CIS-DF Practice Test 2 — 30 Questions

Question 1

Your company uses Service Graph connectors and Discovery to populate CIs. A database administrator complains that their production database instance appears under multiple different Application Services in the CMDB. According to CSDM best practices, what does this multi-mapping indicate?

Choose an answer to begin — your selection is scored in the full session.

Accepted Answer

It is a valid architectural scenario if the database is genuinely shared, but requires correct 'Depends on / Used by' relationships to each Application Service.. A single database instance supporting multiple Application Services is valid if it is a shared database cluster, but improper mapping can cause false positive impact analysis if not structured with correct relationship types.

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It is a critical CSDM violation; a database CI can never be associated with more than one Application Service.

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It means the database must be converted into a Service Offering immediately.

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It indicates that Discovery has duplicated the database CI into the Business Application table.

Question 2

Which CSDM domain contains the 'Business Application' table [cmdb_ci_business_app]?

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Design. The Design domain contains the Business Application table, representing applications from a portfolio and architecture perspective.

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Manage Technical Services

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Foundation

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Sell/Consume

Question 3

During an internal audit, an enterprise needs to prove that all changes to server ownership are tracked and verified. Which feature provides a historical log of attribute changes specifically for governance and auditing purposes?

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CI Class History. CI Class History tracks attribute changes on CIs, supporting auditing and governance investigations into data modifications.

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CMDB Data Governance > Audit Trail

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Data Certification Results

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System Logs > Audit (sys_audit)

Question 4

An administrator needs to track adherence to CSDM data standards across business services. Which ServiceNow workspace or dashboard natively provides out-of-the-box visibility into CSDM compliance scores and orphaned relationships?

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CSDM Data Foundations Dashboard. The CSDM Data Foundations Dashboard is specifically designed to provide out-of-the-box visibility into CSDM compliance, tracking stages such as Foundations, Design, Manage Technical Services, and Sell/Consume.

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Data Certification Dashboard

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CMDB Health Dashboard

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Service Portfolio Management Workspace

Question 5

A project team wants to establish a parent-child relationship between a Business Application CI and several Server CIs to represent hosting dependencies. Which relationship type should they configure?

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Hosted on::Hosts. The 'Hosted on::Hosts' relationship type is specifically designed to indicate that a hardware or infrastructure CI hosts an application or service.

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Depends on::Used by

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Runs on::Runs

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Connected by::Connected by

Question 6

In the CSDM framework, which phase or maturity level represents the foundational phase where organizations establish baseline asset and user data?

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Crawl. Crawl is the first operational maturity phase in CSDM, focusing on foundational data and basic CMDB population.

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Fly

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Run

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Walk

Question 7

Where can an administrator view overall metrics regarding CMDB data quality, including completeness, correctness, and compliance?

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Configuration > CMDB Health Dashboard. The CMDB Health Dashboard provides real-time scoring and metrics on CMDB data quality across completeness, correctness, and compliance.

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System Diagnostics > Stats

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Performance Analytics > Dashboards > CI Quality

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Reports > View/Run > CMDB Quality

Question 8

An enterprise is designing a complex class hierarchy for IoT devices. They decide to create a multi-level extension: cmdb_ci > cmdb_ci_hardware > cmdb_ci_compute > cmdb_ci_iot. What happens to the table inheritance and record storage when a new record is inserted into cmdb_ci_iot?

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The record is stored in the cmdb_ci_iot table, and database views or UNION queries allow parent tables to display the record.. ServiceNow extends tables using database extension, meaning records are stored in the specific leaf table (cmdb_ci_iot) while parent tables hold corresponding records for polymorphic queries.

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All attributes are stored in a single flat cmdb_ci table with discriminator columns.

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The platform throws an error because more than two levels of extension are prohibited in the CMDB.

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Records are stored exclusively in the cmdb_ci table, and child tables only store metadata.

Question 9

What is the primary purpose of the 'Audit' functionality within ServiceNow Asset and CMDB management?

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To verify physical or logical existence and accuracy of CI data through scheduled campaigns. Audits (such as physical inventory audits or data verification) validate that records in the CMDB accurately reflect real-world deployment.

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To scan network ports for security vulnerabilities

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To automatically approve emergency change requests

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To track user login attempts and password resets

Question 10

A company needs to store custom serial number attributes for specific physical storage devices. Where should an administrator add these custom attributes to ensure they are properly managed and tracked?

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Using the CI Class Manager by selecting the target storage CI class and adding the attribute under the Attributes tab. Attributes specific to a child class should be added using the CI Class Manager to ensure they are correctly inherited or registered against that specific class dictionary.

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By editing the cmdb_ci_hardware form layout directly

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Through the Discovery Definition > CI Attributes module

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Directly in the Data Dictionary via System Definition > Dictionary by modifying the base cmdb table

Question 11

An enterprise requires that all newly discovered servers must have a valid cost center before being classified as operational. How can this requirement be automated without writing custom scripts?

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CMDB Data Governance Completeness Policy. CMDB Data Governance completeness policies can enforce that the cost center attribute is populated, flagging records that lack it.

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Asset management depreciation rule

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Discovery cost center transform script

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CI Class Manager attribute mandatory toggle

Question 12

Which TWO methods can be used to add a custom attribute to a CI class in ServiceNow? (Choose two.)

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Using the CI Class Manager by selecting the class and adding the attribute in the Attributes tab.. Custom attributes can be added via the CI Class Manager or through the Dictionary/Tables module (though CI Class Manager is preferred).

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Modifying Discovery patterns via Pattern Designer to store attributes in transient memory.

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Creating a Business Rule with a setDisplayValue script.

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Editing the Form Designer layout for the hardware form.

Question 13

Which TWO core benefits does the CSDM Data Foundations Dashboard provide to an organization? (Choose two.)

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Identification of orphaned relationships and missing foundational CIs. The CSDM Data Foundations Dashboard helps organizations measure their CSDM implementation maturity and identify structural data gaps.

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Direct control over firewall security policies

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Automated network switch configuration backups

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Real-time patch management compliance scoring

Question 14

An organization wants to configure remediation rules so that when a CMDB Health Correctness anomaly (such as a duplicate CI) is identified, a remediation task is automatically generated and assigned to the correct data owner. Where are these remediation rules configured?

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In the CMDB Health Dashboard configuration settings. Remediation rules for CMDB Health metrics are configured within the CMDB Health Dashboard configuration settings, mapping anomalies to specific workflow actions or task creation rules.

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Inside Data Certification definition forms

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Through Data Policies on the cmdb_ci table

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In the CI Class Manager under the Remediation tab

Question 15

A company requires that all production Linux servers must have an assigned owner and a valid support group before being eligible for operational use. Which CMDB governance feature can automatically evaluate these specific data requirements and fail or flag non-compliant CI inserts?

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CMDB Data Governance. Data Governance rules in ServiceNow allow administrators to define criteria for CI data quality and completeness, generating tasks or blocking records based on governance policies.

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Discovery Schedule

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Data Certification

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CI Class Manager

Question 16

When implementing CSDM, an administrator needs to decide how to track a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) payroll system that has both a staging and a production instance. How should the COTS payroll system be modeled in the Design domain?

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One Business Application record and two Application Service records.. The COTS payroll system should be represented as a single Business Application record, with two separate Application Service records representing the staging and production instances.

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Two Business Application records and one Application Service record.

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One Business Application record and zero Application Service records.

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Two Business Application records and two Application Service records.

Question 17

An IT architect wants to map a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application (e.g., Workday) into the CSDM framework. Since there is no on-premise infrastructure to discover, how should Workday be modeled?

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As a Business Application record linked to an Application Service record representing the SaaS tenant, without requiring local infrastructure CIs.. Workday should be modeled as a Business Application record in the Design domain, with an Application Service record linked to it representing the SaaS subscription/tenant environment.

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As a Technical Service with no portfolio parent.

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As an unmapped Incident record.

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As a Hardware Asset CI in the Foundation domain.

Question 18

Which THREE components are required when setting up a Data Certification schedule in ServiceNow? (Choose three.)

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Assigned Reviewer or group mapping. Data certification setup requires defining the audit filter criteria, the schedule/frequency, and the user assignment mechanism.

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Automatic MID Server selection rule

Question 19

A CMDB manager wants to review the overall health of the CMDB across Completeness, Correctness, and Compliance. Which ServiceNow module should they navigate to first?

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Configuration > CMDB Health > Dashboard. The CMDB Health Dashboard is the primary built-in tool for viewing overall completeness, correctness, and compliance metrics.

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Configuration > Data Governance > Dashboard

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System Definition > CMDB Dashboard

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Reports > View > CMDB Health

Question 20

A company notices that hundreds of stale server records are polluting the CMDB, negatively affecting health scores. Rather than deleting them manually, what is the best practice governance workflow to handle stale CIs?

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Initiate a review campaign or automated retirement workflow via CMDB health remediation. Stale CIs should go through a lifecycle review process, typically retiring or deleting them via automated or reviewed workflows (such as retirement rules or remediation tasks).

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Delete all records where sys_updated_on is older than 90 days using a background script

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Run Discovery against the entire IP range daily to force updates

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Turn off the Stale CI metric so the score improves without action