Splunk Interview Questions and Answer Part – 1

Where is the best place to get help with general Splunk questions?

• Splunk Answers (Ans)
• Stack Overflow
• Course Q and A

Splunk is primarily a business intelligence tool.

• False (Ans)
• True

To be successful in this course, you should commit to _ per day.

• 10 – 20 minutes (Ans)
• 1 to 2 hours
• 30 – 45 minutes
• 0 minutes

Splunk can be used to

• investigate.
• alert.
• build dashboards.
• build reports.
• all of these (Ans)

Splunk is free for up to 5GB of incoming data per day.

• True
• False (Ans)

This course is “version agnostic.”

• False
• True (Ans)

You need a lot of prior experience in IT or Business Intelligence to be successful in this course.

• True
• False (Ans)

Where is Splunk headquartered?

• New York
• Boston
• UK
• San Francisco (Ans)
• Palo Alto

You need to understand a complicated search language to use Splunk successfully.

• False (Ans)
• True

Splunk can make you the “hero” of your IT department.

• True (Ans)
• False

The Splunk Enterprise Trial license is valid for

• 30 days.
• 90 days.
• 60 days (Ans)
• 45 days.

To collect and parse data at the source, you need a

• light forwarder.
• universal forwarder.
• heavy forwarder. (Ans)
• indexer.
• parser.

Splunk can be set up in a distributed environment.

• False
• True (Ans)

Splunk can be installed in the following environments:

• Unix
• Linux.
• Windows.
• Mac.
• All of these. (Ans)
• Solaris.

Select the best description of a Splunk app.

• A particular configuration setting found in a config file. (Ans)
• A collection of configuration files that extend the functionality of Splunk.
• A competitor to Splunk, like Elk.
• A heavy forwarder that is installed with a forwarder license.

A licensing violation is in effect for

• 90 days.
• 30 days. (Ans)
• 60 days.
• 45 days.

Splunk will stop indexing your data during the violation period.

• False (Ans)
• True

To manage licensing in the Splunk GUI, navigate to

• Settings / Server controls.
• Settings / Forwarder management.
• Settings / Licensing. (Ans)
• Settings / Access controls.

Search is a Splunk app.

• False
• True (Ans)

Where should you go to find and download Splunk apps?

• applications.splunk.com
• splunkers.com
• splunkbase.com (Ans)
• install.splunk.com

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