Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin Practice Test

Which of the following scenarios results in the deletion of a bucket?

1. When it is moved to cold.

2. When it is archived to frozen.

3. When it is manually cleared by an administrator.

4. None of the above.

The correct answer is: When it is archived to frozen.

When data within Splunk is archived to the frozen state, it is essentially marked for deletion. In this process, a bucket containing data is no longer retained in the active data storage and is considered to be "frozen." This means that the data is permanently removed from the index and cannot be retrieved through searches. The distinction between the various states of data buckets is crucial for understanding Splunk's data lifecycle management. **Cold buckets** still retain data that can be searched, albeit less frequently, while **frozen buckets** do not. Manually clearing a bucket by an administrator is not part of the default operational process in Splunk unless specifically executed, making it a different scenario. Similarly, moving a bucket to cold does not result in deletion; rather, it simply transitions the data to a different state of accessibility. Thus, the process of archiving (moving) a bucket to frozen indeed leads to its deletion, making it the correct answer in this context.