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Splunk Core Certified User (SPLK-1001)

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The Splunk Core Certified User certification (SPLK-1001) is your foundational credential for navigating and utilizing the powerful Splunk platform for data analysis. This certification is an essential first step for professionals aiming to leverage machine data, demonstrating proficiency in fundamental Splunk operations such as searching, reporting, and creating basic dashboards. Earning this certification significantly enhances your professional profile, validating a highly sought-after skill set in today's data-driven landscape. It opens doors to roles requiring data investigation, operational intelligence, and basic security monitoring, positioning you as a valuable asset capable of transforming raw data into actionable insights. This credential provides a robust foundation for further Splunk specialization, making it a crucial cornerstone for career advancement in IT operations, security, and business analytics.

Questions

65

Passing Score

70% (700/1000)

Duration

60 Minutes

Difficulty

Beginner

Level

Associate

Skills Measured

Splunk Fundamentals: Understanding core Splunk components, data ingestion concepts, and basic navigation of the Splunk Web interface. This includes identifying different data sources, managing indexes, and understanding user roles.
Searching and Reporting: Mastering basic search commands, specifying time ranges, filtering events, and creating simple statistical reports. Proficiency in using search, table, sort, top, rare, and other foundational SPL commands is critical.
Creating Dashboards: Building and customizing basic dashboards to visualize data, monitor key metrics, and present insights effectively. This involves understanding panels, visualizations, and elementary dashboard editing.
Field Operations: Working with fields, understanding automatic and extracted fields, and using commands like eval, rex, and fieldformat to manipulate and enhance data for analysis.
Alerts and Scheduled Reports: Setting up basic alerts for critical events, understanding alert conditions and actions, and scheduling reports for regular delivery to stakeholders.

Career Path

Target Roles

Data Analyst IT Operations Specialist Security Analyst (EntryLevel)

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QUESTION 1

In the fields sidebar, what indicates that a field is numeric?

A
A number to the right of the field name.
B
A # symbol to the left of the field name.
C
A lowercase n to the left of the field name.
D
A lowercase n to the right of the field name.

Correct Option: B

QUESTION 2

Which of the following are functions of the stats command?

A
count, sum, add
B
count, sum, less
C
sum, avg, values
D
sum, values, table

Correct Option: C

QUESTION 3

At index time, in which field does Splunk store the timestamp value?

A
time
B
_time
C
EventTime
D
timestamp

Correct Option: B

QUESTION 4

Which of the following is a best practice when writing a search string?

A
Include all formatting commands before any search terms.
B
Include at least one function as this is a search requirement.
C
Include the search terms at the beginning of the search string.
D
Avoid using formatting clauses, as they add too much overhead.

Correct Option: C

QUESTION 5

What type of search can be saved as a report?

A
Any search can be saved as a report.
B
Only searches that generate visualizations.
C
Only searches containing a transforming command.
D
Only searches that generate statistics or visualizations.

Correct Option: A

QUESTION 6

What can be included in the All Fields option in the sidebar?

A
Dashboards
B
Metadata only
C
Non-interesting fields
D
Field descriptions

Correct Option: C

QUESTION 7

When viewing the results of a search, what is an Interesting Field?

A
A field that appears in any event.
B
A field that appears in every event.
C
A field that appears in the top 10 events.
D
A field that appears in at least 20% of the events.

Correct Option: D

QUESTION 8

When a Splunk search generates calculated data that appears in the Statistics tab, in what formats can the results be exported?

A
CSV, JSON, PDF
B
CSV, XML, JSON
C
Raw Events, XML, JSON
D
Raw Events, CSV, XML, JSON

Correct Option: B

QUESTION 9

Which search matches the events containing the terms `error` and `fail`?

A
index=security Error Fail
B
index=security error OR fail
C
index=security ื’โ‚ฌerror failureื’โ‚ฌ
D
index=security NOT error NOT fail

Correct Option: A

QUESTION 10

Which of the following is an option after clicking an item in search results?

A
Saving the item to a report.
B
Adding the item to the search.
C
Adding the item to a dashboard.
D
Saving the Search to a JSON file.

Correct Option: B

QUESTION 11

Which of the following fields is stored with the events in the index?

A
user
B
source
C
location
D
sourceIp

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QUESTION 12

Which of the following is the recommended way to create multiple dashboards displaying data from the same search?

A
Save the search as a report and use it in multiple dashboards as needed.
B
Save the search as a dashboard panel for each dashboard that needs the data.
C
Save the search as a scheduled alert and use it in multiple dashboards as needed.
D
Export the results of the search to an XML file and use the file as the basis of the dashboards.

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QUESTION 13

What does the following specified time range do?

earliest=-72h@h latest=@d

A
Look back 3 days ago and prior.
B
Look back 72 hours, up to one day ago.
C
Look back 72 hours, up to the end of today.
D
Look back from 3 days ago, up to the beginning of today.

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QUESTION 14

Which events will be returned by the following search string? host=www3 status=503

A
All events that either have a host of www3 or a status of 503.
B
All events with a host of www3 that also have a status of 503.
C
We need more information; we cannot tell without knowing the time range.
D
We need more information; a search cannot be run without specifying an index.

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QUESTION 15

What does the stats command do?

A
Automatically correlates related fields.
B
Converts field values into numerical values.
C
Calculates statistics on data that matches the search criteria.
D
Analyzes numerical fields for their ability to predict another discrete field.

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QUESTION 16

Which is primary function of the timeline located under the search bar?

A
To differentiate between structured and unstructured events in the data.
B
To sort the events returned by the search command in chronological order.
C
To zoom in and zoom out, although this does not change the scale of the chart.
D
To show peaks and/or valleys in the timeline, which can indicate spikes in activity or downtime.

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QUESTION 17

What can be configured using the Edit Job Settings menu?

A
Export the result to CSV format.
B
Add the Job results to a dashboard.
C
Schedule the Job to re-run in 10 minutes.
D
Change Job Lifetime from 10 minutes to 7 days.

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QUESTION 18

Which command is used to validate a lookup file?

A
| lookup products.csv
B
inputlookup products.csv
C
| inputlookup products.csv
D
| lookup_definition products.csv

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QUESTION 19

Which statement is true about the top command?

A
It returns the top 10 results.
B
It displays the output in table format.
C
It returns the count and percent columns per row.
D
All of the above.

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QUESTION 20

How can another user gain access to a saved report?

A
The owner of the report can edit permissions from the Edit dropdown.
B
Only users with an Admin or Power User role can access other users' reports.
C
Anyone can access any reports marked as public within a shared Splunk deployment.
D
The owner of the report must clone the original report and save it to their user account.

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QUESTION 21

What is the primary use for the rare command?

A
To sort field values in descending order.
B
To return only fields containing five of fewer values.
C
To find the least common values of a field in a dataset.
D
To find the fields with the fewest number of values across a dataset.

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QUESTION 22

What happens when a field is added to the Selected Fields list in the fields sidebar?

A
Splunk will re-run the search job in Verbose Mode to prioritize the new Selected Field.
B
Splunk will highlight related fields as a suggestion to add them to the Selected Fields list.
C
Custom selections will replace the Interesting Fields that Splunk populated into the list at search time.
D
The selected field and its corresponding values will appear underneath the events in the search results.

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QUESTION 23

By default, which of the following is a Selected Field?

A
action
B
clientip
C
categoryId
D
sourcetype

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QUESTION 24

According to Splunk best practices, which placement of the wildcard results in the most efficient search?

A
f*il
B
*fail
C
fail*
D
*fail*

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QUESTION 25

Which command automatically returns percent and count columns when executing searches?

A
top
B
stats
C
table
D
percent

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QUESTION 26

Which of the following describes lookup files?

A
Lookup fields cannot be used in searches.
B
Lookups contain static data available in the index.
C
Lookups add more fields to results returned by a search.
D
Lookups pull data at index time and add them to search results.

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QUESTION 27

Which search string is the most efficient?

A
ื’โ‚ฌfailed passwordื’โ‚ฌ
B
ื’โ‚ฌfailed passwordื’โ‚ฌ*
C
index=* ื’โ‚ฌfailed passwordื’โ‚ฌ
D
index=security ื’โ‚ฌfailed passwordื’โ‚ฌ

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QUESTION 28

Which search string matches only events with the status_code of 404?

A
status_code!=404
B
status_code>=400
C
status_code<=404
D
status_code>403 status_code<405

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QUESTION 29

_____________ transforms raw data into events and distributes the results into an index.

A
Index
B
Search Head
C
Indexer
D
ForwarderC

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QUESTION 30

Documentations for Splunk can be found at docs.splunk.com

A
True
B
False

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QUESTION 31

Which component of Splunk is primarily responsible for saving data?

A
Search Head
B
Heavy Forwarder
C
Indexer
D
Universal Forwarder

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QUESTION 32

Universal forwarder is recommended for forwarding the logs to indexers.

A
False
B
True

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QUESTION 33

Splunk apps are used for following (Choose three.):

A
Designed to cater numerous use cases and empower Splunk.
B
We can not install Splunk App.
C
Allows multiple workspaces for different use cases/user roles.
D
It is collection of different Splunk config files like data inputs, UI and Knowledge Object.

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QUESTION 34

Three basic components of Splunk are (Choose three.):

A
Forwarders
B
Deployment Server
C
Indexer
D
Knowledge Objects
E
Index
F
Search Head

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QUESTION 35

What is Splunk?

A
Splunk is a software platform to search, analyze and visualize the machine-generated data.
B
Database management tool.
C
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM).
D
Cloud based application that help in analyzing logs.

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QUESTION 36

We should use heavy forwarder for sending event-based data to Indexers.

A
False
B
True

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QUESTION 37

Splunk Enterprise is used as a Scalable service in Splunk Cloud.

A
True
B
False

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QUESTION 38

Which component of Splunk let us write SPL query to find the required data?

A
Forwarders
B
Indexer
C
Heavy Forwarders
D
Search head

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QUESTION 39

All components are installed and administered in Splunk Enterprise on-premise.

A
True
B
False

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QUESTION 40

Log filtering/parsing can be done from _____________.

A
Index Forwarders (IF)
B
Universal Forwarders (UF)
C
Super Forwarder (SF)
D
Heavy Forwarders (HF)

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QUESTION 41

Which is the default app for Splunk Enterprise?

A
Splunk Enterprise Security Suite
B
Searching and Reporting
C
Reporting and Searching
D
Splunk apps for Security

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QUESTION 42

What kind of logs can Splunk Index?

A
Only A, B
B
Router and Switch Logs
C
Firewall and Web Server Logs
D
Only C
E
Database logs
F
All firewall, web server, database, router and switch logs

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QUESTION 43

Portal for Splunk apps can be accessed through www.splunkbase.com

A
False
B
True

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