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

To serve as the primary search head for all searches

To manage user authentication and authorization

To distribute apps and configuration to cluster members

To replicate search artifacts across cluster members

A company has a search head cluster with three members. They are experiencing performance issues during peak hours. They want to add two more search heads to the cluster to increase capacity. What is a key consideration when adding members to an existing cluster?

The new members must be added to the cluster and receive the configuration bundle from the deployer.

The KV store data must be manually copied to the new members.

The indexer cluster must be expanded to support the new search heads.

The captain must be re-elected after adding new members.

A company has a search head cluster with three members. They are planning to upgrade the Splunk Enterprise version. They want to minimize downtime and ensure that the cluster remains available during the upgrade. What is the best approach?

Upgrade all members simultaneously to ensure consistency.

Upgrade the members one at a time, allowing the cluster to continue serving searches.

Take the entire cluster offline for the upgrade.

Upgrade the captain first, then the other members.

Which benefit does a search head cluster provide regarding configuration management?

It allows each search head to have its own independent configuration

It centralizes configuration distribution through the deployer

It eliminates the need for a license master

It automatically replicates indexed data to all search heads

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Domain 4Objective 1

Splunk Search Head Cluster Overview SPLK-2002 Practice Questions (Page 5)

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 26 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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What is the primary role of the deployer in a search head cluster?
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A company has a search head cluster with three members. They are experiencing performance issues during peak hours. They want to add two more search heads to the cluster to increase capacity. What is a key consideration when adding members to an existing cluster?
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23expert · medium
A company has a search head cluster with three members. They are planning to upgrade the Splunk Enterprise version. They want to minimize downtime and ensure that the cluster remains available during the upgrade. What is the best approach?
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Which benefit does a search head cluster provide regarding configuration management?
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25application · medium
In a Splunk search head cluster, which component is responsible for coordinating the distribution of search jobs across cluster members?
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