SPLK-3003 Practice Test

Explanation:
The bloomfilter resides in the directory of each bucket that has one. The directory name is composed of the earliest and latest timestamps of the events in the bucket, as well as the bucket ID.
For example, $SPLUNK_HOME/var/lib/splunk/indexfoo/db/db_1553504858_1553504507_8 is a possible directory name for a bucket. The bloomfilter is a file named bloomfilter in this directory.
Therefore, the correct answer is A, $SPLUNK_HOME/var/lib/splunk/indexfoo/db/db_1553504858_1553504507_8.

Explanation: When Splunk indexes events, it extracts metadata fields such as host, source, and source type from the raw data. These fields are used to identify and categorize the events, and to enable efficient searching and filtering. Splunk also assigns a unique identifier (_cd) and a timestamp (_time) to each event. Splunk does not extract the top 10 fields, perform parsing, merging, and typing processes on universal forwarders, or create report acceleration summaries during indexing. These are separate processes that occur either before or after indexing. Therefore, the correct answer is B. Extracts metadata fields such as host, source, source type.

Explanation: The input type that would be most appropriate to use in order to ensure files are ingested and then deleted afterwards is batch. The batch input type monitors a directory for files, reads each file once, and then deletes or archives the file. The batch input type is useful when the files are not continuously updated, but rather created and moved to a directory for Splunk to process. The batch input type requires that the Universal Forwarder has read/write access to the directory structure, which is the case for the customer. Therefore, the correct answer is B. Batch.

Explanation: The best way to remove the output_file capability from users with the default user role is to clone the default user role, remove the output_file capability, and assign it to the users. This way, the users will retain all the other capabilities of the default user role, except for the output_file capability. Cloning a role creates a copy of an existing role that you can modify as needed. Creating a new role without inheriting from an existing role would require adding all the other capabilities manually, which is tedious and error-prone. Editing the default user role is not recommended, as it may affect other users who rely on that role. Inheriting from a role with a capability does not allow removing that capability from a child role.

Explanation: The parsing pipeline contains the regex replacement processor that would be called upon to run event masking routines on events as they are ingested. Event masking is a process of replacing sensitive data in events with a placeholder value, such as “XXXXX”. This is done by using the SEDCMD attribute in props.conf, which specifies a regular expression to apply to the raw data of an event. The regex replacement processor is responsible for executing the SEDCMD attribute on the events before they are indexed.