Performance and Monitoring SPLK-2002 Practice Questions (Page 1)

Questions 1–5

1. 1foundation · medium

   Which of the following is a common performance bottleneck that can be identified using the Job Inspector?

   • AExcessive disk reads due to a search that scans a large time range without appropriate filters.
   • BIncorrect time zone settings on the search head.
   • CMissing lookup definitions causing the search to fail.
   • DInsufficient user permissions causing search results to be incomplete.
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2. 2application · medium

   A user reports that a search completes but takes 2 minutes. In Job Inspector, the 'Search' phase shows 90 seconds, 'Summarization' shows 5 seconds, and 'Finalization' shows 25 seconds. The search uses a summary index. What is the most effective optimization?

   • AIncrease the number of summary index buckets to speed up summarization.
   • BOptimize the base search to reduce the time spent in the Search phase.
   • CEnable parallel processing for the summarization phase.
   • DReduce the finalization time by limiting the number of output fields.
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4. 3application · medium

   A search that runs every hour is slow. Job Inspector shows that the 'Search' phase takes 80% of the total time, and the 'scan count' is high. The search uses a time range of 'last 24 hours'. What is the best action to improve performance?

   • AIncrease the number of search peers to distribute the load.
   • BEnable summary indexing to speed up the search.
   • CUse the 'rare' command to reduce the result set.
   • DNarrow the time range to 'last hour' if the search only needs recent data.
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5. 4foundation · medium

   Which Job Inspector metric would be most useful for identifying a search that is reading too many events from disk?

   • AExecution time
   • BResult count
   • CScan count
   • DEvent count
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6. 5application · medium

   A user reports that a search is slow. Job Inspector shows a high 'scan count' and a high 'disk read' metric. The search uses a field that is not indexed. What is the best action to improve performance?

   • AAdd an index-time field extraction for the field used in the search.
   • BEnable summary indexing to speed up the search.
   • CIncrease the number of search peers to distribute the load.
   • DUse the 'fields' command to limit the output fields.
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