SPLK-1003 Practice Test

Explanation:
The correct answer is C. Distributed search is the feature that allows search heads in a company’s European offices to search data in their New York offices.Distributed search also enables restricting access to certain indexers by using the splunk_server field or the server.conf file1.
Distributed search is a way to scale your Splunk deployment by separating the search management and presentation layer from the indexing and search retrieval layer. With distributed search, a Splunk instance called a search head sends search requests to a group of indexers, or search peers, which perform the actual searches on their indexes.The search head then merges the results back to the user2.
Distributed search has several use cases, such as horizontal scaling, access control, and managing geo-dispersed data.For example, users in different offices can search data across the enterprise or only in their local area, depending on their needs and permissions2.
The other options are incorrect because:
A. Indexer clustering is a feature that replicates data across a group of indexers to ensure data availability and recovery.Indexer clustering does not directly affect distributed search, although search heads can be configured to search across an indexer cluster3.
B. LDAP control is a feature that allows Splunk to integrate with an external LDAP directory service for user authentication and role mapping. LDAP control does not affect distributed search, although it can be used to manage user access to data and searches.
D. Search head clustering is a feature that distributes the search workload across a group of search heads that share resources, configurations, and jobs. Search head clustering does not affect distributed search, although the search heads in a cluster can search across the same set of indexers.

Explanation: The correct answer is D. No, because the event time is greater than the retention time.
According to the Splunk documentation1, the frozenTimePeriodInSecs setting in indexes.conf determines how long Splunk software retains indexed data before deleting it or archiving it to a remote storage. The default value is 188697600 seconds, which is equivalent to six years. The setting can be overridden on a per-index basis.
In this case, the cat_facts index has a frozenTimePeriodInSecs setting of 2630000 seconds, which is equivalent to about 30 days. This means that any event that is older than 30 days from the current time will be removed from the index and will not be searchable.
The event timestamp was 3739283 seconds ago, which is equivalent to about 43 days.
This means that the event is older than the retention time of the cat_facts index and will not be searchable.
The other settings in the stanza, such as maxHotSpanSecs and maxTota1DataSizeMB, do not affect the retention time of the events. They only affect the size and duration of the buckets that store the events.

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