About Splunk Enterprise Admin Exam<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\nTo begin, the Splunk Enterprise Security Certified Admin exam verifies a candidate’s ability to install, configure, and manage a Splunk Enterprise Security deployment. This will undoubtedly help you advance in your IT career. Furthermore, the Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) Certified Admin exam is the last step in earning the Splunk ES Certified Admin certification. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This exam is designed to assess a thorough understanding of Splunk Deployment Methodology and best practices for distributed deployment planning, data collection, and sizing, as well as the ability to manage and troubleshoot a standard distributed deployment with indexer and search head clustering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin<\/strong> Prerequisites<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\nSplunk has provided a list of prerequisites, some of which are required and some of which are recommended to gain a better understanding of the subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Required Prerequisite Certification<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n- Splunk Core Certified Power User<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Recommended Prerequisite Courses<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n- Splunk Enterprise System Administration<\/li>
- Also, Splunk Enterprise Data Administration<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nFurthermore, the following content areas are general guidelines for the content to be included on the exam:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n- Splunk deployment overview<\/li>
- Also, License management<\/li>
- Moreover, Splunk apps<\/li>
- Splunk configuration files<\/li>
- furthermore, Users, roles, and authentication<\/li>
- in addition, Getting data in<\/li>
- also, Distributed search<\/li>
- Introduction to Splunk clusters<\/li>
- in addition, Deploy forwarders with Forwarder Management<\/li>
- subsequently, Configure common Splunk data inputs<\/li>
- Customize the input parsing process <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Let us move forth to the main point of the article – <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nPreparation Guide to become a Splunk Enterprise Administrator<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\nThe exam’s difficulty level can be accessed via the syllabus or the prerequisites of the exam to a certain level. This exam has a very broad content outline, so you’ll need to put in a lot of effort along with the right set of resources to pass it. Let us begin planning – <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nStep 1 \u2013 Know in-depth about the exam syllabus<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\nThe Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin Certification Exam exam focuses on the domains which are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Splunk Admin Basics 5% <\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n- Identify Splunk components (Splunk Reference:<\/strong> Components of a Splunk Enterprise deployment<\/a>)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
License Management 5%<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n- Identify license types (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> Types of Splunk software licenses<\/a>)<\/li>
- Understand license violations (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> license violation<\/a>)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Splunk Configuration Files 5%<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n- Describe the Splunk configuration directory structure (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> Configuration file directories<\/a>)<\/li>
- Understand configuration layering (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> About configuration files in ITSI<\/a>)<\/li>
- Understand configuration precedence (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> Configuration file precedence<\/a>)<\/li>
- Use btool to examine configuration settings (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> Use btool to troubleshoot configurations<\/a>)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Splunk Indexes 10%<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n- Describe index structure (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> Indexes, indexers, and indexer clusters<\/a>)<\/li>
- List types of index buckets (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> Buckets and indexer clusters<\/a>)<\/li>
- Check index data integrity (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> Manage data integrity<\/a>)<\/li>
- moreover, Describe indexes.conf options (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> indexes.conf<\/a>)<\/li>
- also, Describe the fishbucket (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> fishbucket<\/a>)<\/li>
- furthermore, Apply a data retention policy (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> Set retention policy<\/a>)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nSplunk User Management 5%<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n- Describe user roles in Splunk (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> About roles<\/a>)<\/li>
- also, Create a custom role (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> Create and manage roles with Splunk Web<\/a>)<\/li>
- moreover, Add Splunk users (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> Configure users with Splunk Web<\/a>)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Splunk Authentication Management 5%<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n- Integrate Splunk with LDAP (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> Configure LDAP with Splunk Web<\/a>)<\/li>
- also, List other user authentication options (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> Users, roles, and authentication<\/a>)<\/li>
- furthermore, Describe the steps to enable Multifactor Authentication in Splunk (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> About multifactor authentication with RSA Authentication Manager<\/a>)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Getting Data In 5%<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n- Describe the basic settings for an input (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> Modify input settings<\/a>)<\/li>
- also, List Splunk forwarder types (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> Types of forwarders<\/a>)<\/li>
- furthermore, Configure the forwarder (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> Configure the universal forwarder<\/a>)<\/li>
- moreover, Add an input to UF using CLI (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> How to forward data to Splunk Enterprise<\/a>)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Distributed Search 10%<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n- Describe how distributed search works (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> distributed search<\/a>)<\/li>
- also, Explain the roles of the search head and search peers (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> search head<\/a>)<\/li>
- furthermore, Configure a distributed search group (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> Create distributed search groups<\/a>)<\/li>
- List search head scaling options (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> Search head clustering architecture<\/a>)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Getting Data In \u2013 Staging 5%<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n- List the three phases of the Splunk Indexing process (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> How indexing works<\/a>)<\/li>
- also, List Splunk input options (Splunk Reference:<\/strong> add a list input to a splunk Dashboard<\/a>)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Configuring Forwarders 5%<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n- Configure Forwarders (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> How to forward data to Splunk Enterprise<\/a>)<\/li>
- Identify additional Forwarder options (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> Configure forwarding with outputs.conf<\/a>)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Forwarder Management 10%<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n- Explain the use of Deployment Management (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> Deployment server architecture<\/a>)<\/li>
- Describe Splunk Deployment Server (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> Set up a deployment server and create a server class<\/a>)<\/li>
- also, Manage forwarders using deployment apps (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> Create deployment apps<\/a>)<\/li>
- furthermore, Configure deployment clients (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> Configure deployment clients<\/a>)<\/li>
- moreover, Configure client groups (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> deployment client<\/a>)<\/li>
- Monitor forwarder management activities (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> Forwarder management<\/a>)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Monitor Inputs 5%<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n- Create file and directory monitor inputs (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> Monitor files and directories with Splunk Web<\/a>)<\/li>
- Use optional settings for monitor inputs (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> Monitor files and directories with inputs.conf<\/a>)<\/li>
- Deploy a remote monitor input (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> inputs.conf<\/a>)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Network and Scripted Inputs 5%<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n- Create a network (TCP and UDP) inputs (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> Configure inputs using TCP or UDP<\/a>)<\/li>
- Describe optional settings for network inputs (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> inputs.conf<\/a>)<\/li>
- Create a basic scripted input (Splunk<\/strong> Documentation:<\/strong> Setting up a scripted input<\/a>)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Agentless Inputs 5%<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Splunk has provided a list of prerequisites, some of which are required and some of which are recommended to gain a better understanding of the subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Required Prerequisite Certification<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Recommended Prerequisite Courses<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Furthermore, the following content areas are general guidelines for the content to be included on the exam:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Let us move forth to the main point of the article – <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The exam’s difficulty level can be accessed via the syllabus or the prerequisites of the exam to a certain level. This exam has a very broad content outline, so you’ll need to put in a lot of effort along with the right set of resources to pass it. Let us begin planning – <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin Certification Exam exam focuses on the domains which are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nPreparation Guide to become a Splunk Enterprise Administrator<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nStep 1 \u2013 Know in-depth about the exam syllabus<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Splunk Admin Basics 5% <\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n
License Management 5%<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Splunk Configuration Files 5%<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Splunk Indexes 10%<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nSplunk User Management 5%<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Splunk Authentication Management 5%<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Getting Data In 5%<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Distributed Search 10%<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Getting Data In \u2013 Staging 5%<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Configuring Forwarders 5%<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Forwarder Management 10%<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Monitor Inputs 5%<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Network and Scripted Inputs 5%<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Agentless Inputs 5%<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n