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1

An SLA is defined with a condition of 'Priority is 1' and 'State is not Closed'. A task has Priority=1 and State=New. The SLA starts. Later the task is assigned and Priority is changed to 2, then back to 1. What happens to the SLA?

Hard
2

A catalog item uses Flow Designer to send an email notification when the state changes to 'fulfilled'. The flow uses a trigger 'State changed' on the requested item table. However, the email is not sent. The flow logs show the trigger fired. What is the most likely issue?

Hard
3

Refer to the exhibit. An administrator created the above Flow Designer action script to retrieve user details. When tested, the action returns 'User not found' for a valid user sys_id. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
4

An administrator is creating a new report to show the average time to resolve incidents for the last quarter. They want the report to automatically update as new incidents are resolved. Which report type should they use?

Medium
5

Which TWO of the following are valid ways to modify the layout of a form in ServiceNow?

Medium
6

A catalog item has a variable with a mandatory condition: if the variable 'category' is 'software', then 'software name' is mandatory. This is best implemented using:

Easy
7

An administrator imports a CSV file into the incident table using an import set. After the import, several records are duplicated. What is the most likely cause?

Easy
8

A company wants to allow users to submit requests for new software without any manual intervention. Which self-service feature should be used to automate the request process?

Easy
9

A company wants to allow managers to view all incidents, but only their own direct reports' incidents to be editable. Which ACL approach is most efficient?

Medium
10

A company has a custom table 'u_employee_data' with a before query business rule that sets 'u_department' to 'Engineering' when the current user is in the 'ITIL' role. After the business rule is activated, users in the 'ITIL' role report that when they query the table, they see only records with department 'Engineering'. However, the business rule is intended to set the default department for new records only. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
11

Which feature should be used to allow users to track the status of their service catalog requests via the self-service portal?

Easy
12

A company has implemented a service catalog for IT requests. The catalog item 'New Laptop' includes variables for hardware specifications. After submission, the request is assigned to the hardware team. However, the hardware team reports that they cannot see the user's preferred operating system choice. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
13

A company wants to allow users to request software licenses through the service catalog. The request form should automatically populate the user's manager's email address. Which configuration option should the administrator use?

Medium
14

A large organization with 15,000 active users recently migrated from UI15 to UI16. Users are now reporting that form load times have increased significantly, especially on the Incident form, which has many sections and fields. The system administrator notices that the form is taking over 8 seconds to load. The administrator has checked the server logs and found that the majority of time is spent on 'getFormMeta' calls. The Incident form uses several UI policies, client scripts, and catalog client scripts. There are no business rules with heavy scripts on the table. Which course of action should the administrator take to improve form load performance?

Medium
15

An administrator creates this after business rule on the 'catalog_item' table but notices that no work notes are being added. What is the most likely reason?

Hard
16

Refer to the exhibit. A catalog client script with the above code runs on load of a catalog item. Which statement is true?

Easy
17

A custom table 'u_custom_server' extends 'cmdb_ci_server' and has additional fields. The admin notices that while regular attribute updates on the parent table propagate correctly to the child, some custom fields are not being updated during discovery. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
18

A notification on the 'incident' table is configured to send an email when the 'state' field changes to 'Resolved'. The condition uses the condition builder with 'State changes to Resolved'. However, the notification also sends when an incident is updated without a state change. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
19

Which TWO of the following are true about catalog client scripts in ServiceNow?

Hard
20

Your organization has implemented a notification on the 'incident' table to send an email when an incident's priority is changed. The notification is configured with a condition: 'Priority changes to 1 - Critical' and uses the 'Send email' action. Recently, administrators noticed that for a single incident that was updated multiple times, duplicate emails were sent. The incident record's audit history shows that the priority was only changed once. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
21

A large enterprise uses ServiceNow for IT Service Management. They have a complex SLA structure with multiple SLA definitions on the Incident table. Each SLA definition has conditions based on category, priority, and assignment group. The company recently merged with another organization, and the new combined company has doubled the number of incidents. The SLA performance has degraded significantly: SLA breaches have increased by 40%, and the SLA engine is taking longer to process. The system administrator has checked the instance health and found that the SLA job is running but taking an average of 5 minutes per execution, and there are often multiple instances of the SLA job queued. The administrator needs to improve SLA performance without changing the business requirements. Which course of action is most effective?

Hard
22

A catalog item has multiple variables, and the administrator wants to show a variable only if a previous variable is set to a specific value. Which feature should be used?

Hard
23

An administrator is creating a service catalog item for a VPN access request. The item should only be available to employees in the IT department. Which two configurations can enforce this? (Choose two.)

Medium
24

A user can see a catalog item in the Service Portal but when they click on it, they get an error 'Item not available'. What is the most likely reason?

Easy
25

An administrator wants to add a new application 'HR Service' to the application navigator with a custom icon. Which table stores the application menu and module definitions?

Medium
26

A company wants to block all update operations on the 'problem' table for users with only the 'itil' role, except for the user who created the record. Which ACL configuration should be used?

Hard
27

An organization uses ServiceNow Discovery to populate the CMDB. They notice that some CIs are missing required relationships after discovery. What is the most likely reason?

Hard
28

Drag and drop the steps to create a new UI Policy in ServiceNow into the correct order.

Medium
29

Match each ServiceNow flow designer action to its purpose.

Medium
30

During a CMDB health review, an administrator finds that many CI records have the same serial number but different names and IP addresses. What is the most likely root cause?

Hard
31

Given the IRE identification rule shown, what will happen when a Discovery probe sends a CI with a name that already exists in the CMDB but with a different business_service?

Medium
32

During an import, the source data contains duplicate records that should be ignored (not imported). The target table has a unique key field u_employee_id. Which configuration in the transform map will prevent these duplicates from creating new records?

Medium
33

A company has a business rule that runs on the Incident table during update. The rule checks if the state is 'In Progress' and sets a field. However, after saving, the field is not being set. Which of the following is the most likely cause?

Easy
34

Refer to the exhibit. An incident is created with state 'New' (1). The user creating the incident has the role 'itil', not 'admin'. After the business rule runs, what is the value of the priority field?

Hard
35

A company wants to ensure that when a server CI is retired, all its associated running services are automatically updated to reflect the retirement. What is the best practice?

Medium
36

An ACL on the Task table has a role condition requiring the 'itil' role. A user with the 'itil' role is trying to update a task but is denied. Which TWO factors could be causing this? (Select two.)

Medium
37

An SLA is paused due to a pause condition. The administrator wants to permanently stop tracking SLA for a specific incident. What should be done?

Hard
38

Which THREE elements are required when creating a new report in the Reporting module? (Choose three.)

Medium
39

A large enterprise with over 10,000 users and 50,000 active incidents has been using ServiceNow for two years. Recently, the IT managers have noticed that the incident form loads very slowly for end users, especially when opening existing records. The form contains over 40 fields including several reference fields like 'Configuration Item', 'Assignment group', and 'Assigned to'. The system administrator suspects that the form is slow due to the number of fields and the way they are loaded. Additionally, the admin wants to improve the user experience by reducing clutter. The admin is considering several approaches: (A) removing fields from the default view to reduce the number of fields loaded, (B) enabling 'Form Layout Personalization' so users can hide fields they don't need, (C) creating a new view with fewer fields and assigning it to all users via a UI policy based on role, (D) using 'Form Sections' to collapse fields into tabs. Which approach is the most effective for improving form load performance while maintaining usability?

Hard
40

A notification is set to send an email when an incident is updated with 'Urgency' = 'High'. The notification is not sending. Which THREE of the following could be the cause? (Select three.)

Hard
41

An administrator notices that a scheduled job that creates Catalog Tasks from a report runs successfully but produces duplicate tasks for the same request. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
42

A notification is configured to send an email when an incident is assigned to a user. However, users are receiving duplicate emails. Which of the following is the most likely cause?

Hard
43

An SLA definition is configured to start when an incident's state changes to 'In Progress'. However, the SLA is not starting for incidents that are moved to 'In Progress'. The incident's assignment group is 'IT Support' and the SLA condition includes an additional filter: 'category = network'. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
44

A catalog item uses a 'Catalog Client Script' to hide a variable when another variable is set to 'No'. However, the script is not working. The script is of type 'onChange' and the variable to hide is a 'Single Line Text'. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
45

Which TWO are valid options when configuring a module in the application navigator? (Choose two.)

Easy
46

A company wants to allow end users to submit requests for new software installations through the Service Portal. The fulfillment process should automatically route requests to the software team based on the requested software category. Which configuration ensures this automation without additional custom scripting?

Easy
47

An administrator wants to add a new section to the incident form to group related fields. Which tool should they use?

Easy
48

Refer to the exhibit. This JSON represents a table schema. What is the data type of the 'short_description' field?

Easy
49

During peak usage, the Employee Center portal becomes slow. The administrator wants to improve performance without changing the user interface. What is the best practice approach?

Hard
50

A manager wants to share a dashboard with the entire team without granting individual roles. What is the easiest way to achieve this?

Medium
51

A company wants to allow users to request IT equipment through the service portal. They need a catalog item that includes a variable for selecting a laptop model, and the request should be automatically assigned to the hardware team. What is the best way to accomplish the automatic assignment?

Easy
52

A form has a reference field that should display the ticket number. Which dictionary attribute controls the displayed value?

Easy
53

An administrator wants to create a new module under the 'User Administration' application menu. Which module type should be used to display a list of users?

Easy
54

A company has an SLA definition that starts when the state is 'New' and pauses when the state is 'On Hold'. A task is created with state 'New' at 10:00 AM. At 10:30 AM, the state is changed to 'In Progress'. At 11:00 AM, the state is changed to 'On Hold' for 30 minutes, then back to 'In Progress' at 11:30 AM. The task is resolved at 12:00 PM. The SLA has a 2-hour duration. What is the elapsed time used for SLA compliance?

Hard
55

An SLA is breached, but the breach time appears incorrect. The SLA definition uses a business schedule that excludes weekends. The incident was created on Friday at 5 PM and breached on Monday at 8 AM. Why did the breach time not exclude the weekend?

Hard
56

Refer to the exhibit. An incident is assigned to a group, but no email notification is sent. Which is the most likely cause?

Medium
57

Refer to the exhibit. A ServiceNow administrator created a catalog item that allows users to select a CI via a reference variable named 'ci'. The business rule shown is supposed to update the CI's operational status to 'In Production' when the requested item is closed complete. However, the CI status is not being updated. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
58

Based on the exhibit, why did the transform create or update zero records?

Hard
59

A catalog item uses a variable substitution in the short description like: 'Request for ${variable_name}'. The variable is a reference field to the 'Configuration Item' table. When a user submits the request, the short description displays 'Request for sys_id' instead of the display value. What could be the cause?

Hard
60

A ServiceNow administrator at a large enterprise is troubleshooting an issue with the incident form. A custom form section titled 'Sensitive Data' should only be visible to users with the 'security_admin' role. The administrator created a UI Policy with the condition g_user.hasRole('security_admin') and an action that sets the 'Sensitive Data' section's visible attribute to true. The UI Policy is active and set to run on load. However, users with the 'security_admin' role report that they do not see the section. The administrator verified that the section is configured with a 'Visible' condition that is blank, and the section's 'Roles' field is empty. What is the most likely reason the section is not showing?

Hard
61

A user needs to access the 'Update Sets' module directly from the application navigator. Which filter path should they use?

Easy
62

An SLA is defined for incident resolution with a 4-hour breach timer. The SLA should not count time when the incident is in 'Awaiting Customer' status. The administrator has configured a pause condition on the SLA definition. However, when the state changes to 'Awaiting Customer', the SLA timer continues to run. The administrator wants to troubleshoot the issue. What should the administrator check first?

Medium
63

Which TWO attributes are essential for identifying configuration items in the CMDB to ensure uniqueness? (Choose exactly 2.)

Medium
64

A large enterprise uses ServiceNow for IT service management. They have a catalog item 'New Employee Setup' that is used by HR to request IT resources for new hires. The catalog item includes variables for employee name, start date, department, and manager. The workflow associated with this item creates a catalog task for the desktop team to prepare a laptop, and another catalog task for the network team to create accounts. Recently, the desktop team has been receiving tasks with incomplete information; the employee name variable is sometimes empty even though it is marked as mandatory. The administrator checked the variable definition and confirmed 'Mandatory' is set to 'true'. The variable is a 'Single Line Text' with no default value. The issue happens intermittently. What course of action should the administrator take to resolve this issue?

Medium
65

The flow above is not creating the task record. The variables are not being populated. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
66

An SLA is defined with a condition that triggers only when a field 'priority' is 1 or 2. However, some tickets with priority 1 are not getting SLA attached. What should the administrator check first?

Hard
67

Refer to the exhibit. This ACL is applied to the Incident table for 'write' operation. A user is editing their own incident but is still denied. What is the issue?

Medium
68

A user has personalized their form by rearranging fields. The administrator wants to reset the form layout to the default for that user. What should the administrator do?

Medium
69

A ServiceNow administrator is designing a catalog workflow that requires approval from the user's manager only if the total cost of the request exceeds $500. Which workflow configuration should be used?

Easy
70

Refer to the exhibit. A user enters 'user@example' into the email field and tabs out. What happens?

Hard
71

Refer to the exhibit. An import set has a row with short_description='Test', category='network', and number='INC001'. The target table has an existing record with number='INC001' and description='Old Desc'. What will happen when the transform runs?

Hard
72

An administrator is configuring a Virtual Agent topic to handle common IT questions. Which three components are required to build a basic topic? (Choose three.)

Hard
73

An administrator notices that a scheduled flow designed to send approval reminders is not triggering. The flow is set to run on the sysapproval_approver table with a condition of 'state = requested'. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
74

A user is able to view records in the Incident table but cannot edit them. Which ACL type is preventing the edit?

Easy
75

A large organization with 5,000 employees uses ServiceNow for IT service management. They have implemented a comprehensive service catalog with over 200 catalog items, each containing between 10 and 30 variables. Recently, users have reported that catalog items take more than 10 seconds to load in the Service Portal, leading to frustration and abandoned requests. The administrator has analyzed portal performance and found that the catalog item forms are slow to render, especially items with many variables and complex client scripts. The system logs show no errors, and the portal server resources are adequate. The administrator notes that many catalog items have multiple Catalog Client Scripts that execute on load, performing tasks such as populating dropdowns and validating user data. The goal is to improve load times without removing any variables or eliminating client-side logic. Which action should the administrator take first?

Hard
76

An administrator is troubleshooting issues with the CMDB identification and reconciliation engine. Which three components are part of the identification and reconciliation process? (Choose three.)

Medium
77

An organization is planning to implement CMDB for a large-scale environment with multiple data sources. They need to ensure that the most trustworthy data source takes precedence when conflicts occur. Which feature should they use?

Hard
78

A company imports employee data from an HR system weekly. The import set table always retains the data from previous imports, causing storage issues. The administrator wants to automatically delete the import set rows after a successful transform to free up space. Which configuration should be made?

Easy
79

Which two statements about UI Policies are true? (Choose two.)

Easy
80

A company frequently imports data from an external HR system into the Employee [hr_employee] table using an import set. The import set runs nightly and maps fields correctly. Recently, the import started failing with the error 'Field 'manager' not found in table 'hr_employee''. The manager field exists in the import set rows but not in the target table. What is the most likely cause?

Easy
81

Refer to the exhibit. This condition script is used in a notification. For which states will the notification trigger?

Easy
82

Which TWO of the following are valid ways to trigger a workflow from a catalog item? (Choose two.)

Hard
83

Which THREE of the following statements about ACL evaluation are true? (Choose three.)

Hard
84

An administrator wants to allow end users to reset their own passwords using the 'Forgot Password' feature. Which configuration is required to enable this?

Medium
85

A catalog item uses a workflow that includes a 'Wait for Condition' activity. The condition checks if a custom table record 'approval_status' equals 'approved'. Requests are not progressing past this activity even though the record is updated. What could be the issue?

Hard
86

An organization needs to ensure that when a catalog item is ordered, a task is created for the IT team to provision the requested software. They want to use a flow to automate this. Which configuration should be used?

Medium
87

Which THREE of the following are true regarding Business Rules?

Hard
88

A system administrator wants to add a choice list to a field that shows options depending on the value of another field. Which feature should be used?

Medium
89

You are the ServiceNow administrator for a large enterprise with over 10,000 users. The company uses the Employee Center portal for self-service. Recently, users have reported that when they submit a catalog item, the confirmation page takes over 30 seconds to load, and sometimes they receive a timeout error. The issue only occurs for catalog items that have a workflow attached. The workflows are complex with multiple approval stages and notifications. The server logs show no errors, but the average response time for catalog item submissions with workflows is 45 seconds, compared to 5 seconds for items without workflows. The instance is running on a medium-sized node with default settings. You need to resolve the performance issue without changing the workflow logic or the user interface. What should you do?

Hard
90

A company has a custom application that automatically updates the CMDB via web services. After a recent update, several CI records were incorrectly modified, causing incorrect relationships. The administrator does not know exactly which web service calls caused the issue. What is the best way to identify the source of the incorrect updates and prevent future occurrences?

Medium
91

An administrator needs to send an email notification to the manager of the caller when an incident is assigned to a specific group. Which combination of notification configuration is correct?

Medium
92

An administrator wants to create a dashboard with multiple reports that automatically refresh every 5 minutes. Which feature should be used?

Medium
93

An administrator needs to create a new CI class for 'Database Instance' that extends the existing 'cmdb_ci' table. Which tool should be used?

Medium
94

Drag and drop the steps to activate a plugin in ServiceNow into the correct order.

Medium
95

A UI Policy is intended to make a field mandatory when another field equals 'Yes', but the mandatory condition is not working. What is a common cause?

Hard
96

During an import, a transform field mapping uses a script to generate a value. The script runs but the target field is empty. What is the first thing to check?

Medium
97

In the CMDB, what is the purpose of the 'cmdb_ci' table?

Easy
98

Refer to the exhibit. A user reports that the category field is not becoming mandatory on the incident form even when priority is set to '3' and the system property 'myapp.high_priority' is set to 'true'. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
99

What is the purpose of the 'Operational Status' field on a CMDB CI?

Easy
100

A company wants to allow managers to approve requests on behalf of their team members using the mobile app. What is the best way to enable this self-service capability?

Medium
101

Which THREE are true about Service Portal widgets?

Easy
102

Which two of the following are built-in actions in Flow Designer that require no script to configure? (Choose two.)

Medium
103

Which TWO actions can an administrator perform using the 'Application Navigator' module (sys_app_module)? (Choose two.)

Medium
104

A large enterprise has deployed ServiceNow for employee onboarding. The onboarding workflow includes several manual tasks, approvals, and automated steps. The workflow is designed to run as the 'System' user. Recently, the workflow stops at a point where it tries to update a record in the HR table, but the update fails. The administrator checks the workflow context and finds that the user running the workflow is 'System', but the HR table has an ACL that restricts write access to the 'hr_integration' role only. The 'System' user does not have this role. The administrator needs to resolve the issue without granting the 'System' user additional roles. What is the best solution?

Hard
105

Which two statements are true about CMDB relationships? (Select two.)

Medium
106

Which THREE are valid ways to bring data into a catalog item variable?

Medium
107

A CMDB administrator is planning to use the CMDB Data Manager to perform data imports. Which THREE statements about the Data Manager are true? (Select exactly 3)

Hard
108

A company has a catalog item 'Travel Authorization' with a workflow that requires approval from the user's manager and the finance department if the travel cost is above $1000. The workflow is set up with two 'Approval - User' activities: one for the manager and one for a finance user. However, when a request with cost $1500 is submitted, only the manager approval is triggered; the finance approval is skipped. The workflow has a condition on the finance approval activity that checks 'variable_cost > 1000'. The variable 'cost' is defined as a monetary value and is being passed correctly. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
109

A user cannot see any records in a module. What is the first thing to check?

Easy
110

A ServiceNow administrator needs to create a form section that is only visible to users with the 'itil' role. Which TWO configuration options can achieve this? (Choose two.)

Easy
111

Which three of the following are valid methods to control field visibility on a form based on user input? (Choose three.)

Medium
112

An administrator wants to send an automatic follow-up email to users who have not completed their catalog request within 24 hours. Which feature should be used?

Medium
113

Which TWO are best practices for managing catalog items in a ServiceNow instance?

Hard
114

Match each ServiceNow user role to its typical permission.

Medium
115

An administrator inspects the IRE log and sees the exhibit. The IRE created a new CI despite finding a match on serial_number. What is the most likely reason?

Hard
116

A user reports that when they click 'Order Now' on a catalog item, the request is submitted but they receive an error message: 'Item is not available for the requested quantity.' The catalog item has a quantity variable. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
117

Which THREE of the following are benefits of using Flow Designer over traditional Workflow for automation in ServiceNow?

Hard
118

A large enterprise has implemented ServiceNow CMDB with multiple discovery sources including Service Mapping, Cloud Management, and manual imports. Over the past six months, the CMDB has grown to over 2 million CI records, and users are reporting that CMDB queries and reports take a long time to load. The administrator checks the database and finds that the cmdb_ci table has over 1.5 million records, including many retired and historical CIs. The average query time for reports on active hardware CIs is 30 seconds. The instance is hosted on a standard mid-range node. The administrator has verified that no duplicate CIs exist and that all CI classes are properly configured. The instance's performance dashboard shows high database contention. Which action should the administrator take first to improve CMDB performance?

Easy
119

A transform map for importing incidents uses a co-paste field mapping for 'short_description' that references the source field 'caller_id'. The import fails with the error shown. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
120

Which TWO of the following are valid ways to add variables to a catalog item?

Easy
121

An administrator configures a UI Policy to display a warning message when a reference field is empty. The warning message does not appear. The UI Policy is set to run on both load and submit. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
122

An import set transform map has a field mapping that uses a 'Run script' action. The script sets a reference field by querying the target table. However, the import fails with a 'Null reference' error. What is the most likely issue?

Hard
123

A service desk manager wants to create a report showing the number of incidents resolved within SLA for each assignment group over the last 30 days. Which report type should be used?

Easy
124

A company has a catalog item that allows users to request a new laptop. The item has a variable for 'Laptop Model' which is a reference to the 'cmdb_ci_computer' table. Recently, users have been complaining that they are seeing laptops that are not available (e.g., already assigned or retired). The administrator wants to filter the variable to show only laptops that are in stock and not assigned. Which approach should the administrator take?

Hard
125

An administrator needs to automate the process of sending a welcome email to new users after their account is created in ServiceNow. The process should also create a 'New Hire Orientation' task assigned to the manager. Which automation method should be used to implement this requirement?

Medium
126

A company uses ServiceNow CMDB and wants to ensure that CI attribute updates from a discovery tool are not overwritten by manual changes made by administrators. Which configuration best achieves this?

Medium
127

A company needs to make a field mandatory only when a checkbox is checked. Which feature should the administrator use?

Easy
128

Which TWO of the following are valid ways to control the visibility of a field on a form for specific users?

Easy
129

A company wants to display a custom field on the incident form only when the incident state is 'In Progress'. Which configuration should be used?

Medium
130

An administrator wants to ensure that when a user deletes a CI, all its relationships are also deleted to maintain data integrity. What should the administrator configure?

Easy
131

An administrator wants to create a notification that sends an email to the 'Assignment group' members whenever an incident is assigned to that group. Which of the following should the administrator configure in the notification's 'Who will receive' list?

Easy
132

A knowledge base article with 'Work in Progress' state is not appearing in the service portal search results. What is the most likely reason?

Easy
133

A catalog item uses a variable that should be mandatory only if the user selects a specific option in a previous variable. Which approach is best?

Medium
134

The widget is not displaying the user's groups on the portal. The server script returns the correct data. What is the most likely cause?

Easy
135

A ServiceNow administrator notices that some users are able to see and request services in the service portal that they should not have access to. Which of the following should the administrator check first?

Medium
136

An import set row is being transformed but the target record is not updated. Which two possible causes should the administrator investigate? (Choose two.)

Hard
137

An administrator wants to improve the performance of a report that aggregates data from a large custom table. Which database administration technique is most effective?

Medium
138

A system administrator has added new fields to the Incident table through the dictionary. Users report that they cannot see these fields when they open an incident record. The administrator confirms the fields exist and are correctly configured. What should the administrator check first?

Easy
139

A large organization uses a weekly scheduled report to analyze incident trends. The report queries a database view that joins several tables. The report has filters: ((category=Network OR category=Database) AND priority<=2) OR (assigned_to in (specific group)). The report takes over 30 minutes to run and often times out. The administrator wants to improve performance without altering the report's output. Which action should be taken?

Hard
140

Refer to the exhibit. A scheduled report is configured as shown but does not execute. What is the most likely cause?

Easy
141

A system administrator needs to allow end users to add a 'Mobile Phone' field to the incident form without modifying the form layout for all users. Which feature should be used?

Medium
142

A new administrator needs to view the relationships between CIs. Which TWO tables store information about CI relationships? (Select two.)

Easy
143

An organization wants to allow managers to approve requests from their direct reports through the mobile app. Which type of approval rule should be configured?

Easy
144

Refer to the exhibit. A UI Policy is configured with the above condition to make the 'resolution_notes' field mandatory when the variable 'state' is 2. When state is set to 2, the field is still not mandatory. What is the most likely issue?

Easy
145

Refer to the exhibit. A server provisioning request is in progress. The network configuration task is waiting for the VM creation task to provide an IP address, but no IP is passed. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
146

Which TWO conditions must be true for an SLA to start tracking on an incident? (Choose two.)

Hard
147

Which TWO statements about ServiceNow CMDB identification and reconciliation are correct?

Medium
148

Refer to the exhibit. An administrator sets the system properties as shown. What is the result?

Medium
149

Which TWO best practices should be followed when designing forms in ServiceNow? (Choose two.)

Medium
150

A catalog item has a variable 'category' (choice) and 'subcategory' (select box). When a user selects 'hardware' for category, the subcategory dropdown shows laptop and desktop. When 'software' is selected, it shows Operating System and Office Suite. However, users report that after selecting category, the subcategory dropdown does not update. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
151

A system administrator notices that users in the 'itil' role can see the 'cost' field on the 'cmdb_ci_server' table, but the requirement is to hide it from all except users with the 'cmdb_admin' role. The administrator has already created an ACL with 'read' operation, type 'record', condition 'current.cost' (no script) and granted 'no access' to all roles. However, the field is still visible. What is missing?

Hard
152

A scheduled job runs a transform map to import data into the CMDB from an external asset management system. The transform map has a field mapping that uses script to derive the CI class based on asset type. Recently, imports have been failing with a 'GlideRecord: Invalid table name' error. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
153

You are a ServiceNow administrator for a healthcare organization. The CMDB contains sensitive patient data under strict compliance rules. You need to ensure that only authorized users can view the full details of certain CIs, while still allowing change management to reference the CIs. What is the best practice to achieve this?

Hard
154

An administrator creates a new ACL for the 'incident' table with type 'record', operation 'read', condition script 'current.assignment_group == gs.getUser().getMyGroups()', and requires role 'snc_internal'. A user with role 'snc_internal' who is a member of group 'Service Desk' can view incidents assigned to 'Service Desk' but cannot view incidents assigned to 'Network Support'. What is the most likely reason?

Hard
155

Refer to the exhibit. A UI Policy is configured with the above condition script to make the 'work_notes' field mandatory when state is 1 and caller_id is valid. When the state is 1 and caller_id is empty, the mandatory attribute is not applied. What is the cause?

Hard
156

You are troubleshooting an issue with the Virtual Agent chatbot. Users report that when they ask the chatbot 'How do I reset my password?', the chatbot responds with 'I'm sorry, I don't understand that question.' However, the chatbot correctly answers other questions like 'What is the IT support number?' The password reset topic is configured with a user input of 'password reset' and a response that provides instructions. The chatbot's NLU model has been trained with over 50 utterances for the password reset topic. The issue started after a recent update to the chatbot's configuration. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
157

A system administrator needs to allow users with the 'incident_manager' role to delete incidents only if the incident state is 'New' or 'Work in Progress'. They create an ACL with the following conditions: type='record', operation='delete', name='incident', condition: gs.hasRole('incident_manager') && current.state == 1 || current.state == 2. After testing, users with the role can delete incidents in any state. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
158

Refer to the exhibit. A workflow includes a 'Run Script' activity with the above configuration. What will happen when the workflow reaches this activity?

Hard
159

A scheduled report is generated but not sending email notifications to recipients. What should the administrator check first?

Easy
160

Which TWO of the following are true about the Application Navigator in the UI16 interface?

Hard
161

Which TWO of the following are valid ways to trigger an SLA in ServiceNow? (Choose exactly 2.)

Medium
162

An administrator is troubleshooting an import that is failing silently. The import set rows show 'Processed' with no errors, but no records are created or updated in the target table. Which THREE areas should the admin investigate?

Hard
163

The section 'Assignment Information' currently displays two fields in one row. An administrator wants to add a new field 'due_date' to this section, placing it in a new row below the existing fields. What should the administrator do?

Medium
164

An administrator discovers that a scheduled discovery job is creating duplicate CI records for the same physical server. The server has two IP addresses (one for management, one for production). What is the most likely cause?

Hard
165

An administrator needs to create a UI action that appears on the form context menu for the Incident table, but only when the record is in 'In Progress' state. Which configuration is required?

Hard
166

A business rule set to run 'async' is supposed to update a large number of child records. The administrator notices that the updates are not being applied consistently. What is the most likely reason?

Hard
167

A record producer is configured to create a task when a user submits a form from the service portal. The task is created but the variables from the form are not mapped. What is the most likely cause?

Easy
168

The SLA condition script above is used in an SLA definition. Standard incident states are: 1=New, 2=In Progress, 3=On Hold, 6=Resolved, 7=Closed. What is the effect of this condition?

Easy
169

A system administrator wants to add a new section to a form. Which component should they edit?

Easy
170

An administrator creates a notification for the 'incident' table to send an email when the state changes to 'resolved'. The notification works for most users, but some users report not receiving the email. What is the most likely cause?

Easy
171

Match each ServiceNow UI element to its description.

Medium
172

A company wants to ensure that critical servers in the CMDB have accurate operational status. Which CMDB feature should the administrator configure to automatically update the operational status based on monitoring tools?

Easy
173

A user reports that they are unable to see any records in the 'incident' table, even though they have the itil role. The administrator checks the ACLs and finds that there are no read ACLs defined for the incident table. What will happen?

Easy
174

Which TWO are valid methods to configure a service catalog item to require an approval only if the cost exceeds $500?

Hard
175

Which table field in a notification record defines the email subject?

Easy
176

An administrator wants to ensure that the CMDB remains accurate after a change management process. Which TWO actions should the administrator take? (Select two.)

Medium
177

A company uses Service Operations Workspace to manage incidents. They have configured an SLA definition for 'Resolution' with a stop condition when the incident state is 'Resolved'. However, the SLA is not stopping when the incident is resolved. The administrator checks the SLA log and sees that the SLA is still running. The SLA definition is active and attached to a specific SLA definition record. The administrator notices that the incident state is indeed set to 'Resolved', and the SLA timeline is set to 24x7. What should the administrator do to fix the issue?

Medium
178

A notification should be sent to the change manager when a change request is submitted. Which TWO fields must be configured? (Choose TWO.)

Easy
179

Which TWO scenarios would require a Catalog UI Policy instead of a Catalog Client Script?

Medium
180

A catalog item variable has a reference qualifier that limits the choices to active users only. However, users can still select inactive users. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
181

Refer to the exhibit. An administrator is trying to import data into a custom CI table but receives this error. What is the most likely cause?

Easy
182

An administrator wants to send an email notification to the user's manager when a specific catalog item is requested. Which approach is most efficient?

Medium
183

During a catalog item checkout, the system fails to create the requested item record. The flow that triggers on 'Requested' state runs but fails. Which log should be examined first?

Hard
184

An ACL has a condition script that returns true if the user is a member of the 'service_desk' group and the record's 'state' is 'New'. The ACL type is 'read'. A user in the 'service_desk' group reports that they cannot see a record with state 'New'. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
185

Based on the exhibit, why did the identification rule fail?

Hard
186

Which TWO of the following are benefits of using Service Catalog record producers to automate request fulfillment?

Medium
187

A user reports that a form loads slowly. The administrator notices several UI Policies and Client Scripts are running on the form. What is the best practice to improve form performance?

Easy
188

Based on the sys_audit output, which CI has undergone the most recent change to its operational_status?

Hard
189

Which TWO conditions must be met for a UI Policy to run on a form?

Medium
190

A system administrator wants to ensure that a mandatory field on a form is always visible, even if the form section collapses. Which form layout option should be used?

Easy
191

Refer to the exhibit. A user submits a Laptop Request but receives the error shown. The user's session does not have a location set. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
192

Which TWO elements are mandatory when defining an SLA definition in ServiceNow?

Medium
193

Which THREE options are valid fields in an SLA definition?

Medium
194

A user wants to quickly filter the incident list to show only high-priority incidents. What is the fastest way to apply this filter?

Easy
195

An ACL on the Incident table has a script condition that returns true if the user is in the role 'incident_manager'. A user with the 'incident_manager' role still cannot update incidents. What could be the issue?

Medium
196

A custom table called 'u_cmdb_ci_application' has been created to extend cmdb_ci. After importing data into this table, the new records do not appear in the 'Configuration Items' module. What is the most likely reason?

Hard
197

An organization has a notification configured to send an email to the caller's manager when an incident is resolved. The notification is active, uses the 'Email - Incident' template, and has a condition script: 'current.state.changesTo(6)'. The email properties (SMTP, etc.) are working correctly for other notifications. Recently, managers are not receiving these resolved-incident emails. The administrator checks that the 'Manager' field on the caller's user record is populated for all callers. The notification's 'Who will receive' list is set to 'Caller and caller's manager' and the 'Operation' is 'record updated'. The 'Advanced' view shows that the 'Recipients' tab includes the email field 'mail' for the caller and the manager. What should the administrator investigate next?

Medium
198

Which THREE actions can be performed using the 'Service Catalog' module without additional plugins? (Choose three.)

Easy
199

Refer to the exhibit. What action should the administrator take to improve the completeness score?

Easy
200

Which TWO conditions are necessary for a catalog item to trigger a workflow automatically upon submission?

Hard
201

An administrator wants to send an email notification when a change request state changes to 'scheduled'. The notification should be sent to the change manager. Which two fields must be configured in the notification record?

Easy
202

Which THREE factors influence the order of fields on a form?

Hard
203

Which of the following is NOT a valid type of UI action?

Easy
204

During form submission, a mandatory field is not highlighted in red, and the form submits without requiring it. The field is made mandatory by a UI Policy that checks a condition set by a Client Script on form load. What is the most likely issue?

Hard
205

A company has an enterprise ServiceNow instance with a CMDB that contains over 50,000 CIs. The instance is integrated with multiple discovery tools: ServiceNow Discovery, a third-party IPAM tool, and a cloud management platform. Recently, the CMDB health score dropped significantly due to an increase in duplicate CIs. Upon investigation, you find that many CIs from the IPAM tool have the same serial number as CIs discovered by ServiceNow Discovery, but with slight differences in the hardware model field. Also, the cloud management platform creates CIs with the same name but different serial numbers. The business requires that each physical device should have only one CI record, and the serial number is the authoritative identifier. The current reconciliation rules are set to merge based on name and IP address, but they are not effectively resolving duplicates. What should the administrator do to resolve this issue most effectively?

Hard
206

A company wants to allow users to submit requests via email. What must be configured?

Medium
207

An administrator notices that a catalog client script is not firing when a variable changes. The script is set to 'onChange' and the variable reference is correct. The script uses g_form.setValue to update another variable. However, the other variable does not get updated. What could be the issue?

Hard
208

A ServiceNow administrator wants to create a new form section that appears only when the 'State' field is set to 'In Progress'. Which configuration should be used?

Medium
209

A company is using multiple data sources (Discovery, SCCM, and manual imports) to populate the CMDB. They notice that some CI attributes are being overwritten incorrectly. Which feature should be used to define which data source is authoritative for specific attributes?

Medium
210

An administrator has configured a report on the Incident table showing the count of incidents by assignment group. The report shows data for the current week, but the numbers seem too low. The administrator suspects that incidents resolved before the current week are not being included. What should the administrator check first?

Medium
211

Refer to the exhibit. The business rule is set to run 'before' update. When a user changes the state to 'Resolved' (value 3), the comments field is updated. However, the change does not appear on the form after save. What is the most likely reason?

Hard
212

An administrator notices that a UI policy on the Incident form is not firing for a specific user role. The UI policy is set to 'Run script' and has conditions on the 'State' field. The script uses g_form.setValue to set a field. What is the most likely reason the UI policy fails to execute for that role?

Hard
213

Which TWO of the following are valid CI relationship types in ServiceNow?

Easy
214

A ServiceNow administrator deployed an Access Control Rule (ACL) to restrict access to the 'u_employee_salary' field on the 'u_employee' table. The ACL is defined as type 'field', with condition 'current.roles.contains("admin")', and 'read' and 'write' operations set to 'requires role'. After activating the ACL, non-admin users with the 'employee' role can still see the 'u_employee_salary' field on forms and lists. The administrator has verified that the 'employee' role does not have any other ACLs granting access to this field. Which of the following is the most likely cause of the issue?

Easy
215

Match each ServiceNow module to its function.

Medium
216

A company is implementing a CMDB cleanup strategy and needs to identify CIs that are no longer in use. Which THREE methods can help identify outdated CIs? (Select three.)

Hard
217

A system administrator needs to prevent users from deleting any records in the 'incident' table. Which method will achieve this most effectively?

Easy
218

An import set row shows as 'Error' with message 'Invalid table name'. What is the cause?

Easy
219

A ServiceNow administrator notices that a CI record in the CMDB is not being updated by a scheduled discovery job. The CI is a Linux server that is reachable on the network. Which is the most likely cause?

Easy
220

A company uses the Employee Center portal. Users report that they cannot find a specific service when using the search bar. The service exists and is active. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
221

An administrator is designing a catalog item for software requests. The item must capture the user's department automatically and pre-populate the cost center. Which feature should be used to achieve this?

Hard
222

A user reports that the 'My Tickets' module in the ITIL application does not show any records, even though the user has incidents assigned. What is the most likely cause?

Easy
223

Which three are components of CMDB Reconciliation? (Select three.)

Easy
224

An administrator is asked to make the 'State' field read-only on the incident form after the record is saved. Which configuration should be used?

Medium
225

Drag and drop the steps to create a new application scope in ServiceNow into the correct order.

Medium
226

An administrator creates an Application Menu with a condition and adds a module to it. Users with the correct role cannot see the module. The module has no roles restriction. What could be the issue?

Medium
227

A CMDB administrator wants to identify which user last updated a CI record. Which table contains this information?

Easy
228

An administrator wrote a business rule to automatically close all child tasks when an incident is resolved. However, some child tasks are not getting closed. Which of the following is the most likely reason for this issue?

Hard
229

An organization wants to allow users to submit requests via a self-service portal without needing to log in. Which configuration is required to enable this?

Easy
230

An administrator imports data from a CSV file into the 'cmdb_ci' table using a transform map. The import set row contains fields 'name', 'serial_number', and 'manufacturer'. The transform map has a field mapping for 'name' with a co-paste of 'name' and 'serial_number'. Another mapping for 'serial_number' uses a script to concatenate 'SN-' prefix. The 'manufacturer' field is not mapped. After the import, the resulting 'name' field contains 'Laptop123, SN-12345' and 'serial_number' contains 'SN-12345'. Which statement best describes the outcome?

Hard
231

An administrator is managing a CMDB that contains both physical and virtual servers. The company uses a custom field 'u_os_version' to track the operating system version. When new servers are discovered, the field is populated correctly. However, when the operating system is updated manually by the IT team, the field is not updated. The administrator wants the CMDB to automatically reflect manual changes made to server operating systems. Which approach should be taken?

Hard
232

Which module is used to create and manage record producers?

Easy
233

A company needs to add a reference field on the Incident form that points to the Service Catalog item requested. However, the reference field must only allow selection of Catalog Items that are in the 'Software' category. Which configuration should be used?

Medium
234

A user reports that a catalog item is not visible to them, but other users in the same department can see it. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
235

During a CMDB audit, an administrator discovers duplicate CI records for the same network switch. The switch is identified by its serial number. The identification rule currently uses IP address and MAC address as identifiers. What is the most likely cause of the duplicate records?

Hard
236

A company's CMDB has been populated with configuration items (CIs) from various discovery sources. However, when querying the CMDB for all Windows servers, the result set is missing some servers that are known to exist. The administrator has verified that the servers are discovered and appear in the discovery logs. What is the most likely cause of this issue?

Medium
237

A company needs to import user records from a CSV file into the User [sys_user] table. The file contains a 'department' column that should map to the 'department' field in ServiceNow. However, the department values in the CSV are full names (e.g., 'Human Resources'), but the department field in ServiceNow uses a reference to the Department [cmn_department] table. What is the best practice for handling this import?

Easy
238

A manager wants a report that shows the number of incidents opened each day for the past 30 days, broken down by category. They want to see the data as a line chart with multiple lines (one per category). What report type and options should the admin select?

Medium
239

An administrator wants to create a homepage that displays a filtered list of high-priority incidents assigned to the current user. Which widget should be used?

Medium
240

A system administrator receives a request to add a new field called 'Business Impact' to the 'cmdb_ci' table. Which method should be used to ensure the field is available to all CI classes?

Easy
241

A consultant is designing a CMDB for a large enterprise. The data from multiple discovery tools is being imported into the CMDB. Some CIs are being duplicated due to minor differences in serial numbers. Which approach best prevents duplicates without losing data integrity?

Medium
242

Which TWO conditions must be met for a catalog item to appear in the service catalog on the portal? (Choose two.)

Medium
243

Refer to the exhibit. A catalog item has a variable 'department' (choice list with values 'IT', 'HR', 'Finance') and a variable 'cost_center' (choice list initially empty). The client script is supposed to add an option to 'cost_center' when 'department' is set to 'IT'. However, when a user selects 'IT', no new option appears. What is the most likely reason?

Hard
244

A ServiceNow administrator is configuring a Catalog Item to handle employee laptop requests. Which TWO of the following are valid methods to automatically populate a variable's value based on the requester's information? (Choose two.)

Easy
245

Which TWO are true about Service Level Agreements (SLAs) in ServiceNow?

Medium
246

A multinational company has implemented a Service Catalog to streamline IT requests. The catalog item 'New Laptop Request' includes a workflow that routes approvals based on the cost center of the requester. Recently, several requests submitted by employees in the Finance department are stuck in 'Submitted' state without any approval activity. The workflow has a condition that checks the variable 'cost_center' and if it equals 'Finance', the approval is sent to the Finance manager. Other requests from departments like HR and Marketing proceed normally. The administrator has verified that the 'Finance' cost center value is correctly entered on the requests, the users have appropriate roles, and the approval assignments are active. What is the most likely cause of the issue?

Easy
247

Which THREE of the following are valid workflow activities in a Service Catalog workflow? (Choose three.)

Hard
248

Which THREE actions can be performed using UI policies? (Choose three.)

Hard
249

A business rule is configured to run on 'after' update. Which TWO of the following conditions would cause the rule to execute? (Select two.)

Medium
250

At the current time (09:45), what is the total pause duration for this SLA instance?

Medium
251

During a workflow, a catalog item's quantity variable 'qty' must be validated to be between 1 and 10. If the value is outside this range, the request should be rejected with a message. Which approach should the administrator take?

Medium
252

A catalog item uses a workflow with a 'Run Script' activity that contains a script to update a custom table. The script works correctly when executed manually in the Scripts Background, but fails when invoked by the workflow. What is the most likely reason?

Hard
253

After applying a new theme, some modules are missing from the application navigator. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
254

Drag and drop the steps to create a new user in ServiceNow into the correct order.

Medium
255

A service desk manager wants to provide a self-service option for employees to reset their own passwords. The company is using ServiceNow's Virtual Agent. The administrator needs to configure the Virtual Agent to handle password reset requests. Which component should be used to design the conversation flow for password reset?

Easy
256

Which TWO are benefits of using Service Catalog with Record Producers?

Medium
257

A user reports that when they submit a catalog item from the Service Portal, they do not receive an email notification confirming the request. The notification is configured on the Request table. What is the likely issue?

Medium
258

A performance issue is reported on the Change Request list view: it takes several seconds to load. The list has 5000 records and uses several calculated fields. Which optimization should be applied first?

Hard
259

You are a ServiceNow administrator for a large enterprise. The company has a custom application that uses a table 'u_asset_tracking' to track IT assets. The table has a before insert business rule that sets the 'u_assigned_to' field to the current user if the field is empty. Recently, the security team reported that some users are able to view asset records that they should not see. After investigation, you find that the 'u_asset_tracking' table has no ACLs defined, and the default table ACL allows read access to all authenticated users. The business rule is working correctly. You need to restrict read access so that users can only see records where 'u_assigned_to' is themselves or where they are in the same 'u_department' as the record's 'u_department'. You must ensure that the solution does not affect other tables. Which approach should you take?

Hard
260

Which UI element allows an administrator to add a new section to an existing form and populate it with fields?

Easy
261

Drag and drop the steps to configure an inbound email action in ServiceNow into the correct order.

Medium
262

A ServiceNow administrator needs to create a service catalog item that requires the user to select a configuration item (CI) that will be affected by the requested service. The catalog item should also send an email notification to the CI's assigned support group when the request is submitted. Which TWO actions must the administrator take?

Easy
263

An administrator needs to create a workflow that sends an email to the approver when a request is approved, and sends a different email when the request is rejected. What is the appropriate workflow component to use for this branching logic?

Medium
264

An administrator wants to enforce that when the 'state' field of an incident is set to 'Resolved', the 'resolution_notes' field must be filled. Which approach should be used?

Medium
265

A company wants to collect the same set of user details (name, email, department) in multiple catalog items. What is the best practice to achieve this?

Easy
266

A form has a field with a default value that is automatically populated when a new record is created. The administrator wants to change this default value. Where should the administrator set the new default?

Easy
267

Match each ServiceNow update set state to its meaning.

Medium
268

A workflow on a catalog item has a 'Set Values' activity that sets the variable 'state' to 'approved'. The workflow then proceeds to a 'Task' activity. However, the task is never created. The log shows the workflow completed successfully. What is a possible reason?

Hard
269

A consultant is designing the CMDB for a large enterprise. The company wants to track relationships between business services, applications, and infrastructure components. Which relationship model should be used to represent that a business service depends on an application, which in turn depends on a server?

Medium
270

Refer to the exhibit. A user with the itil role can read incidents only if their department matches the property 'dept_hr_id'. What happens if the script is removed?

Medium
271

Which role is required to create a report in the Reporting module?

Easy
272

A company wants to restrict access to CI records based on the business service they belong to. What feature should they use?

Easy
273

A ServiceNow administrator notices that the CMDB contains duplicate CI records for the same server. The duplicates were created by different discovery sources. Which TWO actions should the administrator take to resolve this issue and prevent future duplicates? (Choose two.)

Medium
274

A system administrator has created a UI Policy to make several fields mandatory on the incident form when the 'Category' field equals 'Software'. The policy works correctly when creating a new incident: if the user selects 'Software', the fields become mandatory. However, when viewing an existing incident and changing the category to 'Software', the fields do not become mandatory. The administrator verifies that the condition is correctly set to 'Category equals Software' and the action sets mandatory true on the target fields. The UI Policy is active and the order is not relevant. What is the most likely reason for this behavior?

Medium
275

Which THREE of the following are required for ServiceNow Discovery to successfully populate the CMDB?

Medium
276

Which TWO of the following are valid ways to define who receives a notification in ServiceNow? (Choose two.)

Medium
277

Which THREE factors can cause a transform to skip a row (resulting in 'Skipped' status in the import log)?

Hard
278

An administrator notices that a custom table 'u_custom_infrastructure' was created as a child of 'cmdb_ci'. However, records in this table are not appearing in the CMDB dashboard reports that show all CIs. What is the likely reason?

Hard
279

An administrator needs to implement a service catalog item that requires the user to select a location from a list, and based on that location, the available cost center options should be filtered. Which configuration should be used?

Hard
280

Which role is required to create and manage catalog items?

Easy
281

A developer writes the script include above to create an approval record. When the method is called from a business rule on the requested item table, the approval is created but assigned to the wrong user. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
282

Refer to the exhibit. A user with username 'john.doe' tries to view an incident record. What is the outcome?

Medium
283

An administrator needs to delete a large number of records from the cmdb_ci table based on a condition. Which method is recommended for bulk deletion to ensure data integrity and performance?

Medium
284

Which THREE of the following are best practices for CMDB data maintenance? (Choose exactly 3.)

Hard
285

An administrator is troubleshooting why a CMDB CI's last discovered date is not updating after a successful discovery run. The CI is in a valid state and the discovery schedule runs. What could be the cause?

Hard
286

A large enterprise has extensively customized the Incident table with many UI Policies and Client Scripts. After a recent upgrade, users report that the incident form takes significantly longer to load, especially on records with many fields. The administrator investigates and discovers that multiple UI Policies share the same condition but are defined separately, causing the condition to be evaluated multiple times. Additionally, there are several client scripts that also evaluate the same conditions. The administrator wants to reduce page load time without altering the functionality. The instance is running on a mid-sized deployment with no budget for hardware scaling in the near term. Which course of action will best address the performance issue?

Hard
287

An administrator is designing a service catalog for IT requests. They want to group related catalog items under categories such as 'Hardware' and 'Software'. Additionally, they want to allow users to search for items within a category. What is the best practice for structuring the catalog?

Medium
288

A large import set of 10,000 user records from an HR system is failing intermittently during transformation to the sys_user table. Some rows are inserted successfully, but others show errors in the import log: 'Transform script error: null reference at line 15 of the transform map script.' The administrator reviews the transform map and finds a script that sets the department field by looking up a department table. The script assumes the department code always exists in the department table, but some records have codes that are not present. The administrator needs to ensure all rows are imported reliably, even if some data is missing. What is the best course of action?

Hard
289

A report is created but shows no data. The table and conditions appear correct. What is the most likely cause?

Easy
290

An administrator runs a CMDB health report for the CI class cmdb_ci_server and sees the exhibit. Which attribute is the highest priority to populate first?

Medium
291

Which three conditions are required for a catalog item to appear in the Service Portal? (Choose three.)

Hard
292

A report using the 'server_by_os' database view is expected to show a record for each server. However, a server without an operating system entry is not appearing in the report. What is the most likely reason?

Easy
293

A company uses SLA definitions with a time zone of 'US/Eastern'. A task is created at 10:00 PM Eastern on a Sunday. The SLA definition has a start condition that triggers on creation, a 4-hour duration, and a schedule that includes only weekdays 9 AM to 5 PM. What is the expected SLA state at 2:00 PM Eastern on Monday?

Medium
294

Refer to the exhibit. A priority 1 incident is created and then immediately closed (state changed to 6) before the notification processes. Will the notification be sent?

Hard
295

Which TWO of the following are valid CMDB base classes? (Choose exactly 2.)

Easy
296

Refer to the exhibit. After submitting the catalog item, a catalog task is created. Which of the following is true about the catalog task?

Hard
297

A catalog item uses a 'Variable set' that includes several variables. After updating the variable set, the changes do not appear on the catalog item form. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
298

Refer to the exhibit. An SLA definition has the condition shown. An incident is created with state=2, category='network', assignment_group=null, and caller_id=user1. Will the SLA start?

Medium
299

Refer to the exhibit. A contractor submits a laptop request via the catalog item. The request is for a Standard laptop in the IT department. Which approval(s) will be triggered?

Hard
300

When importing data, the import set table rows are not appearing after running the import. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
301

A company uses a custom application with a table named 'project_task' that contains several reference fields pointing to large tables (e.g., 'User', 'Department'). Users report that the 'project_task' form takes over 10 seconds to load, primarily due to the time required to fetch options for these reference fields. The administrator wants to improve the form loading performance without removing any fields or changing the user workflow. The instance is on a standard license and performance optimization is a priority. Which approach should the administrator take?

Hard
302

A ServiceNow administrator needs to create a report that shows the number of incidents opened each month for the last 12 months. The report should display a bar chart with months on the x-axis and count on the y-axis. Which report type and grouping should the administrator use?

Easy
303

Which CMDB relationship type should be used to represent that a server is physically installed in a rack?

Easy
304

Which TWO methods allow an administrator to make a field read-only on a form? (Choose two.)

Easy
305

A catalog item uses a Variable Editor to capture complex data. The user submits the request but the variable data is not stored in the sys_variable_value table. What could be the reason?

Hard
306

An order guide contains multiple catalog items. When the order guide is submitted, what is created?

Easy
307

A user is unable to access the Service Portal. They receive a '404' error. What is the most likely cause?

Easy
308

A ServiceNow administrator needs to create a database view that combines data from the cmdb_ci_server table and the cmdb_ci_netgear table. What is the correct method to achieve this?

Medium
309

An administrator needs to identify which CI(s) are affected by a recent network outage. Which table should be queried to find the relationship between CIs and incidents?

Easy
310

A company needs to import data from a CSV file into the User table. The CSV includes fields for first name, last name, email, and department. However, the import fails because some email addresses are invalid. Which feature in ServiceNow can be used to prevent invalid emails from being imported?

Easy
311

An SLA is defined to pause when state is 'Awaiting Customer'. The SLA timer continues to run even when the state changes to that value. What should the administrator check first?

Hard
312

What is the effect of this script on the import transform?

Hard
313

An administrator wants to automate the fulfillment of a catalog item that requires approval from the user's manager. Which combination of features should be used?

Easy
314

Refer to the exhibit. A user without the admin role attempts to update an incident record where the caller's department is 'Finance'. The user's department is 'IT'. What will happen?

Hard
315

An administrator is asked to design a solution to prevent unauthorized changes to the CMDB. The requirement is that any update to a CI's critical attributes (e.g., serial number, model) must be logged and require an approval. Which approach should be taken?

Hard
316

A user reports that after clicking 'New' on the incident module, the form loads but the 'Category' field is missing. Other users see the field. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
317

Which THREE of the following are features available in the UI16 interface?

Easy
318

Which THREE of the following are valid ways to customize the form layout for a table in ServiceNow? (Choose three.)

Hard
319

Match each ServiceNow report type to its visual representation.

Medium
320

An SLA definition has a duration of 8 hours and a schedule of 9am-5pm weekdays. An incident is updated to a state that triggers the SLA at 3pm on Friday. What is the expected breach time?

Hard
321

A large enterprise uses ServiceNow for IT Service Management. They have a custom application that generates incidents automatically from monitoring alerts. The incidents are assigned to the 'Monitoring Queue' group. Recently, the team noticed that some incidents are not being assigned to any group and remain unassigned. Upon investigation, the administrator finds that the assignment rule for the 'Monitoring Queue' group uses a condition 'Category = Network' AND 'Impact = 3'. However, many alerts have 'Category' set to 'Network' but 'Impact' left blank. The administrator needs to ensure that all incidents from monitoring alerts with 'Category = Network' are assigned to the 'Monitoring Queue' group, regardless of impact. What should the administrator do?

Hard
322

You are a ServiceNow administrator at a mid-sized company. The CMDB currently has over 100,000 CIs, and end users report that the CI search results are slow, often taking more than 10 seconds. The database has been optimized, but the issue persists. You have noticed that many CIs have empty or outdated fields. What is the best course of action to improve search performance without impacting data integrity?

Easy
323

A company is implementing ServiceNow CMDB and wants to ensure that all CIs in the 'Production' environment are backed up daily. What is the best practice to achieve this?

Medium
324

Which TWO of the following are valid properties that can be set on a catalog item to control its behavior in the self-service portal?

Easy
325

Which table is the base table for all configuration items in the CMDB?

Easy
326

An organization has multiple catalog items that use the same variable set 'Contact Info'. Recently, a change was made to the variable set to add a new variable 'Phone'. However, the existing catalog items that use this variable set do not show the new 'Phone' variable on their forms. The variable set is marked as 'Strictly enforced'? Actually, the variable set is not strictly enforced. The administrator expects the new variable to appear automatically on the items. What should the administrator do?

Medium
327

Drag and drop the steps to configure an outbound email account in ServiceNow into the correct order.

Medium
328

Which TWO are best practices for creating dashboards in ServiceNow?

Easy
329

What is the default behavior of an ACL if no ACL record exists for a given operation?

Easy
330

A user reports that a custom UI Action button labeled 'Escalate' has disappeared from the incident form after a recent upgrade. The administrator checks the UI Action record and confirms that it is active, has no conditions defined, and is associated with the Incident table. The UI Action is set to appear in the context menu and form button. The administrator also confirms that no UI Policies or client scripts are hiding it. What should the administrator check next to resolve the issue?

Easy
331

Which TWO are valid methods to add a new form section?

Medium
332

A notification is not sending emails to the intended recipients. The notification's 'Who will receive' tab is set to 'Event creator' and the event is triggered by a business rule. However, the email recipient list is empty. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
333

An organization is importing help desk tickets from a legacy system using ServiceNow Import Sets. The import runs successfully, but no records are created in the Incident table. Which two steps should the administrator verify to resolve this issue?

Easy
334

A company has a large CMDB and wants to improve query performance on CI tables. Which two actions would help achieve this? (Choose two.)

Hard
335

Your company uses ServiceNow for IT Service Management. The 'incident' table has a custom 'create' ACL that restricts creation of incidents to users with the 'snc_internal' role. However, external users with the 'snc_external' role should also be able to create incidents via a portal. The portal uses a REST message that authenticates as a specific integration user. The integration user has the 'snc_internal' role. Despite the REST API call being successful, external users report that they cannot submit incidents through the portal. The system logs show that the REST API call returns a success, but the incident record is not created. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
336

A system administrator wants to prevent users from changing the value of a field after the record is saved. Which two features can be used to enforce this? (Choose two.)

Medium
337

Which import set transform operation should be used to prevent duplicate records from being created when the source data contains a unique identifier column?

Easy
338

Which THREE factors can cause a catalog item to not appear in the service catalog for a user?

Medium
339

Which three conditions must be met for an SLA to start automatically when a new incident is created? (Choose three.)

Medium
340

A manager requests a report showing the average time to resolve incidents, grouped by assignment group, for the last month. The administrator creates a report on the Incident table using a bar chart with a 'Group By' on Assignment group and a 'Aggregate' on Resolved time (duration). The report displays an average that seems too low. Upon investigation, the administrator notices that incidents with very long resolution times (e.g., over 30 days) are not included in the report. The report filter is set to 'Active = false' and 'Resolved time is not empty'. The administrator suspects the time filter is incorrect. What is the most likely cause of the missing long-duration incidents?

Hard
341

After upgrading to a new version, a CMDB administrator notices that many CI records have been flagged as 'unverified' and their operational status changed. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
342

A Service Catalog item has a variable that asks for the user's manager's email. The variable type is 'Email'. When the user submits the item, the manager should receive a notification. How should the variable be configured to ensure the email is valid?

Easy
343

A ServiceNow administrator wants to share a report with the Sales team. The Sales team members do not have direct read access to the underlying table, but they need to see the report results. Which action should the administrator take?

Easy
344

Refer to the exhibit. A UI policy is defined with the above script condition. Which of the following is correct?

Medium
345

Refer to the exhibit. A business rule has this script and is set to run on 'before insert' and 'before query'. When a user creates a new incident and sets the assignment_group to 'Network', after saving the assignment_group displays 'Help Desk'. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
346

Which TWO options are valid ways to schedule a report in ServiceNow?

Easy
347

A company uses Discovery to populate the CMDB. After a recent change, some CIs are incorrectly classified as 'Network Gear' instead of 'Server'. What is the most efficient way to correct the classification for these specific CIs?

Medium
348

A CMDB administrator wants to ensure that all changes to CI records are tracked with the user who made the change. What system property must be set to true?

Medium
349

Refer to the exhibit. What is the purpose of the 'condition' field in this discovery probe?

Medium
350

Refer to the exhibit. A ServiceNow administrator configures a catalog item for software installations. The flow logic is as shown. When a user requests 'Adobe Photoshop', the approval goes to Software Approvers instead of IT Management. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
351

Based on the exhibit, who will receive the email notification?

Easy
352

A large enterprise uses ServiceNow for IT service management. The Service Catalog includes a 'New Employee Setup' bundle that contains multiple catalog items such as 'Create AD Account', 'Assign Laptop', and 'Provision Email'. Each catalog item has its own workflow. Recently, the 'Assign Laptop' catalog item has been failing intermittently. The workflow that runs for this item includes an approval step and several tasks. When the workflow fails, the requested item shows a state of 'Work in Progress' and the workflow context shows an error: 'The workflow could not find the activity named: Approve Laptop'. The workflow has an approval activity named 'Approve Laptop' and it is active. The approval activity is set to 'Run as' the workflow user. The workflow is associated with the catalog item correctly. The failure occurs only when the request is submitted by users who are not in the 'IT' role. What is the most likely cause of the failure?

Medium
353

A company wants to allow users to request software licenses through the service catalog. The request requires approval from the manager and then automatically creates a task for the procurement team. Which configuration option should be used?

Easy
354

A system administrator is configuring ACLs for a custom table 'u_employee_info' that should be visible to all employees but editable only by HR managers. The administrator creates two ACLs: one read ACL for the 'employee' role with type 'read', and one write ACL for the 'hr_manager' role with type 'write'. However, employees with the 'employee' role report that they cannot see any records in the table. The administrator verifies that the ACLs are active. What is the most likely issue?

Easy
355

Which THREE of the following are valid options when configuring an Identification and Reconciliation (IRE) rule? (Select exactly 3)

Medium
356

During a CMDB health assessment, an administrator finds that the 'cmdb_ci_computer' table has 5000 records, but only 3000 have an 'operational_status' of 'In Use'. The administrator wants to view only the records with 'In Use' status in the CMDB reports. What is the most efficient approach?

Hard
357

A user complains that when they submit a catalog item, they receive an error: 'The variable is mandatory but has no value.' However, the variable is not marked as mandatory in the item's variable definition. What could be the cause?

Easy
358

A form has a reference field to the 'User' table. The administrator wants to ensure that when a user is selected, the user's email is automatically populated in another field. Which mechanism should be used?

Medium
359

Refer to the exhibit. An incident is updated and state changes from 'New' to 'In Progress'. Active is true. The notification is not sent. Which is the most likely cause?

Medium
360

A company's CMDB has duplicate CIs for the same server due to conflicting identification rules. The admin notices that some CIs are being merged incorrectly. What is the best practice to resolve this issue?

Medium
361

A user wants to quickly find an incident by its number without navigating through menus. Which feature should they use?

Easy
362

Which TWO statements are true about Service Catalog variables? (Choose two.)

Hard
363

An administrator notices that a scheduled job that queries the cmdb_ci table is taking longer than expected. The job uses a glide query with multiple encoded queries. What is the best approach to improve performance without altering the job's results?

Medium
364

A developer wants to create a Scripted REST API endpoint that returns data from a custom table. The endpoint must only be accessible to users with the 'api_user' role. Which of the following is the best practice to enforce this restriction?

Easy
365

A catalog item is configured to use an order guide. When a user submits the order guide, only the first catalog item in the guide appears. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
366

Drag and drop the steps to create a new report in ServiceNow into the correct order.

Medium
367

A user reports that when they submit a catalog item request from the Service Portal, they do not receive an email notification. The notification is configured correctly and works for other users. What should the administrator check first?

Easy
368

Refer to the exhibit. The UI Policy script above is meant to make the Short Description field mandatory when the incident state is 'In Progress'. However, it does not work. What is the most likely reason?

Medium
369

A record producer is configured to use table 'incident' and has a mapping that sets the short description from a variable. When the record producer is submitted, no incident is created. Which is the most likely cause?

Medium
370

An administrator notices that a reference field on the cmdb_ci table, 'vendor', points to the 'core_company' table. However, some users report that they cannot select certain companies in the reference field. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
371

In an import set, where is the staged data stored before transformation?

Easy
372

An administrator wants to ensure that CI relationship data is accurate. Which tool should be used to identify CIs that have missing or invalid relationships?

Medium
373

A company wants to allow users to submit requests for new software installations through the Service Portal. The catalog item should show different options based on the user's department. Which feature should be configured on the catalog item to achieve this?

Medium
374

Match each database table type to its description.

Medium
375

A large financial institution uses ServiceNow CMDB to manage their IT infrastructure. They have a complex environment with multiple data sources: Discovery, SCCM, and a custom integration from their cloud provider. The CMDB contains over 100,000 CIs. Recently, the CMDB team noticed that for a specific set of Windows servers, the 'os_version' attribute is being updated to an incorrect value every night. The value comes from the SCCM integration, which is supposed to be the authoritative source for software-related attributes. However, the 'os_version' attribute should be authoritative from Discovery. The IRE is configured with reconciliation rules, but the issue persists. The team also finds that the Discovery job for these servers runs at 2:00 AM, and the SCCM integration runs at 3:00 AM. The incorrect value appears after the SCCM run. The reconciliation rules are set so that Discovery is authoritative for 'os_version', but the SCCM integration still overwrites it. What is the most likely cause and recommended action?

Hard
376

Refer to the exhibit. A ServiceNow administrator has created an SLA definition for critical incidents. Which TWO statements accurately describe the behavior of this SLA?

Medium
377

A user wants to add a shortcut to an often-used module on their application navigator. Which feature should they use?

Easy
378

Which TWO conditions must be met for a business rule to execute on a table? (Choose TWO.)

Medium
379

A large enterprise uses ServiceNow for IT Service Management. They have recently configured SLA definitions for incident management with a 4-hour resolution time during business hours (Monday-Friday, 8 AM to 6 PM, excluding holidays). The SLA is triggered when an incident is created with priority=2 and assigned to the 'Hardware Support' group. After one week, the IT manager notices that some priority=2 incidents assigned to 'Hardware Support' are not showing any SLA timer. Upon investigation, you find that the incidents were created on weekends and the SLA condition includes 'Assigned to group is Hardware Support'. The SLA definition has 'Start condition' set to 'State changes to In Progress' and 'Pause condition' set to 'State changes to On Hold'. The incidents were created with state 'New' and then assigned to the group, but they remain in 'New' state. How should you fix the issue so that the SLA starts correctly?

Medium
380

Refer to the exhibit. A flow is configured as shown. When will this flow trigger?

Hard
381

An organization has a Service Level Agreement (SLA) defined on the Incident table with a condition of 'Category is Network' and a duration of 4 hours. The SLA is triggered when the incident state changes from 'New' to 'In Progress'. A network incident is created and assigned to the Network Support group. The incident state is changed to 'In Progress' immediately. After 3 hours, the incident is resolved. However, the SLA shows a breach despite the resolution being within 4 hours. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
382

You are responsible for the CMDB at a large enterprise. The CMDB is used for change management and incident management. Recently, during a major incident, it was found that several critical CIs were missing from the CMDB, causing delays in troubleshooting. Further analysis reveals that the Discovery probes were not running on those devices due to schedule conflicts. You need to ensure that all critical devices are discovered regularly. What is the most effective solution?

Medium
383

A catalog item has a variable 'Country' and another 'State'. The State variable should be mandatory only when Country is 'USA'. What is the most efficient way to achieve this?

Easy
384

A user wants to view a daily trend of incidents created over the past month. Which report type is most appropriate?

Medium
385

A CMDB administrator runs a report and finds that the count of CIs in a certain class is unexpectedly low. They suspect that some CIs were deleted accidentally. How can they verify this?

Medium
386

A user reports that the 'My Tasks' module they frequently use has disappeared from the left navigation. Other users can still see it. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
387

A company wants to ensure that only authorized changes to the CMDB are allowed. Which THREE of the following mechanisms can help enforce this?

Hard
388

An admin has set up an SLA on the Incident table with a condition 'Priority = 1' and a duration of 1 hour. The SLA is triggered when the incident state becomes 'In Progress'. The SLA definition includes a business schedule that only counts business hours (9 AM to 5 PM, Monday-Friday). An incident with Priority 1 is created at 4:30 PM on Friday and state is changed to 'In Progress' at 4:45 PM. At what time will the SLA breach if it is not resolved?

Hard
389

A ServiceNow administrator needs to create a report that shows all incidents with a priority of '1 - Critical' that have been assigned to the 'Hardware' assignment group. The report should only include incidents that were created in the last 30 days. Which approach should the administrator take to create this report?

Easy
390

A large enterprise with over 15,000 users reporting to ServiceNow has a catalog item 'Request New Laptop' that is popular. Recently, users have complained that the form takes a long time to load in the Service Portal. The administrator notices that the catalog item has 20 variables, 3 variable sets, and 5 catalog client scripts. Performance metrics show that the 'sc_cat_item' view is slow. Additionally, the 'Before Order' script contains a loop that queries the user's previous requests. Which corrective action should the administrator take to improve performance?

Hard
391

A notification is configured to send an email when a new incident is created. The email template uses the field 'Short Description', but the email shows empty for that field. The template is correct. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
392

A ServiceNow administrator is configuring a catalog item that requires end users to provide their department and cost center. The administrator wants the 'Cost Center' variable to appear only when the 'Department' variable is set to 'Finance'. Which ONE configuration would enable this behavior?

Medium
393

Which THREE factors should be considered when customizing navigation in ServiceNow? (Choose three.)

Hard
394

Which TWO options are true regarding import set transform maps?

Hard
395

Your organization uses multiple data sources to populate the CMDB, including ServiceNow Discovery, manual imports, and integrations with an external asset management system. Recently, you have noticed that some CIs appear to be duplicated despite having identification rules configured. Investigation reveals that the identification rules are not correctly matching CIs from the external system. What should you do to resolve the duplication without losing existing relationships?

Easy
396

A ServiceNow administrator is troubleshooting a notification issue. The company has a 'Customer Satisfaction Survey' notification that is supposed to send an email to the 'caller' of an incident when the incident state changes to 'Resolved' (state=6). The notification is configured with table 'incident', condition 'state changes to 6', and recipient 'caller'. However, the email is not being sent. The administrator checks the system log and finds no errors. The notification has an advanced script that checks if the 'caller' has a valid email address. The script is: if (current.caller_id.email == '') { return false; }. The administrator confirms that the caller's email field is populated. What is the most likely reason the notification is not sending?

Easy
397

Which THREE are components of the Employee Center portal?

Medium
398

A business rule is set to run on 'before update' on the 'incident' table. The script updates 'current.description' and then calls 'current.update()'. What is the likely outcome?

Medium
399

An administrator notices that a scheduled import set runs successfully, but the imported records do not appear in the target table. The import log shows no errors. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
400

An administrator notices that a flow that runs when a catalog item is submitted is failing because the flow tries to update a record that the flow's user (system) does not have permission to update. What is the best practice to address this?

Medium
401

Match each ServiceNow feature to its primary purpose.

Medium
402

An administrator needs to provide a custom view for the Incident table that hides the 'Description' field and reorders fields for a specific group of users. The view should be accessible from the form context menu. Which approach should the administrator take?

Hard
403

An administrator notices that a CMDB CI class is not visible in the class hierarchy. The class exists in the database but cannot be selected when creating a new CI. What is the likely cause?

Medium
404

A user reports that they are unable to submit a catalog request because the 'Submit' button is grayed out. The form has mandatory variables. What is the most likely cause?

Easy
405

A workflow includes an 'Approval' activity that requires approval from the user's manager. However, the approval is not being assigned to the manager. What should be checked first?

Medium
406

A company wants to automatically route catalog requests to the manager of the requestor for approval. Which configuration should be used in the catalog item's approval settings?

Medium
407

A company wants to ensure that when a high-priority catalog request is submitted, the IT manager receives an immediate notification. Which two methods can achieve this? (Choose two.)

Medium
408

A company has a catalog item that includes a variable set for employee information. The variable set has a variable 'Department' that should default to the user's department from their sys_user record. However, the default value is not being applied when a user orders the item. Which of the following is the most likely cause?

Medium
409

Drag and drop the steps to configure a new Catalog Item in ServiceNow into the correct order.

Medium
410

A scheduled report is set to run daily but does not execute. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
411

Which of the following best describes the purpose of a 'Script Include' in ServiceNow?

Easy
412

A small business uses ServiceNow for internal services. The catalog item 'New Employee Onboarding' includes a variable set with a variable 'Start Date'. The workflow sends an email notification to HR when the start date is within 7 days of submission. Currently, the notification is sent immediately upon request submission even if the start date is months away. The workflow has a 'Send Event' activity that triggers a notification. How should the administrator fix this?

Easy
413

Refer to the exhibit. An administrator created a catalog item using a record producer. When a user submits the request, the record producer fails to create the requested item. The log shows a missing mandatory field error. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
414

An administrator needs to enforce data consistency in the CMDB. Which two methods are effective for ensuring CI data quality? (Choose two.)

Easy
415

A catalog item has a variable called 'cost_center' that references the 'cost_centers' table. The variable is mandatory and must be filled before submission. However, users report that they can submit the item without selecting a cost center. The mandatory attribute is set to true. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
416

Refer to the exhibit. An administrator imports these system properties into a ServiceNow instance. After the import, what is the expected impact on the UI?

Hard
417

A catalog item has a variable 'Department' and another 'Cost Center'. The Cost Center should only be visible when Department is 'IT'. Which configuration is most efficient?

Easy
418

A company is implementing Virtual Agent to handle common password reset requests. The conversation flow should ask the user to verify their identity using their employee ID and date of birth. Which Virtual Agent topic design should be used to collect this information?

Hard
419

Which THREE of the following are true about Service Catalog variables? (Choose three.)

Medium
420

Which TWO data sources are commonly used to import data into ServiceNow via Import Sets? (Choose two.)

Easy
421

A company uses a customized service catalog form. Recently, after a patch application, several catalog variables that were configured as drop-downs (choice fields) are now displaying as plain text fields on the order form. The administrator checks the variable definitions in the catalog item and confirms that they are still set to 'Choice' type and that the choice list values are intact. The catalog form is using the default 'Order' view. No UI Policies or client scripts are modifying the variable types on the form. What is the most likely cause and resolution?

Medium
422

Which THREE of the following are true regarding business rules and their execution order?

Medium
423

Refer to the exhibit. The script runs but no output is produced. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
424

A company uses ServiceNow to manage office supply requests. The process involves a catalog item with variables for item name, quantity, and delivery location. The delivery location is a reference variable to the 'Location' table. The administrator wants to automatically set the delivery location to the user's default location if no location is selected. The user's default location is stored on the user record (sys_user table). The administrator has already added a default value on the variable that is supposed to pull from the user record, but it does not work. What is the most likely reason?

Medium
425

A company wants to ensure that when a user submits a catalog item for a new laptop, the request is automatically approved if the cost is under $1,000 and the user's department has sufficient budget. What is the best way to implement this requirement?

Medium
426

Refer to the exhibit. A script include returns false for a user with the admin role. Which is the most likely reason?

Hard
427

Refer to the exhibit. An administrator runs Discovery on a switch and receives this payload. However, the CI is not created in the CMDB. The Discovery log shows 'Identification rule did not match any CI. Creating new CI failed because of duplicate serial number?'. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
428

When configuring a form, you want to add a new section. What is the correct approach?

Medium
429

When creating a new form section, which configuration ensures the section appears on the form for all users?

Medium
430

A company has a custom table 'u_asset' and wants the 'Asset' module in the application navigator to show only records where 'active=true'. How can this be achieved?

Medium
431

Which two actions should be taken to ensure a dashboard is visible to all members of the 'service_desk' role? (Choose two.)

Medium
432

Refer to the exhibit. An administrator runs this script in a background script. The script runs without errors but does not output any CI names. All servers exist in the CMDB. What could be the issue?

Medium
433

A company is implementing ServiceNow Service Portal for employee self-service. They want to display a list of recent requests on the homepage. Which widget is most appropriate for this purpose?

Easy
434

A business rule runs on 'before update' of the 'incident' table and sets the 'assigned_to' field to the current user if the assignment group is empty. The rule is in the global scope. However, when a user from another application scope updates an incident via a web service, the field is not being set. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
435

Refer to the exhibit. An incident is created with state 'New' and assigned_to is empty. Later, the state is changed to 'In Progress' and assigned_to is set to 'user1'. The notification does not fire. Which is the most likely reason?

Hard
436

A pivot table report shows 'Number' as the column and 'Assigned to' as the row. The 'Value' field is set to 'Count'. What does each cell represent?

Medium
437

An administrator needs to archive old incident records to reduce the size of the incident table. Which approach is recommended for optimal performance?

Easy
438

A company uses SLAs on Incident records. They want to notify the assignment group when an SLA is about to breach (within 10 minutes). Which THREE actions can be used to achieve this?

Medium
439

Refer to the exhibit. This is a script used in an ACL on the 'incident' table with 'type' set to 'record' and 'operation' set to 'read'. What is the effect of this ACL?

Hard
440

After importing data, some records show as 'Ignored' in the import log. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
441

Which THREE statements about Access Control Lists (ACLs) are true? (Choose THREE.)

Hard
442

A user wants to create a report that shows the number of incidents by category for each month. Which report type best achieves this?

Easy
443

Which two of the following are true about Service Catalog variables? (Choose two.)

Easy
444

Your organization has implemented ServiceNow CMDB with multiple data sources including ServiceNow Discovery, SCCM, and manual imports. You notice that for a critical group of Windows servers, the 'os_version' attribute is being overwritten frequently. Upon investigation, you find that Discovery reports the correct version, but SCCM imports an older version that overwrites it. The Discovery source runs daily at 2 AM, and SCCM imports run at 4 AM. Currently, all data sources have equal priority. You need to ensure that the Discovery value is the authoritative source for os_version on these servers, but you do not want to block SCCM from updating other attributes. What is the best course of action?

Hard
445

Refer to the exhibit. A user selects 'Full Tunnel' and sees the info message, but the request is auto-approved. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
446

Refer to the exhibit. An administrator runs this script in a background script. What is the effect?

Medium
447

An administrator wants to create a new view called 'Mobile View' for the incident form to optimize it for mobile devices. Where should this view be created?

Easy
448

Which TWO of the following are valid ways to customize the appearance and functionality of a service portal page for self-service users?

Medium
449

A new ServiceNow administrator is tasked with setting up a dashboard for the IT help desk. The team wants to see a list of their assigned open incidents and a pie chart showing incident priority. The administrator creates two separate reports: a list report for open incidents and a pie chart for priority. Then, the administrator creates a new dashboard and adds both reports to it. However, the dashboard displays the reports in a single column, stacked vertically. The team wants the reports to appear side by side for a better overview. The administrator is unsure how to achieve this layout without rebuilding everything. What should the administrator do?

Easy
450

A manager wants to see a real-time gauge on their homepage showing the number of open incidents assigned to their team. Which widget should they add to their dashboard?

Medium
451

An incident has state set to 'In Progress' (value 2). When the user loads the form or updates the state, what is the resulting form behavior?

Hard
452

An administrator is troubleshooting an issue where a form section on the incident form is not visible to users with the 'itil' role, but is visible to admins. The section has no UI Policy or ACL restricting it. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
453

What is the purpose of the 'cmdb_rel_ci' table?

Easy
454

A business rule is configured to run 'before' a record is updated. If the business rule sets a field value and then a subsequent 'after' business rule also updates the same field, what will be the final value stored in the database?

Easy
455

An administrator is setting up an import set to load data from a CSV file into the Incident table. Which TWO of the following are required steps in the import process?

Easy
456

A ServiceNow administrator wants to archive old CMDB history records that are older than 12 months to improve performance. Which approach should be used?

Easy
457

During a CMDB audit, an administrator discovers that some CIs have a 'sys_class_name' of 'cmdb_ci' instead of a specific subclass like 'cmdb_ci_server'. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
458

A user reports that a field is not visible on the form. Which three factors could cause a field to be hidden? (Choose three.)

Hard
459

A catalog client script is used to populate a variable's value from an external table. The script works in the development instance but fails in production. Which troubleshooting step should be taken first?

Hard
460

A company wants to allow employees to request software through the service catalog. Each software item requires the employee to select a license type (Standard, Professional, or Enterprise). Which variable type should be used for the license type selection?

Easy
461

A user reports that a catalog item's 'Requested for' field is not being set correctly after submission. The catalog item uses a workflow that includes a 'Set Requested For' activity. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
462

A junior administrator wants to see which CIs have been updated in the last 24 hours. Which table contains the change log for CMDB CIs?

Easy
463

An administrator needs to ensure that when a user changes the 'State' field to 'Resolved' on an incident form, the 'Resolution Notes' field becomes mandatory. What should be configured?

Hard
464

A catalog item is configured but does not appear in the Service Portal for end users. The item is categorized under 'Software' and the catalog is 'IT Services'. The Service Portal widget 'sc_category_item' is used. Which of the following is the most likely reason?

Hard
465

Which TWO of the following are best practices when working with ACLs?

Medium
466

A company wants to allow users to reset their own passwords via the Service Portal. Which feature should be configured?

Easy
467

A company recently upgraded their ServiceNow instance from Paris to Quebec. After the upgrade, several users report that the 'Assignment Group' field on the Incident form is missing for users with the 'itil' role. The field is still visible for administrators. The administrator checks the dictionary entry for the 'assignment_group' field and finds that it has no roles set. The form layout for the 'Default view' includes the field. The UI Policy that previously controlled visibility of this field has been deactivated. An audit of the upgrade logs shows no errors related to this field. The administrator suspects that a new feature introduced in Quebec might have affected the field visibility. Which action should the administrator take to restore the field visibility for 'itil' users?

Medium
468

An import set row fails with the error 'Coalesce field not found on target table'. What is the most common cause?

Easy
469

A before business rule on the Change Request table is supposed to set the 'risk' field based on the 'impact' and 'urgency' fields. The rule uses the current.update() method. However, when the rule runs, it causes a recursive loop. What is the best solution?

Hard
470

A company wants to allow users to reset their own passwords through the portal. Which feature should be enabled?

Medium
471

Which TWO of the following are true about business rules in ServiceNow? (Choose two.)

Easy
472

An administrator is troubleshooting an ACL that grants 'write' access to the 'incident' table for the 'itil' role. Despite the ACL being active, users with the 'itil' role cannot update incidents. The administrator confirms that no other write ACLs exist. What is the most likely reason?

Medium
473

A CMDB administrator notices that duplicate CIs are being created for the same server from different discovery sources. What is the most likely cause?

Easy
474

A form has a UI Policy that sets a field mandatory. The mandatory is not applied. Which is a likely cause?

Medium
475

A project manager wants all incident forms to display a static informational message at the top for all users without any conditions. Which method is most efficient and requires the least ongoing maintenance?

Medium
476

A company has implemented a complex service catalog workflow that includes multiple approval stages and manual tasks. Recently, some requests have been stuck in the 'Pending' state without progressing. The administrator has verified that the approval conditions are met and the approval records are created. What is the most likely cause?

Hard
477

Refer to the exhibit. A catalog task for a software request with cost $6000 is in progress. The flow is waiting at the 'Manager Approval' step. What is the current approval state?

Medium
478

What is the purpose of the 'Flow Designer'?

Easy
479

A ServiceNow administrator creates a new report showing incident counts by category. After sharing the report with the IT team, some users report they cannot see the report in their navigation menu. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
480

A catalog client script is supposed to show a variable when another variable equals 'Yes'. The script runs on 'onChange' of the first variable. However, the second variable does not appear. What is a possible cause?

Hard
481

A UI Policy is configured to run on load and on change for the department and category variables. When a user selects department 'IT' and category does not contain 'hardware', what is the behavior regarding the 'cost_center' variable?

Easy
482

The JSON above shows part of a transform map configuration. What will happen when an import set row containing a value in the 'short_desc' field is processed?

Medium
483

Refer to the exhibit. When a user submits a request for a laptop, the approval is granted by admin even though admin is not the manager. Which configuration allows this?

Medium
484

A company needs to create a report that shows the average time taken to resolve incidents. Which report type would best fulfill this requirement?

Easy
485

Match each ServiceNow acronym to its full form.

Medium
486

Refer to the exhibit. A catalog item 'Laptop Request' requires approval from the 'IT Hardware Approvers' group. The approval rule is 'Any one approves'. What is the current approval state for the request?

Medium
487

Which TWO statements about the ServiceNow application navigator are true? (Choose two.)

Medium
488

An organization uses an approval process for all catalog requests. They want a delegated approver to be able to approve on behalf of the manager. Which configuration is required?

Medium
489

Drag and drop the steps to create a new Business Rule in ServiceNow into the correct order.

Medium
490

Which THREE are correct about form views? (Choose three.)

Medium
491

A system administrator needs to hide the 'Delete' button on the incident form for users with the 'itil' role, but allow it for administrators. What is the best approach?

Hard
492

Which TWO of the following are true regarding catalog item variables? (Choose two.)

Medium
493

Drag and drop the steps to set up an SLA definition in ServiceNow into the correct order.

Medium
494

Refer to the exhibit. What is the primary purpose of this Business Rule?

Hard
495

Which THREE elements are required for a successful 'Password Reset' flow in ServiceNow? (Choose three.)

Hard
496

What is the purpose of the CMDB Health Dashboard?

Easy
497

A ServiceNow administrator is configuring Data Segmentation for CMDB. Which TWO statements are true about Data Segmentation? (Select exactly 2)

Medium
498

Refer to the exhibit. A workflow for a catalog item has three stages. The 'Run Script' activity sets the assigned_to to the current user (the requester). The approval activity approves by the manager. The 'Create Task' activity creates a catalog task. When the workflow runs, the task is created but is assigned to the requester instead of the fulfillment group. What is the likely cause?

Medium
499

Refer to the exhibit. This script runs in a background script. Which set of records will be printed?

Medium
500

A ServiceNow administrator is responsible for importing data from an external HR system into the Employee table. The import set uses a transform map that creates new records and updates existing ones based on the employee number. Recently, the administrator noticed that some existing records are being incorrectly duplicated. The transform map is configured with a coalesce on the 'Employee Number' field. After reviewing the import log, the administrator finds that the import set rows are being processed, but the coalesce is not matching correctly. The HR system sends data with employee numbers that have leading zeros, but the ServiceNow employee number field is stored without leading zeros. For example, employee number '0123' in the source is '123' in ServiceNow. The administrator needs to fix this issue without modifying the HR system data. Which course of action should the administrator take?

Hard
501

Refer to the exhibit. A user with the admin role but not a member of the admin_group is denied write access to the sys_user table. What is the most likely explanation?

Hard
502

Match each ServiceNow application scope to its description.

Medium
503

A large enterprise uses ServiceNow for IT Service Management and has implemented a self-service portal with over 50 catalog items. Recently, the IT team receives complaints that certain catalog items are not visible to users who should have access based on their roles. The administrator has verified that the catalog items are set to 'User Criteria' and 'Roles' correctly. Additionally, the portal's 'Catalog Categories' and 'Homepage' configuration seem correct. However, users still report missing items. Upon investigation, the administrator notices that the 'Available for' criteria on some catalog items include conditions like 'User's Department is IT', but the users in IT claim they still cannot see the item. The administrator checks the user records and confirms that the department field is correctly populated. What is the most likely cause of this issue?

Hard
504

A user reports that the 'My Work' module is missing from the application navigator. The administrator has assigned the user the 'sn_hr_core.hr_case_agent' role. Which step should the administrator take to troubleshoot this issue?

Easy

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