SPLK-2002 Exam Dumps - Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect Questions and Answers

Three peers can fail. This is the maximum number of search peers that can fail before data becomes unsearchable in the indexer cluster with the given characteristics. The searchability of the data depends on the Search Factor, which is the number of searchable copies of each bucket that the cluster maintains across the set of peer nodes1. In this case, the Search Factor is 3, which means that each bucket has three searchable copies distributed among the 10 search peers. If three or fewer search peers fail, the cluster can still serve the data from the remaining searchable copies. However, if four or more search peers fail, the cluster may lose some searchable copies and the data may become unsearchable. The other options are not correct, as they either underestimate or overestimate the number of search peers that can fail before data becomes unsearchable. Therefore, option C is the correct answer, and options A, B, and D are incorrect.

1: Configure the search factor

The index=_internal component=DC* host= search will show all deployment client messages from the universal forwarder. The component field indicates the type of Splunk component that generated the message, and the host field indicates the host name of the machine that sent the message. The index=_audit component=DC* host= search will not return any results, because the deployment client messages are not stored in the _audit index. The index=_internal component=DS* host= search will show the deployment server messages from the deployment server, not the client. The index=_audit component=DS* host= search will also not return any results, for the same reason as above

The telnet and tcpdump tools can be leveraged to diagnose connection problems between an indexer and forwarder. The telnet tool can be used to test the connectivity and port availability between the indexer and forwarder. The tcpdump tool can be used to capture and analyze the network traffic between the indexer and forwarder. The splunk btool command can be used to check the configuration files of the indexer and forwarder, but it cannot diagnose the connection problems. The splunk btprobe command does not exist, and it is not a valid tool.

Splunk Enterprise licensing is based on the amount of data that is ingested and indexed by the Splunk platform per day1. The data that counts against the license is the data that is stored in the indexes that are visible to the users and searchable by the Splunk software2. The indexes that are visible and searchable by default are the main index and any custom indexes that are created by the users or the apps3. The main index is the default index where Splunk Enterprise stores all data, unless otherwise specified4.

Option B is the correct answer because the data for the main index will count against the ingest-based license, as it is a visible and searchable index by default. Option A is incorrect because the summary index is a special type of index that stores the results of scheduled reports or accelerated data models, which do not count against the license. Option C is incorrect because the _metrics index is an internal index that stores metrics data about the Splunk platform performance, which does not count against the license. Option D is incorrect because the _introspection index is another internal index that stores data about the impact of the Splunk software on the host system, such as CPU, memory, disk, and network usage, which does not count against the license.

References:

1: How Splunk Enterprise licensing works - Splunk Documentation 2: What data counts against my license? - Splunk Documentation 3: [About indexes and indexers - Splunk Documentation] 4: [The main index - Splunk Documentation] : [Summary indexing - Splunk Documentation] : [About metrics indexes - Splunk Documentation] : [About the Monitoring Console - Splunk Documentation]