CIS-CSM Communities Practice Test 3 — 15 Questions

Question 1

Which THREE configuration steps are involved when setting up gamification and reputation management in CSM communities? (Choose three.)

Accepted Answer

Defining point values for specific community actions (e.g., creating a post, receiving an upvote). Setting up community gamification involves defining badges, establishing point values for actions, and configuring reputation rules.

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Writing custom business rules to calculate payroll bonuses

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Changing core database engine settings to InnoDB

Question 2

Which TWO features assist users in discovering relevant community discussions without needing to browse every forum? (Choose two.)

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Tagging content with keywords and following tags. Tags and search capabilities enable users to quickly locate relevant content across community forums.

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Hardcoded announcement banners that cannot be closed

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Manual XML data exports of the entire database

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Forcing users to email support to ask for thread lists

Question 3

Which THREE components are typically customizable within a CSM portal Community Home page layout using Service Portal Designer or UI Builder? (Choose three.)

Accepted Answer

Recent activity feeds and top contributor leaderboards. Portal page customization allows adjusting widget placement, banners, and layout structures.

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The underlying MySQL database schema and table primary keys

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Core platform Java runtime classes

Question 4

Which TWO benefits do organizations realize by integrating community forums with customer service management cases? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

Deflecting inbound cases by providing self-service peer answers. Integrating community forums and cases reduces case volume through deflection and allows seamless escalation when peer support is insufficient.

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Encrypting all customer passwords with blockchain technology

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Automatically provisioning physical hardware for customers

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Eliminating the need for any customer service agents

Question 5

When troubleshooting why community posts are flagged by moderation rules, which THREE areas should an administrator investigate? (Choose three.)

Accepted Answer

User trust levels or author reputation thresholds that might bypass moderation. Investigating moderation flags involves reviewing moderation rule definitions, keyword filters, and audit logs.

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Mid Server certificate expiration dates

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The system mail boxes for outbound SMTP server status

Question 6

Which TWO roles or user groups typically interact with community moderation queues to review reported or flagged content? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

Users with the sn_communities_moderator role. Community managers and users with the community moderator role review and act on flagged content queues.

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Database administrators (DBA)

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ITIL dispatchers

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External consumers without portal accounts

Question 7

When planning a community implementation for a global enterprise, which THREE architectural considerations are critical for multi-language and multi-region support? (Choose three.)

Accepted Answer

Establishing regional or language-specific forum categories to group relevant discussions. Global community implementations require localization, translation support, and regional categorization strategies.

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Requiring all global users to share a single unsegmented English-only forum

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Hardcoding all English forum text into client scripts

Question 8

Which TWO metrics are typically tracked to measure the success and health of a customer service community? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

Case deflection rate attributed to community search and content. Community health is evaluated using metrics such as case deflection rates, active contributor counts, and accepted answer ratios.

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Physical server CPU utilization percentages

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Average hardware repair time in the warehouse

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Number of failed login attempts due to expired LDAP passwords

Question 9

Which THREE security and compliance practices should be enforced within peer-to-peer customer communities? (Choose three.)

Accepted Answer

Enforcing User Criteria to restrict proprietary forums to authorized accounts only. Community security requires access control enforcement, automated moderation for sensitive data, and clear terms of use.

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Granting admin rights to all active community posters

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Allowing any anonymous user to view internal financial discussions without logging in

Question 10

An implementation specialist is setting up a new Customer Service Management community and needs to allow community members to create new forums. Which role must be assigned to these members to enable forum creation if the default configuration is used?

Accepted Answer

sn_communities.forum_creator. In ServiceNow CSM Communities, the sn_communities.forum_creator role is specifically designed to allow users to create forums within community nodes depending on access control configurations.

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sn_communities_admin

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sn_communities_content_author

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sn_communities_moderator

Question 11

A customer service manager wants to ensure that inappropriate language posted by peers in community forums is automatically blocked before becoming visible. Where should the administrator configure the automated profanity filtering for community content?

Accepted Answer

In the Community Moderation Properties and Banned Words configuration tables. Automated profanity screening in ServiceNow Communities is configured via the Community Moderation definitions and properties where banned words lists are evaluated.

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In the User Criteria definition assigned to the Forums table

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In the Forum Access Controls (ACLs) for the sn_communities_content table

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In the Case Deflection Settings module under Community Configuration

Question 12

A support organization has noticed that community users are frequently asking questions that are already answered in published Knowledge base articles. To maximize case deflection via community content, what primary feature should the administrator integrate with the community search?

Accepted Answer

AI Search with configured Genius Results and Result Sources spanning both Knowledge and Communities. Intelligent Search configuration allows communities to leverage AI Search to surface both community threads and Knowledge articles, maximizing case deflection.

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Email notifications triggered upon every forum post creation

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Connect Support queues directly to the community homepage widget

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Automated Incident Creation business rules on the sn_communities_content table

Question 13

An administrator is troubleshooting a scenario where community users with the sn_communities_reader role cannot view content inside a newly created private forum. Which component should the administrator inspect first to resolve this access issue?

Accepted Answer

The User Criteria definitions mapped to the specific private forum record. Private forums in ServiceNow Communities utilize User Criteria to restrict access to specific segments of users, overriding standard public roles.

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The Forum Access Control List (ACL) definitions for the sn_communities_forum table

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The CSM Community Property table for the property glide.community.private.disable

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The Portal Page widget security settings in Service Portal Configuration

Question 14

A community moderator wants to convert a standard community question thread into a formal Customer Service case because the issue requires agent intervention. Which out-of-the-box feature should the moderator use from the moderator workspace or view?

Accepted Answer

Click the 'Create Case' UI action available on the community content record. ServiceNow provides an out-of-the-box action on community content to create a case, linking the community post directly to the newly created CSM case.

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Run an on-demand background script to copy the discussion text into the Incident table

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Change the state field of the community post directly to 'Converted to Case'

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Export the discussion thread to XML and import it into the Case [sn_customerservice_case] table

Question 15

An organization is launching its peer-to-peer support community. Where in the ServiceNow platform does an administrator configure the top-level categories and forums hierarchy for the community portal?

Accepted Answer

Community Administration > Forums. Community administration is managed via the CSM application modules, specifically the Communities section where forums, nodes, and categories are structured.

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Service Portal > Pages > Community Portal

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Customer Service > Administration > Properties

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AI Search > Result Sources > Community