SPLK-1003 Practice Test

Explanation: Users log on to the search head and run reports: – The search head dispatches searches to the peers – Peers run searches in parallel and return their portion of results – The search head consolidates the individual results and prepares reports.

Explanation: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.1.1/Updating/Definedeploymentclasses# Ways_to_define_server_classes "When you use forwarder management to create a new server class, it saves the server class definition in a copy of serverclass.conf under $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local. If, instead of using forwarder management, you decide to directly edit serverclass.conf, it is recommended that you create the serverclass.conf file in that same directory, $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local."

Explanation: A role in Splunk is a classification that determines what capabilities and indexes a user has.A capability is a permission to perform a specific action or access a specific feature on the Splunk platform1.An index is a collection of data that Splunk software processes and stores2. By assigning roles to users, you can control what they can do and what data they can access on the Splunk platform.

Therefore, the correct answers are A and D. A role in Splunk determines what capabilities and indexes a user has. Option B is incorrect because Splunk servers do not use roles to remotely control each other.Option C is incorrect because Splunk servers use instances and components to determine what functions they control.

References 1: Define roles on the Splunk platform with capabilities - Splunk Documentation
About indexes and indexers - Splunk Documentation
Splunk Enterprise components - Splunk Documentation

Explanation:

URLhttps://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.2.2/DistSearch/Configuredistributedsearch "To activate distributed search, you add search peers, or indexers, to a Splunk Enterprise instance that you desingate as a search head. You do this by specifying each search peer manually."

Explanation: According to the Splunk documentation1, a heavy forwarder is a Splunk Enterprise instance that can parse and filter data before forwarding it to an indexer. A heavy forwarder can perform line breaking, which is the process of splitting incoming data into individual events based on a set of rules2. A heavy forwarder can also apply other transformations to the data, such as field extractions, event type matching, or masking sensitive data.