SPLK-1002 · Question #79
Field aliases are used to __________ data
The correct answer is D. normalize. Field aliases in Splunk are used to normalize data by mapping different field names from multiple data sources to a single common field name.
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Field aliases are used to __________ data
Options
- Aclean
- Btransform
- Ccalculate
- Dnormalize
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(60 responses)- A5% (3)
- B2% (1)
- C2% (1)
- D92% (55)
Why each option
Field aliases in Splunk are used to normalize data by mapping different field names from multiple data sources to a single common field name.
Cleaning data is the role of transforms and field extractions or the eval command, not field aliases, which only create alternate names without modifying values.
Transforming data involves changing field values or structure, which is done with commands like eval or lookup, not field aliases.
Calculating values is the function of eval expressions or calculated fields, not field aliases, which simply map one field name to another without performing any computation.
Field aliases normalize data by allowing you to assign an alternate name to an existing field, enabling events from disparate sourcetypes that use different field names for the same concept to be correlated and searched uniformly.
Concept tested: Splunk field aliases for data normalization
Source: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Knowledge/Addaliasestofields
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