Splunk Test

The Splunk Test makes use of scenario-based questions to test for on-the-job skills as opposed to theoretical knowledge, ensuring that candidates who do well on this screening test have the relavant skills. The questions are designed to covered following on-the-job aspects:

• Understanding of Splunk basics
• Proficiency in search techniques
• Knowledge of data indexing in Splunk
• Ability to monitor and alert using Splunk
• Familiarity with Splunk administration
• Understanding of Splunk architecture
• Experience with Splunk apps and add-ons
• Knowledge of security and compliance in Splunk
• Proficiency in data visualization with Splunk

Once the test is sent to a candidate, the candidate receives a link in email to take the test. For each candidate, you will receive a detailed report with skills breakdown and benchmarks to shortlist the top candidates from your pool.

• Splunk Basics

  Understanding the foundational concepts of Splunk, such as events, sources, and indexes, is crucial for effectively utilizing the platform. This skill measures the candidate's knowledge of Splunk's core components and functionalities.

• Search Techniques

  Having expertise in search techniques enables users to extract valuable insights from large volumes of data in Splunk. This skill assesses the candidate's ability to construct efficient and accurate search queries to retrieve the required information.

• Data Indexing

  Data indexing involves the process of ingesting, parsing, and enriching data in Splunk. Evaluating this skill helps determine the candidate's proficiency in setting up data inputs, configuring sourcetypes, and managing indexers to ensure optimal data organization and retrieval.

• Monitoring and Alerting

  Monitoring the performance and availability of systems and generating alerts based on predefined conditions is a critical aspect of Splunk. Measuring this skill provides insights into the candidate's knowledge of creating real-time alerts, building dashboards, and effectively managing incidents using Splunk's monitoring and alerting capabilities.

• Splunk Administration

  Splunk administration involves tasks like user management, server configuration, and license management. This skill assessment evaluates the candidate's expertise in handling these administrative tasks, ensuring a smooth running of the Splunk environment.

• Splunk Architecture

  Understanding the architecture of Splunk helps in optimizing the performance and scalability of the platform. This skill measures the candidate's understanding of Splunk components, such as forwarders, indexers, and search heads, and their interconnections for designing a robust Splunk infrastructure.

• Splunk Apps and Add-ons

  Splunk apps and add-ons extend the functionality of Splunk by providing pre-built dashboards, reports, and visualizations. Assessing this skill helps determine the candidate's ability to install, configure, and manage apps and add-ons to enhance Splunk's capabilities.

• Security and Compliance

  Splunk is widely used for security and compliance purposes, requiring knowledge of access controls, data protection, and regulatory compliance. This skill assessment evaluates the candidate's understanding of securing Splunk deployments, configuring user permissions, implementing data encryption, and ensuring compliance with relevant regulations.

• Data Visualization

  Data visualization is essential for effectively presenting insights and trends derived from Splunk data. This skill measures the candidate's ability to design and create visually appealing and informative dashboards and reports using Splunk's visualization tools and techniques.

• Full list of covered topics

  The actual topics of the questions in the final test will depend on your job description and requirements. However, here's a list of topics you can expect the questions for Splunk Test to be based on.

  Search syntax

  Field extraction

  Regular expressions

  Data models

  Search macros

  Saved searches

  Pivot tables

  Splunk alerts

  Distributed search

  Forwarder deployment

  Indexer clustering

  Splunk deployment server

  Data input settings

  Data parsing

  Data enrichment

  Event typing

  Monitoring disk usage

  Monitoring network traffic

  Monitoring system performance

  Monitoring application logs

  Splunk user roles

  Data retention and archiving

  Splunk authentication

  Securely storing credentials

  Data visualization options

  Dashboard creation

  Mapping visualizations

  Timechart visualizations

  Single value visualizations

  Dynamic drilldowns

  Pie chart visualizations

  Bar chart visualizations

  Line chart visualizations

  Security information and event management

  Compliance reporting

  Data extraction

  Log event correlation

  Dashboard sharing

  Data input validation

  App installation

  Add-on configuration

  Splunk REST API

  Lookup tables

  Creating reports

  Search performance optimization

  Knowledge objects

  Monitoring user activity

  Splunk indexer

  Splunk search head

  Splunk forwarder

  Splunk universal forwarder

  Splunk light forwarder

  Splunk heavy forwarder

  Splunk web

• Splunk Administrator
• Splunk Developer
• Splunk Implementation
• Splunk Cloud Services Engineer Splunk Administration Application Developer

For intermediate/ experienced candidates, we customize the assessment questions to include advanced topics and increase the difficulty level of the questions. This might include adding questions on topics like

• Proficiency in search techniques
• Knowledge of data indexing in Splunk
• Ability to monitor and alert using Splunk
• Familiarity with Splunk administration
• Understanding of Splunk architecture
• Experience with Splunk apps and add-ons
• Knowledge of security and compliance in Splunk
• Proficiency in data visualization with Splunk