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Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin
Administering Splunk Enterprise: the component roles and which tier a setting belongs on, bucket ageing with frozen data deleted unless archived, inputs declaring the sourcetype that drives parsing, and configuration precedence where local overrides default; then knowledge objects with their sharing levels, roles carrying capabilities separately from index access, deployment servers and cluster replication and search factors, and diagnosing missing data forward through the pipeline.
What you get
Papers are cut from the bank and weighted like the real exam, and no question appears in two of them. Every wrong answer comes back on later days until you have it right.
What the exam covers
| Architecture, data input and parsing | Not published |
| Knowledge objects, access, distribution and operations | Not published |
Two sample questions
1. Which authentication options does Splunk support out of the box?
- Native accounts and hardware tokens only
- Native accounts, a directory service or single sign-on — correct
- Directory accounts and shared keys only
- Single sign-on and client certificates only
Why: Most deployments map directory groups onto Splunk roles.
2. What determines when warm rolls to cold?
- Size or count limits — correct
- The captain election
- The role capability
- The HEC token
Why: Warm rolls to cold when index size or bucket count thresholds are reached.
The real SPLK-1003 exam
| Length | 57 minutes |
|---|---|
| Questions | 63 |
| Pass mark | 70% |
| Price | Purchased per attempt through Pearson VUE |
| Recommended before you sit it | Splunk expects the Core Certified Power User credential and administration training beforehand. |
| Valid for | 3 years |
Exam facts as published by Splunk; always check the vendor’s page before you book.
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