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SPLK-1003 Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin Questions and Answers

Questions 4

Given a forwarder with the following outputs.conf configuration:

[tcpout : mypartner]

Server = 145.188.183.184:9097

[tcpout : hfbank]

server = inputsl . mysplunkhfs . corp : 9997 , inputs2 . mysplunkhfs . corp : 9997

Which of the following is a true statement?

Options:

A.

Data will continue to flow to hfbank if 145.1 ga. 183.184 : 9097 is unreachable.

B.

Data is not encrypted to mypartner because 145.188 .183.184 : 9097 is specified by IP.

C.

Data is encrypted to mypartner because 145.183.184 : 9097 is specified by IP.

D.

Data will eventually stop flowing everywhere if 145.188.183.184 : 9097 is unreachable.

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Questions 5

After an Enterprise Trial license expires, it will automatically convert to a Free license. How many days is an Enterprise Trial license valid before this conversion occurs?

Options:

A.

90 days

B.

60 days

C.

7 days

D.

14 days

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Questions 6

Search heads in a company's European offices need to be able to search data in their New York offices. They also need to restrict access to certain indexers. What should be configured to allow this type of action?

Options:

A.

Indexer clustering

B.

LDAP control

C.

Distributed search

D.

Search head clustering

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Questions 7

The priority of layered Splunk configuration files depends on the file's:

Options:

A.

Owner

B.

Weight

C.

Context

D.

Creation time

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Questions 8

Which Splunk component performs indexing and responds to search requests from the search head?

Options:

A.

Forwarder

B.

Search peer

C.

License master

D.

Search head cluster

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Questions 9

Where are deployment server apps mapped to clients?

Options:

A.

Apps tab in forwarder management interface or clientapps.conf.

B.

Clients tab in forwarder management interface or deploymentclient.conf.

C.

Server Classes tab in forwarder management interface or serverclass.conf.

D.

Client Applications tab in forwarder management interface or clientapps.conf.

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Questions 10

Within props. conf, which stanzas are valid for data modification? (select all that apply)

Options:

A.

Host

B.

Server

C.

Source

D.

Sourcetype

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Questions 11

Syslog files are being monitored on a Heavy Forwarder.

Where would the appropriate TRANSFORMS setting be deployed to reroute logs based on the event message?

Options:

A.

Heavy Forwarder

B.

Indexer

C.

Search head

D.

Deployment server

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Questions 12

Which forwarder type can parse data prior to forwarding?

Options:

A.

Universal forwarder

B.

Heaviest forwarder

C.

Hyper forwarder

D.

Heavy forwarder

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Questions 13

What action is required to enable forwarder management in Splunk Web?

Options:

A.

Navigate to Settings > Server Settings > General Settings, and set an App server port.

B.

Navigate to Settings > Forwarding and receiving, and click on Enable Forwarding.

C.

Create a server class and map it to a client inSPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/serverclass.conf.

D.

Place an app in theSPLUNK_HOME/etc/deployment-appsdirectory of the deployment server.

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Questions 14

Where should apps be located on the deployment server that the clients pull from?

Options:

A.

$SFLUNK_KOME/etc/apps

B.

$SPLUNK_HCME/etc/sear:ch

C.

$SPLUNK_HCME/etc/master-apps

D.

$SPLUNK HCME/etc/deployment-apps

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Questions 15

Which setting allows the configuration of Splunk to allow events to span over more than one line?

Options:

A.

SHOULD_LINEMERGE = true

B.

BREAK_ONLY_BEFORE_DATE = true

C.

BREAK_ONLY_BEFORE =

D.

SHOULD_LINEMERGE = false

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Questions 16

All search-time field extractions should be specified on which Splunk component?

Options:

A.

Deployment server

B.

Universal forwarder

C.

Indexer

D.

Search head

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Questions 17

Which file will be matched for the following monitor stanza in inputs. conf?

[monitor: ///var/log/*/bar/*. txt]

Options:

A.

/var/log/host_460352847/temp/bar/file/csv/foo.txt

B.

/var/log/host_460352847/bar/foo.txt

C.

/var/log/host_460352847/bar/file/foo.txt

D.

/var/ log/ host_460352847/temp/bar/file/foo.txt

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Questions 18

After how many warnings within a rolling 30-day period will a license violation occur with an enforced

Enterprise license?

Options:

A.

1

B.

3

C.

4

D.

5

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Questions 19

What type of Splunk license is pre-selected in a brand new Splunk installation?

Options:

A.

Free license

B.

Forwarder license

C.

Enterprise trial license

D.

Enterprise license

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Questions 20

Which layers are involved in Splunk configuration file layering? (select all that apply)

Options:

A.

App context

B.

User context

C.

Global context

D.

Forwarder context

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Questions 21

Where can scripts for scripted inputs reside on the host file system? (select all that apply)

Options:

A.

$SFLUNK_HOME/bin/scripts

B.

$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/bin

C.

$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/bin

D.

$S?LUNK_HOME/etc/apps//bin_

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Questions 22

What conf file needs to be edited to set up distributed search groups?

Options:

A.

props.conf

B.

search.conf

C.

distsearch.conf

D.

distibutedsearch.conf

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Questions 23

What will the following inputs. conf stanza do?

[script://myscript . sh]

Interval=0

Options:

A.

The script will run at the default interval of 60 seconds.

B.

The script will not be run.

C.

The script will be run only once for each time Splunk is restarted.

D.

The script will be run. As soon as the script exits, Splunk restarts it.

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Questions 24

How often does Splunk recheck the LDAP server?

Options:

A.

Every 5 minutes

B.

Each time a user logs in

C.

Each time Splunk is restarted

D.

Varies based on LDAP_refresh setting.

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Questions 25

In which Splunk configuration is the SEDCMD used?

Options:

A.

props, conf

B.

inputs.conf

C.

indexes.conf

D.

transforms.conf

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Questions 26

What is an example of a proper configuration for CHARSET within props.conf?

Options:

A.

[host: : server. splunk. com]CHARSET = BIG5

B.

[index: :main]CHARSET = BIG5

C.

[sourcetype: : son]CHARSET = BIG5

D.

[source: : /var/log/ splunk]CHARSET = BIG5

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Questions 27

Which of the following Splunk components require a separate installation package?

Options:

A.

Deployment server

B.

License master

C.

Universal forwarder

D.

Heavy forwarder

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Questions 28

An admin updates the Role to Group mapping for external authentication. How does the change affect users that are currently logged into Splunk?

Options:

A.

Users will continue to operate under their previous role until the next time they log into Splunk.

B.

Search is disabled until users reauthenticate.

C.

Only newly created user accounts are affected by the role change.

D.

The role update terminates the user’s current session, and they have to log back in.

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Questions 29

Which of the following is a valid method to create a Splunk user?

Options:

A.

Create a support ticket.

B.

Create a user on the host operating system.

C.

Splunk REST API.

D.

Add the username to users. conf.

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Questions 30

How can native authentication be disabled in Splunk?

Options:

A.

Remove the $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/passwd file

B.

Create an empty $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/passwd file

C.

Set SPLUNK_AUTHENTICATION=false in splunk-launch.conf

D.

Set nativeAuthentication=false in authentication.conf

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Questions 31

How would you configure your distsearch conf to allow you to run the search below? sourcetype=access_combined status=200 action=purchase splunk_setver_group=HOUSTON

A)

SPLK-1003 Question 31

B)

SPLK-1003 Question 31

C)

SPLK-1003 Question 31

D)

SPLK-1003 Question 31

Options:

A.

option A

B.

Option B

C.

Option C

D.

Option D

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Questions 32

Social Security Numbers (PII) data is found in log events, which is against company policy. SSN format is as

follows: 123-44-5678.

Which configuration file and stanza pair will mask possible SSNs in the log events?

Options:

A.

props.conf[mask-SSN]REX = (?ms)^(.)\<[SSN>\d{3}-?\d{2}-?(\d{4}.*)$"FORMAT = $1###-##-$2KEY = _raw

B.

props.conf[mask-SSN]REGEX = (?ms)^(.)\<[SSN>\d{3}-?\d{2}-?(\d{4}.*)$"FORMAT = $1###-##-$2DEST_KEY = _raw

C.

transforms.conf[mask-SSN]REX = (?ms)^(.)\<[SSN>\d{3}-?\d{2}-?(\d{4}.*)$"FORMAT = $1###-##-$2DEST_KEY = _raw

D.

transforms.conf[mask-SSN]REGEX = (?ms)^(.)\<[SSN>\d{3}-?\d{2}-?(\d{4}.*)$"FORMAT = $1###-##-$2DEST_KEY = _raw

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Questions 33

Which Splunk component distributes apps and certain other configuration updates to search head cluster members?

Options:

A.

Deployer

B.

Cluster master

C.

Deployment server

D.

Search head cluster master

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Questions 34

Assume a file is being monitored and the data was incorrectly indexed to an exclusive index. The index is

cleaned and now the data must be reindexed. What other index must be cleaned to reset the input checkpoint

information for that file?

Options:

A.

_audit

B.

_checkpoint

C.

_introspection

D.

_thefishbucket

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Questions 35

Which of the following apply to how distributed search works? (select all that apply)

Options:

A.

The search head dispatches searches to the peers

B.

The search peers pull the data from the forwarders.

C.

Peers run searches in parallel and return their portion of results.

D.

The search head consolidates the individual results and prepares reports

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Questions 36

Consider a company with a Splunk distributed environment in production. The Compliance Department wants to start using Splunk; however, they want to ensure that no one can see their reports or any other knowledge objects. Which Splunk Component can be added to implement this policy for the new team?

Options:

A.

Indexer

B.

Deployment server

C.

Universal forwarder

D.

Search head

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Questions 37

In case of a conflict between a whitelist and a blacklist input setting, which one is used?

Options:

A.

Blacklist

B.

Whitelist

C.

They cancel each other out.

D.

Whichever is entered into the configuration first.

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Questions 38

Which additional component is required for a search head cluster?

Options:

A.

Deployer

B.

Cluster Master

C.

Monitoring Console

D.

Management Console

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Questions 39

Which configuration files are used to transform raw data ingested by Splunk? (Choose all that apply.)

Options:

A.

props.conf

B.

inputs.conf

C.

rawdata.conf

D.

transforms.conf

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Questions 40

The CLI command splunk add forward-server indexer: will create stanza(s) in

which configuration file?

Options:

A.

inputs.conf

B.

indexes.conf

C.

outputs.conf

D.

servers.conf

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Questions 41

Which of the following accurately describes HTTP Event Collector indexer acknowledgement?

Options:

A.

It requires a separate channel provided by the client.

B.

It is configured the same as indexer acknowledgement used to protect in-flight data.

C.

It can be enabled at the global setting level.

D.

It stores status information on the Splunk server.

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Questions 42

Load balancing on a Universal Forwarder is not scaling correctly. The forwarder's outputs. and the tcpout stanza are setup correctly. What else could be the cause of this scaling issue? (select all that apply)

Options:

A.

The receiving port is not properly setup to listen on the right port.

B.

The inputs . conf'S _SYSZOG_ROVTING is not setup to use the right group names.

C.

The DNS record used is not setup with a valid list of IP addresses.

D.

The indexAndForward value is not set properly.

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Questions 43

A security team needs to ingest a static file for a specific incident. The log file has not been collected previously and future updates to the file must not be indexed.

Which command would meet these needs?

Options:

A.

splunk add one shot / opt/ incident [data .log —index incident

B.

splunk edit monitor /opt/incident/data.* —index incident

C.

splunk add monitor /opt/incident/data.log —index incident

D.

splunk edit oneshot [opt/ incident/data.* —index incident

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Questions 44

What hardware attribute would need to be changed to increase the number of simultaneous searches (ad-hoc and scheduled) on a single search head?

Options:

A.

Disk

B.

CPUs

C.

Memory

D.

Network interface cards

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Questions 45

A log file contains 193 days worth of timestamped events. Which monitor stanza would be used to collect data 45 days old and newer from that log file?

Options:

A.

followTail = -45d

B.

ignore = 45d

C.

includeNewerThan = -35d

D.

ignoreOlderThan = 45d

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Questions 46

Which of the following is an appropriate description of a deployment server in a non-cluster environment?

Options:

A.

Allows management of local Splunk instances, requires Enterprise license, handles job of sending configurations packaged as apps. can automatically restart remote Splunk instances.

B.

Allows management of remote Splunk instances, requires Enterprise license, handles job of sending configurations, can automatically restart remote Splunk instances.

C.

Allows management of remote Splunk instances, requires no license, handles job of sending configurations, can automatically restart remote Splunk instances.

D.

Allows management of remote Splunk instances, requires Enterprise license, handles job of sending configurations, can manually restart remote Splunk instances.

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Questions 47

Which of the following indexes come pre-configured with Splunk Enterprise? (select all that apply)

Options:

A.

_license

B.

_lnternal

C.

_external

D.

_thefishbucket

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Questions 48

A user is assigned two roles with the following search filters. What is the user's applied search filter?

SPLK-1003 Question 48

Options:

A.

SPLK-1003 Question 48 Option 1

B.

B. 48

C.

C. 48

D.

D. 48

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Questions 49

TheLINE_BREAKERattribute is configured in which configuration file?

Options:

A.

props.conf

B.

indexes.conf

C.

inpucs.conf

D.

transforms.conf

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Questions 50

Windows can prevent a Splunk forwarder from reading open files. If files need to be read while they are being written to, what type of input stanza needs to be created?

Options:

A.

Tail Reader

B.

Upload

C.

MonitorNoHandIe

D.

Monitor

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Questions 51

For single line event sourcetypes. it is most efficient to set SHOULD_linemerge to what value?

Options:

A.

True

B.

False

C.

D.

Newline Character

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Questions 52

Consider the following stanza ininputs.conf:

SPLK-1003 Question 52

What will the value of the source filed be for events generated by this scripts input?

Options:

A.

/opt/splunk/ecc/apps/search/bin/liscer.sh

B.

unknown

C.

liscer

D.

liscer.sh

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Questions 53

A company moves to a distributed architecture to meet the growing demand for the use of Splunk. What parameter can be configured to enable automatic load balancing in the

Universal Forwarder to send data to the indexers?

Options:

A.

Create one outputs . conf file for each of the server addresses in the indexing tier.

B.

Configure the outputs . conf file to point to any server in the indexing tier and Splunk will configure the data to be sent to all of the indexers.

C.

Splunk does not do load balancing and requires a hardware load balancer to balance traffic across the indexers.

D.

Set the stanza to have a server value equal to a comma-separated list of IP addresses and indexer ports for each of the indexers in the environment.

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Questions 54

Which of the following is a valid distributed search group?

Options:

A.

[distributedSearch:Paris] default = false servers = server1, server2

B.

[searchGroup:Paris] default = false servers = server1:8089, server2:8089

C.

[searchGroup:Paris] default = false servers = server1:9997, server2:9997

D.

[distributedSearch:Paris] default = false servers = server1:8089; server2:8089

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Questions 55

The following stanza is active in indexes.conf:

[cat_facts]

maxHotSpanSecs = 3600

frozenTimePeriodInSecs = 2630000

maxTota1DataSizeMB = 650000

All other related indexes.conf settings are default values.

If the event timestamp was 3739283 seconds ago, will it be searchable?

Options:

A.

Yes, only if the bucket is still hot.

B.

No, because the index will have exceeded its maximum size.

C.

Yes, only if the index size is also below 650000 MB.

D.

No, because the event time is greater than the retention time.

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Questions 56

Which of the following is accurate regarding the input phase?

Options:

A.

Breaks data into events with timestamps.

B.

Applies event-level transformations.

C.

Fine-tunes metadata.

D.

Performs character encoding.

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Questions 57

In a customer managed Splunk Enterprise environment, what is the endpoint URI used to collect data?

Options:

A.

services/collector

B.

data/collector

C.

services/inputs?raw

D.

services/data/collector

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Questions 58

Which optional configuration setting in inputs .conf allows you to selectively forward the data to specific indexer(s)?

Options:

A.

_TCP_ROUTING

B.

_INDEXER_LIST

C.

_INDEXER_GROUP

D.

_INDEXER ROUTING

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Exam Code: SPLK-1003
Exam Name: Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin
Last Update: May 16, 2025
Questions: 196

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