Splunk splk-3001 practice test

Exam Title: Splunk Enterprise Security Certified Admin

Last update: Dec 14 ,2025
Question 1

Which setting is used in indexes.conf to specify alternate locations for accelerated storage?

  • A. thawedPath
  • B. tstatsHomePath
  • C. summaryHomePath
  • D. warmToColdScript
Answer:

B


Explanation:
Reference:
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.2/Knowledge/Acceleratedatamodels

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Question 2

Which of the following is a way to test for a property normalized data model?

  • A. Use Audit -> Normalization Audit and check the Errors panel.
  • B. Run a | datamodel search, compare results to the CIM documentation for the datamodel.
  • C. Run a | loadjob search, look at tag values and compare them to known tags based on the encoding.
  • D. Run a | datamodel search and compare the results to the list of data models in the ES normalization guide.
Answer:

B


Explanation:
Reference:
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/CIM/4.15.0/User/UsetheCIMtonormalizedataatsearchtime

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Question 3

Which argument to the | tstats command restricts the search to summarized data only?

  • A. summaries=t
  • B. summaries=all
  • C. summariesonly=t
  • D. summariesonly=all
Answer:

C


Explanation:
Reference:
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.2/Knowledge/Acceleratedatamodels

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Question 4

When investigating, what is the best way to store a newly-found IOC?

  • A. Paste it into Notepad.
  • B. Click the “Add IOC” button.
  • C. Click the “Add Artifact” button.
  • D. Add it in a text note to the investigation.
Answer:

C


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Question 5

How is it possible to navigate to the list of currently-enabled ES correlation searches?

  • A. Configure -> Correlation Searches -> Select Status “Enabled”
  • B. Settings -> Searches, Reports, and Alerts -> Filter by Name of “Correlation”
  • C. Configure -> Content Management -> Select Type “Correlation” and Status “Enabled”
  • D. Settings -> Searches, Reports, and Alerts -> Select App of “SplunkEnterpriseSecuritySuite” and filter by “- Rule”
Answer:

C


Explanation:
Reference:
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/ES/6.1.0/Admin/Listcorrelationsearches

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Question 6

Which of the following is a risk of using the Auto Deployment feature of Distributed Configuration
Management to distribute indexes.conf?

  • A. Indexes might crash.
  • B. Indexes might be processing.
  • C. Indexes might not be reachable.
  • D. Indexes have different settings.
Answer:

A


Explanation:
Reference:
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.2/Admin/Indexesconf

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Question 7

Which of the following are data models used by ES? (Choose all that apply)

  • A. Web
  • B. Anomalies
  • C. Authentication
  • D. Network Traffic
Answer:

A,C,D


Explanation:
Reference:
https://dev.splunk.com/enterprise/docs/developapps/enterprisesecurity/datamodelsusedbyes/

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Question 8

At what point in the ES installation process should Splunk_TA_ForIndexes.spl be deployed to the
indexers?

  • A. When adding apps to the deployment server.
  • B. Splunk_TA_ForIndexers.spl is installed first.
  • C. After installing ES on the search head(s) and running the distributed configuration management tool.
  • D. Splunk_TA_ForIndexers.spl is only installed on indexer cluster sites using the cluster master and the splunk apply cluster-bundle command.
Answer:

C


Explanation:
Reference:
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/ES/6.1.0/Install/InstallTechnologyAdd-ons

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Question 9

Which correlation search feature is used to throttle the creation of notable events?

  • A. Schedule priority.
  • B. Window interval.
  • C. Window duration.
  • D. Schedule windows.
Answer:

C


Explanation:
Reference:
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/ES/6.1.0/Admin/Configurecorrelationsearches

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Question 10

Both “Recommended Actions” and “Adaptive Response Actions” use adaptive response. How do
they differ?

  • A. Recommended Actions show a textual description to an analyst, Adaptive Response Actions show them encoded.
  • B. Recommended Actions show a list of Adaptive Responses to an analyst, Adaptive Response Actions run them automatically.
  • C. Recommended Actions show a list of Adaptive Responses that have already been run, Adaptive Response Actions run them automatically.
  • D. Recommended Actions show a list of Adaptive Resposes to an analyst, Adaptive Response Actions run manually with analyst intervention.
Answer:

D


Explanation:
Reference:
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/ES/latest/Admin/Configureadaptiveresponse

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