Splunk Power User Certification Exam - Passed

Kiyori

Hi everyone,

Today I followed up on the Splunk Core User certification with the Power User certification, and passed.  I haven’t seen a lot of recent reviews on this exam, but honestly, there’s not really much to say about it – you need to have completed the Core User certification and the Fundamentals 2 course.  Fundamentals 2 is free for veterans through their WorkPlus program:  https://workplus.splunk.com/veterans.

If you have the Fundamentals 2 course, then you have all the materials you need – nothing external required.  All of the questions came from the downloadable student guide, labs, and videos.  I would say that the student guide is way more valuable than the videos.  I studied for about 10 days (give or take a couple for New Year’s and Christmas).  The exam is 1 hour long, is not terribly difficult.

It was exactly like the Core User exam, just with material out of the Fundamentals 2 course.  The questions were very straightforward, but the answers were very tricky – paying attention to small details in syntax, case, constraints for things like calculated fields, etc. pays off.

If you don’t have access to Fundamentals 2, then I would recommend some of the cheaper courses on Udemy and by building in your homelab following Youtube tutorials.  Great supplemental materials there, and definitely a fun time building at home 😊

-kiyori

bigdogz

thanks!

I think I will start hitting the Splunk certifications.

roninkai

I'd like to go thru Splunk certifications, but lost access to their free courses. They are so damn expensive otherwise. I've met some Splunk employees though at a company training, and they said that to teach/present, each employee was required to obtain all certifications (on their dime), through Splunk Architect. That looks pretty good on a resume.

riccardosl

bigdogz said:

thanks!

I think I will start hitting the Splunk certifications.

Hello thank you for your useful advice! In order to prepare for the Power user exam, would be the data set from fundamentals 1 still enough?

bigdogz

riccardosl said:

bigdogz said:

thanks!

I think I will start hitting the Splunk certifications.

Hello thank you for your useful advice! In order to prepare for the Power user exam, would be the data set from fundamentals 1 still enough?

I am sorry that I did not respond in time.

I think that you should lab up as much as you can to learn the application.