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Questions 1

Which of the following expressions could be used to create a calculated field called gigabytes?

Options:

eval sc_bytes(1024/1024)

| eval negabytes=sc_bytes(1024/1024)

megabytes=sc_bytes(1024/1024)

sc_bytas(1024/1024)

Discussion 0

Questions 2

What is the purpose of the fillnull command?

Options:

Replace empty values with a specified value.

Create a new field based on the values in an existing field.

Rename a specific field in the search results.

Replace all values in a specific field with a default value.

Discussion 0

Questions 3

Which of the following statements describe the search below? (select all that apply)

Index=main I transaction clientip host maxspan=30s maxpause=5s

Options:

Events in the transaction occurred within 5 seconds.

It groups events that share the same clientip and host.

The first and last events are no more than 5 seconds apart.

The first and last events are no more than 30 seconds apart.

Discussion 0

Questions 4

Calculated fields can be based on which of the following?

Options:

Amount of data shown on the timeline as data streams in

Amount of data fetched from index matching that time range

Time range for the static results

Discussion 0

Questions 6

When you mouse over and click to add a search term this (thesE. Boolean operator(s) is(arE. not implied. (Select all that apply).

Options:

( )

AND

NOT

Discussion 0

Questions 7

How does a user display a chart in stack mode?

Options:

By using the stack command.

By turning on the Use Trellis Layout option.

By changing Stack Mode in the Format menu.

You cannot display a chart in stack mode, only a timechart.

Discussion 0

Questions 8

Which of the following can be saved as an event type?

Options:

index-server_472 sourcetype-BETA_494 code-488 I stats count by code

index=server_472 sourcetype=BETA_494 code=488 [I inputlookup append=t servercode.csv]

index=server_472 sourcetype=BETA_494 code=488 I stats where code > 200

index=server_472 sourcetype=BETA_494 code-488

Discussion 0

Questions 9

Which workflow uses field values to perform a secondary search?

Options:

POST

Action

Sub-Search

Discussion 0

Questions 10

When multiple event types with different color values are assigned to the same event, what determines the color displayed for the events?

Options:

Rank

Weight

Priority

Precedence

Discussion 0

Questions 11

We can use the rename command to _____ (Select all that apply.)

Options:

Change indexed fields

Exclude fields from our search results

Extract new fields from our data using regular expressions

Give a field a new name at search time

Discussion 0

Questions 12

Why are tags useful in Splunk?

Options:

Tags look for less specific data.

Tags visualize data with graphs and charts.

Tags group related data together.

Tags add fields to the raw event data.

Discussion 0

Questions 13

Complete the search, …. | _____ failure>successes

Options:

Where

Any of the above

Discussion 0

Questions 14

Which of the following are required to create a POST workflow action?

Options:

Label, URI, search string.

XMI attributes, URI, name.

Label, URI, post arguments.

URI, search string, time range picker.

Discussion 0

Questions 15

What is needed to define a calculated field?

Options:

Eval expression

Data model

Event type

Regular expression

Discussion 0

Questions 16

For the following search, which command would further filter for only IP addresses present more than five times?

Options:

index=games I stats count as IP_count by IP B. | where IP_count > 5

index=games | search IP_Count > 5

index=games | where IP > 5

index=games I search IP > 5

Discussion 0

Questions 17

What does the following search do?

Options:

Creates a table of the total count of users and split by corndogs.

Creates a table of the total count of mysterymeat corndogs split by user.

Creates a table with the count of all types of corndogs eaten split by user.

Creates a table that groups the total number of users by vegetarian corndogs.

Discussion 0

Questions 18

Which of the following statements about event types is true? (select all that apply)

Options:

Event types can be tagged.

Event types must include a time range,

Event types categorize events based on a search.

Event types can be a useful method for capturing and sharing knowledge.

Discussion 0

Questions 19

When used with the timechart command, which value of the limit argument returns all values?

Options:

limit=*

limit=all

limit=none

limit=0

Discussion 0

Questions 20

Which of the following is true about data model attributes?

Options:

They cannot be created within the data model.

They can only be added into a root search dataset.

They cannot be edited if inherited from a parent dataset.

They can be added to a dataset from search time field extractions.

Discussion 0

Questions 21

Consider the the following search run over a time range of last 7 days:

index=web sourcetype=access_conbined | timechart avg(bytes) by product_nane

Which option is used to change the default time span so that results are grouped into 12 hour intervals?

Options:

span=12h

timespan=12h

span=12

timespan=12

Discussion 0

Questions 22

These users can create global knowledge objects. (Select all that apply.)

Options:

users

power users

administrators

Discussion 0

Questions 23

For choropleth maps,splunk ships with the following KMZ files (select all that apply)

Options:

States of the United States

States and provinces of the united states and Canada

Countries of the European Union

Countries of the World

Discussion 0

Questions 24

What does the fillnull command replace null values with, if the value argument is not specified?

Options:

N/A

NaN

NULL

Discussion 0

Questions 25

For the following search, which field populates the x-axis?

index=security sourcetype=linux secure | timechart count by action

Options:

action

source type

_time

time

Discussion 0

Questions 26

What is the correct syntax to search for a tag associated with a value on a specific fields?

Options:

Tag-

Tag

Tag=::

Tag::=

Discussion 0

Questions 27

Which of the following describes this search?

New Search

'third_party_outages(EMEA,-24h)'

Options:

This search will find all events for the third_party_outages event type that have "EMEA" or "-24h" in the raw event data.

This search will run the third_party_outages saved search and filter for events containing "EMEA" and "-24h" in the raw event data.

This search will run the third_party_outages macro and pass the arguments EMEA and -24h to the macro definition.

This search will find all events in the third_party_outages index with the tags EMEA and -24h.

Discussion 0

Questions 28

Which of the following searches will return events containing a tag named Privileged?

Options:

tag=Priv

tag=Priv*

tag=priv*

tag=privileged

Discussion 0

Questions 29

How many ways are there to access the Field Extractor Utility?

Options:

Discussion 0

Questions 30

Which field will be used to populate the field if the productName and product:d fields have values for a given event?

| eval productINFO=coalesco(productName,productid)

Options:

Both field values will be used and the product INFO field will become a multivalue field for the given event.

The value for the productName field because it appears first.

Neither field value will be used and the field will be assigned a NULL value for the given event.

The value for the field because it appears second.

Discussion 0

Questions 31

Which of the following Statements about macros is true? (select all that apply)

Options:

Arguments are defined at execution time.

Arguments are defined when the macro is created.

Argument values are used to resolve the search string at execution time.

Argument values are used to resolve the search string when the macro is created.

Discussion 0

Questions 32

A user wants to convert numeric field values to strings and also to sort on those values.

Which command should be used first, the eval or the sort?

Options:

It doesn't matter whether eval or sort is used first.

Convert the numeric to a string with eval first, then sort.

Use sort first, then convert the numeric to a string with eval.

You cannot use the sort command and the eval command on the same field.

Discussion 0

Questions 33

A user wants a table that will show the total revenue made for each product in each sales region. Which would be the correct SPL query to use?

Options:

index=X sourcetype=Y | chart sum(product) by price AND region

index=X | chart sum(price) by product, region

index=X | chart total(product) over price by region

index=X | chart total(price) by product, region

Discussion 0

Questions 34

Which of the following workflow actions can be executed from search results? (select all that apply)

Options:

GET

POST

LOOKUP

Discussion 0

Questions 35

By default, how is acceleration configured in the Splunk Common Information Model (CIM) add-on?

Options:

Turned off

Turned on

Determined automatically based on the sourcetype.

Determined automatically based on the data source.

Discussion 0

Questions 36

After manually editing; a regular expression (regex), which of the following statements is true?

Options:

Changes made manually can be reverted in the Field Extractor (FX) UI.

It is no longer possible to edit the field extraction in the Field Extractor (FX) UI.

It is not possible to manually edit a regular expression (regex) that was created using the Field Extractor (FX) UI.

The Field Extractor (FX) UI keeps its own version of the field extraction in addition to the one that was manually edited.

Discussion 0

Questions 37

A field alias has been created based on an original field. A search without any transforming commands is then executed in Smart Mode. Which field name appears in the results?

Options:

Both will appear in the All Fields list, but only if the alias is specified in the search.

Both will appear in the Interesting Fields list, but only if they appear in at least 20 percent of events.

The original field only appears in All Fields list and the alias only appears in the Interesting Fields list.

The alias only appears in the All Fields list and the original field only appears in the Interesting Fields list.

Discussion 0

Questions 38

When should you use the transaction command instead of the scats command?

Options:

When you need to group on multiple values.

When duration is irrelevant in search results. .

When you have over 1000 events in a transaction.

When you need to group based on start and end constraints.

Discussion 0

Questions 39

Which of the following statements about calculated fields in Splunk is true?

Options:

Calculated fields cannot be chained together to create more complex fields

Calculated fields can be chained together to create more complex fields.

Calculated fields can only be used in dashboards.

Calculated fields can only be used in saved reports.

Discussion 0

Questions 40

Using the Field Extractor (FX) tool, a value is highlighted to extract and give a name to a new field. Splunk has not successfully extracted that value from all appropriate events. What steps can be taken so Splunk successfully extracts the value from all appropriate events? (select all that apply)

Options:

Select an additional sample event with the Field Extractor (FX) and highlight the missing value in the event.

Re-ingest the data and attempt to extract from a new dataset.

Click on the event where the field was not extracted and choose “Change to Delimited".

Edit the regular expression manually.

Discussion 0

Questions 41

A report scheduled to run every 15 mins. but takes 17 mins. to complete is in danger of being_____.

Options:

skipped or deferred

automatically accelerated

deleted

all of the above

Discussion 0

Questions 42

Which of the following data model are included In the Splunk Common Information Model (CIM) add-on? (select all that apply)

Options:

Alerts

Database

User permissions

Discussion 0

Questions 43

Which of the following is a feature of the Pivot tool?

Options:

Creates lookups without using SPL.

Data Models are not required.

Creates reports without using SPL

Datasets are not required.

Discussion 0

Questions 44

When should transaction be used?

Options:

Only in a large distributed Splunk environment.

When calculating results from one or more fields.

When event grouping is based on start/end values.

When grouping events results in over 1000 events in each group.

Discussion 0

Questions 45

Which one of the following statements about the search command is true?

Options:

It does not allow the use of wildcards.

It treats field values in a case-sensitive manner.

It can only be used at the beginning of the search pipeline.

It behaves exactly like search strings before the first pipe.

Discussion 0

Questions 46

Which of the following statements would help a user choose between the transaction and stats commands?

Options:

state can only group events using IP addresses.

The transaction command is faster and more efficient.

There is a 1000 event limitation with the transaction command.

Use state when the events need to be viewed as a single event.

Discussion 0

Questions 47

Which of the following options should a user add to a search to limit transactions to a five minute time window?

Options:

duration=5m

bin=5m

earliest=-5m

maxspan=5m

Discussion 0

Questions 48

The eval command allows you to do which of the following? (Choose all that apply.)

Options:

Format values

Convert values

Perform calculations

Use conditional statements

Discussion 0

Questions 49

What syntax would a user specify to search for the prod tag associated with the host field and webserver value?

Options:

prod:host=webserver

tag::host=prod

prod=host:webserver

prod=host::webserver

Discussion 0

Questions 50

Which of these search strings is NOT valid:

Options:

index=web status=50* | chart count over host, status

index=web status=50* | chart count over host by status

index=web status=50* | chart count by host, status

Discussion 0

Questions 51

Which method in the Field Extractor would extract the port number from the following event? |

10/20/2022 - 125.24.20.1 ++++ port 54 - user: admin

Options:

Delimiter

rex command

The Field Extractor tool cannot extract regular expressions.

Regular expression

Discussion 0

Questions 52

Which of the following definitions describes a macro named "samplemacro" that accepts two arguments?

Options:

Examplemacro [1,2]

samplemacro(1,2)

u amp -CJEUCXG (2)

samplemacro[2]

Discussion 0

Questions 53

What field must be present in order to use the timechart command?

Options:

_raw

rime

_time

index

Discussion 0

Questions 54

Which of the following statements describe calculated fields? (select all that apply)

Options:

Calculated fields can be used in the search bar.

Calculated fields can be based on an extracted field.

Calculated fields can only be applied to host and sourcetype.

Calculated fields are shortcuts for performing calculations using the eval command.

Discussion 0

Questions 55

What is the correct Boolean order of evaluation for the where command from first to last?

Options:

NOT, Parentheses, OR, AND

AND, Parentheses, NOT, OR

Parentheses, NOT, AND, OR

Parentheses, NOT, OR, AND

Discussion 0

Questions 56

When should the delimiter method be used in the Field Extractor?

Options:

When the events do not have the correct permissions set.

When the events are separated by a consistent character or set of characters.

When the events need a regular expression to define the matching pattern.

When the events need to be calculated using special characters.

Discussion 0

Questions 57

Which of the following statements describes POST workflow actions?

Options:

POST workflow actions are always encrypted.

POST workflow actions cannot use field values in their URI.

POST workflow actions cannot be created on custom sourcetypes.

POST workflow actions can open a web page in either the same window or a new .

Discussion 0

Questions 58

These kinds of charts represent a series in a single bar with multiple sections

Options:

Multi-Series

Split-Series

Omit nulls

Stacked

Discussion 0

Questions 59

What type of command is eval?

Options:

Streaming in some modes

Report generating

Distributable streaming

Centralized streaming

Discussion 0

Questions 60

Which are valid ways to create an event type? (select all that apply)

Options:

By using the searchtypes command in the search bar.

By editing the event_type stanza in the props.conf file.

By going to the Settings menu and clicking Event Types > New.

By selecting an event in search results and clicking Event Actions > Build Event Type.

Discussion 0

Questions 61

Use the dedup command to _____.

Options:

Rename a field in the index

remove duplicate values

provide an additional alias for the field that can D.be used in the search criteria

Discussion 0

Questions 62

What is the correct format for naming a macro with multiple arguments?

Options:

monthly_sales(argument 1, argument 2, argument 3)

monthly_sales(3)

monthly_sales[3]

monthly_sales[argument 1, argument 2, argument 3)

Discussion 0

Questions 63

Which of the following statements describes the use of the Field Extractor (FX)?

Options:

The Field Extractor automatically extracts all fields at search time.

The Field Extractor uses PERL to extract fields from the raw events.

Fields extracted using the Field Extractor persist as knowledge objects.

Fields extracted using the Field Extractor do not persist and must be defined for each search.

Discussion 0

Questions 64

In this search, __________ will appear on the y-axis. SEARCH: sourcetype=access_combined status!=200 | chart count over host

Options:

status

host

count

Discussion 0

Questions 65

A calculated field is a shortcut for performing repetitive, long, or complex transformations using which of the following commands?

Options:

transaction

lookup

stats

eval

Discussion 0

Questions 66

Which of the following is true about a datamodel that has been accelerated?

Options:

They can be used with Pivot, the | tstats command, or the | datamodel command.

They can still be used in the Pivot tool but only with the accelerate_pivot capability.

They can no longer be used in the Pivot tool.

They can be used with the |tstats command, but will only return that data which has been accelerated.

Discussion 0

Questions 67

The Field Extractor (FX) is used to extract a custom field. A report can be created using this custom field. The created report can then be shared with other people in the organization. If another person in the organization runs the shared report and no results are returned, why might this be? (select all that apply)

Options:

Fast mode is enabled.

The dashboard is private.

The extraction is private-

The person in the organization running the report does not have access to the index.

Discussion 0

Questions 68

How are arguments defined within the macro search string?

Options:

Şarg$

'arg'

%arg%

"arg"

Discussion 0

Questions 69

A field alias is created where field1—fieid2 and the Overwrite Field Values checkbox is selected.

What happens if an event only contains values for fieid1?

Options:

field2 values are removed from the events.

field1 and field2 values are merged.

field2 values are unchanged.

field2 values are replaced with the value of the field1.

Discussion 0

Questions 70

This is what Splunk uses to categorize the data that is being indexed.

Options:

sourcetype

index

source

host

Discussion 0

Questions 71

What commands can be used to group events from one or more data sources?

Options:

eval, coalesce

transaction, stats

stats, format

top, rare

Discussion 0

Questions 72

__________ datasets can be added to root dataset to narrow down the search

Options:

parent

extracted

event

child

Discussion 0

Questions 73

Which of the following searches can be used to define an event type?

Options:

index=games sourcetype=score [search index=players | fields player_id]

index=games sourcetype=score I where score>9999

index=games sourcetype=score player=* score>9999

index=games sourcetype=score I stats count by player

Discussion 0

Questions 74

When should the regular expression mode of Field Extractor (FX) be used? (select all that apply)

Options:

For data cleanly separated by a space, a comma, or a pipe character.

For data in a CSV (comma-separated value) file.

For data with multiple, different characters separating fields.

For unstructured data.

Discussion 0

Questions 75

What fields does the transaction command add to the raw events? (select all that apply)

Options:

count

duration

eventcount

transaction id

Discussion 0

Questions 76

Where are the results of eval commands stored?

Options:

In a field.

In an index.

In a KV Store.

In a database.

Discussion 0

Questions 77

Which of the following statements about tags is true?

Options:

Tags are case insensitive.

Tags can make your data more understandable.

Tags are created at index time.

Tags are searched by using the syntax tag :: .

Discussion 0

Questions 78

Which of the following options will define the first event in a transaction?

Options:

startswith

with

startingwith

firstevent

Discussion 0

Questions 79

What functionality does the Splunk Common Information Model (CIM) rely on to normalize fields with different names?

Options:

Macros.

Field aliases.

The rename command.

CIM does not work with different names for the same field.

Discussion 0

Questions 80

Which statement is true?

Options:

Pivot is used for creating datasets.

Data models are randomly structured datasets.

Pivot is used for creating reports and dashboards.

In most cases, each Splunk user will create their own data model.

Discussion 0

Questions 81

Which of the following statements is true about the root dataset of a data model?

Options:

It can contain transforming commands as long as it is a root search dataset.

It will automatically contain knowledge objects associated with the base search.

It must contain the transaction command if it is a root transaction dataset.

It can only contain a base search with no transforming commands.

Discussion 0

Questions 82

Which of the following searches would return a report of sales by product-name?

Options:

chart sales by product_name

chart sum(price) as sales by product_name

stats sum(price) as sales over product_name

timechart list(sales), values(product_name)

Discussion 0

Questions 83

Which of the following statements best describes a macro?

Options:

A macro is a method of categorizing events based on a search.

A macro is a way to associate an additional (new) name with an existing field name.

A macro is a portion of a search that can be reused in multiple place

A macro is a knowledge object that enables you to schedule searches for specific events.

Discussion 0

Questions 84

A data model consists of which three types of datasets?

Options:

Constraint, field, value.

Events, searches, transactions.

Field extraction, regex, delimited.

Transaction, session ID, metadata.

Discussion 0

Questions 85

Which of the following statements best describes the search string below?

| datamodel Application_State search

Options:

Events will be returned from dataset Application_State.

Events will be returned from the data model named Application_State.

No events will be returned; the pipe must occur after the data model command.

Events will be returned from the data model named Application_State (flat mode).

Discussion 0

Questions 86

Which workflow action type performs a secondary search?

Options:

POST

Drilldown

GET

Discussion 0

Questions 87

To identify all of the contributing events within a transaction that contains at least one REJECT event, which syntax is correct?

Options:

Index-main | REJECT trans sessionid

Index-main | transaction sessionid | search REJECT

Index=main | transaction sessionid | whose transaction=reject

Index=main | transaction sessionid | where transaction=reject’’

Discussion 0

Questions 88

Which of the following statements describe the search string below?

| datamodel Application_State All_Application_State search

Options:

Evenrches would return a report of sales by state.

Events will be returned from the data model named Application_State.

Events will be returned from the data model named All_Application_state.

No events will be returned because the pipe should occur after the datamodel command

Discussion 0

Questions 89

Field aliases are used to __________ data

Options:

clean

transform

calculate

normalize

Discussion 0

Questions 90

When creating a Search workflow action, which field is required?

Options:

Search string

Data model name

Permission setting

An eval statement

Discussion 0

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