Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect (SPLK‑2002) Enterprise‑level

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SPLK‑2002validates advanced knowledge and practical skills in designing, deploying, and maintaining large-scale Splunk environments. It focuses on planning deployment architectures, sizing resources, clustering, high availability, security, performance optimization, monitoring, and troubleshooting. This exam is intended for professionals responsible for enterprise-level Splunk deployments.Exam Overview

• Exam Code: SPLK‑2002
• Exam Name: Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect
• Exam Type: Expert-level certification for enterprise Splunk architecture and deployment
• Duration: 90–120 minutes
• Passing Score: 70%
  
  

Who It’s Ideal For

• Senior Splunk administrators and engineers
• System architects responsible for designing large-scale or distributed Splunk environments
• IT professionals managing critical Splunk infrastructure at enterprises or client organizations
• Consultants offering enterprise Splunk architecture solutions
  
  

Key Topics

Deployment Planning & Architecture: Plan deployment topology, distributed or clustered architectures, and component placement

Project Requirements & Sizing: Analyze data volume, user load, storage needs, and hardware requirements

Indexing & Storage Design: Design indexes, plan storage lifecycle (hot/warm/cold/frozen), and retention policies

Clustering & Distributed Deployment: Implement indexer clusters, search-head clusters, high availability, and load balancing

Resource Planning & Performance Tuning: Allocate CPU, memory, and disk; optimize search speed and indexing throughput

Security & Access Control: Configure authentication, roles, encryption, and secure transmission of data

Monitoring, Troubleshooting & Maintenance: Use monitoring tools, detect bottlenecks, troubleshoot issues, and maintain clusters

Deployment Automation & Configuration Management: Automate app deployments and configuration changes across clusters