CIS-DF Timed Practice Test 3 — 10 Questions

Question 1

An enterprise uses Service Graph connectors to automatically populate infrastructure CIs. They want to ensure that these dynamically discovered CIs are automatically associated with the correct Application Service without manual mapping for every server addition. Which Application Service type should be deployed?

10 minute time limit — choose an answer to begin.

Accepted Answer

Dynamic CI Group Application Service. A Dynamic CI Group uses query criteria (such as tag-based or CMDB group rules) to automatically populate and maintain the CIs associated with the Application Service.

Answer

Static Business Application Service

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Manual Application Service

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Portfolio-linked Application Service

Question 2

An organization wants to configure CMDB health score targets (e.g., maintaining an overall score above 85%). Where are health score targets and thresholds managed?

Accepted Answer

CMDB Health Dashboard > Settings > Score Thresholds. CMDB Health score thresholds and targets are managed within the CMDB Health Dashboard configuration settings.

Answer

Data Governance > Scorecards

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System Properties > Performance Analytics

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CI Class Manager > Scoring

Question 3

When configuring the Identification and Reconciliation Engine (IRE) for a complex multi-source data environment, which THREE components or concepts are critical to understand and configure properly? (Choose three.)

Accepted Answer

Identification Rules. IRE relies on Identification Rules for matching, Reconciliation Definitions for precedence, and Payload structure for processing. Dependency views and Transform maps are separate components.

Answer

Standard Legacy Transform Maps without RTE

Answer

Dependency View graphical layout settings

Question 4

Which user role is typically granted to business users so they can participate in Data Certification campaigns by reviewing records assigned to them?

Accepted Answer

data_certification. Data certification tasks are reviewed by users assigned via the certification campaign, requiring appropriate certification user roles.

Answer

data_certification员 (data_certification)

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itil

Answer

cmdb_read

Question 5

Your team is troubleshooting a business service mapping issue where incident impact analysis fails to show downstream application outages. Upon reviewing the CMDB, you discover that the Application Service was created as a 'Manual' type, but its supporting infrastructure CIs were deleted during a data purge. What is the recommended way to restore the mapping?

Accepted Answer

Re-establish the infrastructure CIs and manually re-add them to the Application Service via the Application Service Workbench.. For a manual Application Service, you must manually re-add the appropriate infrastructure CIs or recreate the relationships using the Application Service workbench.

Answer

Run a quick discovery scan to automatically regenerate the manual application service relationships.

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Convert the manual Application Service into a Business Application record.

Answer

Delete the Business Application and recreate it as a Technical Service.

Question 6

An administrator needs to ensure that historical changes to data governance remediation tasks are easily tracked. Which platform feature automatically tracks changes to task work notes, state transitions, and assignments?

Accepted Answer

Task Activity Stream and Audit Log. Activity streams and audit tracking on the task table automatically track field modifications, assignments, and work notes.

Answer

CMDB Health Audit Table

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Discovery History Table

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Data Certification Log

Question 7

An IT team wants to create a report that lists all Business Services that depend on a specific database instance, traversing up to three relationship hops away. Which native feature can accomplish this multi-hop relationship extraction?

Accepted Answer

CMDB Query Builder with multi-node relationship steps. CMDB Query Builder supports multi-hop relationship definitions to traverse multiple levels of connected CIs.

Answer

Standard List Report with parent filter

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CMDB Health Dashboard audit rule

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Service Mapping Traffic Connection report

Question 8

An implementer is setting up a new integration using IntegrationHub to ingest network switch data into the CMDB. Which API should be utilized within the script or action to ensure that the payload passes through deduplication and reconciliation checks?

Accepted Answer

SNC.IdentificationEngine.createOrUpdate(). The IRE must be invoked via its dedicated script include or API (such as JSONUtil or SNC.IdentificationEngine) rather than direct table insertions.

Answer

RestMessageV2.execute()

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CMDBAPI.ingest()

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GlideRecord.insert()

Question 9

When reviewing the Identification and Reconciliation Engine (IRE) payload processing results, an administrator notices an error stating 'Mandatory attributes missing for identification'. What does this error signify?

Accepted Answer

The incoming payload lacks one or more attributes specified in the identification rule criteria for that class.. The payload did not contain the fields required by the class's identification rule (e.g., serial number or MAC address).

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The Transform Map is missing mandatory field mappings.

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The target CI table has mandatory dictionary fields that are not populated by the form layout.

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The Discovery source name is invalid.

Question 10

An enterprise wants to offer a standard email service to its employees through the Service Catalog. Which entity in the Sell/Consume domain should be linked to the Catalog Item?

Accepted Answer

Service Offering. Service Offerings are published to the Service Catalog, allowing end-users to request services.

Answer

Business Application

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Application Service

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Dynamic CI Group