Splunk Splunk Certifications SPLK-4001 Questions & Answers

• Question 51:

  Which of the following rollups will display the time delta between a datapoint being sent and a datapoint being received?

  A. Jitter

  B. Delay

  C. Lag

  D. Latency

  Correct Answer: C

  According to the Splunk Observability Cloud documentation1, lag is a rollup function that returns the difference between the most recent and the previous data point values seen in the metric time series reporting interval. This can be used to measure the time delta between a data point being sent and a data point being received, as long as the data points have timestamps that reflect their send and receive times. For example, if a data point is sent at 10:00:00 and received at 10:00:05, the lag value for that data point is 5 seconds.

• Question 52:

  Which component of the OpenTelemetry Collector allows for the modification of metadata?

  A. Processors

  B. Pipelines

  C. Exporters

  D. Receivers

  Correct Answer: A

  The component of the OpenTelemetry Collector that allows for the modification of metadata is A. Processors. Processors are components that can modify the telemetry data before sending it to exporters or other components. Processors can perform various transformations on metrics, traces, and logs, such as filtering, adding, deleting, or updating attributes, labels, or resources. Processors can also enrich the telemetry data with additional metadata from various sources, such as Kubernetes, environment variables, or system information For example, one of the processors that can modify metadata is the attributes processor. This processor can update, insert, delete, or replace existing attributes on metrics or traces. Attributes are key-value pairs that provide additional information about the telemetry data, such as the service name, the host name, or the span kind Another example is the resource processor. This processor can modify resource attributes on metrics or traces. Resource attributes are key-value pairs that describe the entity that produced the telemetry data, such as the cloud provider, the region, or the instance type3 To learn more about how to use processors in the OpenTelemetry Collector, you can refer to this documentation. https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/configuration/#processors https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/processor/attributesprocessor https://github.com/open- telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/processor/resourceprocessor

• Question 53:

  An SRE came across an existing detector that is a good starting point for a detector they want to create. They clone the detector, update the metric, and add multiple new signals. As a result of the cloned detector, which of the following is true?

  A. The new signals will be reflected in the original detector.

  B. The new signals will be reflected in the original chart.

  C. You can only monitor one of the new signals.

  D. The new signals will not be added to the original detector.

  Correct Answer: D

  According to the Splunk O11y Cloud Certified Metrics User Track document, cloning a detector creates a copy of the detector that you can modify without affecting the original detector. You can change the metric, filter, and signal settings of

  the cloned detector. However, the new signals that you add to the cloned detector will not be reflected in the original detector, nor in the original chart that the detector was based on. Therefore, option D is correct.

  Option A is incorrect because the new signals will not be reflected in the original detector. Option B is incorrect because the new signals will not be reflected in the original chart. Option C is incorrect because you can monitor all of the new

  signals that you add to the cloned detector.

• Question 54:

  When creating a standalone detector, individual rules in it are labeled according to severity. Which of the choices below represents the possible severity levels that can be selected?

  A. Info, Warning, Minor, Major, and Emergency.

  B. Debug, Warning, Minor, Major, and Critical.

  C. Info, Warning, Minor, Major, and Critical.

  D. Info, Warning, Minor, Severe, and Critical.

  Correct Answer: C

  The correct answer is C. Info, Warning, Minor, Major, and Critical. When creating a standalone detector, you can define one or more rules that specify the alert conditions and the severity level for each rule. The severity level indicates how urgent or important the alert is, and it can also affect the notification settings and the escalation policy for the alert Splunk Observability Cloud provides five predefined severity levels that you can choose from when creating a rule: Info, Warning, Minor, Major, and Critical. Each severity level has a different color and icon to help you identify the alert status at a glance. You can also customize the severity levels by changing their names, colors, or icons2 To learn more about how to create standalone detectors and use severity levels in Splunk Observability Cloud, you can refer to these documentations. https://docs.splunk.com/Observability/alerts-detectors- notifications/detectors.html#Create-a-standalone-detector https://docs.splunk.com/Observability/alerts-detectors-notifications/detector- options.html#Severity-levels