Which search command ordering best minimizes resource usage in a Splunk search?

Place transforming commands such as `stats` before any filtering commands

Use `sort` before `head` to ensure the top results are accurate

Use `eval` commands before `search` commands to pre-compute fields

Place filtering commands such as `where` or `search` as early as possible in the search

A Splunk admin has a data model for web traffic with acceleration enabled. A user runs a search that uses `tstats` against the data model to get the average page load time by URL. The search is still slow. What is the MOST likely reason?

The search mode is set to verbose, which disables data model acceleration.

The data model acceleration has not completed building the acceleration index for the time range being searched.

The `tstats` command is not compatible with data models and should be replaced with `stats`.

The data model is not being used correctly; the search should use `from datamodel:Web` instead of `tstats`.

A Splunk admin needs to run a daily report that calculates the average CPU usage per host over the last 24 hours. The report is run by multiple users and currently takes several minutes each time. The admin wants to reduce the load on the indexers. Which approach would be MOST effective?

Create a summary index that stores the pre-calculated hourly averages and have the report search the summary index.

Use the `head` command to limit the number of events processed by the report.

Change the search mode to fast to reduce the number of fields returned.

Use the `tstats` command against the `_audit` index to get the averages.

A Splunk admin is investigating a search that is scanning a large amount of data. The search is `sourcetype=access_combined | stats count by status`. The admin wants to reduce the amount of data scanned without changing the results. Which change would be MOST effective?

Use `fields status` before the `stats` command to reduce the data scanned.

Add `index=web` to the search if the data is known to be in that index.

Change the search mode to fast to reduce the amount of data scanned.

Change `stats` to `top` to reduce the amount of data processed.

How does data model acceleration improve search performance?

It pre-computes and stores the results of searches that use the data model, so later searches can use the accelerated data

It reduces the number of search heads needed for a search

It compresses the raw data in the index to reduce I/O

It automatically rewrites searches to use faster commands

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Which search command ordering best minimizes resource usage in a Splunk search?
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17application · medium
A Splunk admin has a data model for web traffic with acceleration enabled. A user runs a search that uses `tstats` against the data model to get the average page load time by URL. The search is still slow. What is the MOST likely reason?
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18application · medium
A Splunk admin needs to run a daily report that calculates the average CPU usage per host over the last 24 hours. The report is run by multiple users and currently takes several minutes each time. The admin wants to reduce the load on the indexers. Which approach would be MOST effective?
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A Splunk admin is investigating a search that is scanning a large amount of data. The search is `sourcetype=access_combined | stats count by status`. The admin wants to reduce the amount of data scanned without changing the results. Which change would be MOST effective?
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20foundation · easy
How does data model acceleration improve search performance?
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