Splunk Updated SPLK-1002 Exam Questions and Answers by zak

Splunk event types are based on search strings that cannot contain pipes or subsearches.

Extract: “Event type search strings must not contain a pipe (|) and cannot include transforming or filtering commands.”

Thus, only option B is a valid event type definition because it is a simple base search without pipelines or subsearches.

A delimiter field extraction is a method of extracting fields from data that uses a character or a string to separate fields in each event. A delimiter field extraction can be performed by using the Field Extractor (FX) tool or by editing the props.conf file. A delimiter field extraction can be applied to any file format that uses a delimiter to separate fields, such as CSV, TSV, PSV, etc. A CSV file is a comma-separated values file that uses commas as delimiters. Therefore, a CSV file can be extracted using a delimiter field extraction.