Splunk Splunk Certifications SPLK-3003 Questions & Answers

• Question 71:

  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?

  A. Disable the indexing ports on the old indexers.

  B. Disable replication ports on the old indexers.

  C. Put the old indexers into manual detention.

  D. Put the old indexers into automatic detention.

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 72:

  What is the Splunk PS recommendation when using the deployment server and building deployment apps?

  A. Carefully design smaller apps with specific configuration that can be reused.

  B. Only deploy Splunk PS base configurations via the deployment server.

  C. Use $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local configurations on forwarders and only deploy TAs via the deployment server.

  D. Carefully design bigger apps containing multiple configs.

  Correct Answer: B

  Reference: https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/platform/adding-a-deployment-server-forwardermanagement-to-a-new-or-existing-splunk-cloud-or-splunk-enterprise-deployment.html

• Question 73:

  Which of the following processor occur in the indexing pipeline?

  A. tcp out, syslog out

  B. Regex replacement, annotator

  C. Aggregator

  D. UTF-8, linebreaker, header

  Correct Answer: D

  Reference: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.1.0/Indexer/ Howindexingworks#Event_processing_and_the_data_pipeline

• Question 74:

  In a single indexer cluster, where should the Monitoring Console (MC) be installed?

  A. Deployer sharing with master cluster.

  B. License master that has 50 clients or more.

  C. Cluster master node

  D. Production Search Head

  Correct Answer: C

  Reference: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.1.0/DMC/WheretohostDMC

• Question 75:

  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. The updated dashboard will not be deployed globally to all users, due to the conflict with the power user's modified version of the dashboard.

  B. Applying the search head cluster bundle will fail due to the conflict.

  C. The updated dashboard will be available to the power user.

  D. The updated dashboard will not be available to the power user; they will see their modified version.

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 76:

  A customer's deployment server is overwhelmed with forwarder connections after adding an additional 1000 clients. The default phone home interval is set to 60 seconds. To reduce the number of connection failures to the DS what is recommended?

  A. Create a tiered deployment server topology.

  B. Reduce the phone home interval to 6 seconds.

  C. Leave the phone home interval at 60 seconds.

  D. Increase the phone home interval to 600 seconds.

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 77:

  Which of the following server.conf stanzas indicates the Indexer Discovery feature has not been fully configured (restart pending) on the Master Node?

  

  A. Option A

  B. Option B

  C. Option C

  D. Option D

  Correct Answer: C

  Reference: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.1.0/Indexer/indexerdiscovery

• Question 78:

  The customer has an indexer cluster supporting a wide variety of search needs, including scheduled search, data model acceleration, and summary indexing. Here is an excerpt from the cluster mater's server.conf:

  

  Which strategy represents the minimum and least disruptive change necessary to protect the searchability of the indexer cluster in case of indexer failure?

  A. Enable maintenance mode on the CM to prevent excessive fix-up and bring the failed indexer back online.

  B. Leave replication_factor=2, increase search_factor=2 and enable summary_replication.

  C. Convert the cluster to multi-site and modify the server.conf to be site_replication_factor=2, site_search_factor=2.

  D. Increase replication_factor=3, search_factor=2 to protect the data, and allow there to always be a searchable copy.

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 79:

  What is the primary driver behind implementing indexer clustering in a customer's environment?

  A. To improve resiliency as the search load increases.

  B. To reduce indexing latency.

  C. To scale out a Splunk environment to offer higher performance capability.

  D. To provide higher availability for buckets of data.

  Correct Answer: D

  Reference: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.1.0/Indexer/Howclusteredsearchworks

• Question 80:

  A customer has been using Splunk for one year, utilizing a single/all-in-one instance. This single Splunk server is now struggling to cope with the daily ingest rate. Also, Splunk has become a vital system in dayto-day operations making high availability a consideration for the Splunk service. The customer is unsure how to design the new environment topology in order to provide this.

  Which resource would help the customer gather the requirements for their new architecture?

  A. Direct the customer to the docs.splunk.com and tell them that all the information to help them select the right design is documented there.

  B. Ask the customer to engage with the sales team immediately as they probably need a larger license.

  C. Refer the customer to answers.splunk.com as someone else has probably already designed a system that meets their requirements.

  D. Refer the customer to the Splunk Validated Architectures document in order to guide them through which approved architectures could meet their requirements.

  Correct Answer: D

  Reference: https://www.splunk.com/pdfs/technical-briefs/splunk-validated-architectures.pdf