Splunk Fundamentals 1 Flashcards
Splunk allows you to _____, analyze, and get _____ from your machine data.
aggregate, answers
What are the 3 main components of Splunk?
search head, indexer, forwarder
What are the 2 different types of Splunk deployment?
Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud
Splunk components are installed and administered on premises with this type of Splunk deployment.
Splunk Enterprise
Splunk Enterprise is used as a scalable service and requires minimal infrastructure with this type of deployment.
Splunk Cloud
A ____ ___ is designed to address a wide variety of use cases and to extend the power of Splunk.
Splunk app
What do you use to download Splunk apps?
Splunkbase
True or False. There are 1,000 + ready-made apps available on Splunkbase.
True
Out of the box, what are the 3 main roles used in Splunk?
admin, power, user
What is the default app that comes with Splunk?
Search & Reporting
The ______ app provides a default interface for searching and analyzing data.
Search & Reporting
A _____ is unique identifier identifying where Splunk events originated (whether it’s from a laptop, phone, etc). In other words, this is the actual device that’s generating the data.
a. source
b. host
c. sourcetype
b. host
The name of a file (ie. Word file named “Splunk Class”), stream, or other input (where data is specifically coming from – i.e. “picture” folder on a phone) is the ______.
a. source
b. host
c. sourcetype
a. source
In the Search & Reporting app, the Data Summary contains three summary tabs. Select all that apply.
a. host
b. source
c. index
d. sourcetype
a. host
b. source
d. sourcetype
True or false: Search term values are case sensitive.
False
NOT, OR and AND are called ____ in Splunk.
booleans
The Boolean ____ is implied between terms.
AND
_____ are locations where Splunk stores and searches for event data
Indexes
Splunk admins _____ data into separate indexes in order to establish different retention policies on different types of data, improve search performance, and limit access by role.
segregate
Improving search ____ is one reason why Splunk admins segregate data into separate indexes.
performance
Limiting ____ by role is one reason why Splunk admins segregate data into separate indexes.
access
Establishing ___ policies (how long data is kept) on different types of data is one reason why Splunk admins segregate data into separate indexes.
retention
An ____ is a Splunk component that processes machine data. Information within ____ are stored in _____, enabling fast search and analysis. (visual example: file folder with separate files within the file folder)
indexer, indexers, indexes
What Boolean can you use to search against multiple indexes?
OR