performance within their environment. Their indexers have a single storage device for all data. What is the proper message to communicate to the customer?

What happens when an index cluster peer freezes a bucket?

What is required to setup the HTTP Event Collector (HEC)?

In addition to the normal responsibilities of a search head cluster captain, which of the following is a default behavior?

Which of the following is the most efficient search?

In which directory should base config app(s) be placed to initialize an indexer?

When using SAML, where does user authentication occur?

In which of the following scenarios is a subsearch the most appropriate?

Which of the following statements applies to indexer discovery?

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?

Data can be onboarded using apps, Splunk Web, or the CLI. Which is the PS preferred method?