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Number Questions Options Answers
1 A CMDB Administrator has installed a Service Graph Connector and customized a script transform. What will happen on subsequent upgrades if the default definition of the script transform is updated?
  • The Service Graph Connector upgrade refuses to start
  • The upgrade stops and reports an error
  • A skipped change is created and no change is made to the script transform definition
  • A skipped change is created and no change is made to the script transform definition
2 Configuration Management requires an accurate inventory of devices to be reflected in the CMDB. Which are common use cases for using Agent Client Collector (ACC)? (Choose 2 options)
  • Servers in the data center
  • Network devices in the DMZ
  • Devices in secure environments
  • Devices that intermittently connect to the network
  • Devices in secure environments
  • Devices that intermittently connect to the network
3 Where can an administrator perform Natural Language Queries (NLQ)?
  • CMDB Health Dashboard
  • CMDB Workspace
  • CI Class Manager
  • CMDB Data Manager
  • CMDB Workspace
4 A CMDB Manager wants to improve data quality using the CMDB Health Dashboard. What needs to happen to generate CMDB health scores?
  • The scheduled jobs for the CMDB Health Dashboard must be activated
  • Nothing, CMDB health scores are calculated by default
  • The plugin, CMDB health calculation, needs to be installed
  • The scheduled jobs for the CMDB Health Dashboard must be activated
5 A CMDB Administrator is reviewing the CMDB and notices that many Hardware CIs are missing serial numbers. The Administrator is concerned this may cause duplicate CIs and wants to resolve the issue quickly. What structured guidelines provided by ServiceNow are available to troubleshoot and resolve the issue?
  • CMDB Data Foundations Dashboard Playbooks
  • CSDM Data Foundations Dashboard Playbooks
  • CMDB Health Dashboard Playbooks
  • CSDM Now Create Playbooks
  • CMDB Data Foundations Dashboard Playbooks
6 What ensures data volume in the CMDB is manageable?
  • Business Rules
  • Scheduled Jobs
  • Archive Policies
  • Archive Policies
7 A CMDB Administrator is leveraging CI data as part of an Integrated Risk Management (IRM) implementation and the Entity Scoping process. The Administrator wants to leverage the CSDM Data Foundations Dashboard playbooks under the Run tab. Which CSDM relationships are leveraged using the CSDM playbooks? (Choose two)
  • Business Applications that have their relationships to Information Objects
  • Locations that have established parent records
  • Business Applications that have relationships to Application Services
  • Logical CIs that have relationships with Information Objects
  • Business Applications that have their relationships to Information Objects
  • Logical CIs that have relationships with Information Objects
8 A Change Manager aims to streamline ITSM processes by automatically populating fields on the Change form when a CI is selected. The Configuration Management team ensures that the Change Group field is populated for all managed CIs. As a result, which base system field on the Change form will be automatically populated after selecting a CI?
  • Change Group
  • Assignment Group
  • Managed by Group
  • Approval Group
  • Change Group
9 A CMDB Administrator is reviewing the health of the CMDB and notices a large percentage of the Hardware CIs are missing serial numbers. The Administrator is concerned this may cause duplicate CIs and would like to resolve the issue in a timely manner. What structured guidelines provided by ServiceNow are available to troubleshoot and resolve the issue?
  • CSDM Now Create Playbooks
  • CMDB Health Dashboard Playbooks
  • CMDB Data Foundations Dashboard Playbooks
  • CMDB Data Manager
  • CMDB Data Foundations Dashboard Playbooks
10 A Configuration Management Governance team is transitioning from utilizing legacy CMDB status fields to CSDM lifecycle status fields. Which table can be modified?
  • Life Cycle Stages
  • Life Cycle Mapping
  • Life Cycle Stage Status
  • Life Cycle Controls
  • Life Cycle Mapping
11 A CMDB Administrator wants only the CIs of Principal Classes to appear in CI reference fields, such as the CI reference field on an Incident form. Where does the CMDB Administrator designate Principal Classes?
  • CMDB Workspace
  • CI Class Manager
  • System Properties
  • CMDB Data Manager
  • CI Class Manager
12 A CMDB Administrator needs to import external data into the CMDB. To reduce the risk of creating duplicates and prevent updates from unauthorized sources, it must be ensured that the Identification and Reconciliation Engine (IRE) is not bypassed. What is the recommended method to import data into the CMDB utilizing the Identification and Reconciliation API?
  • IntegrationHub ETL
  • Table API (REST API or SOAP API)
  • Import Sets and Transform Maps
  • IntegrationHub ETL
13 The CMDB Administrator group aims to display meaningful results on the CMDB Health Dashboard -- Compliance Scorecard for server records that are not on the latest patch. What must be configured to achieve this goal?
  • Certification Filter, Certification Template, Audit
  • Technical Service Offerings, Dynamic CI Groups, CMDB Groups
  • Stale, Orphan, Duplicate
  • Certification Policies, Data Filters, Scheduled Jobs
  • Certification Policies, Data Filters, Scheduled Jobs
14 The Incident Process Owner asks which classes of CSDM are used on the Incident form. Which classes are appropriate?
  • Application Service
  • Business Application
  • Service Offering
  • Service Portfolio
  • Application Service
  • Service Offering
15 A CMDB Administrator needs to create a new CI class for an Internet of Things (IoT) Sensor in ServiceNow. What are the recommended practices for this activity? (Choose 2 options)
  • Modify an existing class
  • Delete an unused class and replace it with the new one
  • Install or update the CMDB CI Class Models Store application and verify the class does not already exist
  • Add a new class under an appropriate parent class
  • Install or update the CMDB CI Class Models Store application and verify the class does not already exist
  • Add a new class under an appropriate parent class
16 A company wants to ensure stale CI records are identified if Discovery has not updated them in 60 days. Which CMDB Health metric applies?
  • Compliance
  • Freshness
  • Completeness
  • Correctness
  • Freshness
17 A Change Manager wants to gain value from CSDM. How will the Change Management process benefit from CSDM? (Choose 2 options)
  • Identify blackout windows
  • Determine the root cause of the change issue
  • Route the change dynamically
  • Understand the impact of the change on services
  • Identify blackout windows
  • Understand the impact of the change on services
18 A CMDB Administrator has built a number of Technology Management Service Offerings (Technical Service Offerings) based on Dynamic CI Groups to better maintain group alignment for the member CIs. Which groups are synced to CIs from the offering that has a relationship to a Dynamic CI Group? (Choose 2)
  • Approval Group
  • Managed by Group
  • Owned by Group
  • Support Group
  • Managed by Group
  • Support Group
19 What is the recommended way to model shared middleware supporting multiple business services?
  • Direct CI relationships to business services
  • Create an Application Service representing middleware
  • Create a custom CI without relationships
  • Store as an asset only
  • Create an Application Service representing middleware
20

A development team is working on a project where an application will be deployed to many servers. There are several security requirements that must be checked to adhere to lawful regulatory compliance because the application will be holding customer personal data (PII and PCI). 

Where in the CSDM should the development team store the information that will be used to satisfy audits?

  • Technology Management Service Offerings (Technical Service Offerings) and Groups
  • Customer Service Offerings and Databases
  • Business Applications and Information Objects
  • Business Applications and Information Objects
21 A customer wants recently imported server records to be automatically reclassified into more specific CMDB classes after being discovered by ServiceNow Discovery. During the discovery process, if existing Server records are reclassified into the Linux Server and Windows Server classes, which reclassification operation occurs?
  • Class Upgrade
  • Class Downgrade
  • Class Switch
  • Class Upgrade
22 A customer's CMDB is aligned to the CSDM Walk stage. What benefit is provided by the CMDB?
  • Allows additional stratification of technical teams' support structure along the lines of OLAs and commitments
  • Improves the implementation velocity of APM Foundation for future business application rationalization
  • Enables impact assessments for incident, problem, and change on Business Services
  • Enables impact assessments for incident, problem, and change on Business Services
23 According to the Common Service Data Model (CSDM), a server team is requesting a catalog item be created for infrastructure requests. Which role is involved in initiating the request and defining requirements?
  • Enterprise Architect
  • Technology Service Owners
  • Application Service Owners
  • Technology Service Owners
24 A CMDB Administrator wants to create a CMDB query to find all databases located in Seattle that are connected to application services. They also want to include incidents related to those databases. Which actions should be taken to build this query? (Choose 2 options)
  • Add a filter to the Database node for Location = Seattle
  • Add to the canvas the Incident table from the Non-CMDB Tables list
  • Add property columns to the Application Service node
  • Set the relationship level to up to 2nd-level relationships
  • Add a filter to the Database node for Location = Seattle
  • Add to the canvas the Incident table from the Non-CMDB Tables list
25 An organization is updating the CMDB to include new asset types like IoT devices. Relevant CI classes need to be added and outdated ones need to be removed from the Principal Class filter to ensure accurate display in ITSM processes. Which roles are needed to add or remove classes?
  • cmdb_query_builder
  • sn_csdm_admin
  • sn_cmdb_admin
  • personalize.dictionary
  • sn_cmdb_admin
  • personalize.dictionary
26 A CMDB Configuration Manager is reviewing the metrics on the CMDB Health Dashboard - Correctness Scorecard for the Server class, which consists of 60,000 servers in the CMDB. For the Duplicate metric, it shows: Healthy CIs / Evaluated = 59,000 / 60,000 For the Orphan metric, it shows: Healthy CIs / Evaluated = 45,000 / 50,000 Which configuration explains the difference in the scope of Server CIs evaluated (60,000 vs 50,000) between the two metrics?
  • The Duplicate metric has a CMDB Group configured for the Server class
  • The Orphan metric has a CMDB Group configured for the Server class
  • The Orphan metric has a Health Inclusion rule configured for the Server class
  • The Duplicate metric has a Health Inclusion rule configured for the Server class
  • The Orphan metric has a Health Inclusion rule configured for the Server class
27 Configuration Management needs to ensure data quality for all CIs in the CMDB. What areas of data quality for CIs are included in the CMDB Health Dashboard? (Choose 2 options)
  • Stale CIs
  • Downgraded CIs
  • Upgraded CIs
  • Missing CIs
  • Stale CIs
28 E. Duplicate CIs (correct) Which is a purpose or requirement of CMDB Data Manager in ServiceNow?
  • Automates the archival and deletion of records based on retention policies
  • Automates the enforcement of relationship rules between CIs in the CMDB
  • Encrypts archived records for enhanced security
  • Automates the archival and deletion of records based on retention policies
29 An organization wants visibility of which business applications are supported by a specific database server. What modeling enables this?
  • Task relationships
  • Asset relationships
  • Server to Business Service direct relationship
  • Application Service dependency mapping
  • Application Service dependency mapping
30 The CMDB Configuration Management team wants to manage de-duplication tasks generated from data ingested into the CMDB via the Identification and Reconciliation Engine (IRE). In which area of the CMDB Workspace can they locate these de-duplication tasks?
  • Total status under the My Work tab
  • CMDB feature adoption tile under the Insights tab
  • Important actions tile under the Home tab
  • Total status under the My Work tab
31 The CMDB Configuration Manager is using the CI Class Manager to define group ownership of CI classes and needs to leverage the ownership value specified in the CI Class Manager. When creating a CMDB Data Manager policy, which group reference field should be set?
  • Managed By Group
  • Approval Group
  • Support Group
  • Change Group
  • Managed By Group
32 Which are business values of CMDB? (Choose two.)
  • Strengthening operational resiliency
  • Streamlining incident and change management
  • Collecting and managing financial data
  • Automating maintenance for CI relationships
  • Strengthening operational resiliency
  • Streamlining incident and change management
33 The Configuration Manager is preparing justification to utilize the CMDB Data Foundations Dashboard. Which benefits align with the usage of this dashboard? (Choose 2 options)
  • It automates approval processes for Change Management
  • It helps detect and eliminate duplicate records in the CMDB
  • It provides actionable insights to improve data quality and completeness
  • It enables monitoring and tracking of CMDB health over time
  • It provides actionable insights to improve data quality and completeness
  • It enables monitoring and tracking of CMDB health over time
34 A developer bypasses IRE by inserting directly into cmdb_ci via script. What risk does this introduce?
  • Asset misalignment
  • Performance degradation
  • Duplicate CI creation and reconciliation conflicts
  • Missing ACLs
  • Duplicate CI creation and reconciliation conflicts
35 An Asset Manager wants to ensure that Asset records and CI records are kept synchronized automatically. How does the Manager do this? (Choose two.)
  • Ensure one-to-one physical mapping between Asset and CI
  • Ensure that the business rule to update CI fields on change on the asset table is active
  • Ensure that the business rule to update Asset fields on change on the CI table is active
  • Ensure that scheduled jobs are run during off-business hours to ensure that sync happens
  • Ensure that the business rule to update CI fields on change on the asset table is active
  • Ensure that the business rule to update Asset fields on change on the CI table is active
36 A Configuration Manager wants to use the Unified Map. Where would it be accessed?
  • CMDB Data Manager
  • CI Class Manager
  • CMDB Workspace
  • CMDB Workspace
37 What is the value of using the CMDB in security operations? (Choose Two)
  • Identifies the IT infrastructure with a vulnerability
  • Allows the security team to assess and remediate an incident
  • Auto-resolves a vulnerability
  • Enables audits and attestations across CIs
  • Identifies the IT infrastructure with a vulnerability
  • Allows the security team to assess and remediate an incident
38 A Platform Data Owner wants to improve data quality with reconciliation rules across five discovery sources. The Data Owner knows the best option is to include CMDB 360 / Multisource CMDB to manage and monitor discovery sources. The company currently does not have the ITOM Discovery license required for CMDB 360 / Multisource CMDB. What can the Data Owner do in this case?
  • CMDB 360 / Multisource is a platform product that can be used immediately
  • The IRE reconciliation rules can use discovery sources regardless of CMDB 360 being enabled
  • ITOM Discovery must be purchased to take advantage of multisource IRE rules
  • The IRE reconciliation rules can use discovery sources regardless of CMDB 360 being enabled
39 What is the difference between Data Certification and Attestation policies when managing a CI?
  • Attestation tracks acknowledgement the CI still exists, while Data Certification requires validating specific attributes of a CI
  • Attestation requires correcting specific attributes of a CI, while Data Certification tracks acknowledgement the CI still exists
  • Attestation can be scheduled, while Data Certification cannot be scheduled
  • Attestation can be assigned to a group or an individual, while Data Certification can only be assigned to an individual
  • Attestation tracks acknowledgement the CI still exists, while Data Certification requires validating specific attributes of a CI
40 An organization needs to maintain non-discoverable attributes, such as warranty expiration dates, for hardware CIs. These attributes are not updated by automated discovery tools. What method ensures these attributes are accurately maintained for all CIs?
  • Use the CMDB Reconciliation Engine to update the attributes
  • Create a new CI class specifically for non-discoverable attributes
  • Use a scheduled data import to update the attributes from an external source
  • Use a scheduled data import to update the attributes from an external source
41 A CI should not be updated by Discovery once it reaches "Retired" state. What should control this?
  • Reconciliation Rule with lifecycle condition
  • Dictionary attribute
  • Business Rule
  • Identification Rule
  • Reconciliation Rule with lifecycle condition
42 Which are values of CMDB? (Choose 2 options)
  • Collecting and managing financial data
  • Automating maintenance for CI relationships
  • Streamlining Incident and Change Management
  • Strengthening operational resiliency
  • Streamlining Incident and Change Management
  • Strengthening operational resiliency
43 A Configuration Manager needs to leverage a policy type to automate the creation and assignment of tasks to validate the existence of CIs. Which policy type should be used to accomplish this goal?
  • Attestation
  • Certification
  • Delete
  • Retire
  • Attestation
44 A customer's CMDB is aligned to the CSDM Walk stage. What benefit is provided by the CMDB?
  • Improves the implementation velocity of APM Foundation for future business application rationalization
  • Allows for additional stratification of technical teams' support structure along the lines of OLAs and commitments
  • Enables impact assessments for incident, problem, and change on Business Services
  • Enables impact assessments for incident, problem, and change on Business Services
45 A Configuration Manager has configured multiple data sources that are all authorized to update the same class and the same set of class attributes in the CMDB. What can the Configuration Manager do to control which data source should be the authoritative source of truth for a specific class or set of class attributes?
  • Assign a priority to each data source in reconciliation rules
  • Assign a run order to each data source in the identification rules
  • Manually run the data source updates in the correct order
  • Configure data refresh rules with a specific time period
  • Assign a priority to each data source in reconciliation rules
46 A healthcare provider faces a critical incident affecting its patient management system. The provider needs to identify the users impacted to mitigate disruption effectively. Which CSDM-related data should they leverage?
  • Service environment attribute
  • Incident history of similar CIs
  • Service Offerings by Department or Location
  • Affected CI [task_ci] related list
  • Service Offerings by Department or Location
47 An organization is changing data centers and needs to know the consequences of the planned changes. How can Application Service Mapping be used as part of Change Management?
  • To understand the physical location of CIs
  • To identify which devices will go offline first
  • To understand the business impact of CIs
  • To understand the business impact of CIs
48 You are modeling a customer-facing Email Service delivered via multiple application instances and underlying servers. How should this be modeled in CSDM?
  • Email Service → Application
  • Email Service → Servers
  • Email Service → Technical Service → Servers
  • Email Service → Application Services → Infrastructure CIs
  • Email Service → Application Services → Infrastructure CIs
49 A Configuration Management Process Owner is preparing solution options for presentation to technical governance for ingesting custom CIs into the CMDB. The solution must align with best practices, minimize future technical debt, and ensure upgrade compliance. Which solutions accomplish this? (Choose 2)
  • Extending an existing CI class table to accommodate the custom CI class attributes
  • Repurposing a base CI class and renaming attributes as required
  • Installing or upgrading the CMDB CI Class Models Store application to find a suitable existing CI class accommodating any new attributes
  • Extending the existing Asset class table to custom CI class attributes
  • Extending an existing CI class table to accommodate the custom CI class attributes
  • Installing or upgrading the CMDB CI Class Models Store application to find a suitable existing CI class accommodating any new attributes
50 A CMDB Administrator wants to run the Services Have Owners Identified playbook to remediate the issues shown in the CMDB Data Foundations Dashboard. Which remediation plays would be used? (Choose 2)
  • Report Data
  • Govern Data
  • Analyze Data
  • Fix Data
  • Analyze Data
  • Fix Data
51 A CMDB Administrator wants to improve data quality related to the CSDM. Which action should the Administrator take to meet this goal?
  • Use the default configured CMDB Health Dashboard
  • Start the ServiceNow Health Scan
  • Use the CSDM Data Foundations Dashboard
  • Use the CSDM Data Foundations Dashboard
52 A CMDB Administrator is implementing Vulnerability Response or Security Incident Response and needs to ensure customers have enough context to estimate risk and set task priorities. Which Get Well Playbook from the CSDM Data Foundations Dashboard helps with this?
  • Percentage of Custom Status Values for CI Life Cycle Stages
  • Locations without a Parent Location
  • Application Services with Business Application Relationships
  • Named Product Models without Product Owners
  • Application Services with Business Application Relationships
53 A CMDB Administrator is evaluating whether to monitor the metrics provided on the CMDB Data Foundations Dashboard. Which benefits support the decision to continually monitor the results on this dashboard? (Choose 2)
  • Reports on all orphan CIs in the CMDB
  • Provides metrics for CIs processed by the Identification and Reconciliation Engine (IRE)
  • Provides metrics on active CIs updated in the last 90 days
  • Provides a list of all CIs that failed health audits
  • Provides metrics for CIs processed by the Identification and Reconciliation Engine (IRE)
  • Provides metrics on active CIs updated in the last 90 days
54 During a Change request, impact analysis does not show downstream affected services. What is the most likely cause?
  • CMDB Health disabled
  • Incorrect CI class
  • Missing CI relationships
  • Reconciliation conflict
  • Missing CI relationships
55 A CMDB Administrator, viewing the CMDB Data Foundations Dashboard, notices the Unique Locations Result percentage is low. What is the recommended process from the associated playbook to correct this issue?
  • Keep both locations as either can be used as a valid alternate location
  • Review both locations, update CIs with the correct location, and delete the duplicate location
  • Retain the location that matches the organization's standard naming convention, and delete the duplicate without further validation
  • Use the Duplicate CI Remediator to merge the duplicate location records
  • Review both locations, update CIs with the correct location, and delete the duplicate location
56 Which default user groups are available when setting up a CMDB Data Manager policy and specifying the task assignment with the Assignment type set to "User Group Field"? (Choose 2 options)
  • Assignment Group
  • Owned by Group
  • Support Group
  • Managed By Group
  • Assignment Group
  • Managed By Group
57 During implementation, architects want to create a new CI class outside the cmdb_ci hierarchy. What is the correct approach?
  • Create a custom asset table
  • Create a new unrelated table
  • Extend cmdb_ci
  • Modify task table
  • Extend cmdb_ci
58 Which type of CMDB Data Manager policy creates tasks that allow the assigned individual to update fields on the CI record?
  • Compliance
  • Audit
  • Certification
  • Attestation
  • Certification