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Splunk Certification Training: Power User and Admin

CertOcean's Splunk Certification Training: Power User and Admin training is a live, instructor-led online course that prepares you for the Splunk Certification Training: Power User and Admin certification exam. You learn in 13 live sessions (24 hours in total) with an expert instructor and work through 8 curriculum modules.

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  • 8 modules76 topics
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Course overview

About the Splunk Certification Training: Power User and Admin training

What does Splunk Power User and Admin training cover? It covers the skills both Splunk power users and Splunk administrators need: working with configuration files and settings, using search and reporting commands in SPL, building knowledge objects, and creating dashboards for visualization, with real-life use cases throughout.

What you'll learn in this course

  • Understand Splunk architecture, components, and data flow fundamentals
  • Search, analyze, and visualize machine data using SPL (Search Processing Language)
  • Create advanced searches, reports, dashboards, and alerts
  • Perform field extraction, data normalization, and event correlation
  • Configure and manage Splunk administration tasks, users, and roles
  • Manage data inputs, indexes, and data lifecycle policies
  • Monitor system health, performance, and troubleshoot Splunk environments
  • Prepare confidently for Splunk Power User and Splunk Admin certification exams

What is Splunk Power User and Admin training?

Splunk Power User and Admin training is a course that teaches you to search, analyze, visualize and manage machine data with Splunk to gain real-time operational intelligence. You learn the Search Processing Language (SPL), build dashboards and alerts, and manage data ingestion and indexing. You also learn core administration: user management, data inputs, system monitoring and performance.

The course follows the Splunk Core Certified Power User and Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin exam objectives, with exam-focused preparation and real-world use cases. It is ideal for SOC analysts, system administrators, DevOps engineers, security analysts and IT operations professionals.

Curriculum

Splunk Certification Training: Power User and Admin course syllabus

8 modules · 76 topics · 24 hours of live training

Introduction to Machine Data and Splunk Basics 10 topics
  • Learning goal: Understand machine data and its challenges, how Splunk turns it into operational intelligence, and how to install Splunk's components.
  • What machine data is and its challenges
  • Why Splunk, and its features
  • Splunk products and their use cases
  • Downloading and installing Splunk
  • Splunk components: search head, indexer, forwarder, deployment server and license manager
  • Splunk architecture
  • Splunk licensing options
  • Setting up a Splunk Enterprise environment
  • Setting up search heads, indexers, and heavy and universal forwarders
User Management and Splunk Configuration Files 11 topics
  • Learning goal: Create and manage users, understand the Splunk admin role and index architecture, and work with configuration files.
  • Authentication methods
  • Creating and managing users
  • The Splunk admin role and responsibilities
  • Indexes
  • Data aging
  • The main Splunk configuration (.conf) files
  • Managing .conf files
  • Creating and managing users
  • Editing configuration files
  • Creating an index in indexes.conf with different retention periods and bucket settings
Data Ingestion, Splunk Search and Reporting Commands 9 topics
  • Learning goal: Onboard data into Splunk and query it with basic and advanced SPL commands.
  • Data onboarding with flat files
  • Data onboarding with the universal forwarder
  • Basic search commands: fields, table, sort, rename and search
  • Using time ranges in searches
  • Reporting and transforming commands: top, rare, stats, chart, timechart, dedup and rex
  • Onboarding data with the universal forwarder and flat files
  • Running basic and advanced search commands
  • Searching with time ranges
Knowledge Objects I 10 topics
  • Learning goal: Learn Splunk knowledge objects, extract fields, and create event types and transactions.
  • What Splunk knowledge is
  • Categories of knowledge objects
  • Fields
  • Field extraction
  • Event types
  • Transactions
  • Creating field extractions
  • Creating event types
  • Building transactions
Knowledge Objects II 12 topics
  • Learning goal: Create lookups, workflow actions, tags and field aliases, and understand data models.
  • What lookups are and how to define them
  • Configuring automatic lookups
  • Using lookups in searches and reports
  • The Lookup Editor
  • Workflow actions
  • Creating and managing tags
  • Defining and searching field aliases
  • Overview of data models
  • Using the Lookup Editor
  • Creating tags
  • Creating field aliases
Splunk Alerts, Visualizations, Reports and Dashboards 11 topics
  • Learning goal: Schedule alerts and build reports and dashboards with different visualizations.
  • Alerts triggered by conditions
  • Splunk visualizations
  • Creating reports from search results
  • Building dashboards with charts and other visualizations
  • Setting permissions for reports and dashboards
  • Scheduling reports with cron schedules
  • Sharing dashboards with other teams
  • Scheduling alerts
  • Creating Splunk reports
  • Building a dashboard with charts and graphs
Splunk Clustering 12 topics
  • Learning goal: Set up a cluster of Splunk instances with search head clustering and indexer clustering.
  • Installing Splunk on Linux
  • Common Splunk CLI commands
  • Best practices for clustered environments
  • Splunk clustering concepts
  • Search head clustering
  • Indexer clustering
  • Deploying an app to a search head cluster
  • Configuring Splunk instances from the Linux CLI
  • Setting up search head clustering
  • Setting up indexer clustering
  • Deploying apps and configurations with the deployment server
Case Studies and Project 1 topics
  • Learning goal: Solve a series of real-world use cases, then complete a full project based on a real-time scenario.

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The training curriculum was great. CertOcean provided me everything required to obtain my CISM. They're excellent!
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How much does the Splunk Certification Training: Power User and Admin course cost?

The Splunk Certification Training: Power User and Admin training costs $119, down from the regular $199 (you save 40%). It is a one-time payment in US dollars, and you can pay securely by card or PayPal.

How long is the Splunk Certification Training: Power User and Admin course, and when does it start?

The course runs for 24 hours of live, instructor-led online training across 13 sessions. Weekend and weekday batches are available, and the next batch starts on Monday, October 26, 2026.

Will I get a certificate after the Splunk Certification Training: Power User and Admin training?

Yes. You receive a CertOcean certificate of completion when you finish the training. The official Splunk certification is awarded by Splunk when you pass the exam, and this course prepares you for it.

What if I don't pass the Splunk Certification Training: Power User and Admin exam?

Your enrollment is covered by CertOcean's pass or full refund guarantee. If you don't clear the exam, you can claim a full refund under the guarantee terms.

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