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Reporting, SLA and Imports practice questions

Practise ServiceNow Certified System Administrator CSA Reporting, SLA and Imports practice questions — original exam-style scenarios with answer choices, explanations, and analysis of common mistakes.

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Reporting, SLA and Imports questions

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Question 1easymultiple choice
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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?

Question 2mediummultiple choice
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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?

Question 3hardmultiple choice
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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?

Question 4easymultiple choice
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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?

Question 5mediummultiple choice
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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?

Question 6hardmultiple choice
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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?

Question 7mediummultiple choice
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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?

Question 8easymulti select
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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?

Question 9mediummulti select
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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?

Question 10hardmulti select
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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?

Question 11hardmultiple choice
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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?

Question 12mediummultiple choice
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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?

Question 13hardmultiple choice
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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?

Question 14easymultiple choice
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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?

Question 15mediummulti select
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Which TWO of the following are valid ways to trigger an SLA in ServiceNow? (Choose exactly 2.)

Question 16hardmultiple choice
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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?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

Error log:
2024-03-15 14:32:10 (source) Import Set: sys_import_set_2c9a3b1e6f7a8d
2024-03-15 14:32:10 Transform: sys_transform_map_8d7e6f5a4b3c2d
2024-03-15 14:32:10 Target table: incident
2024-03-15 14:32:10 Field mapping: short_description <- co-paste(short_description, ' - ', caller_id)
2024-03-15 14:32:10 Error: Field 'caller_id' not found in source table
2024-03-15 14:32:10 Transform aborted.
Question 17mediummultiple choice
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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?

Question 18easymultiple choice
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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?

Question 19mediummulti select
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Which TWO are true about Service Level Agreements (SLAs) in ServiceNow?

Question 20mediumdrag order
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Drag and drop the steps to configure an outbound email account in ServiceNow into the correct order.

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