SPLUNK Core Certified User Study Guide

Complete Study Guide + 48h Gameplan

Hello, Hoodies!

As my students apply for THOUSANDS of jobs every week, they give me insights on what employers are looking for.

One of those common requests is for SPLUNK!

Splunk is a SIEM - a Security Information and Event Manager.

The main tool used by a SOC - a Security Operations Center.

The place where ALL the information from ALL the devices on the network goes to ensure that nothing bad is going on.

Splunk is as old as time and it’s still around for a reason.

It’s EVERYWHERE.

Not all SIEMs are the same but they all do the same basic job:

Help you search and identify alerts.

Wisdom on the internet says you can become SPLUNK CORE USER CERTIFIED with 10 hours of study.

And after finding ZERO study guides available on the internet, I made one myself.

So if you want this all-in-one guide plus everything else you need to start your Cybersecurity Career, upgrade to a PAID HOODIE in the STACK:

So what’s this 48h gameplan?

It’s one I’m going to try MYSELF.

Here’s my idea:

• Read this guide

• Use the FREE Splunk version to play around with

• Buy a few hundred practice questions on Udemy

• Test

This is a SUPER BASIC CERT, and paired with some existing security knowledge, this should do the trick. If not, I wasted $130 on nothing.

Either way, I’ll have fun and report back on how you can do at least as well as I did, if not better!

A little bit about the exam:

Covers 8 domains and about 60 sub domains, all labeled below.

I’ve said enough. This guide is 10,000 words. Let’s go.