Splunk Core Certified User Exam Rated A+ 2025 New Update

Splunk Core Certified User Exam
Rated A+ 2025 New Update
Three ways to deploy Splunk? - Answer- Enterprise, Cloud and Light

What is a Splunk app? - Answer- prebuilt collection of dashboards, panels and UI
elements

Uses for Splunk. - Answer- application management, security and compliance, as well
as business and Web analytics

3 Main Splunk Processing Components - Answer- Indexers, Search Heads, and
Forwarders.

What does the Splunk indexer do? - Answer- enables fast searching and analysis but
storing the received machine data in indexes as events.

What does the Splunk search head do? - Answer- Sends search requests to the indexer
and compiles the results and sends them back to the user.

What do Splunk forwarders do? - Answer- send machine data to the indexer

Before the first pipe, (|), what does the Splunk search assistant look for? - Answer-
matching terms

After the first pipe, (|), what does the Splunk search assistant show? - Answer- a list of
commands

How are matching search results returned? - Answer- results are returned immediately

Each Splunk data event has a ? - Answer- timestamp, host, source, sourcetype and
index

what symbol rounds down to the nearest time unit? - Answer- the "@" rounds down