Certified Implementation Specialist – Data Foundations Questions and Answers

200 questions organized by topic with detailed explanations

ServiceNow

CIS-DF

200 questions

5 topics

Updated May 2026

Configuration

30 questions8 easy15 medium7 hard~15% of exam

Before activating the CSDM plugin, what should be done with existing lifecycle data?What change is expected after the CSDM plugin is activated and lifecycle mapping is complete?An admin wants a central tree view of the CMDB class hierarchy before extending a class. Which tool should be opened?

Ingest

38 questions8 easy19 medium11 hard~19% of exam

An Azure Service Graph Connector run ends with errors before finishing its delta pull. What happens to Last Run Datetime...An architect is reviewing enhanced IRE defaults. Which statement is correct?A payload arrives with a last_discovered value older than what is already on the CI. How does IRE handle that timestamp?

Govern

70 questions16 easy34 medium20 hard~35% of exam

A platform owner wants future Data Manager approvals to route more predictably across a class hierarchy. Which setup bes...An operations manager retires a set of CIs and still expects them to appear in health reporting. Which statement is corr...Before enabling a policy type against several classes, an architect checks whether each class has active retirement defi...

Insight

40 questions12 easy20 medium8 hard~20% of exam

The foundation metric Business Units with Companies is at 84 percent. What is the most likely remediation?The Locations with Parents widget is below 100 percent. What does that result indicate?A manager wants to compare CMDB Health results at different rollup levels. Which levels are supported for aggregated hea...

CSDM Fundamentals

22 questions8 easy12 medium2 hard~11% of exam

Which related object is valid for an application service in CSDM?Which table and classification pair is correct for a technology management service?A service instance is retired, but the underlying database server is shared by several other service instances. What sho...

All Questions

#	Question	Topic	Difficulty
1	A platform owner wants future Data Manager approvals to route more predictably across a class hierar...	Govern	hard
2	An operations manager retires a set of CIs and still expects them to appear in health reporting. Whi...	Govern	medium
3	Before enabling a policy type against several classes, an architect checks whether each class has ac...	Govern	medium
4	The foundation metric Business Units with Companies is at 84 percent. What is the most likely remedi...	Insight	medium
5	A large archive policy is moving thousands of CIs. How does CMDB Data Manager batch archive processi...	Govern	medium

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