Splunk Core Certified Power User

Splunk environments can become risky when only a few people understand the saved searches, dashboards, fields, and event mappings that the SOC depends on. This 6.6-hour course helps IT Directors and Team Leads move Splunk users beyond personal searches into shared knowledge objects, repeatable workflows, and policy-aware reporting.

The course is a fit for SOC analysts, SIEM administrators, and IT Practitioners who already work with Splunk data and need Power User-level skills. Training Managers can assign it in short blocks across eight skills covering charts, filtering, event correlation, fields, tags, event types, macros, workflow actions, data models, and the CIM add-on. Change management matters: the course repeatedly frames Splunk objects around SOPs, corporate policy, and team handoff needs. CBT Nuggets Virtual Labs support hands-on practice in a Splunk VM with preconfigured data.

IT teams complete this training to make Splunk data easier to search, interpret, and share across operational teams. The course emphasizes practical SOC and SIEM workflows, not just isolated SPL commands.

• Build chart-based views that turn raw Splunk events into information a SOC shift lead or executive stakeholder can understand quickly.
• Create shared searches, alerts, dashboards, and other knowledge objects so team workflows do not depend on one analyst’s personal setup.
• Use fields, tags, and event types to make ingested data more consistent and easier to manage across searches and reports.
• Work with data models and the Common Information Model add-on, including the need to map proprietary data sources to expected tags when Splunk does not recognize them automatically.

Knowledge

• How Splunk Power User responsibilities differ from standard user search and personal reporting tasks.
• How charts, filtering, and formatting help teams make raw event data easier to read.
• How fields, tags, and event types support reusable Splunk knowledge objects.
• How macros can streamline repeated analyst tasks with reusable chunks of SPL.
• How data models and the Common Information Model add-on support normalized SIEM workflows.

Ability

• Create team-oriented searches, reports, alerts, and dashboards in Splunk.
• Shape Splunk results with charts and formatting for SOC and stakeholder review.
• Correlate events and manage fields to improve search consistency.
• Apply tags and event types to support organizational data handling practices.
• Validate whether CIM-related mappings are returning the expected event data.