Splunk Certification Exam 2023 Guide Complete
5 Main components of Splunk ES
Index Data, Search & investigate, Add knowledge, Monitor & Alert, Report & Analyze.
What does index data do? (3)
1. Collects data
2. Label data with source type
3. Stored in splunk index
Three main roles in splunk? (3)
Admin, Power, User
An admin does what?
Install apps, create knowledge objects for all users (what apps a user will see by
default)
A power user does what?
Creates and shares knowledge objects for users of app, real-time searches
A Splunk user does what?
Only see own knowledge objects and those shared to them.
Apps in Splunk?
1. Pre-built dashboards, reports, alerts and workflows
2. In-depth data analysis for power users
3. Search & Reporting
What does the search and reporting app do in splunk?
Creates knowledge objects, reports, and dashboards
The seven main components in splunk searching and reporting?
1. Splunk bar
2. App bar
3. Search bar
4. Time range picker
5. How to search panel
6. What to search panel
7. Search History
What does the time range picker do?
Allow search by preset times, relative times. Real time (earliest, latest), date range.
Retrieve events over a specific time period.
Limiting search by ___________ is key to faster results and is a best practice
time
The time range picker is set to _________ by default.
All-time
Search jobs are available after ____ minutes by default.
10
________ commands create statistics and visualizations.
Transforming
________ tab is default tab for searches
Event
What are the three main search modes?
Fast, Verbose, and Smart
, _______ mode discovery off for event searches. No event or field data for stats
searches.
Fast
______ mode all events and field data; switches to this mode after visualization
Verbose
______ mode (default-based on search string data). Field discovery ON for event
searches. No event or field data for stats searches.
Smart
This search action button "Job V" does what?
Edit job settings, send job to background, inspect and delete job.
Saved searches are set to ______ by default.
private
Timestamp seen in events is based on______setting in user account profile
time zone
List the three booleans
AND OR NOT
________boolean is used if none is implied.
AND
Exact phrases use______
quotes
Use a _______ for searching a string with quotes in the string.
Backslash
Example: info="user "chrisV4" not in database" info="user\"chrisV4\" not in database "
Three default search fields automatically selected?
Source, Host, Sourcetype
_______ sidebar shows all field extracted at search time.
Fields
_______ Fields appear in event, default-host, sourcetype, source
Selected
_______ fields have values in at least 20% of the events
Interesting
Clicking on a field shows a list of _______, ________, and ________.
values, count, and percentage
These fields can launch a quick report by clicking on them (4)
top values, top values by time, rare values, events with this field
Use ______ to limit search to only one sourcetype
sourcetype=
Field names _____ case sensitive- Values _______ case sensitive
are, are not
The field operators are used with numerical string values (symbols)
= != -->
These symbols are only used with numerical values?
> >= < <= -->
Using _____ and ____ (symbols) would return the same results.
NOT, !=
Use _______ to nest boolean searches
5 Main components of Splunk ES
Index Data, Search & investigate, Add knowledge, Monitor & Alert, Report & Analyze.
What does index data do? (3)
1. Collects data
2. Label data with source type
3. Stored in splunk index
Three main roles in splunk? (3)
Admin, Power, User
An admin does what?
Install apps, create knowledge objects for all users (what apps a user will see by
default)
A power user does what?
Creates and shares knowledge objects for users of app, real-time searches
A Splunk user does what?
Only see own knowledge objects and those shared to them.
Apps in Splunk?
1. Pre-built dashboards, reports, alerts and workflows
2. In-depth data analysis for power users
3. Search & Reporting
What does the search and reporting app do in splunk?
Creates knowledge objects, reports, and dashboards
The seven main components in splunk searching and reporting?
1. Splunk bar
2. App bar
3. Search bar
4. Time range picker
5. How to search panel
6. What to search panel
7. Search History
What does the time range picker do?
Allow search by preset times, relative times. Real time (earliest, latest), date range.
Retrieve events over a specific time period.
Limiting search by ___________ is key to faster results and is a best practice
time
The time range picker is set to _________ by default.
All-time
Search jobs are available after ____ minutes by default.
10
________ commands create statistics and visualizations.
Transforming
________ tab is default tab for searches
Event
What are the three main search modes?
Fast, Verbose, and Smart
, _______ mode discovery off for event searches. No event or field data for stats
searches.
Fast
______ mode all events and field data; switches to this mode after visualization
Verbose
______ mode (default-based on search string data). Field discovery ON for event
searches. No event or field data for stats searches.
Smart
This search action button "Job V" does what?
Edit job settings, send job to background, inspect and delete job.
Saved searches are set to ______ by default.
private
Timestamp seen in events is based on______setting in user account profile
time zone
List the three booleans
AND OR NOT
________boolean is used if none is implied.
AND
Exact phrases use______
quotes
Use a _______ for searching a string with quotes in the string.
Backslash
Example: info="user "chrisV4" not in database" info="user\"chrisV4\" not in database "
Three default search fields automatically selected?
Source, Host, Sourcetype
_______ sidebar shows all field extracted at search time.
Fields
_______ Fields appear in event, default-host, sourcetype, source
Selected
_______ fields have values in at least 20% of the events
Interesting
Clicking on a field shows a list of _______, ________, and ________.
values, count, and percentage
These fields can launch a quick report by clicking on them (4)
top values, top values by time, rare values, events with this field
Use ______ to limit search to only one sourcetype
sourcetype=
Field names _____ case sensitive- Values _______ case sensitive
are, are not
The field operators are used with numerical string values (symbols)
= != -->
These symbols are only used with numerical values?
> >= < <= -->
Using _____ and ____ (symbols) would return the same results.
NOT, !=
Use _______ to nest boolean searches
