In the context of high availability, what does the term 'failover' refer to?

The process of restoring data from a backup tape after a major outage

The process of decommissioning an old server and replacing it with a new one

The process of scaling out additional capacity to handle increased user load

The process of automatically switching operations to a redundant standby component when the primary component fails

In a disaster recovery scenario for Splunk, what is the role of a backup and restore strategy?

To provide a last-resort recovery method by restoring data and configurations from backups

To provide real-time failover for search heads

To monitor the health of all Splunk components

To load balance indexing load across multiple indexers

A Splunk administrator is explaining the difference between high availability and disaster recovery to a new team member. Which statement accurately describes the distinction?

Disaster recovery is a subset of high availability that focuses on data backup.

High availability is measured by recovery time objective, while disaster recovery is measured by uptime percentage.

High availability focuses on minimizing downtime for routine failures, while disaster recovery focuses on restoring operations after a major disruption.

High availability is only about hardware redundancy, while disaster recovery is about software redundancy.

SplunkCore Certified Consultant

Domain 1Objective 3

Explain the Difference Between High Availability and Disaster Recovery and How Both Can Be Addressed in Splunk CORE-CERTIFIED-CONSULTANT Practice Questions (Page 4)

Part of the Deploying Splunk domain, which accounts for 5% of the CORE-CERTIFIED-CONSULTANT exam. Splunk does not publish an official question count, but from its 120-minute exam (~50–80 total, ~3–4 in this domain), expect 1–1 from this objective — we provide 22 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

22questions here

5free pages

6concepts

5%of the exam

Questions 16–20

16foundation · easy
In the context of high availability, what does the term 'failover' refer to?
Select an answer first
17foundation · easy
In a disaster recovery scenario for Splunk, what is the role of a backup and restore strategy?
Select an answer first
18application · easy
A Splunk administrator is explaining the difference between high availability and disaster recovery to a new team member. Which statement accurately describes the distinction?
Select an answer first
19foundation · easy
Which Splunk feature is specifically designed to support disaster recovery by replicating data across geographically separated data centers?
Select an answer first
20foundation · easy
Which Splunk feature provides high availability for the indexing tier by automatically replicating data across multiple indexers?
Select an answer first

Finished these 5 questions?

Review the revealed explanations, or continue through the curriculum.

Next 5 questions →Back to CORE-CERTIFIED-CONSULTANT

Free Basic Practice is a study aid with revealable answers — not a scored exam. Examers.io is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by Splunk. “CORE-CERTIFIED-CONSULTANT” is a trademark of its owner, used for identification only.

Explain the Difference Between High Availability and Disaster Recovery and How Both Can Be Addressed in Splunk CORE-CERTIFIED-CONSULTANT Practice Questions (Page 4)

Questions 16–20

In the context of high availability, what does the term 'failover' refer to?

In a disaster recovery scenario for Splunk, what is the role of a backup and restore strategy?

A Splunk administrator is explaining the difference between high availability and disaster recovery to a new team member. Which statement accurately describes the distinction?

Which Splunk feature is specifically designed to support disaster recovery by replicating data across geographically separated data centers?

Which Splunk feature provides high availability for the indexing tier by automatically replicating data across multiple indexers?

Keep studying — Deploying Splunk