Free Practice Questions for Splunk SPLK-1001 Exam

This is the correct answer because these two filters can help you limit the amount of data that Splunk retrieves from disk, which is the key to fast searching1. The _time filter allows you to specify a narrow time window for your search, which reduces the number of buckets that Splunk scans2. The index filter allows you to specify which index or indexes contain the data that you want to search, which reduces the number of files that Splunk reads3.

A best practice when writing a search string is to include the search terms at the beginning of the search string. This helps Splunk narrow down the events that match your search criteria and improve the search performance. Formatting commands and functions can be added later in the search pipeline to manipulate and display the results. References: Splunk Core User Certification Exam Study Guide, page 13.

The Power role contains the minimum permissions required to have write access to Splunk alerts. The User role can only view alerts created by others, but cannot create or modify them. The Alerting role is not a default role in Splunk, but a custom one that can be created by an administrator. The Admin role has write access to Splunk alerts, but also has many other permissions that are not necessary for alerting3.