Free Splunk SPLK-1005 Exam Dumps Questions & Answers

Which of the following tasks is not managed by the Splunk Cloud administrator?

• A.  Managing knowledge objects.
• B.  Creating users and roles.
• C.  Upgrading the indexer's Splunk software.
• D.  Forwarding events to Splunk Cloud.

When creating a new index, which of the following is true about archiving expired events?

• A.  Store expired events on-prem using your own storage systems.
• B.  Expired events cannot be archived.
• C.  Archive some expired events from an index and discard others.
• D.  Store expired events in private AWS-based storage.

Configuration folders named default contain configuration files/settings specified in the Splunk product or default settings specified in apps. Which of the following is recommended to override these settings?

• A.  Overrides should be placed in a folder named local, ideally within a custom Splunk app. This ensures the overrides are preserved upon product or app upgrade and will also be easier to maintain/support.
• B.  Try to store all configuration overrides in system/local folder to keep all configurations in one place.This ensures the modification has the highest precedence over all other configuration entries.
• C.  Any settings to be overridden should be modified in-place wherever the setting was found originally. For example, if overriding a setting originally found in system/default, it should be overridden there to ensure that the desired value is used by Splunk.
• D.  It does not matter whether setting overrides are placed in default or local folders. Both are equally acceptable since Splunk will merge all the files together into one runtime model after each restart.

Which statement best describes the primary purpose of sourcetypes during Splunk event processing operations?

• A.  Sourcetypes replace indexes entirely when organizing searchable historical event storage repositories permanently.
• B.  Sourcetypes permanently determine retention policies and storage allocation for indexed enterprise datasets globally.
• C.  Sourcetypes authenticate users and assign administrative permissions within distributed search infrastructures securely.
• D.  Sourcetypes identify event formats and control parsing behavior during ingestion processing automatically.

Which of the following statements is true about data transformations using SEDCMD?

• A.  Configured in props.conf and transform.conf.
• B.  Can be used to manipulate the sourcetype per event.
• C.  Operates on a REGEX pattern match of the source, sourcetype, or host of an event.
• D.  Can only be used to mask or truncate raw data.