Which components are part of a Splunk search head cluster?

Captain, indexers, and forwarders

Peers, license master, and monitoring console

Captain, peers, and deployment server

Search heads, indexers, and cluster master

What is the primary role of the captain in a Splunk search head cluster?

To store the replicated search artifacts and provide them to search heads on demand

To serve as the primary indexer for the cluster, handling all indexing and search-time processing

To coordinate cluster activities, such as maintaining the member list and managing knowledge bundle replication

To handle all search requests from users and distribute results to the peers

A Splunk administrator needs to verify that all members of a search head cluster are in sync and that no member is isolated from the captain. Which command or log would provide the most direct and authoritative information about the cluster's health and member connectivity?

The search head cluster dashboard in Splunk Web, which shows real-time replication lag and member status

The splunk list shcluster-members command, executed on the captain

The splunk show shcluster-status command, executed on any member

The splunkd.log file on the captain, which records all cluster membership changes and replication failures

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Search Head Cluster Configuration SPLK-2002 Practice Questions (Page 3)

Part of the Search Head Clustering and KV Store domain, which makes up ~19% of our current practice bank. Splunk does not publish an official question count, but from its 90-minute exam (~35–60 total, ~7–11 in this domain), expect 1–2 from this objective — we provide 14 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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Which components are part of a Splunk search head cluster?
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Which command is used to add a search head to an existing search head cluster?
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What is the primary role of the captain in a Splunk search head cluster?
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A Splunk administrator needs to verify that all members of a search head cluster are in sync and that no member is isolated from the captain. Which command or log would provide the most direct and authoritative information about the cluster's health and member connectivity?
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Search Head Cluster Configuration SPLK-2002 Practice Questions (Page 3)

Questions 11–14

Which components are part of a Splunk search head cluster?

Which command is used to add a search head to an existing search head cluster?

What is the primary role of the captain in a Splunk search head cluster?

A Splunk administrator needs to verify that all members of a search head cluster are in sync and that no member is isolated from the captain. Which command or log would provide the most direct and authoritative information about the cluster's health and member connectivity?

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