Splunk Splunk Certifications SPLK-1002 Questions & Answers

• Question 61:

  Which of the following statements describes an event type?

  A. A log level measurement: info, warn, error.

  B. A knowledge object that is applied before fields are extracted.

  C. A field for categorizing events based on a search string.

  D. Either a log, a metric, or a trace.

  Correct Answer: C

  This is because an event type is a knowledge object that assigns a user- defined name to a set of events that match a specific search criteria. For example, you can create an event type named successful_purchase for events that have sourcetype=access_combined, status=200, and action=purchase. Then, you can use eventtype=successful_purchase as a search term to find those events. You can also use event types to create alerts, reports, and dashboards. You can learn more about event types from the Splunk documentation1. The other options are incorrect because they do not describe what an event type is. A log level measurement is a field that indicates the severity of an event, such as info, warn, or error. A knowledge object that is applied before fields are extracted is a source type, which identifies the format and structure of the data. Either a log, a metric, or a trace is a type of data that Splunk can ingest and analyze, but not an event type.

• Question 62:

  Which of the following commands support the same set of functions?

  A. stats, eval, table

  B. search, where, eval

  C. stats, chart, timechart

  D. transaction, chart, timechart

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 63:

  Complete the search, .... | _____ failure>successes

  A. Search

  B. Where

  C. If

  D. Any of the above

  Correct Answer: B

  The where command can be used to complete the search below.

  ... | where failure>successes

  The where command is a search command that allows you to filter events based on complex or custom criteria. The where command can use any boolean expression or function to evaluate each event and determine whether to keep it or

  discard it. The where command can also compare fields or perform calculations on fields using operators such as >, <, =, +, -, etc. The where command can be used after any transforming command that creates a table or a chart.

  The search string below does the following:

  It uses ... to represent any search criteria or commands before the where command.

  It uses the where command to filter events based on a comparison between two fields: failure and successes.

  It uses the greater than operator (>) to compare the values of failure and successes fields for each event.

  It only keeps events where failure is greater than successes.

• Question 64:

  Where are the results of eval commands stored?

  A. In a field.

  B. In an index.

  C. In a KV Store.

  D. In a database.

  Correct Answer: A

  https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.2/SearchReference/Eval The eval command calculates an expression and puts the resulting value into a search results field.

  If the field name that you specify does not match a field in the output, a new field is added to the search results.

  If the field name that you specify matches a field name that already exists in the search results, the results of the eval expression overwrite the values in that field.

• Question 65:

  A data model can consist of what three types of datasets?

  A. Pivot, searches, and events.

  B. Pivot, events, and transactions.

  C. Searches, transactions, and pivot.

  D. Events, searches, and transactions.

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 66:

  When used with the timechart command, which value of the limit argument returns all values?

  A. limit=*

  B. limit=all

  C. limit=none

  D. limit=0

  Correct Answer: D

  The correct answer is D. limit=0. This is because the limit argument specifies the maximum number of series to display in the chart. If you set limit=0, no series filtering occurs and all values are returned. You can learn more about the limit argument and how it works with the agg argument from the Splunk documentation1. The other options are incorrect because they are not valid values for the limit argument. The limit argument expects an integer value, not a string or a wildcard. You can learn more about the syntax and usage of the timechart command from the Splunk documentation23.

• Question 67:

  How could the following syntax for the chart command be rewritten to remove the OTHER category? (select all that apply)

  

  A. | chart count over CurrentStanding by Action useother=f

  B. | chart count over CurrentStanding by Action usenull-f useother-t

  C. | chart count over CurrentStanding by Action limit=10 useother=f

  D. | chart count over CurrentStanding by Action limit-10

  Correct Answer: AC

  In Splunk, when using the chart command, the useother parameter can be set to false (f) to remove the 'OTHER' category, which is a bucket that Splunk uses to aggregate low-cardinality groups into a single group to simplify visualization. Here's how the options break down:

  A. | chart count over CurrentStanding by Action useother=fThis command correctly sets the useother parameter to false, which would prevent the 'OTHER' category from being displayed in the resulting visualization. B. | chart count over CurrentStanding by Action usenull=f useother=tThis command has useother set to true (t), which means the 'OTHER' category would still be included, so this is not a correct option. C. | chart count over CurrentStanding by Action limit=10 useother=fSimilar to option A, this command also sets useother to false, additionally imposing a limit to the top 10 results, which is a way to control the granularity of the chart but also to remove the 'OTHER' category.

  D. | chart count over CurrentStanding by Action limit-10This command has a syntax error (limit-10 should be limit=10) and does not include the useother=f clause. Therefore, it would not remove the 'OTHER' category, making it incorrect. The correct answers to rewrite the syntax to remove the 'OTHER' category are options A and C, which explicitly set useother=f.

• Question 68:

  The eval command 'if' function requires the following three arguments (in order):

  A. Boolean expression, result if true, result if false

  B. Result if true, result if false, boolean expression

  C. Result if false, result if true, boolean expression

  D. Boolean expression, result if false, result if true

  Correct Answer: A

  The eval command `if' function requires the following three arguments (in order): boolean expression, result if true, result if false. The eval command is a search command that allows you to create new fields or modify existing fields by performing calculations or transformations on them. The eval command can use various functions to perform different operations on fields. The `if' function is one of the functions that can be used with the eval command to perform conditional evaluations on fields. The `if' function takes three arguments: a boolean expression that evaluates to true or false, a result that will be returned if the boolean expression is true, and a result that will be returned if the boolean expression is false. The `if' function returns one of the two results based on the evaluation of the boolean expression.

• Question 69:

  What commands can be used to group events from one or more data sources?

  A. eval, coalesce

  B. transaction, stats

  C. stats, format

  D. top, rare

  Correct Answer: B

  The transaction and stats commands are two ways to group events from one or more data sources based on common fields or time ranges. The transaction command creates a single event out of a group of related events, while the stats command calculates summary statistics over a group of events. The eval and coalesce commands are used to create or combine fields, not to group events. The format command is used to format the results of a subsearch, not to group events. The top and rare commands are used to rank the most or least common values of a field, not to group events23

  1: Splunk Core Certified Power User Track, page 9. 2: Splunk Documentation, transaction command. 3: Splunk Documentation, stats command.

• Question 70:

  Clicking a SEGMENT on a chart, ________.

  A. drills down for that value

  B. highlights the field value across the chart

  C. adds the highlighted value to the search criteria

  Correct Answer: C