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Which feature of Splunk's role configuration can be used to aggregate multiple roles intended for groups of users?

A.
Linked roles
A.
Linked roles
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B.
Grantable roles
B.
Grantable roles
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C.
Role federation
C.
Role federation
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D.
Role inheritance
D.
Role inheritance
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Suggested answer: D

Explanation:

You can have a role inherit certain properties from one or more existing role

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.5/Security/Aboutusersandroles

Reference: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.5/Security/Aboutusersandroles

Which of the following is the use case for the deployment server feature of Splunk?

A.
Managing distributed workloads in a Splunk environment.
A.
Managing distributed workloads in a Splunk environment.
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B.
Automating upgrades of Splunk forwarder installations on endpoints.
B.
Automating upgrades of Splunk forwarder installations on endpoints.
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C.
Orchestrating the operations and scale of a containerized Splunk deployment.
C.
Orchestrating the operations and scale of a containerized Splunk deployment.
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D.
Updating configuration and distributing apps to processing components, primarily forwarders.
D.
Updating configuration and distributing apps to processing components, primarily forwarders.
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Suggested answer: D

Explanation:

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.2.2/Updating/Aboutdeploymentserver

"The deployment server is the tool for distributing configurations, apps, and content updates to groups of Splunk Enterprise instances."

When running a real-time search, search results are pulled from which Splunk component?

A.
Heavy forwarders and search peers
A.
Heavy forwarders and search peers
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B.
Heavy forwarders
B.
Heavy forwarders
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C.
Search heads
C.
Search heads
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D.
Search peers
D.
Search peers
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Suggested answer: D

Explanation:

Using the Splunk reference URL https://docs.splunk.com/Splexicon:Searchpeer

"search peer is a splunk platform instance that responds to search requests from a search head. The term "search peer" is usally synonymous with the indexer role in a distributed search topology.

However, other instance types also have access to indexed data, particularly internal diagnostic data, and thus function as search peers when they respond to search requests for that data."

Using SEDCMD in props.conf allows raw data to be modified. With the given event below, which option will mask the first three digits of the AcctID field resulting output: [22/Oct/2018:15:50:21]

VendorID=1234 Code=B AcctID=xxx5309

Event:

[22/Oct/2018:15:50:21] VendorID=1234 Code=B AcctID=xxx5309

A.
SEDCMD-1acct = s/VendorID=\d{3}(\d{4})/VendorID=xxx/g
A.
SEDCMD-1acct = s/VendorID=\d{3}(\d{4})/VendorID=xxx/g
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B.
SEDCMD-xxxAcct = s/AcctID=\d{3}(\d{4})/AcctID=xxx/g
B.
SEDCMD-xxxAcct = s/AcctID=\d{3}(\d{4})/AcctID=xxx/g
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C.
SEDCMD-1acct = s/AcctID=\d{3}(\d{4})/AcctID=\1xxx/g
C.
SEDCMD-1acct = s/AcctID=\d{3}(\d{4})/AcctID=\1xxx/g
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D.
SEDCMD-1acct = s/AcctID=\d{3}(\d{4})/AcctID=xxx\1/g
D.
SEDCMD-1acct = s/AcctID=\d{3}(\d{4})/AcctID=xxx\1/g
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Suggested answer: D

Explanation:

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.2.2/Data/Anonymizedata

Scrolling down to the section titled "Define the sed script in props.conf shows the correct syntax of an example which validates that the number/character /1 immediately preceded the /g

What is required when adding a native user to Splunk? (select all that apply)

A.
Password
A.
Password
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B.
Username
B.
Username
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C.
Full Name
C.
Full Name
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D.
Default app
D.
Default app
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Suggested answer: A, B

Explanation:

According to the Splunk system admin course PDF, When adding native users, Username and Password ARE REQUIRED

What are the minimum required settings when creating a network input in Splunk?

A.
Protocol, port number
A.
Protocol, port number
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B.
Protocol, port, location
B.
Protocol, port, location
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C.
Protocol, username, port
C.
Protocol, username, port
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D.
Protocol, IP. port number
D.
Protocol, IP. port number
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Suggested answer: A

Explanation:

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.5/Admin/Inputsconf

[tcp://<remote server>:<port>]

*Configures the input to listen on a specific TCP network port.

*If a <remote server> makes a connection to this instance, the input uses this stanza to configure itself.

*If you do not specify <remote server>, this stanza matches all connections on the specified port.

*Generates events with source set to "tcp:<port>", for example: tcp:514

*If you do not specify a sourcetype, generates events with sourcetype set to "tcp-raw"

Which Splunk component requires a Forwarder license?

A.
Search head
A.
Search head
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B.
Heavy forwarder
B.
Heavy forwarder
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C.
Heaviest forwarder
C.
Heaviest forwarder
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D.
Universal forwarder
D.
Universal forwarder
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Suggested answer: B

Which optional configuration setting in inputs .conf allows you to selectively forward the data to specific indexer(s)?

A.
_TCP_ROUTING
A.
_TCP_ROUTING
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B.
_INDEXER_LIST
B.
_INDEXER_LIST
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C.
_INDEXER_GROUP
C.
_INDEXER_GROUP
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D.
_INDEXER ROUTING
D.
_INDEXER ROUTING
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Suggested answer: A

Explanation:

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.0.3/Forwarding/Routeandfilterdatad#Perform_selective_indexing_and_forwarding

Specifies a comma-separated list of tcpout group names. Use this setting to selectively forward your data to specific indexers by specifying the tcpout groups that the forwarder should use when forwarding the data. Define the tcpout group names in the outputs.conf file in [tcpout:<tcpout_group_name>] stanzas. The groups present in defaultGroup in [tcpout] stanza in the outputs.conf file.

To set up a Network input in Splunk, what needs to be specified'?

A.
File path.
A.
File path.
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B.
Username and password
B.
Username and password
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C.
Network protocol and port number.
C.
Network protocol and port number.
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D.
Network protocol and MAC address.
D.
Network protocol and MAC address.
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Suggested answer: C

Explanation:

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.3/Data/Monitornetworkports

Which Splunk forwarder type allows parsing of data before forwarding to an indexer?

A.
Universal forwarder
A.
Universal forwarder
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B.
Parsing forwarder
B.
Parsing forwarder
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C.
Heavy forwarder
C.
Heavy forwarder
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D.
Advanced forwarder
D.
Advanced forwarder
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Suggested answer: C
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