Which of the following is accurate regarding the input phase?

Which of the following is accurate regarding the input phase?
A . Breaks data into events with timestamps.
B . Applies event-level transformations.
C . Fine-tunes metadata.
D . Performs character encoding.

Answer: D

Explanation:

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Deploy/Datapipeline "The data pipeline segments in depth. INPUT – In the input segment, Splunk software consumes data. It acquires the raw data stream from its source, breaks it into 64K blocks, and annotates each block with some metadata keys. The keys can also include values that are used internally, such as the character encoding of the data stream, and values that control later processing of the data, such as the index into which the events should be stored. PARSING Annotating individual events with metadata copied from the source-wide keys. Transforming event data and metadata according to regex transform rules."