SplunkCloud Certified Admin
Domain 5Objective 2
Describe the Role of Forwarders CLOUD-CERTIFIED-ADMIN Practice Questions (Page 1)
Part of the Getting Data in Cloud domain, which accounts for 15% of the CLOUD-CERTIFIED-ADMIN exam. Splunk does not publish an official question count, but from its 75-minute exam (~30–50 total, ~5–8 in this domain), expect 1–2 from this objective — we provide 22 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)
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Questions 1–5
- 1
A universal forwarder is sending data to Splunk Cloud. The data is being indexed, but the events are not being broken correctly. The admin needs to fix the line breaking. Where should the admin make the change?
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A large enterprise has hundreds of servers generating logs. They want to reduce the number of connections to Splunk Cloud and simplify management. They plan to have forwarders on each server send data to a central forwarder that then forwards to Splunk Cloud. What is this architecture called?
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A universal forwarder is sending data to Splunk Cloud. The data is being indexed, but the timestamps are incorrect in searches. What is the most likely cause?
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A company has a small number of servers and wants to send logs directly to Splunk Cloud without any intermediate forwarders. What is this deployment called?
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Which component is responsible for breaking raw data into individual events during the data ingestion pipeline?
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