CIS-DF Practice Test 8 — 10 Questions

Question 1

A governance team wants to ensure that CIs without valid IP addresses or MAC addresses are flagged in network-connected classes. Where can this specific validation rule be configured?

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CMDB Data Governance > Policies. CMDB Data Governance completeness or attribute validation policies can be configured to check for required connectivity identifiers.

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Discovery Definition > Behaviors

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CI Class Manager > Identifiers

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System Properties > Network Settings

Question 2

An organization wants to establish a baseline snapshot of their critical infrastructure CIs to compare against future configuration changes. Which native feature allows creating and viewing these configuration baselines?

Accepted Answer

CMDB Baselines and Baseline Diff Viewer. CMDB Baselines allow administrators to capture snapshot states of CIs and use the Baseline Diff Viewer to compare current states against the baseline.

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CI Class Manager Version Control

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CMDB Query Builder Snapshot Tool

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Service Mapping Baseline Generator

Question 3

Which THREE factors should an administrator consider when configuring CMDB Health Inclusion Rules? (Choose three.)

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Operational State (e.g., excluding retired or non-operational CIs). Inclusion rules determine which CIs are evaluated by CMDB health metrics, requiring careful consideration of class scope, operational state, and business criticality.

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MID Server cluster membership

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Email notification retry intervals

Question 4

An enterprise wants to schedule a CMDB Query Builder query to automatically run weekly and export the resulting CI dataset to an external SFTP server. Which feature enables this automation?

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Scheduled Data Export referencing the saved Query Builder result set / export definition. CMDB Query Builder queries can be scheduled using Scheduled Data Exports or IntegrationHub ETL / Scheduled Jobs referencing the Query Builder REST API / saved queries.

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Service Mapping scheduled sync job

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CMDB Data Manager archival schedule

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CMDB Health automated remediation workflow

Question 5

An administrator configures a CMDB Data Governance policy to check for missing support groups on business applications. When the policy runs, it creates remediation tasks. How can the administrator ensure these tasks are automatically closed when the data is corrected by a user?

Accepted Answer

Automatic re-evaluation and closure upon policy compliance restoration. Remediation tasks in CMDB Data Governance are typically linked to the underlying CI; when the policy re-evaluates and passes, the remediation task automatically closes.

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Requiring the user to manually email the data governance team

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Deleting the remediation task manually from the task list

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Writing a custom business rule on the incident table

Question 6

An enterprise is audited for CSDM compliance. The CSDM Data Foundations Dashboard indicates that application services are not properly connected to technical services. What is the governance impact of this structural gap?

Accepted Answer

Inability to accurately perform impact analysis during outages and incorrect service portfolio visibility. Unlinked application services prevent proper impact analysis, incident management escalation, and business service portfolio tracking.

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Hardware assets will automatically be marked as deprecated

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Database replication lag will increase across MID servers

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Discovery will fail to run network scans on IP subnets

Question 7

An organization is ingesting printer CIs from a legacy asset system via Import Sets. Some incoming records contain a serial number with leading/trailing whitespace, causing the IRE to treat them as distinct CIs rather than matching existing ones. Where can data normalization be applied to clean this data before it reaches the IRE?

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Use Robust Transform Engine (RTE) field transformations (such as Trim or Regex) during the data ingestion mapping phase.. Data normalization rules (Data Normalization plugin / Robust Transform Engine field transformations) can clean and standardize incoming data before IRE processing.

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Modify the IRE Identification Rule to automatically ignore whitespace.

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Write a Client Script on the target cmdb_ci table to strip whitespace upon insert.

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Configure a Data Policy to reject records containing whitespace.

Question 8

An administrator is configuring a new Import Set to ingest third-party server data into the cmdb_ci_server table. During testing, they notice that records are being inserted as duplicates rather than updating existing CIs because the incoming payload lacks a unique identifier match. Which component should be configured to ensure the Identification and Reconciliation Engine (IRE) correctly identifies the existing CI?

Accepted Answer

Configure an Identification Rule in CI Class Manager for cmdb_ci_server.. Identification Rules are used by the IRE to determine if an incoming payload matches an existing CI in the CMDB, preventing duplicates.

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Modify the coalesce setting on the Transform Map to use serial number.

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Enable 'Robust Transform Engine' on the data source properties.

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Create a Data Source Precedence rule for the import set.

Question 9

Which TWO of the following capabilities are provided out-of-the-box by the CMDB Health Dashboard? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

Tracking duplicate CI counts under Correctness metrics. The CMDB Health Dashboard evaluates Completeness (mandatory fields), Correctness (duplicates and orphans), and Compliance (staleness and audits).

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Executing automated network IP discovery scans

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Designing multi-class CMDB Query Builder reports

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Configuring CI identification and reconciliation rules

Question 10

An enterprise wants to ensure that when a Data Certification campaign task is overdue, an escalation notification is automatically sent to the reviewer's manager. Where are task escalation rules or notifications typically configured for Data Certification?

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System Notification > Notifications (targeting certification task tables). Data Certification notifications and reminders are configured using standard ServiceNow notification rules and schedule definitions tied to certification tasks.

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CI Class Manager > Notifications

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Data Governance > Escalation Workflows

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CMDB Health > Escalation Properties