CIS-ITSM Practice Test 2 — 25 Questions

Question 1

A Major Incident is declared. Which THREE of the following actions are automatically performed or enabled by the Major Incident Management plugin?

Accepted Answer

Access to the Major Incident Workbench.. Major Incident Management functionality provides specific workflows to handle high-impact incidents.

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Automatic assignment to the Service Desk manager.

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Automatic closure of all related incidents.

Question 2

When configuring Maintenance Schedules in ServiceNow Change Management, what is the effect of defining a Maintenance Schedule versus a Blackout Schedule?

Accepted Answer

Maintenance schedules specify approved windows for changes, while blackout schedules specify prohibited periods. Maintenance schedules define when changes are allowed or preferred, whereas blackout schedules define when changes are prohibited.

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Maintenance schedules are only for emergency changes, while blackout schedules apply to normal changes

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There is no functional difference; they are interchangeable terms in ServiceNow

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Maintenance schedules automatically close change tasks, while blackout schedules trigger conflict warnings

Question 3

An administrator needs to modify the priority lookup rules to ensure that incidents created with an Impact of 2 (Medium) and Urgency of 2 (Medium) automatically result in a Priority of 3 (Moderate). Where should the administrator navigate to configure this matrix in ServiceNow?

Accepted Answer

System Policy > Data Lookup Definitions > Priority Data Lookup Rules. Priority is determined by the Data Lookup Rules table (sys_data_lookup) which uses matchingers to set priority based on impact and urgency. Navigating to System Policy > Data Lookup Definitions > Priority Data Lookup Rules is the correct path.

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System Definition > Dictionary > Incident > Priority

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Incident > Administration > Priority Matrix

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Service Level Management > SLA > Priority Calculation

Question 4

A service desk analyst wants to assign an unassigned incident to themselves with a single click. Which UI Action provides this functionality out of the box?

Accepted Answer

Assign to me. The 'Assign to me' UI action sets the Assigned to field to the currently logged-in user and assigns the group if empty or matches group membership context.

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Claim Incident

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Self-Assign

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Take Ownership

Question 5

An IT administrator is configuring Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for a critical cloud infrastructure service. The requirement is that the SLA pause condition should trigger whenever a customer is actively providing requested information, but the time elapsed during the pause must be completely excluded from the duration calculation. Which SLA configuration element achieves this behavior in ServiceNow?

Accepted Answer

SLA Definition Pause Condition. Pause conditions in SLA Definitions halt the timer when met, and the duration calculation automatically excludes the paused duration from the overall percentage calculation.

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Retroactive Start calculation override

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SLA Workflow timer extension

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Business Rule intercepting task state changes

Question 6

Which THREE metrics or attributes are commonly tracked on a Service Portfolio dashboard to measure service health and performance? (Choose three.)

Accepted Answer

SLA compliance percentage. Dashboards in SPM track SLA compliance, financial budgets versus actuals, and customer satisfaction.

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Wi-Fi signal strength decibel levels

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Hard drive RPM and spindle speed

Question 7

An IT director wants to view an aggregated dashboard showing all services within the 'Infrastructure Services' portfolio, categorized by their current lifecycle stage (e.g., Pipeline, Operational, Retired). Which built-in module in ServiceNow should the administrator direct the director to use?

Accepted Answer

Service Portfolio Workspace. The Service Portfolio Workspace provides interactive dashboards, lifecycle tracking, and financial roll-ups for portfolio managers.

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Service Level Management Dashboard

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ITSM Performance Analytics Home

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Configuration Status Workspace

Question 8

A healthcare organization wants to ensure that its Electronic Health Record (EHR) service is linked correctly to its underlying infrastructure components, such as database servers and network switches, to analyze impact during outages. Which mechanism in ServiceNow should be used to achieve this business service mapping?

Accepted Answer

Application Service linked to a Business Service via CSDM relationships. Application Services in the CSDM framework map technical infrastructure to business services, enabling impact analysis and operational visibility.

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Business Service Portfolio category mapping

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Service Offering Pricing model

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Dynamic Service Offering Subscription

Question 9

An implementation specialist is setting up the Service Portfolio in ServiceNow and needs to define the top-level container that groups services based on business units and strategic objectives. Which record type should the specialist create first?

Accepted Answer

Service Portfolio. The Service Portfolio represents the highest level of organization in Service Portfolio Management, allowing organizations to categorize services by business units, strategy, or target audience.

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Service Classification

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Business Service

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Service Offering

Question 10

An IT team is creating a new service for employees to request standard laptop hardware. According to the Common Service Data Model (CSDM), where does this requestable item sit in relation to the Service Portfolio?

Accepted Answer

It maps directly to a Service Offering within the portfolio. Requestable items in the Service Catalog map to Service Offerings, which sit within the Service Portfolio.

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It exists independently outside of the Service Portfolio hierarchy

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It acts as the parent container for the Service Portfolio

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It replaces the Business Service record entirely

Question 11

When configuring financial modeling and cost roll-ups for a Service Offering in SPM, which THREE data sources can contribute to the calculated cost of the offering? (Choose three.)

Accepted Answer

Direct expense lines associated with the service offering CI. Financial models in SPM can aggregate costs from underlying CIs, expense lines, and related operational expenses.

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Syslog error count thresholds

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Client browser cookies and cache session logs

Question 12

Which related list on a Problem form displays incidents that have been associated with that specific problem?

Accepted Answer

Child Incidents. The 'Child Incidents' related list shows incidents linked to the problem record.

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Problem Tasks

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Outages

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Knowledge Articles

Question 13

Which TWO options represent valid ways an end user (caller) can check the status of their submitted incident? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

Automated email notifications triggered by lifecycle state changes. End users can check incident status via the Service Portal or via automated email notifications.

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Accessing the core UI Incident list view

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System Administrator impersonation

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Direct database query via ODBC client

Question 14

An administrator wants to customize the mandatory fields required when closing a Problem record. Where should this requirement be configured to maintain best-practice upgradeability?

Accepted Answer

Problem Administration > Properties. ServiceNow provides Problem Properties to define close-out requirements (e.g., require workaround or root cause before close) without altering baseline business rules directly.

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System UI > UI Actions > Close Problem

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Global Client Script on the Task table

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Dictionary Overrides on the State field

Question 15

A Problem record is associated with a Change Request via the 'Caused by change' field. When the Change Request is cancelled, a stakeholder wants the linked Problem record to automatically transition back to the 'Assess' state and notify the problem assignee. How should this be configured?

Accepted Answer

A Business Rule on the Change Request table that evaluates state changes and updates linked Problem records. A Business Rule on the Change Request table checking if state changed to Cancelled can query related problems and update their state and trigger an event.

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A Data Lookup definition on the task table

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A Client Script on the Problem table checking parent change status

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A UI Policy on the Change form

Question 16

An administrator is configuring SLA Definitions for Incident Management. They need the SLA timer to pause whenever an incident is placed in the 'Awaiting Vendor' state. How should this be configured?

Accepted Answer

Set the Pause condition to State is Awaiting Vendor.. SLA Pause Conditions define when the SLA clock stops ticking, typically mapped to specific states such as 'Awaiting User' or 'Awaiting Vendor'.

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Modify the Incident workflow to suspend timers.

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Set the Stop condition to State is Awaiting Vendor.

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Create a Business Rule to pause task_sla records.

Question 17

A change manager needs to review the history of a change request, including all state transitions and approval decisions. Which related list on the Change Request form provides this audit trail?

Accepted Answer

Approval History / Activity Stream. The 'Approvals' and 'Activity' formatter or 'History' logs track state transitions and audit trails.

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Outages

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Configuration Items

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Catalog Tasks

Question 18

Which TWO mechanisms are used in ServiceNow to automate risk assessment scoring for a Normal Change? (Choose two.)

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Risk Conditions (risk_conditions table) that map assessment scores to risk values. Risk assessments utilize risk conditions and assessment questionnaires/metrics to evaluate risk.

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Incident priority matrices

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Service Catalog workflow variables

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Automated email replies sent to the service desk

Question 19

A change manager wants to ensure that changes affecting a specific mission-critical business service are automatically assigned a High risk score. How can this be accomplished?

Accepted Answer

Configuring a Risk Condition matching that business service. Risk conditions can evaluate the affected business service or CI class to automatically assign risk levels.

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Modifying the Business Service form layout

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Creating a Service Level Agreement (SLA) definition

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Writing an Access Control List (ACL)

Question 20

An enterprise wants to ensure that when a Problem reaches the 'Resolved' state, any workaround discovered is automatically pushed to all active related Incidents. What is the recommended baseline feature to support this workflow?

Accepted Answer

Communicate Workaround UI Action / Business Rule logic. Problem Management has out-of-the-box business logic (like business rules) that can communicate workarounds to related incidents when updated or resolved.

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Data Lookup Definitions

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Scheduled Job running hourly

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Inbound Action script