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Incident Management

This domain covers ServiceNow Incident Management: the incident lifecycle, state transitions, incident tasks, caller communication, and resolution. Questions test configuration knowledge and practical understanding of how records move from New through Resolved and Closed, how child tasks support parent incidents, and which fields control resolution behavior and visibility.

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What this domain covers

What to know about Incident Management

Know the Incident state model and how records transition from New to Resolved and Closed. Be able to explain Incident Tasks as child work records and identify how callers check status. The key detail is that the Resolution tab requires the incident to be in the appropriate state with Resolution information populated.

Incident State field values and their role in driving lifecycle and reporting

Incident Tasks as child records used to break down and assign work

Ways callers check incident status, such as the Service Portal or notifications

The Resolution field and Resolution tab visibility tied to state and required fields

Watch out for

Common Incident Management exam traps

  • ▸Assuming the Resolution tab is always visible; it depends on state and required field population.
  • ▸Confusing Incident Tasks with separate incidents rather than child records linked to a parent.
  • ▸Believing callers can only check status by calling the service desk, ignoring portal and notification options.

Question index

All Incident Management questions (84)

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1

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?

Hard
2

When using 'Incident Communication Plans', what happens when a major incident is updated?

Medium
3

Which THREE fields are auto-populated when an incident is created via email?

Medium
4

An ITIL user complains they cannot see the 'Major Incident' tab on an incident record. What is the most likely cause?

Easy
5

A support agent needs to create a Problem record directly from an existing Incident while preserving the correlation between the two. Which related link or UI action should the agent use on the Incident form?

Medium
6

An incident is currently in the 'Resolved' state. A user calls the service desk to report that the issue is still occurring. The agent needs to reopen the incident. Which action should the agent take?

Medium
7

A company requires that when an incident is assigned to a specific group, the 'Assigned to' field must be mandatory. Which configuration change accomplishes this using the most efficient ServiceNow best practice?

Medium
8

Which TWO fields are commonly used to categorize an incident?

Medium
9

What happens when an incident 'Priority' is changed from 3 to 1?

Medium
10

Which feature allows an agent to create a knowledge article directly from an Incident?

Medium
11

When viewing an Incident record, where can an agent see a chronological audit trail of all field updates, comments, and work notes added by users and system processes?

Easy
12

Which field on the Incident form is calculated automatically based on the 'Impact' and 'Urgency' fields using the Priority Lookup Rules?

Medium
13

When configuring Assignment Rules for incidents, what occurs if multiple assignment rules match the criteria of an incoming or updated incident record?

Hard
14

What is the purpose of the 'Incident Task' table?

Medium
15

An organization requires that when an Incident priority is set to '1 - Critical', a 'Major Incident' candidate record is created. What is the best practice approach?

Medium
16

What is the primary function of the 'Knowledge' icon on an incident form?

Easy
17

A user reports that they cannot see the 'Create Problem' UI Action on the Incident form. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
18

An organization wants to capture 'Resolution Code' values that are specific to the 'Network' category. How is this achieved?

Hard
19

Which THREE items are included in the Major Incident Workbench?

Hard
20

What is the purpose of the 'Parent Incident' field?

Medium
21

Which THREE settings can be modified in an SLA Definition to control the SLA timer?

Hard
22

When migrating incidents from a legacy system, you need to ensure that the SLA duration is calculated based on the Business Calendar. Where is this configured?

Easy
23

What is the purpose of the 'Configuration Item' (CI) field on the Incident form?

Medium
24

What is the 'Service Desk' group's primary role in Incident Management?

Medium
25

Which THREE aspects must be considered when creating an SLA Definition for Incidents?

Hard
26

While working on a high-priority incident, an agent navigates away from the incident record without saving. The agent had changed the State to 'In Progress' and entered work notes. What happens to those unsaved changes?

Medium
27

Which role is specifically required to create or modify 'SLA Definitions'?

Easy
28

When a Major Incident is created, a 'Major Incident Workbench' is available. What is its primary function?

Medium
29

Which THREE types of metrics can be tracked using the baseline Incident Management SLA and Metric definitions? (Choose three.)

Hard
30

If an organization wants to prevent an Incident from being closed unless certain fields are populated, which feature should be used?

Hard
31

When creating an Incident from a Service Portal, which component defines the fields displayed to the user?

Medium
32

Which THREE actions can be performed when utilizing the incident-to-problem workflow in ITSM? (Choose three.)

Hard
33

Which THREE components are configured when setting up a Service Level Agreement (SLA) Definition for Incident Management? (Choose three.)

Hard
34

A service desk manager needs to ensure that Incidents assigned to the 'Hardware' group are automatically routed to a specific sub-group based on the 'Category' field. Which configuration should be used?

Medium
35

You are troubleshooting a scenario where an Incident SLA is not attaching to a ticket. What is the first place you should investigate?

Hard
36

A customer wants to make the 'Short Description' field mandatory only when the Incident state changes to 'Resolved'. Which approach is best?

Medium
37

A service desk manager reports that priority is not updating automatically when Impact and Urgency are changed on an incident form. Where is the mapping between Impact, Urgency, and Priority configured?

Medium
38

Which TWO of the following are valid ways to escalate an incident?

Medium
39

Which TWO considerations are important when designing Assignment Rules for Incident Management? (Choose two.)

Medium
40

Which TWO states are typically included in the baseline Incident lifecycle state model? (Choose two.)

Medium
41

When an incident is moved to 'Resolved', what happens to the SLA timer?

Medium
42

Which mechanism ensures that if an Incident is not updated for 24 hours, an email is sent to the manager?

Medium
43

What does the 'Caller' field on the Incident form reference?

Medium
44

Which tool is best for visualizing the relationship between an Incident and the affected Configuration Item?

Medium
45

You are investigating why an incident was not auto-assigned. You check the Assignment Rules but notice the 'Match Conditions' are met. What is another common reason?

Hard
46

When configuring Incident Management properties (Incident > Administration > Properties), which TWO behaviors can an administrator control globally? (Choose two.)

Medium
47

Which TWO are common 'On Hold' reasons in the standard Incident process?

Medium
48

You need to ensure that only members of the 'Major Incident Management' group can promote an incident to a Major Incident. How do you restrict this?

Hard
49

A user's incident was closed, but they respond via email. The system creates a new incident instead of reopening the old one. What setting should be checked?

Medium
50

An administrator needs to configure the system so that when an incident is created from an inbound email, a specific Assignment Group is automatically populated based on the email subject. Which feature should be used to achieve this?

Easy
51

Which table is the base table for the 'Incident' table?

Easy
52

An organization wants to require a 'Resolution Code' when closing an incident. What is the standard configuration?

Medium
53

Which TWO components can be used to notify a user about an incident update?

Medium
54

What is the difference between 'Work Notes' and 'Comments' in an incident?

Easy
55

Which TWO fields are used in the default Incident Priority calculation?

Medium
56

Which tab on the Incident form is typically used to track communication with the caller?

Easy
57

An organization wants to require 'Work Notes' whenever an incident is set to 'Pending'. How do you configure this?

Medium
58

An incident manager wants to ensure that when an incident is escalated to a major incident, the 'Major Incident' field is set to true and a notification is sent to the major incident management team. The escalation can happen via a UI Action or automatically via a business rule. Which configuration should be used to meet this requirement?

Hard
59

An analyst opens an incident and needs to populate several fields quickly with predefined standard text for a VPN connectivity issue. Which ServiceNow feature should the analyst use?

Medium
60

An incident record has been closed, and a user calls in reporting the exact same issue is still occurring. What is the recommended ITIL and ServiceNow best practice?

Easy
61

An organization wants to ensure that when an incident is resolved, the Caller receives an email notification with a survey link. Which baseline module manages the triggering of this survey?

Easy
62

Which TWO of the following are true about 'Incident Tasks'?

Medium
63

What is the primary function of the 'Incident State' field choices?

Medium
64

Which field on an incident is used to indicate the severity of the business impact?

Easy
65

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?

Medium
66

What is the correct order of operations when an incident meets criteria for both a standard SLA and an SLA pause condition?

Hard
67

Which user role is required by default to create, manage, and close incident records within the standard ServiceNow IT Service Management application?

Easy
68

Which field must be populated to allow the 'Resolution' tab to be visible or actionable?

Medium
69

You are designing an integration where incidents are created via an API. How do you ensure that 'Assignment Rules' are triggered?

Hard
70

Where do you configure the email notification that is sent to the 'Caller' when an incident is resolved?

Easy
71

Which form component is used to quickly search the Knowledge Base based on incident short description?

Easy
72

An incident has been inactive in the 'Resolved' state for a specific number of days defined by system properties. Which out-of-the-box scheduled job automatically moves it to 'Closed'?

Easy
73

You want to hide the 'Impact' field from all users except those with the 'admin' role. What is the most secure way to do this?

Hard
74

Which field on the Incident form indicates the urgency of the issue from the user's perspective?

Easy
75

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

Easy
76

Which role is the minimum required to read and update incident records?

Easy
77

When a Major Incident is created, what happens to the linked child incidents?

Hard
78

You want to hide the 'Impact' field for users who do not have the 'itil' role. Where is the most appropriate place to configure this?

Hard
79

An incident has been resolved and the caller confirms the fix. The incident is now in the 'Resolved' state. After a predefined period, the incident should automatically move to 'Closed'. Which feature controls this automatic closure?

Easy
80

An IT organization defines a Service Level Agreement (SLA) for Incident Resolution that must pause its timer whenever an incident moves to the 'Awaiting User Info' state. Where must this pause condition be configured within the SLA definition record?

Hard
81

You are tasked with configuring the Incident Priority Matrix. If an Incident has an Urgency of 2 and an Impact of 2, what is the default Priority?

Medium
82

When using the 'On-Hold' state, which sub-field is typically used to explain why the incident is waiting?

Medium
83

A service desk manager wants to ensure that when an incident is reassigned to a different assignment group, the previous assignee is automatically cleared. Which feature should be configured to achieve this?

Hard
84

An enterprise organization requires that when a Major Incident Candidate is promoted to a Major Incident, a dedicated Major Incident workspace opens automatically, and specific child incidents are automatically associated. Which plugin must be activated to utilize the formal Major Incident Management workbench and associated workflows in ITSM?

Hard

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What does the Incident Management domain cover on the CIS-ITSM exam?
Know the Incident state model and how records transition from New to Resolved and Closed. Be able to explain Incident Tasks as child work records and identify how callers check status. The key detail is that the Resolution tab requires the incident to be in the appropriate state with Resolution information populated.
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This page lists all 84 Incident Management questions in the CIS-ITSM question bank. The actual exam draws from this domain proportionally to its weighting in the official exam blueprint.
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