Splunk SPLK-1003 Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin Online Training
Splunk SPLK-1003 Online Training
The questions for SPLK-1003 were last updated at Jun 21,2025.
- Exam Code: SPLK-1003
- Exam Name: Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin
- Certification Provider: Splunk
- Latest update: Jun 21,2025
Which valid bucket types are searchable? (select all that apply)
- A . Hot buckets
- B . Cold buckets
- C . Warm buckets
- D . Frozen buckets
ABC
Explanation:
Hot/warm/cold/thawed bucket types are searchable. Frozen isn’t searchable because its either deleted at that state or archived.
How do you remove missing forwarders from the Monitoring Console?
- A . By restarting Splunk.
- B . By rescanning active forwarders.
- C . By reloading the deployment server.
- D . By rebuilding the forwarder asset table.
Which Splunk indexer operating system platform is supported when sending logs from a Windows universal forwarder?
- A . Any OS platform
- B . Linux platform only
- C . Windows platform only.
- D . None of the above.
A
Explanation:
"The forwarder/indexer relationship can be considered platform agnostic (within the sphere of supported platforms) because they exchange their data handshake (and the data, if you wish) over TCP.
What are the required stanza attributes when configuring the transforms. conf to manipulate or remove events?
- A . REGEX, DEST. FORMAT
- B . REGEX. SRC_KEY, FORMAT
- C . REGEX, DEST_KEY, FORMAT
- D . REGEX, DEST_KEY FORMATTING
C
Explanation:
REGEX = <regular expression>
* Enter a regular expression to operate on your data.
FORMAT = <string>
* NOTE: This option is valid for both index-time and search-time field extraction. Index-time field extraction configuration require the FORMAT settings. The FORMAT settings is optional for search-time field extraction configurations.
* This setting specifies the format of the event, including any field names or values you want to add.
DEST_KEY = <key>
* NOTE: This setting is only valid for index-time field extractions.
* Specifies where SPLUNK software stores the expanded FORMAT results in accordance with the REGEX match.
Which of the following indexes come pre-configured with Splunk Enterprise? (select all that apply)
- A . _license
- B . _lnternal
- C . _external
- D . _thefishbucket
BD
Explanation:
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.5/Indexer/Howindexingworks
How often does Splunk recheck the LDAP server?
- A . Every 5 minutes
- B . Each time a user logs in
- C . Each time Splunk is restarted
- D . Varies based on LDAP_refresh setting.
B
Explanation:
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.6/Security/ManageSplunkuserroleswithLDAP
Where are license files stored?
- A . $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/secure
- B . $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system
- C . $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/licenses
- D . $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/licenses
In which scenario would a Splunk Administrator want to enable data integrity check when creating an index?
- A . To ensure that hot buckets are still open for writes and have not been forced to roll to a cold state
- B . To ensure that configuration files have not been tampered with for auditing and/or legal purposes
- C . To ensure that user passwords have not been tampered with for auditing and/or legal purposes.
- D . To ensure that data has not been tampered with for auditing and/or legal purposes
Which Splunk component performs indexing and responds to search requests from the search head?
- A . Forwarder
- B . Search peer
- C . License master
- D . Search head cluster
B
Explanation:
https://docs.splunk.com/Splexicon:Searchpeer
"A Splunk platform instance that responses to search requests from a search head. The term "Search peer" is usually synonymous with the indexer role in a distributed search topology…"
When deploying apps, which attribute in the forwarder management interface determines the apps
that clients install?
- A . App Class
- B . Client Class
- C . Server Class
- D . Forwarder Class
C
Explanation:
<https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.6/Updating/Deploymentserverarchitecture>
https://docs.splunk.com/Splexicon:Serverclass