Splunk Fundamentals 1 Practice Exam

Which Splunk command would you use to count the number of occurrences of events?

1. stats count

2. summarize

3. count_events

4. get_total

The correct answer is: stats count

The command "stats count" is the correct choice because it aggregates events and counts the total occurrences of each unique event in your search results. The "stats" command is a powerful function in Splunk that allows you to perform calculations on fields, and "count" specifically provides the total number of events that match the search criteria. In contrast, the other options do not perform this function. "Summarize" is not a standard command in Splunk for this purpose, making it less suited for counting occurrences directly. "count_events" and "get_total" are not recognized Splunk commands, so they would not yield any results in a Splunk environment. The specificity and effectiveness of "stats count" make it the go-to command for counting occurrences of events within your dataset.