Splunk Fundamentals 1 Exam|65 Questions with Answers
Machine data is only generated by web servers. - CORRECT ANSWER False
Machine data makes up for more than ___% of the data accumulated by organizations. - C
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Splunk Fundamentals 1 Exam|65 Questions with Answers
Machine data is only generated by web servers. - CORRECT ANSWER False
Machine data makes up for more than ___% of the data accumulated by organizations. - CORRECT ANSWER 90
Machine data is always structured. - CORRECT ANSWER False
Search strings are sent from the _________. - CORRECT ANSWER Search Head
In most Splunk deployments, ________ serve as the primary way data is supplied for indexing. - CORRECT ANSWER Forwarders
Which of these is not a main component of Splunk?
Search and investigate
Compress and archive
Add knowledge
Collect and index data - CORRECT ANSWER Compress and Archive
Which function is not a part of a single instance deployment?
Clustering
Parsing
Indexing
Searching - CORRECT ANSWER Clustering
A single-instance deployment of Splunk Enterprise handles:
Select all that apply.
Indexing
Parsing
Input
Searching - CORRECT ANSWER Indexing
Parsing
Input
Searching
What are the three main default roles in Splunk Enterprise?
Select all that apply.
User
Power User
Administrator
Manager
King - CORRECT ANSWER User
Power User
Administrator
Which apps ship with Splunk Enterprise?
Select all that apply.
Home App
Search & Reporting
DB Connect
Sideview Utils - CORRECT ANSWER Home App
Search & Reporting
_________ define what users can do in Splunk.
Tokens
Roles
Disk permissions - CORRECT ANSWER Roles
The password for a newly installed Splunk instance is:
Your email address.
Available from the splunk.com website.
Randomly generated.
Created when you install Splunk Enterprise. - CORRECT ANSWER Created when you install Splunk Enterprise.
You can launch and manage apps from the home app. - CORRECT ANSWER True
Splunk uses ________ to categorize the type of data being indexed. - CORRECT ANSWER sourcetypes
Splunk knows where to break the event, where the time stamp is located and how to automatically create field value pairs using these.
Line breaks
File names
Source types - CORRECT ANSWER sourcetypes
The monitor input option will allow you to continuously monitor files. - CORRECT ANSWER True
Files indexed using the the upload input option get indexed _____.
Each time Splunk restarts
Every hour
On every search
Once - CORRECT ANSWER Once
In most production environments, _______ will be used as your main source of data input. - CORRECT ANSWER Forwarders
When a search is sent to splunk, it becomes a _____.
File on the host system
Task for Jimmy the Splunk elf
Search job
Event - CORRECT ANSWER Search job
Shared search jobs remain active for _______ by default.
24 hours
1 year
10 minutes
1 day
7 days - CORRECT ANSWER 7 Days
A search job will remain active for ___ minutes after it is run.
10
90
5
30
20 - CORRECT ANSWER 10 Minutes
Which following search mode toggles behavior based on the type of search being run?
Fast
Smart
Verbose - CORRECT ANSWER Smart
What is the order of evaluation for Boolean operations in Splunk? - CORRECT ANSWER NOT - OR - AND
What attributes describe the circled field below?
"a dest 4"
Select all that apply
It contains string values.
It cannot be used in a search.
It contains 4 values.
It contains numerical values - CORRECT ANSWER It contains string values
It contains 4 values
Which is not a comparison operator in Splunk?
>
?=
!=
=
<= - CORRECT ANSWER ?=
Field names are ________.
Select all that apply.
Case insensitive
Always capitalized
Not important in Splunk
Case sensitive - CORRECT ANSWER Case sensitive
Field values are case sensitive. - CORRECT ANSWER False
Wildcards cannot be used with field searches. - CORRECT ANSWER False
What is the most efficient way to filter events in Splunk?
By time.
Using booleans.
With an asterisk. - CORRECT ANSWER By time
This symbol is used in the "Advanced" section of the time range picker to round down to nearest unit of specified time.
Select your answer.
&
@
^
*
% - CORRECT ANSWER @
Time to search can only be set by the time range picker - CORRECT ANSWER False
Having separate indexes allows:
Select all that apply.
Multiple retention policies
Ability to limit access.
Faster Searches. - CORRECT ANSWER Multiple retention policies
Ability to limit access
Faster Searches
As a general practice, exclusion is better than inclusion in a Splunk search. - CORRECT ANSWER False
What command would you use to remove the status field from the returned events?
"sourcetype=a* status=404 | _________ status
not
fields
table
fields - - CORRECT ANSWER fields -
Excluding fields using the Fields Command will benefit performance. - CORRECT ANSWER False
What is missing from this search?
"sourcetype=a* | rename ip as "User IP" | table User IP
A table command
Search terms
A pipe
Quotation marks around User IP - CORRECT ANSWER Quotation marks around User IP
Finish the rename command to change the name of the status field to HTTP Status
"sourcetype=a* status=404 | rename ___________"
status as "HTTP Status"
status to "HTTP Status"
as "HTTP Status"
status as HTTP Status - CORRECT ANSWER status as "HTTP Status"
Would the ip column be removed in the results of this search? Why or why not?
"sourcetype=a* | rename ip as "User" | fields - ip"
Yes, because the negative sign was used.
No, because table columns can not be removed.
Yes, because a pipe was used between search commands
No, because the name was changed. - CORRECT ANSWER No, because the name was changed.
Which clause would you use to rename the count field?
"sourcetype=vendor* | stats count _______ "Units Sold""
to
as
rename
show - CORRECT ANSWER As
To display the most common values in a specific field, what command would you use?
top
rare
table
all - CORRECT ANSWER Top
Which stats function would you use to find the average value of a field? - CORRECT ANSWER Avg
Which one of these is not a stats function?
Count
Addtotals
Avg
Sum
List - CORRECT ANSWER Addtotals
How many results are shown by default when using a Top or Rare Command? - CORRECT ANSWER 10
Charts can be based on numbers, time, or location - CORRECT ANSWER True
The User role can not create reports - CORRECT ANSWER False
Question : 3
A time range picker can be included in a report - CORRECT ANSWER True
_____________ are reports gathered together into a single pane of glass.
Alerts
Panels
Dashboards
Scheduled Reports - CORRECT ANSWER Dashboards
If a search returns this, you can view the results as a chart
Time limits.
Numbers
A list.
Statistical values - CORRECT ANSWER Statistical values
These are knowledge objects that provide the data structure for pivot.
Indexes
Data models
Alerts
Reports - CORRECT ANSWER Data models
Pivots cannot be saved as reports panels - CORRECT ANSWER False
Adding child data model objects is like the ______ Boolean in the Splunk search language - CORRECT ANSWER AND
Data models are made up of ___________.
Datasets
Dashboard panels
Transforming searches
Pivots - CORRECT ANSWER Datasets
Pivots can be saved as dashboards panels - CORRECT ANSWER True
The instant pivot button is displayed in the statistics and visualization tabs when a _______ search is run. - CORRECT ANSWER Non-transforming
Which role(s) can create data models?
Select all that apply.
Power User
Administrator
User - CORRECT ANSWER Power User
Administrator
External data used by a Lookup can come from sources like:
Select all that apply.
None. Only internal data can be used.
CSV files
Geospatial data
Scripts - CORRECT ANSWER CSV files
Geospatial data
Scripts
Finish this search command so that it displays data from the http_status.csv Lookup file
" | _________ http_status.csv"
lookup=*
datalookup
lookup
inputlookup - CORRECT ANSWER inputlookup
When using a .csv file for Lookups, the first row in the file represents this.
Nothing, it is ignored
Output fields
Input fields
Field names - CORRECT ANSWER Field names
To keep from overwriting existing fields with your Lookup you can use the ____________ clause. - CORRECT ANSWER OUTPUTNEW
A lookup is categorized as a dataset - CORRECT ANSWER True
Alerts can run uploaded scripts. - CORRECT ANSWER True
Real-time alerts will run the search continuously in the background. - CORRECT ANSWER True
An alert is an action triggered by a _____________.
Selected field
Tag
Saved search
Report - CORRECT ANSWER Saved search
Once an alert is created, you can no longer edit its defining search - CORRECT ANSWER False
Alerts can send an email. - CORRECT ANSWER True
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