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CSDM Fundamentals
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Which CSDM domain is primarily concerned with tracking software assets from a vendor, lifecycle, and financial portfolio management standpoint?
Easy2An 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?
Medium3Which CSDM domain represents the core conceptual view of applications before they are deployed into specific environments?
Easy4Which TWO of the following tasks are associated with the 'Manage Technical Services' domain?
Medium5An IT manager wants to track software license compliance and installations for a commercial database product. Which table in the Manage Technical Services or Foundation domain represents the installed software instance?
Medium6When implementing the CSDM framework, your project team must decide where to attach Business Service Offerings. According to CSDM specifications, what is the primary parent of a Service Offering?
Hard7Which CSDM domain contains entities such as Business Units, Companies, Locations, Departments, and Users?
Easy8An organization is setting up its CSDM framework and has defined several Business Capabilities. How do Business Capabilities relate to Business Applications in the Design domain?
Medium9An organization is beginning its CSDM journey and wants to populate basic foundational organizational and user data before linking any technical infrastructure. Which CSDM domain does this activity belong to?
Easy10Your organization is experiencing reporting discrepancies where incidents logged against an Application Service are not rolling up correctly into the parent Business Application dashboard. Upon inspection, you find that the Application Service is missing its link to the Business Application. Which field must be populated to resolve this reporting rollup issue?
Hard11Your team is mapping a custom homegrown Java application to the CSDM framework. The application runs across a cluster of three Linux servers in a Production environment. According to best practices, what is the exact hierarchical relationship path from the infrastructure to the Business Application?
Hard12Which TWO of the following are characteristics of the 'Fly' maturity phase in CSDM?
Medium13An administrator is setting up a new technical service for internal server backup management. Where should this technical service be classified according to CSDM?
Medium14Which THREE of the following mechanisms can be used to populate or maintain Application Services in the CMDB?
Hard15Your 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?
Hard16During which CSDM maturity phase does an organization typically implement Service Portfolio Management and basic Business Service mapping?
Easy17An 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?
Medium18Your organization is adopting CSDM and wants to map incidents so that when a database server fails, the service desk instantly sees which Business Services are impacted. What is the correct traversal path in the CMDB to achieve this visibility?
Hard19Which of the following domains is responsible for managing technical infrastructure, hardware, and software instances?
Easy20Your company acquires another firm and inherits two separate ServiceNow instances. You are consolidating them and need to merge overlapping Business Applications. When retiring a redundant Business Application record that has active Application Services attached to it, what must be done first according to CSDM data integrity standards?
Hard21An organization is configuring ITSM processes to use CSDM data. When a user submits an incident, which CI field on the incident form should be populated to ensure proper service alignment according to CSDM?
Medium22Which THREE of the following are core goals or benefits of implementing the CSDM framework?
Hard23Your company is preparing for an IT audit and needs to demonstrate which user groups are responsible for supporting specific Application Services. Where should the support group be specified on the Application Service record according to CSDM guidelines?
Hard24An enterprise wants to ensure that change requests correctly assess risk by identifying which Application Services will experience downtime during a server patch. Which CSDM relationship makes this impact calculation possible?
Medium25Which TWO of the following represent valid types of Application Services that can be deployed in ServiceNow?
Medium26Your 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?
Hard27Which TWO of the following fields are typically found on a Business Application record in the Design domain?
Medium28Which TWO of the following types of data are primarily captured within the Foundation domain of CSDM?
Medium29Which THREE of the following actions are recommended when preparing an organization for CSDM adoption?
Hard30An 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?
Hard31Your organization wants to map a complex application architecture where three distinct Business Applications feed data into a central data warehouse Application Service. According to CSDM best practices, how should Business Applications relate to Application Services in data-sharing pipelines?
Hard32An organization wants to link a Business Service to a Business Application to establish enterprise architecture traceability. What is the recommended relationship or mapping method in CSDM?
Medium33Which THREE of the following are common pitfalls or anti-patterns when implementing CSDM?
Hard34Your enterprise wants to track hardware end-of-life and software license liability against specific applications. According to CSDM, how do hardware asset management (HAM) and software asset management (SAM) integrate with the CSDM framework?
Hard35Which CSDM phase focuses on ensuring that data quality is maintained and operational metrics are fully integrated across all four domains?
Easy36Which CSDM phase marks the introduction of enterprise portfolio management, cost transparency, and advanced service relationships?
Easy37What is the primary objective of the 'Crawl' phase in the CSDM framework?
Easy38Which TWO of the following tables are part of the CSDM Design domain?
Medium39Which THREE of the following best practices should be followed when mapping Business Applications to Application Services?
Hard40Which CSDM domain includes the tracking of Business Services consumed by internal business units?
Easy41An IT team is configuring Application Services and wants to understand the difference between a Manual Application Service and a Dynamic CI Group Application Service. Which statement accurately describes their operational differences?
Medium42In the CSDM framework, which phase or maturity level represents the foundational phase where organizations establish baseline asset and user data?
Easy43An administrator is linking an Application Service to a Business Application. Which field on the Application Service form establishes this essential CSDM relationship?
Medium44Which TWO of the following tables belong to the Sell/Consume domain in CSDM?
Medium45Which CSDM maturity level represents advanced optimization, automation, and continuous improvement across all domains?
Easy46An organization wants to categorize its applications based on whether they are mission-critical, business-operational, or administrative. Where should this classification be recorded according to CSDM best practices?
Medium47When 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?
Medium48Which TWO of the following criteria determine whether an entity belongs in the Foundation domain?
Medium49An organization wants to publish a service catalog item for 'New Laptop Request'. Which CSDM domain governs the catalog item and the associated Service Offering?
Medium50Your organization implements a hybrid cloud strategy where an Application Service relies on both an on-premises Oracle database and an AWS RDS instance. How should both databases be linked to the Application Service in the CSDM framework?
Hard51What is the primary role of the 'Walk' phase in CSDM maturity?
Easy52Your enterprise has implemented CSDM, but incident managers report that problem investigation is slowed because problem records are linked to Business Applications instead of Application Services. Why does linking problems to Application Services improve investigation efficiency?
Hard53What is the primary purpose of the CSDM framework in ServiceNow?
Easy54Which THREE of the following maturity phases are recognized in the CSDM framework lifecycle?
Hard55An administrator needs to create a logical representation of a deployed software stack in a specific environment (e.g., QA, Production) for a Business Application. Which table should be used to store this representation according to CSDM guidelines?
Medium56An enterprise has a custom application built on a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) environment. How should the PaaS infrastructure be represented relative to the Application Service in CSDM?
Medium57You are auditing a ServiceNow instance and notice that an Application Service record has been created directly on the Business Application table rather than the Application Service table. What corrective action must be taken?
Hard58Which THREE of the following domains are formally defined within the CSDM framework?
Hard59Which CSDM domain contains the 'Business Application' table [cmdb_ci_business_app]?
Easy60Which CSDM domain covers the definition and management of Technical Services that support internal IT operations?
Easy61An organization wants to link an active Apache Tomcat server CI directly to an Application Service. Which relationship type should be used to connect the Application Service to the underlying infrastructure CI?
Medium62Your enterprise has multiple regions deploying the same ERP software. You want to map incident and change metrics separately for the North American Production instance versus the European Production instance of the ERP. How should you structure this in the CSDM framework?
Hard63During a CSDM audit, you notice that incidents are being logged directly against Business Applications instead of Application Services. What is the operational impact of this misconfiguration?
Hard64Which THREE of the following statements are true regarding the relationship between Business Capabilities and Business Applications?
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