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Designing interfaces and user experiences practice questions

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20 questionsDomain: Designing interfaces and user experiences
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Designing interfaces and user experiences questions test whether you can apply the concept in context, not just recognise a definition.

How the topic appears in realistic exam-style scenarios.

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How to eliminate plausible but wrong options.

How to connect the question back to the wider exam objective.

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  • ▸Missing a constraint such as cost, availability, security, scope or command context.
  • ▸Choosing a broad answer when the question asks for the most specific fix.
  • ▸Ignoring why the wrong options are tempting.

Practice set

Designing interfaces and user experiences questions

20 questions · select your answer, then reveal the explanation

Question 1mediummultiple choice
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A ServiceNow developer is designing a portal for end users to submit requests. The requirements state that users should be able to track the status of their requests and receive notifications when the status changes. Which combination of ServiceNow features best meets these requirements?

Question 2hardmultiple choice
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A developer is troubleshooting a Service Portal widget that loads slowly. The widget uses a server script that queries a large table without any filters. Which design change would most improve performance?

Question 3easymultiple choice
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A developer needs to create a field on the Incident form that shows a red background when the priority is 'Critical'. Which feature should be used?

Question 4mediummultiple choice
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A Service Portal widget displays a list of catalog items. Each catalog item should link to a record producer that opens in a modal dialog. Which approach should the developer use to open the modal?

Question 5hardmulti select
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A developer is designing a custom application with a table that stores sensitive employee data. The requirement is that only managers can view records where they are the manager of the employee. Which two configurations are needed to implement this requirement?

Question 6easymulti select
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Which three elements are required to create a Service Portal widget that displays data from a table?

Question 7mediummultiple choice
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A developer created a UI Script and a Client Script as shown. Both scripts set urgency and impact to '1' when priority is '1'. However, when the priority is changed to '1' on an existing record, the urgency and impact fields do not update. What is the most likely cause?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

// UI Script: myCustomUIScript
function onLoad() {
    var priority = g_form.getValue('priority');
    if (priority == '1') {
        g_form.setValue('urgency', '1');
        g_form.setValue('impact', '1');
    }
}

// Client Script: onChange - priority
function onChange(control, oldValue, newValue, isLoading) {
    if (newValue == '1') {
        g_form.setValue('urgency', '1');
        g_form.setValue('impact', '1');
    }
}
Question 8hardmultiple choice
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A large enterprise is implementing a Service Portal for employees to request IT equipment. The portal must be accessible globally, with users in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. The development team has created a custom widget that displays the user's local time based on their location. The widget uses a server script that calls a third-party geolocation API to determine the user's timezone based on their IP address. However, during peak hours, the widget takes over 10 seconds to load, causing poor user experience. The team also notices that the same timezone is fetched repeatedly for the same user across different sessions. The portal uses a CDN for static assets. Which approach should the developer take to reduce the load time while maintaining accuracy?

Question 9mediummulti select
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A ServiceNow administrator is designing a new catalog item for hardware requests. The item should allow users to select a cost center from a list of available options, but only those cost centers the user is authorized to use. Which TWO approaches should the administrator use to implement this requirement?

Question 10easymultiple choice
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A large enterprise is deploying ServiceNow for IT Service Management. The UX team has designed a new portal for end users to request services. The portal should have a modern, responsive design with custom branding. The development team decides to use Service Portal with AngularJS widgets. After initial deployment, the portal loads slowly and some widgets display a blank page. Analysis shows that the widget server scripts are making multiple synchronous GlideRecord queries to the same table, and the client scripts are not handling asynchronous data loading properly. The team needs to optimize the portal performance and fix the blank page issue. Which course of action should the team take?

Question 11mediumdrag order
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Drag and drop the steps to create a new Update Set in ServiceNow into the correct order.

Drag steps to the numbered slots on the right, or tap a step then tap a slot.

Steps
Order
1Step 1
2Step 2
3Step 3
4Step 4
5Step 5
Question 12mediummatching
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Match each ServiceNow notification type to its trigger.

Drag a concept onto its matching description — or click a concept then click the description.

Concepts
Matches

Sends email based on record conditions

Sends text message

Sends message to Slack channel

Sends alert to mobile app

Makes automated phone call

Question 13easymultiple choice
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A company wants to display a list of open incidents on a Service Portal page. Which component should be used?

Question 14mediummultiple choice
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When designing a custom portal page, the developer notices that the page layout breaks on mobile devices. What is the most efficient approach to ensure responsiveness?

Question 15hardmultiple choice
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A company wants to create a custom homepage for their service portal that displays three different data sources in a single view. The design must ensure that if one data source fails to load, the other two continue to function. Which implementation approach aligns best with this requirement?

Question 16easymultiple choice
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Which method is recommended for applying custom CSS to a Service Portal page?

Question 17mediummultiple choice
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A developer writes a widget client controller that uses spUtil.get to fetch data from the server. The data is correctly returned, but the widget does not update the UI. What is the most likely cause?

Question 18hardmultiple choice
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A Service Portal widget uses an AngularJS controller that directly modifies the DOM using jQuery inside the controller. After a platform upgrade, the widget stops working properly. What is the most likely reason?

Question 19easymultiple choice
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What is the primary purpose of the 'Theme and Branding' module in Service Portal?

Question 20mediummultiple choice
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A developer wants to create a responsive portal page that displays data in a two-column layout on desktop and a single column on mobile. Which approach should be used?

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Designing interfaces and user experiences questions test whether you can apply the concept in context, not just recognise a definition.
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