Self-assessment

1. Select the popular data input types offered by Splunk by default. (Choose all that apply):
   1. Binary file monitoring
   2. File and directory monitoring
   3. Network data input
   4. Scripted input
   5. Network port monitoring
2. You are about to configure a file monitoring input and observe that the directory contains five-year-old data that does not need to be indexed. Which setting is used to force the forwarder to ignore the old files?
   1. skipHistoricalFiles
   2. ignoreOldData
   3. ignoreOlderThan
   4. deletePastData
3. A network device can send traffic over UDP on port 514. You are an admin and need to allow incoming traffic from the network device IP. What setting is appropriate for this situation?
   1. acceptOnly
   2. acceptFrom
   3. connection_host
   4. acceptIPOnly
4. You have been given the task of configuring the monitoring of files with the names network-sys-messages.log, sys-messages.log, and syslogs.log in a directory path of /opt/var/log/syslog/ on a Linux system. They all fit into a single source type – syslog...