How is data handled by Splunk during the input phase of the data ingestion process?

How is data handled by Splunk during the input phase of the data ingestion process?
A . Data is treated as streams.
B . Data is broken up into events.
C . Data is initially written to disk.
D . Data is measured by the license meter.

Answer: A

Explanation:

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.5/Deploy/Datapipeline "In the input segment, Splunk software consumes data. It acquires the raw data stream from its source, breaks in into 64K blocks, and annotates each block with some metadata keys."

Reference: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.5/Deploy/Datapipeline