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Quiz a lot 10- Computer Science & Information Technology - Programming
1
What result will you get with following search index=test sourcetype="The_Questionnaire_P*" ?
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Computer Science & Information Technology
A. the_questionnaire _pedia
B. the_questionnaire pedia
C. the_questionnaire_pedia
D. the_questionnaire Pedia
programming
Answer: C. the_questionnaire_pedia
2
Log filtering/parsing can be done from ______________.
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Computer Science & Information Technology
A. Index Forwarders (IF)
B. Universal Forwarders (UF)
C. Super Forwarder (SF)
D. Heavy Forwarders (HF)
programming
Answer: D. Heavy Forwarders (HF)
3
Which is the default app for Splunk Enterprise?
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Computer Science & Information Technology
A. Splunk Enterprise Security Suite
B. Searching and Reporting
C. Reporting and Searching
D. Splunk apps for Security
programming
Answer: B. Searching and Reporting
4
Splunk Enterprise is used as a Scalable service in Splunk Cloud.
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Computer Science & Information Technology
A. True
B. False
programming
Ans: A. True
5
We should use heavy forwarder for sending event-based data to Indexers.
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Computer Science & Information Technology
A. False
B. True
programming
Answer: B. True
6
Which component of Splunk let us write SPL query to find the required data?
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Computer Science & Information Technology
A. Forwarders
B. Indexer
C. Heavy Forwarders
D. Search head
programming
Answer: D. Search head
7
______________ transforms raw data into events and distributes the results into an index.
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Computer Science & Information Technology
A. Index
B. Search Head
C. Indexer
D. Forwarder
programming
Answer: C. Indexer
8
Which component of Splunk is primarily responsible for saving data?
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Computer Science & Information Technology
A. Search Head
B. Heavy Forwarder
C. Indexer
D. Universal Forwarder
programming
Ans: C. Indexer
9
Which of the following describes lookup files?
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Computer Science & Information Technology
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.
programming
Answer: C. Lookups add more fields to results returned by a search.
10
According to Splunk best practices, which placement of the wildcard results in the most efficient search?
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Computer Science & Information Technology
A. f*il
B. *fail
C. fail*
D. fail
programming
Answer: C. fail*
11
Which command automatically returns percent and count columns when executing searches?
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Computer Science & Information Technology
A. top
B. stats
C. table
D. percent
programming
Ans: A. top
12
By default, which of the following is a Selected Field?
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Computer Science & Information Technology
A. action
B. clientip
C. categoryId
D. sourcetype
programming
Answer: D. sourcetype
13
What happens when a field is added to the Selected Fields list in the fields sidebar?
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Computer Science & Information Technology
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.
programming
Answer: D. The selected field and its corresponding values will appear underneath the events in the search results.
14
Which statement is true about the top command?
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Computer Science & Information Technology
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.
programming
Ans: D. All of the above.
15
What can be configured using the Edit Job Settings menu?
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Computer Science & Information Technology
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.
programming
Answer: D. Change Job Lifetime from 10 minutes to 7 days.
16
Which is primary function of the timeline located under the search bar?
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Computer Science & Information Technology
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.
programming
Answer: D. To show peaks and/or valleys in the timeline, which can indicate spikes in activity or downtime.
17
Which search matches the events containing the terms "error" and "fail"?
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Computer Science & Information Technology
A. index=security Error Fail
B. index=security error OR fail
C. index=security "error failure"
D. index=security NOT error NOT fail
programming
Answer: A. index=security Error Fail
18
What type of search can be saved as a report?
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Computer Science & Information Technology
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.
programming
Answer: A. Any search can be saved as a report.
19
Which of the following are functions of the stats command?
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Computer Science & Information Technology
A. count, sum, add
B. count, sum, less
C. sum, avg, values
D. sum, values, table
programming
Answer: C. sum, avg, values
20
Which of the following is a best practice when writing a search string?
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Computer Science & Information Technology
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.
programming
Answer: C. Include the search terms at the beginning of the search string.
21
In the fields sidebar, what indicates that a field is numeric?
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Computer Science & Information Technology
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.
programming
Answer: B. A # symbol to the left of the field name.
22
In the Splunk interface, the list of alerts can be filtered based on which characteristics?
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Computer Science & Information Technology
A. App, Owner, Severity, and Type
B. App, Owner, Priority, and Status
C. App, Dashboard, Severity, and Type
D. App, Time Window, Type, and Severity
programming
Answer: D. App, Time Window, Type, and Severity
23
When looking at a statistics table, what is one way to drill down to see the underlying events?
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Computer Science & Information Technology
A. Creating a pivot table.
B. Clicking on the visualizations tab.
C. Viewing your report in a dashboard.
D. Clicking on any field value in the table.
programming
Answer: D. Clicking on any field value in the table.
24
Which search string returns a filed containing the number of matching events and names that field Event Count?
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Computer Science & Information Technology
A. index=security failure | stats sum as "Event Count"
B. index=security failure | stats count as "Event Count"
C. index=security failure | stats count by "Event Count"
D. index=security failure | stats dc(count) as "Event Count"
programming
Answer: B. index=security failure | stats count as "Event Count"
25
What is a suggested Splunk best practice for naming reports?
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Computer Science & Information Technology
A. Reports are best named using many numbers so they can be more easily sorted.
B. Use a consistent naming convention so they are easily separated by characteristics such as group and object.
C. Name reports as uniquely as possible with no overlap to differentiate them from one another.
D. Any naming convention is fine as long as you keep an external spreadsheet to keep track.
programming
Answer: B. Use a consistent naming convention so they are easily separated by characteristics such as group and object.
26
Which of the following index searches would provide the most efficient search performance?
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Computer Science & Information Technology
A. index=*
B. index=web OR index=s*
C. (index=web OR index=sales)
D. index=sales AND index=web
programming
Answer: C. (index=web OR index=sales)
27
When placed early in a search, which command is most effective at reducing search execution time?
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Computer Science & Information Technology
A. dedup
B. rename
C. sort -
D. fields +
programming
Answer: A. dedup
28
What user interface component allows for time selection?
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Computer Science & Information Technology
A. Time summary
B. Time range picker
C. Search time picker
D. Data source time statistics
programming
Answer: B. Time range picker
29
What syntax is used to link key/value pairs in search strings?
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Computer Science & Information Technology
A. action+purchase
B. action=purchase
C. action | purchase
D. action equal purchase
programming
Answer: B. action=purchase
30
Which statement is true about Splunk alerts?
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Computer Science & Information Technology
A. Alerts are based on searches that are either run on a scheduled interval or in real-time.
B. Alerts are based on searches and when triggered will only send an email notification.
C. Alerts are based on searches and require cron to run on scheduled interval.
D. Alerts are based on searches that are run exclusively as real-time.
programming
Answer: A. Alerts are based on searches that are either run on a scheduled interval or in real-time.
31
A field exists in search results, but isn't being displayed in the fields sidebar. How can it be added to the fields sidebar?
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Computer Science & Information Technology
A. Click All Fields and select the field to add it to Selected Fields.
B. Click Interesting Fields and select the field to add it to Selected Fields.
C. Click Selected Fields and select the field to add it to Interesting Fields.
D. This scenario isn't possible because all fields returned from a search always appear in the fields sidebar.
programming
Answer: A. Click All Fields and select the field to add it to Selected Fields.
32
Which stats command function provides a count of how many unique values exist for a given field in the result set?
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Computer Science & Information Technology
A. dc(field)
B. count(field)
C. count-by(field)
D. distinct-count(field)
programming
Answer: A. dc(field)
33
Which Boolean operator is always implied between two search terms, unless otherwise specified?
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Computer Science & Information Technology
A. OR
B. NOT
C. AND
D. XOR
programming
Ans: C. AND
34
When an alert action is configured to run a script, Splunk must be able to locate the script. Which is one of the directories Splunk will look in to find the script?
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Computer Science & Information Technology
A. $SPLUNK_HOME/bin/scripts
B. $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/scripts
C. $SPLUNK_HOME/bin/etc/scripts
D. $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/scripts/bin
programming
Answer: A. $SPLUNK_HOME/bin/scripts
35
What is the correct syntax to count the number of events containing a vendor_action field?
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Computer Science & Information Technology
A. count stats vendor_action
B. count stats (vendor_action)
C. stats count (vendor_action)
D. stats vendor_action (count)
programming
Answer: C. stats count (vendor_action)
36
What does the rare command do?
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Computer Science & Information Technology
A. Returns the least common field values of a given field in the results.
B. Returns the most common field values of a given field in the results.
C. Returns the top 10 field values of a given field in the results.
D. Returns the lowest 10 field values of a given field in the results.
programming
Answer: A. Returns the least common field values of a given field in the results.
37
Which of the following statements about case sensitivity is true?
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Computer Science & Information Technology
A. Both field names and field values ARE case sensitive.
B. Field names ARE case sensitive; field values are NOT.
C. Field values ARE case sensitive; field names ARE NOT.
D. Both field names and field values ARE NOT case sensitive.
programming
Answer: B. Field names ARE case sensitive; field values are NOT.
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