Splunk Core Certified Consultant - SPLK-3003 Exam Questions [2026]

QUESTION NO: 1
When setting up a multisite search head and indexer cluster, which nodes are required to declare site membership?

A. Search head cluster members, deployer, indexers, cluster master B. Search head cluster members, indexers, cluster master C. All splunk nodes, including forwarders, must declare site membership D. Search head cluster members, deployment server, deployer, indexers, cluster master

Correct Answer: B

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QUESTION NO: 2
The customer wants to migrate their current Splunk Index cluster to new hardware to improve indexing and search performance. What is the correct process and procedure for this task?

A. 1. Install new indexers. 2. Configure indexers into the cluster as peers; ensure they receive the cluster bundle and the same configuration as original peers. 3. Decommission old peers one at a time. 4. Remove old peers from the CM's list. 5. Update forwarders to forward to the new peers. B. 1. Install new indexers. 2. Configure indexers into the cluster as peers; ensure they receive the same configuration via the deployment server. 3. Update forwarders to forward to the new peers.
4. Decommission old peers on at a time. 5. Restart the cluster master (CM). C. 1. Install new indexers. 2. Configure indexers into the cluster as peers; ensure they receive the same configuration via the deployment server. 3. Decommission old peers one at a time. 4.
Remove old peers from the CM's list. 5. Update forwarders to forward to the new peers. D. 1. Install new indexers. 2. Configure indexers into the cluster as peers; ensure they receive the cluster bundle and the same configuration as original peers. 3. Update forwarders to forward to the new peers. 4. Decommission old peers one at a time. 5. Remove old peers from the CM's list.

Correct Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 3
A customer has downloaded the Splunk App for AWS from Splunkbase and installed it in a search head cluster following the instructions using the deployer. A power user modifies a dashboard in the app on one of the search head cluster members. The app containing an updated dashboard is upgraded to the latest version by following the instructions via the deployer.
What happens?

A. The updated dashboard will not be available to the power user; they will see their modified version. B. Applying the search head cluster bundle will fail due to the conflict. C. The updated dashboard will be available to the power user. D. The updated dashboard will not be deployed globally to all users, due to the conflict with the power user's modified version of the dashboard.

Correct Answer: A

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QUESTION NO: 4
A customer has a new set of hardware to replace their aging indexers. What method would reduce the amount of bucket replication operations during the migration process?

A. Put the old indexers into manual detention. B. Disable the indexing ports on the old indexers. C. Put the old indexers into automatic detention. D. Disable replication ports on the old indexers.

Correct Answer: A

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QUESTION NO: 5
Which of the following processor occur in the indexing pipeline?

A. tcp out, syslog out B. Regex replacement, annotator C. UTF-8, linebreaker, header D. Aggregator

Correct Answer: A

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QUESTION NO: 6
A customer has the following Splunk instances within their environment: An indexer cluster consisting of a cluster master/master node and five clustered indexers, two search heads (no search head clustering), a deployment server, and a license master. The deployment server and license master are running on their own single-purpose instances. The customer would like to start using the Monitoring Console (MC) to monitor the whole environment.
On the MC instance, which instances will need to be configured as distributed search peers by specifying them via the UI using the settings menu?

A. Deployment server, license master B. Just the cluster master/master node. C. Indexers, search heads, deployment server, license master, cluster master/master node. D. Search heads, deployment server, license master, cluster master/master node

Correct Answer: D

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QUESTION NO: 7
A customer has implemented their own Role Based Access Control (RBAC) model to attempt to give the Security team different data access than the Operations team by creating two new Splunk roles "" security and operations. In the srchIndexesAllowed setting of authorize.conf, they specified the network index under the security role and the operations index under the operations role. The new roles are set up to inherit the default user role.
If a new user is created and assigned to the operations role only, which indexes will the user have access to search?

A. No Indexes B. operations C. operations, network D. operations, network, _internal, _audit

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 8
In which of the following scenarios is a subsearch the most appropriate?

A. When joining results from multiple indexes. B. When filtering indexed fields. C. When joining multiple large datasets. D. When dynamically filtering hosts.

Correct Answer: D

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QUESTION NO: 9
Which of the following statements applies to indexer discovery?

A. Deployment servers can automatically configure new indexers added to the cluster. B. The Cluster Master (CM) can automatically discover new indexers added to the cluster. C. Search heads can automatically discover new indexers added to the cluster. D. Forwarders can automatically discover new indexers added to the cluster.

Correct Answer: D

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