ServiceNow CIS-DF - Certified Implementation Specialist Data Foundations

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CertificationCIS – Data Foundations (CMDB and CSDM) (CIS-DF)
Questions188
Passing Score80%
Format92% 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

This quiz

Configuration37 (19.7%)
Govern75 (39.9%)
Ingest33 (17.6%)
Insight25 (13.3%)
CSDM Fundamentals18 (9.6%)

Exam blueprint

Official domain weights for this certification.

Configure15%
Ingest19%
Govern35%
Insight20%
CSDM Fundamentals11%
Configuration37 questions
  • CI Class Manager7 q
  • Identification and Reconciliation Engine (IRE)16 q
  • CMDB 360 and Multisource CMDB14 q
Govern75 questions
  • Principal classes3 q
  • CMDB Health metrics13 q
  • CMDB governance goals2 q
  • Governing the CMDB3 q
  • CMDB roles and stewardship5 q
  • CMDB Health Dashboard and KPIs2 q
  • Duplicate CI creation and remediation6 q
  • Deduplication wizard1 q
  • Operationalizing the CMDB6 q
  • CMDB Workspace7 q
  • Data Manager3 q
  • Data Manager policy features7 q
  • Data quality and compliance validation3 q
  • Configuring Data Manager3 q
  • CMDB Data Foundations Dashboard8 q
  • Lifecycle CI attributes3 q
Ingest33 questions
  • Relationship population5 q
  • Data ingestion methods6 q
  • CMDB integration automation7 q
  • Technical debt and upgradeability3 q
  • Manual and non-discoverable CIs2 q
  • Compliance identifiers on CSDM objects6 q
  • Asset and CI alignment4 q
Insight25 questions
  • Foundation Dashboard Playbooks4 q
  • Business value of CMDB4 q
  • Natural Language Query4 q
  • CMDB 360 saved queries1 q
  • Complex queries and relationships6 q
  • Unified Map and dependency views4 q
  • Products leveraging CMDB data2 q
CSDM Fundamentals18 questions
  • Stakeholder and CSDM domain mapping12 q
  • CSDM approach and alignment3 q
  • Benefits of implementing CSDM3 q

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Question 1

Operations wants recurring validation that CPU count and OS version on in-scope server CIs are still accurate, with tasks auto-assigned to owning teams.

Which Data Manager policy type should the administrator create?

Answer choices

  • A. Archive

  • B. Attestation

  • C. Retire

  • D. Certification

Question 2

Thousands of server CIs are stale for more than 90 days. The governance policy requires them to leave active operational use after review, while still preserving a restore window for historical and audit needs.

Which Data Manager automation sequence fits?

Answer choices

  • A. Create an attestation policy that asks owners to confirm the stale population, then leave confirmed records active for future reporting

  • B. Use a cleanup policy to target stale CIs, transition eligible records through retirement, and archive them after the defined grace period

  • C. Configure a remediation policy that updates Last discovered so the stale servers no longer fail health checks

  • D. Build a CMDB Health audit that marks stale servers as compliant when they have linked incidents or change history

Question 3

A CMDB Program Manager develops a multi-year CMDB roadmap and needs Foundation Dashboards to inform investment priorities and demonstrate progress to sponsors.

Which two ways should Foundation Dashboards inform that roadmap?

Answer choices

  • A. They replace the CMDB with a spreadsheet export

  • B. They list MID Server versions as the primary dashboard content

  • C. They provide maturity indicators across foundation dimensions

  • D. They track progress trends over time toward readiness targets

  • E. They auto-patch operating systems on server CIs

Question 4

A university IT department allocates shared data-center and cloud infrastructure costs to academic departments based on actual consumption patterns documented in the CMDB.

Which two CMDB data points enable chargeback analysis?

Answer choices

  • A. Leveraging CI ownership and department attributes to assign infrastructure spend

  • B. Posting general-ledger journal entries automatically from cmdb_ci records

  • C. Replacing the finance system of record for all capital expenditures

  • D. Following dependency paths from infrastructure CIs to business services and consuming departments

  • E. Storing employee salary figures on each cmdb_ci_server record

Question 5

A data steward opens CMDB 360 for a CI and compares what different discovery and integration sources reported for attributes such as name, serial number, IP address, and manufacturer.

Which table is commonly used to store the raw per-source attribute data that supports this multisource comparison?

Answer choices

  • A. sys_object_source

  • B. cmdb_multisource_data

  • C. cmdb_ci

  • D. cmdb_rel_ci