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Domain 3Objective 2

Referencing Lookups in Alerts core-certified-advanced-power-user Practice Questions (Page 1)

Part of the Alerts and Search Macros domain, which makes up ~30% of our current practice bank. Splunk does not publish an official question count, but from its 60-minute exam (~25–40 total, ~8–12 in this domain), expect 1–2 from this objective — we provide 10 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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4concepts

Questions 1–5

  1. 1foundation · easy

    What is the purpose of passing alert results into a lookup in an alert action?

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  2. 2foundation · easy

    An alert action fails with the error 'Lookup table not found'. What is the most likely cause?

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  3. 3foundation · easy

    In an alert action, how do you pass a field from the alert results into a lookup to enrich the alert data?

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  4. 4expert · hard

    An alert that uses a lookup to enrich results is failing with the error 'Error in 'lookup' command: The lookup table 'customer_lookup' does not exist.' The lookup definition `customer_lookup` was recently created and the administrator can see it in the Lookups menu. The alert search is: `index=main | lookup customer_lookup customer_id OUTPUT customer_name`. What is the most likely cause of this error?

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  5. 5foundation · easy

    Which Splunk command is used within an alert action to reference a lookup and specify which fields to pass and return?

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