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Splunk SPLK-3003 Exam Overview:
| Certification Vendor: | Splunk |
|---|---|
| Exam Name: | Splunk Core Certified Consultant |
| Exam Number: | SPLK-3003 |
| Exam Duration: | 120 minutes |
| Available Languages: | English |
| Exam Format: | Multiple Choice |
| Related Certifications: | Splunk Core Certified Consultant |
| Sample Questions: |  |
| Exam Way: | Pearson VUE testing center or online proctored exam |
| Pre Condition: | Completion of advanced Splunk training and significant hands-on experience with enterprise Splunk deployments is recommended. |
| Official Syllabus URL: | https://www.splunk.com/en_us/training/certification-track/splunk-core-certified-consultant.html |
Splunk SPLK-3003 Exam Syllabus Topics:
| Section | Weight | Objectives |
|---|---|---|
| Topic 1: Search Head Clustering | 14% | - Cluster Management
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| Topic 2: Security and Authentication | 12% | - Access Management
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| Topic 3: Data Onboarding and Indexing | 12% | - Data Processing
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| Topic 4: Monitoring and Troubleshooting | 12% | - Monitoring Console
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| Topic 5: Distributed Search | 10% | - Distributed Search Architecture
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| Topic 6: Indexer Clustering | 18% | - Cluster Architecture
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| Topic 7: Configuration Management | 8% | - Deployment Server
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| Topic 8: Search and Reporting | 14% | - Search Optimization
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SPLK-3003 Exam FAQ — Stand Out
The Splunk Core Certified Consultant blueprint spans 8 domains — including Monitoring and Troubleshooting (12%), Data Onboarding and Indexing (12%), Search Head Clustering (14%). Know your strength and shortcoming per domain; the complete outline above lists every subtopic.
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Splunk Core Certified Consultant Sample Questions:
A customer has 30 indexers in an indexer cluster configuration and two search heads. They are working on writing SPL search for a particular use-case, but are concerned that it takes too long to run for short time durations.
How can the Search Job Inspector capabilities be used to help validate and understand the customer concerns?
- A. Search Job Inspector provides statistics to show how much time and the number of events each indexer has processed.
- B. Search Job Inspector provides a Search Health Check capability that provides an optimized SPL query the customer should try instead.
- C. Search Job Inspector cannot be used to help troubleshoot the slow performing search; customer should review index=_introspection instead.
- D. The customer is using the transaction SPL search command, which is known to be slow.
Correct Answer: A 🗳️
An index receives approximately 50GB of data per day per indexer at an even and consistent rate. The customer would like to keep this data searchable for a minimum of 30 days. In addition, they have hourly scheduled searches that process a week's worth of data and are quite sensitive to search performance.
Given ideal conditions (no restarts, nor drops/bursts in data volume), and following PS best practices, which of the following sets of indexes.conf settings can be leveraged to meet the requirements?
- A. maxDataSize, frozenTimePeriodInSecs, maxVolumeDataSizeMB
- B. maxDataSize, maxTotalDataSizeMB, maxHotBuckets, maxGlobalDataSizeMB
- C. frozenTimePeriodInSecs, maxWarmDBCount, homePath.maxDataSizeMB, maxHotSpanSecs
- D. frozenTimePeriodInSecs, maxDataSize, maxVolumeDataSizeMB, maxHotBuckets
Correct Answer: D 🗳️
A working search head cluster has been set up and used for 6 months with just the native/local Splunk user authentication method. In order to integrate the search heads with an external Active Directory server using LDAP, which of the following statements represents the most appropriate method to deploy the configuration to the servers?
- A. Configure the LDAP integration on one Search Head using the Settings > Access Controls > Authentication Method and Settings > Access Controls > Roles Splunk UI menus. The configuration setting will replicate to the other nodes in the search head cluster eliminating the need to do this on the other search heads.
- B. Configure the integration in a base configuration app located in shcluster-apps directory on the search head deployer, then deploy the configuration to the search heads using the splunk apply shcluster-bundle command.
- C. On each search head, login and configure the LDAP integration using the Settings > Access Controls > Authentication Method and Settings > Access Controls > Roles Splunk UI menus.
- D. Log onto each search using a command line utility. Modify the authentication.conf and authorize.conf files in a base configuration app to configure the integration.
Correct Answer: B 🗳️
When configuring the Monitoring Console (MC) in Distributed Mode, which of the following Splunk configuration files contain connection information about the monitored distributed search peers?
- A. server.conf
- B. props.conf
- C. outputs.conf
- D. distsearch.conf
Correct Answer: D 🗳️
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What is the minimum number of search head cluster members required to form a valid SHC?
- A. 1
- B. 5
- C. 2
- D. 3
Correct Answer: D 🗳️
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