SERVICENOW CIS – Data Foundations (CMDB and CSDM) (CIS-DF) — Community Bank
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| Certification | CIS – Data Foundations (CMDB and CSDM) (CIS-DF) |
| Questions | 51 |
| Passing Score | 70% |
| Format | 92% Multiple Choice |
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Certification Summary
The ServiceNow CIS-Data Foundations certification is for CMDB admins and platform architects who spend their shifts fixing discovery duplicates and fighting with teams over broken CI classes. You sit this exam if you are the person the bridge call leader pings when the CMDB health dashboard stays red and the identification engine fails to reconcile incoming hardware data.
Expect to spend your time on Govern at 35 percent, which covers the reconciliation rules and data audits that stop the CMDB from becoming a junk drawer. Ingest and Insight make up 39 percent of the exam, focusing on how data enters the system and how you report on its health, while Configure and CSDM Fundamentals cover the remaining 26 percent. You will see questions about setting up identification and reconciliation rules for specific CI classes and mapping business services to infrastructure using the common service data model.
Topics covered
Configure18 questions
Ingest12 questions
Govern13 questions
Insight8 questions
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Sample questions (5)
A free sample of 5 questions from this quiz, with answer choices and explanations.
Question 1
Which component maps columns from the staging table to the target CMDB fields?
Explanation
The trap is confusing the container for the tool. A field map is the specific piece that links a source column to a destination field.
Question 2
Map each CSDM domain to its functional objective.
Explanation
The CSDM framework logically partitions data into specific domains. Foundation is the prerequisite for all other domains. Design maps the service hierarchy. Build focuses on the asset/CI transition. Operate tracks live service health. Manage Technical Services classifies the underlying infrastructure CIs.
Question 3
When configuring an Import Set Map to handle empty values during the data migration process, which specific field property prevents the system from overwriting an existing populated value in the CMDB with a null value from the source file?
Explanation
The Ignore empty fields setting within the Field Map prevents the transform from overwriting a valid target value with an empty or null value provided by the source data.
Question 4
The Choice Action field inside a field map decides how to handle incoming values that do not match existing choice lists. Compare the Create and Reject settings. Why would you select Create instead of Reject during an initial load of legacy data?
Explanation
Choosing Create allows the system to insert new valid options into the choice list if they are not already there, whereas Reject prevents the record from importing if the value is unrecognized.
Question 5
Data sources use a specific format for file-based ingestion. Which format is natively parsed as an Excel document?
Explanation
XLSX is the native file extension for Excel spreadsheet imports.