SPLK-1003 Exam Dumps - Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin

Splunk uses alayered configuration modelwhere settings are loaded in a specific order. This order determines which configuration takes precedence when multiple settings conflict. Atindex time(the point when data is parsed and indexed), the configuration precedence is clearly defined in the official documentation.

FromSplunk Docs(props.conf precedence):

Configuration file resolution order (highest to lowest precedence):

$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/users/ < username > / < appname > /local

$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/ < appname > /local

$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/ < appname > /default

$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local

$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/default

However, forindex-time configurations, a slight difference applies:

system/local and users/local areoften treated specially, butin practice and according to Splunk Docs, thesystem/localconfigs override apps/default, and so on.

InOption C, the correct precedence fromhighest to lowestis:

/etc/users/local (Highest)

/etc/system/default

/etc/apps/aaa/local

/etc/apps/zzz/default

/etc/system/local (Lowest of these listed)

Though system/local typically has high precedence,when users/local is involved, that is the ultimate override. Splunk Docs confirms this in:

Configuration file precedence

Configuration layering reference

Therefore, Option C reflects the correct Splunk configuration file precedence order at index time.

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.1.0/Data/ConsiderationsfordecidinghowtomonitorWindowsdata

" The Splunk platform collects remote Windows data for indexing in one of two ways: From Splunk forwarders, Using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). For Splunk Cloud deployments, you must use the Splunk Universal Forwarder on a Windows machines to montior remote Windows data. "

" You can group your search peers to facilitate searching on a subset of them. Groups of search peers are known as " distributed search groups. " You specify distributed search groups in the distsearch.conf file "

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.3.1/Data/Configurecharactersetencoding

" Configure character set encoding. Splunk software attempts to apply UTF-8 encoding to your scources by default. If a source foesn ' t use UTF-8 encoding or is a non-ASCII file, Splunk software tries to convert data from the source to UTF-8 encoding unless you specify a character set to use by setting the CHARSET key in the props.conf file. "

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.4/Admin/Propsconf#props.conf.spec

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.1.1/Admin/Propsconf

" * Reuse of the same field-extracting regular expression across multiple sources, source types, or hosts. " https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.4/Admin/Propsconf#props.conf.spec

Splunk REST API is a valid method to create a Splunk user. The Splunk REST API allows administrators to create, edit, and delete users programmatically using HTTP requests. The other options are not valid methods to create a Splunk user. Creating a support ticket does not create a user, but requests assistance from Splunk support. Creating a user on the host operating system does not create a Splunk user, but a system user. Adding the username to users.conf does not create a user, but modifies the configuration file that stores user information. References = Configure users with the CLI, Configure users and roles

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.5/Updating/Updateconfigurations First line says it all: " The deployment server distributes deployment apps to clients. "