Deep Mehta - Splunk Certified Study Guide: Prepare for the User, Power User, and Enterprise Admin Certifications

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Splunk is a software technology for monitoring, searching, analyzing, and visualizing machine-generated data in real time. This book discusses the roles of a Splunk admin and explains how Splunk architecture can be efficiently deployed and managed. It covers everything you need to know to ace the Splunk exams. The book is written to be used interactively and includes practice datasets and test questions at the end of every chapter.

This book is divided into four modules, and three modules are dedicated to the exam.

The first module comprises six chapters dedicated to passing the Splunk Core Certified User exam and the Splunk Core Certified Power User exam. It covers installing Splunk, Splunks Search Processing Language (SPL), field extraction, field aliases and macros in Splunk, creating Splunk tags, Splunk lookups, and invoking alerts. You learn how to make a data model and prepare an advanced dashboard in Splunk.

The second module is dedicated to the Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin exam and consists of four chapters. It covers Splunk licenses and user role management, Splunk forwarder configuration, indexer clustering, Splunk security policies, and advanced data input options.

The third module also focuses on the Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin exam, but its chapters teach admins to troubleshoot and manage the Splunk infrastructure.

In the fourth module, you learn how to set up Splunk Enterprise on the AWS platform, and you are introduced to some of the best practices in Splunk.

At the end of every chapter is a multiple-choice test to help candidates become more familiar with the exam.

I am grateful to all my readers for choosing this book. I am also grateful to my parents, Paresh and Rupa Mehta, and my family and friends for their support.

I would like to thank Sanket Sheth of Elixia Tech. for providing the dataset, and a very special thanks to Neha Doshi for extending her support and providing guidance.