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Question 1

An index receives approximately 50GB of data per day per indexer at an even and consistent rate. Thecustomer would like to keep this data searchable for a minimum of 30 days. In addition, they have hourlyscheduled searches that process a week’s worth of data and are quite sensitive to search performance.Given ideal conditions (no restarts, nor drops/bursts in data volume), and following PS best practices, whichof the following sets of indexes.conf settings can be leveraged to meet the requirements?

A : frozenTimePeriodInSecs, maxDataSize, maxVolumeDataSizeMB, maxHotBuckets

B : maxDataSize, maxTotalDataSizeMB, maxHotBuckets, maxGlobalDataSizeMB

C : maxDataSize, frozenTimePeriodInSecs, maxVolumeDataSizeMB

D : frozenTimePeriodInSecs, maxWarmDBCount, homePath.maxDataSizeMB, maxHotSpanSecs

Answer: B

Question 2

When setting up a multisite search head and indexer cluster, which nodes are required to declare site membership?

A : Search head cluster members, deployer, indexers, cluster master

B : Search head cluster members, deployment server, deployer, indexers, cluster master

C : All splunk nodes, including forwarders, must declare site membership

D : Search head cluster members, indexers, cluster master

Answer: D

Question 3

A customer has a multisite cluster (two sites, each site in its own data center) and users experiencing aslow response when searches are run on search heads located in either site. The Search Job Inspectorshows the delay is being caused by search heads on either site waiting for results to be returned byindexers on the opposing site. The network team has confirmed that there is limited bandwidth availablebetween the two data centers, which are in different geographic locations.Which of the following would be the least expensive and easiest way to improve search performance?

A : Configure site_search_factor to ensure a searchable copy exists in the local site for each search head.

B : Move all indexers and search heads in one of the data centers into the same site.

C : Install a network pipe with more bandwidth between the two data centers.

D : Set the site setting on each indexer in the server.conf clustering stanza to be the same for all indexers regardless of site.

Answer: A

Question 4

A customer would like to remove the output_file capability from users with the default user role to stop them from filling up the disk on the search head with lookup files. What is the best way to remove this capability from users?

A : Create a new role without the output_file capability that inherits the default user role and assign it to the users.

B : Create a new role with the output_file capability that inherits the default user role and assign it to the users.

C : Edit the default user role and remove the output_file capability.

D : Clone the default user role, remove the output_file capability, and assign it to the users.

Answer: C

Question 5

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.

Answer: B

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