A company is concerned about compliance and wants to ensure that their data is stored in a specific geographic region. Which capability of Splunk Cloud should they verify?

Using a private endpoint to ensure data stays in the customer's VPC

Data residency options that allow choosing the region where data is stored

Multi-tenant architecture that keeps data in the customer's own data center

Encryption at rest with customer-managed keys

A company is sending data from 1,000 servers to Splunk Cloud. They are experiencing data loss during peak hours. The forwarders are configured to send data directly to the indexers. They want to ensure no data is lost and want to minimize the impact on the network. Which approach should they take?

Increase the number of indexers to handle the peak load

Enable indexer acknowledgment to ensure data is received

Configure forwarders to send data to a heavy forwarder that acts as a buffer and then forwards to indexers

Use a load balancer to distribute data evenly across indexers

In the Splunk Cloud architecture, which components are managed by Splunk as part of the service?

Forwarders and heavy forwarders

All components, including forwarders and search heads

Deployment server and license master

How does Splunk Cloud achieve horizontal scalability?

By adding more CPU and memory to existing indexers

By adding more indexers to the cluster

By increasing the number of search heads

By using faster storage for the existing indexers

A company wants to allow their internal users to access Splunk Cloud search interface without exposing it to the public internet. Which network solution should they implement?

Use a load balancer in front of Splunk Cloud

Configure a VPN tunnel from the corporate network to Splunk Cloud

Azure Private Link or AWS PrivateLink to access Splunk Cloud privately

Enable multi-factor authentication on the search head

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A company is concerned about compliance and wants to ensure that their data is stored in a specific geographic region. Which capability of Splunk Cloud should they verify?
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A company is sending data from 1,000 servers to Splunk Cloud. They are experiencing data loss during peak hours. The forwarders are configured to send data directly to the indexers. They want to ensure no data is lost and want to minimize the impact on the network. Which approach should they take?
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In the Splunk Cloud architecture, which components are managed by Splunk as part of the service?
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29foundation · medium
How does Splunk Cloud achieve horizontal scalability?
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30application · medium
A company wants to allow their internal users to access Splunk Cloud search interface without exposing it to the public internet. Which network solution should they implement?
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