{"id":8827,"date":"2020-01-16T09:37:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T09:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/?p=8827"},"modified":"2021-11-13T10:58:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T10:58:09","slug":"splunk-interview-questions-and-answer-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/splunk-interview-questions-and-answer-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Splunk Interview Questions and Answer Part \u2013 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Where is the best place to get help with general Splunk questions?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Splunk Answers (Ans)<\/strong><\/li><li>Stack Overflow<\/li><li>Course Q and A<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Splunk is primarily a business intelligence tool.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>False (Ans)<\/strong><\/li><li>True<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>To be successful in this course, you should commit to _ per day.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>10 &#8211; 20 minutes (Ans)<\/strong><\/li><li>1 to 2 hours<\/li><li>30 &#8211; 45 minutes<\/li><li>0 minutes<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Splunk can be used to<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>investigate.<\/li><li>alert.<\/li><li>build dashboards.<\/li><li>build reports.<\/li><li><strong>all of these (Ans)<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Splunk is free for up to 5GB of incoming data per day.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>True<\/li><li><strong>False (Ans)<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This course is &#8220;version agnostic.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>False<\/li><li><strong>True (Ans)<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You need a lot of prior experience in IT or Business Intelligence to be successful in this course.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>True<\/li><li><strong>False (Ans)<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Where is Splunk headquartered?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>New York<\/li><li>Boston<\/li><li>UK<\/li><li><strong>San Francisco (Ans)<\/strong><\/li><li>Palo Alto<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You need to understand a complicated search language to use Splunk successfully.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>False (Ans)<\/strong><\/li><li>True<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Splunk can make you the &#8220;hero&#8221; of your IT department.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>True (Ans)<\/strong><\/li><li>False<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Splunk Enterprise Trial license is valid for<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>30 days.<\/li><li>90 days.<\/li><li><strong>60 days (Ans)<\/strong><\/li><li>45 days.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>To collect and parse data at the source, you need a<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>light forwarder.<\/li><li>universal forwarder.<\/li><li><strong>heavy forwarder. (Ans)<\/strong><\/li><li>indexer.<\/li><li>parser.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Splunk can be set up in a distributed environment.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>False<\/li><li><strong>True (Ans)<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Splunk can be installed in the following environments:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Unix<\/li><li>Linux.<\/li><li>Windows.<\/li><li>Mac.<\/li><li><strong>All of these. (Ans)<\/strong><\/li><li>Solaris.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Select the best description of a Splunk app.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>A particular configuration setting found in a config file. 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