Splunk Certified Study Guide: Prepare for the User, Power User, and Enterprise Admin Certifications
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Make your Splunk certification easier with this exam study guide that covers the User, Power User, and Enterprise Admin certifications. This book is divided into three parts. The first part focuses on the Splunk User and Power User certifications starting with how to install Splunk, Splunk Processing Language (SPL), field extraction, field aliases and macros, and Splunk tags. You will be able to make your own data model and prepare an advanced dashboard in Splunk.
In the second part, you will explore the Splunk Admin certification. There will be in-depth coverage of Splunk licenses and user role management, and how to configure Splunk forwarders, indexer clustering, and the security policy of Splunk. You’ll also explore advanced data input options in Splunk as well as .conf file merging logic, btool, various attributes, stanza types, editing advanced data inputs through the .conf file, and various other types of .conf file in Splunk.
The concluding part covers the advanced topics of the Splunk Admin certification. You will also learn to troubleshoot Splunk and to manage existing Splunk infrastructure. You will understand how to configure search head, multi-site indexer clustering, and search peers besides exploring how to troubleshoot Splunk Enterprise using the monitoring console and matrix.log. This part will also include search issues and configuration issues. You will learn to deploy an app through a deployment server on your client’s instance, create a server class, and carry out load balancing, socks proxy, and indexer discovery.
By the end of the Splunk Certified Study Guide, you will have learned how to manage resources in Splunk and how to use REST API services for Splunk. This section also explains how to set up Splunk Enterprise on the AWS platform and some of the best practices to make them work efficiently together.
The book offers multiple choice question tests for each part that will help you better prepare for the exam.
What You Will Learn
Study to pass the Splunk User, Power User, and Admin certificate examsImplement and manage Splunk multi-site clusteringDesign, implement, and manage a complex Splunk Enterprise solutionMaster the roles of Splunk Admin and troubleshootingConfigure Splunk using AWS
Who This Book Is For
People looking to pass the User, Power User, and Enterprise Admin exams. It is also useful for Splunk administrators and support engineers for managing an existing deployment.
Publisher : Apress; 1st ed. edition (February 27, 2021)
Language : English
Paperback : 456 pages
ISBN-10 : 1484266684
ISBN-13 : 978-1484266687
Item Weight : 1.74 pounds
Dimensions : 7.01 x 1.03 x 10 inches
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Hetvi Mehta –
Great Book
The book is great. I found it to be a straight forward easy read with great tips for certification. The book is a perfect companion for someone newish to Splunk wishing to attain certification.Part III Advanced Splunk was very well written.The multiple choice question at end of chapter was very helpful.It helped me a lot.There were few areas where author could have done better job but i think it to be excellent book as well.The steps that he presented were very clear and really helpful book for certification.
Savanah –
Good refresher, poorly edited
This book covers a lot of topics and concepts in the exams. It is best for cyber professionals who have had experience with Splunk previously or anyone who had taken several other courses in Splunk. I would not recommend using this book alone to study for the exams. It has several typos, especially in Chapter 3, and some of the practice questions contradict the text.
C. C Chin –
Newby
Start from beginning
Kirk K. –
Needs extensive proof reading and editing
This book is targeted for the Splunk Power User and Enterprise Admin certifications. As a Study Guide, the accuracy of information will be relied upon by the user. I only used the book up to Chapter 7 for the Power User certifications but the exercises and quizzes had many errors. The data files used were inconsistent in labelling in both the file and exercises (Location.csv Fields: location, State) should have been City to match the content data. Listed instructions and screenshots would be missing steps or actions needed. I feel the exercises and screenshots need to be tested and documented better.
CJ –
You don’t have to know anything about Splunk to spot all the errors
I imagine it is better than nothing, but this book should have gone past an editor before being printed.Some of the questions at the end of Chapter 1 are misleading at best and potentially wrong. There are obvious typos in the commands listed in Chapter 2. “Mode(field)” and “Var(field)” are listed as having the same command to give just one example. On the next page the per_minute function is described as the same command as per_day. Again, in Ch. 3, the quiz questions’ answers DIRECTLY contradict the preceding pages (e.g the question on Delimeters)There are some clear gaps in the writing. The section on SPL defines functions, arguments, and clauses using different examples which contain all of the above, making it confusing to someone totally unfamiliar.Then there are just weird leaps. Splunk is called “‘a Google for log files’ because, like Google, you can use Splunk to determine the state of a network and the activities taking place within in.” I’m quite sure that is not why Splunk might be referred to as Google-like, and have to wonder if the author has used the search engine before.In the History of Splunk we learn that before this tool, “a business needing to troubleshoot its environment had to rely on the IT department, where a programmer wrote scripts to meet needs. This script ran on top of a platform to generate a report. As a result, companies didn’t have a way to discover problems deep inside their infrastructure.” I’m not aware of any company where infrastructure troubleshooting isn’t being done by IT, or how a script on a platform is somehow different from a search run on Splunk. The entire page is a loss.Splunk can “listen to your port” as well as TCP and UDP. Ok then. Also, it’s helpful to know that timechart is a transforming command, if you already know what a transforming command is, but that isn’t explained.In short, if you are an experienced person learning Splunk after other platforms, you will be able to get past the errors (albeit with probable frustration) but someone learning about log management or SIEMs for the first time needs to find something else.
Chintan Mody –
Great book
The book is great. Letâs be honest itâs not a complete solution for certification, but it’s a good companion. Donât think while buying if I bought I have passed the exam. It is a great helping hand for the certification exam. There are many core concepts covered in detail. The author has done a great job in playing with multiple-choice questions. Hats off to him. I really referred to Splunk docs, youtube videos, and this book for the certification exam would say itâs a good book for certification.
Mathew –
One of the top book to Pass Splunk Admin Exam
This book was useful for me.I passed Splunk Admin exam because of it.
John –
Too many errors to be useful
âIndex as âTestâ is not how you define search terms. The correct search term would be: Index=TestThis is how you âcreate an indexerâ you INSTALL and configure an indexer. This shows you how to create an INDEX. An INDEX and INDEXER are two different things. One performs processes, the other stores.The writer says to add data, you must first create a new App? Why? This step is unnecessary, as you can just click Add Data from the default Home App thatâs comes with Splunk.Another section calls âwhereâ a COMMAND (which it is) and then immediately calls it a CLAUSE (which it is not). Not helpful in a section that is defining the difference between Commands, Functions, Arguments and Clauses.Thereâs numerous other errors and typos. This is all before page 32 after which I stopped reading out of frustration, launched Amazon and requested a refund.This is garbage and NOT useful to someone trying to learn Splunk nor to someone more experienced in the Platform to refresh before an exam.Just donât.Btw, this is also FREE in .pdf if you Google it. Iâm able to say that because that is honestly how this book should be offered, free, not cost $30.
Adam –
Seemed like it would be a good overview for those starting out on their Splunk pathway, but I found it generally counter-productive and wish I’d stuck to the numerous online resources out there.Firstly, it’s not very chronological in it’s approach, chopping between sections relevant to the Core User, Power User or Admin certifications. Then there are numerous typos and incorrect answers in the multiple-choice questions at the end of each chapter, so you end up spending more time doubting yourself and researching the topics on docs.splunk than reading the book (though maybe that was the intention – if so, a clever but frustrating ploy!). The screenshot images are sometimes too poor a resolution to be of any use. And if you’re thinking maybe it would still serve as a reference book, well it lacks many obvious topics in the index and clear definitions, again forcing you to refer to docs.splunk.In summary, it lacks coherence and clarity. Stick to YouTube and docs.splunk to get you through.