A Splunk environment has a search head cluster with three members. During a routine upgrade, one member is taken offline. What is the impact on search availability?

Searches continue to run on the remaining two members.

All searches fail until the member is back online.

Only scheduled searches are affected.

A company is planning to deploy a search head cluster. They have a critical search that relies on a saved search that is scheduled to run every hour. What is a consideration regarding scheduled searches in a search head cluster?

Scheduled searches are distributed across cluster members, but only one member runs each scheduled search at a time.

Scheduled searches must be disabled in a search head cluster.

Scheduled searches are always run on the captain.

Scheduled searches run on every member simultaneously.

Which prerequisite is required before deploying a Splunk search head cluster?

An indexer cluster must be deployed first

A load balancer must be configured

A dedicated captain must be installed

All search heads must be running the same Splunk version

Which of the following is a limitation of a Splunk search head cluster?

It cannot be used with indexer clustering

It does not support the KV Store

It does not replicate search artifacts by default

It requires all members to be in the same geographic location

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16application · medium
A Splunk environment has a search head cluster with three members. During a routine upgrade, one member is taken offline. What is the impact on search availability?
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17application · medium
A company is planning to deploy a search head cluster. They have a critical search that relies on a saved search that is scheduled to run every hour. What is a consideration regarding scheduled searches in a search head cluster?
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18foundation · easy
Which prerequisite is required before deploying a Splunk search head cluster?
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19application · medium
You are reviewing the architecture of an existing Splunk search head cluster. You need to identify the component that is responsible for distributing configuration bundles to all cluster members. Which component is this?
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20foundation · easy
Which of the following is a limitation of a Splunk search head cluster?
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