EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Splunk configuration parameter settings can differ between multiple .conf files of the same name contained within different apps. Which of the following directories has the highest precedence?

Question2: When designing the number and size of indexes, which of the following considerations should be applied?

Question3: Which of the following configuration attributes must be set in server, conf on the cluster manager in a single-site indexer cluster?

Question4: Which Splunk Enterprise offering has its own license?

Question5: As of Splunk 9.0, which index records changes to . conf files?

Question6: If .delta replication fails during knowledge bundle replication, what is the fall-back method for Splunk?

Question7: Which of the following options in limits, conf may provide performance benefits at the forwarding tier?

Question8: Which of the following statements describe search head clustering? (Select all that apply.)

Question9: Which Splunk server role regulates the functioning of indexer cluster?

Question10: Which of the following are possible causes of a crash in Splunk? (select all that apply)

Question11: What is needed to ensure that high-velocity sources will not have forwarding delays to the indexers?

Question12: A Splunk deployment is being architected and the customer will be using Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) and Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI). Through data onboarding and sizing, it is determined that over 200 discrete KPIs will be tracked by ITSI and 1TB of data per day by ES. What topology ensures a scalable and performant deployment?

Question13: Which of the following describe migration from single-site to multisite index replication?

Question14: In the deployment planning process, when should a person identify who gets to see network data?

Question15: Which of the following is a best practice to maximize indexing performance?

Question16: The master node distributes configuration bundles to peer nodes. Which directory peer nodes receive the bundles?

Question17: What does the deployer do in a Search Head Cluster (SHC)? (Select all that apply.)

Question18: A Splunk user successfully extracted an ip address into a field called src_ip. Their colleague cannot see that field in their search results with events known to have src_ip. Which of the following may explain the problem? (Select all that apply.)

Question19: A customer has installed a 500GB Enterprise license. They also purchased and installed a 300GB, no enforcement license on the same license master. How much data can the customer ingest before the search is locked out?

Question20: A customer currently has many deployment clients being managed by a single, dedicated deployment server.
The customer plans to double the number of clients.
What could be done to minimize performance issues?

Question21: When should multiple search pipelines be enabled?

Question22: Which of the following should be done when installing Enterprise Security on a Search Head Cluster? (Select all that apply.)

Question23: When adding or rejoining a member to a search head cluster, the following error is displayed:
Error pulling configurations from the search head cluster captain; consider performing a destructive configuration resync on this search head cluster member.
What corrective action should be taken?

Question24: A new Splunk customer is using syslog to collect data from their network devices on port 514. What is the best practice for ingesting this data into Splunk?

Question25: Which of the following will cause the greatest reduction in disk size requirements for a cluster of N indexers running Splunk Enterprise Security?

Question26: Where does the Splunk deployer send apps by default?

Question27: In search head clustering, which of the following methods can you use to transfer captaincy to a different member? (Select all that apply.)

Question28: Users are asking the Splunk administrator to thaw recently-frozen buckets very frequently. What could the Splunk administrator do to reduce the need to thaw buckets?

Question29: Splunk Enterprise performs a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) against the first and last bytes to prevent the same file from being re-indexed if it is rotated or renamed. What is the number of bytes sampled by default?

Question30: A search head cluster with a KV store collection can be updated from where in the KV store collection?

Question31: Which of the following clarification steps should be taken if apps are not appearing on a deployment client?
(Select all that apply.)

Question32: Which of the following use cases would be made possible by multi-site clustering? (select all that apply)

Question33: What is a Splunk Job? (Select all that apply.)

Question34: To optimize the distribution of primary buckets; when does primary rebalancing automatically occur? (Select all that apply.)

Question35: To expand the search head cluster by adding a new member, node2, what first step is required?

Question36: Which Splunk internal index contains license-related events?

Question37: Which of the following is true for indexer cluster knowledge bundles?

Question38: The guidance Splunk gives for estimating size on for syslog data is 50% of original data size. How does this divide between files in the index?

Question39: Which of the following is a way to exclude search artifacts when creating a diag?

Question40: Which of the following commands is used to clear the KV store?

Question41: Which of the following is a good practice for a search head cluster deployer?

Question42: When configuring a Splunk indexer cluster, what are the default values for replication and search factor?

Question43: In splunkd. log events written to the _internal index, which field identifies the specific log channel?

Question44: Which part of the deployment plan is vital prior to installing Splunk indexer clusters and search head clusters?

Question45: What is the minimum reference server specification for a Splunk indexer?

Question46: When preparing to ingest a new data source, which of the following is optional in the data source assessment?

Question47: Which server.conf attribute should be added to the master node's server.conf file when decommissioning a site in an indexer cluster?

Question48: What information is written to the __introspection log file?

Question49: When implementing KV Store Collections in a search head cluster, which of the following considerations is true?

Question50: How many cluster managers are required for a multisite indexer cluster?

Question51: A Splunk architect has inherited the Splunk deployment at Buttercup Games and end users are complaining that the events are inconsistently formatted for a web source. Further investigation reveals that not all weblogs flow through the same infrastructure: some of the data goes through heavy forwarders and some of the forwarders are managed by another department.
Which of the following items might be the cause of this issue?

Question52: At which default interval does metrics.log generate a periodic report regarding license utilization?

Question53: As a best practice, where should the internal licensing logs be stored?

Question54: What does setting site=site0 on all Search Head Cluster members do in a multi-site indexer cluster?

Question55: Which of the following should be included in a deployment plan?

Question56: To activate replication for an index in an indexer cluster, what attribute must be configured in indexes.conf on all peer nodes?

Question57: How does IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) impact the planning of a Splunk deployment?

Question58: Which of the following is an indexer clustering requirement?

Question59: Several critical searches that were functioning correctly yesterday are not finding a lookup table today. Which log file would be the best place to start troubleshooting?

Question60: To reduce the captain's work load in a search head cluster, what setting will prevent scheduled searches from running on the captain?

Question61: Splunk Enterprise platform instrumentation refers to data that the Splunk Enterprise deployment logs in the
_introspection index. Which of the following logs are included in this index? (Select all that apply.)

Question62: When troubleshooting monitor inputs, which command checks the status of the tailed files?

Question63: New data has been added to a monitor input file. However, searches only show older data.
Which splunkd. log channel would help troubleshoot this issue?

Question64: Which tool(s) can be leveraged to diagnose connection problems between an indexer and forwarder? (Select all that apply.)

Question65: Which of the following strongly impacts storage sizing requirements for Enterprise Security?

Question66: Which command will permanently decommission a peer node operating in an indexer cluster?

Question67: A customer is migrating 500 Universal Forwarders from an old deployment server to a new deployment server, with a different DNS name. The new deployment server is configured and running.
The old deployment server deployed an app containing an updated deploymentclient.conf file to all forwarders, pointing them to the new deployment server. The app was successfully deployed to all 500 forwarders.
Why would all of the forwarders still be phoning home to the old deployment server?

Question68: What is the algorithm used to determine captaincy in a Splunk search head cluster?

Question69: How does the average run time of all searches relate to the available CPU cores on the indexers?