Free Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect Practice Questions

 The Splunk instance with the given settings in SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/server.conf is missing the master_uri attribute and needs to be restarted. The master_uri attribute is required for the master node to communicate with the peer nodes and the search head cluster. The master_uri attribute specifies the host name and port number of the master node. Without this attribute, the master node cannot function properly. The Splunk instance also needs to be restarted for the changes in the server.conf file to take effect. The replication_factor setting determines how many copies of each bucket are maintained across the peer nodes. The search factor is a separate setting that determines how many searchable copies of each bucket are maintained across the peer nodes. The search factor is not specified in the given settings, so it defaults to the same value as the replication factor, which is 2. This is not a multi-site cluster, because the site attribute is not specified in the clustering stanza. A multi-site cluster is a cluster that spans multiple geographic locations, or sites, and has different replication and search factors for each site.

 A Technical Add-On (TA) is a Splunk app that contains configurations for data collection, parsing, and enrichment. It can also enable event data for a data model, which is useful for creating dashboards and reports. Therefore, before installing a TA, it is important to identify the number of scheduled or real-time searches that will use the data model, and to validate if the TA enables event data for a data model. The number of forwarders that the TA can support is not relevant, as the TA is installed on the indexer or search head, not on the forwarder. The installation location of the TA depends on the type of data and the use case, so it is not a fixed requirement