Splunk Core Certified User Practice Exam

The default fields for every event in Splunk are designed to provide essential metadata that helps in identifying and categorizing the data being indexed. The correct answer highlights these fields as follows:

- **Source**: This indicates the original location of the event data, specifying where the data was collected from (e.g., a file, a network port, etc.).

- **Source type**: This field describes the format of the event data to Splunk, allowing it to apply appropriate parsing and indexing strategies.

- **Host**: This denotes the machine or system from which the data originated, helping users understand where the event was generated.

- **Index**: This represents the storage location for the event data within Splunk, relating to how data is organized and accessed.

- **Timestamp**: This records the exact time the event occurred, which is critical for temporal analysis and correlating events.

These five fields provide a foundational understanding of each event's origin and characteristics within the Splunk environment. Other choices include fields that are not part of the default five, such as 'field1', 'event type', 'user', or 'permissions', which can be encountered in more specific or customized contexts but are not part of the core set of default event fields