Explain How Timestamps and Time Zones Are Extracted or Assigned to Events CLOUD-CERTIFIED-ADMIN Practice Questions (Page 2)

Questions 6–10

1. 6application · medium

   A team is ingesting web server logs that have timestamps in the format '14/May/2024:13:45:22 +0200'. The administrator wants to ensure the timestamps are parsed correctly. What should they do?

   • ASet the TZ attribute to +0200 in props.conf.
   • BConfigure a custom timestamp extraction rule with TIME_FORMAT = '%d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z'.
   • CRely on Splunk's default timestamp recognition, which handles this format.
   • DUse a search-time eval to parse the timestamp.
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2. 7application · medium

   A security team ingests firewall logs where each event begins with a date in the format '2024-05-14 13:45:22'. The events do not contain any time zone information. The Splunk server is set to UTC, but the firewall is in the America/New_York time zone. The team wants the events to display with the correct local time. What should they do?

   • AChange the Splunk server's system time zone to America/New_York.
   • BConfigure a TRANSFORMS rule to add a time zone field to each event.
   • CSet TZ = America/New_York in props.conf for the firewall's sourcetype.
   • DUse the eval command to convert the timestamp in searches.
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4. 8foundation · easy

   If Splunk cannot extract a timestamp from an event, what timestamp does it assign to the event by default?

   • AThe time the forwarder received the event
   • BThe current time of the indexer when the event is indexed
   • CThe time the event was generated on the source host
   • DThe time the data source was last modified
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5. 9application · easy

   An administrator is testing a new data input that sends events without any timestamp. The events are being indexed, but the _time field appears to be set to the time the event was indexed. The administrator wants to understand why. What is the most likely reason?

   • ASplunk uses the time the search was run.
   • BSplunk uses the time the data was last modified on the source system.
   • CSplunk uses the time the input was first configured.
   • DSplunk uses the index time as the event time when no timestamp is found in the raw data.
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6. 10application · medium

   A company has servers in multiple time zones sending logs to a single Splunk Cloud instance. The logs include timestamps but no time zone offset. The administrator notices that events from one server appear to be off by several hours. What is the best way to ensure each server's events are timestamped correctly?

   • AConfigure the Splunk Cloud instance's time zone to match each server's time zone.
   • BSet the TZ attribute globally in props.conf to the time zone of the majority of servers.
   • CConfigure a separate sourcetype for each server and set the TZ attribute in props.conf for each sourcetype.
   • DUse a search-time eval to adjust the time zone for each server.
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