ServiceNow Certified System Administration

A map to determine relationships between fields displaying an Import Set to fields in an existing table

What is a Transform Map in ServiceNow?

Self-Service

What application is available to all users?

Modify the order field

How do you change the sort sequence of fields or tasks?

Record List
Form
Tables and Columns

In which three places can Tables and Fields be viewed and manipulated?

Click arrow next to breadcrumb in list

Where do you change the Smart Filter Condition Builder?

Click List Mechanic gear above check boxes

How do you display the slushbucket?

A view

What do you call a saved version of a personalized form?

Click on the table name at the top of a list and select filter

How do you apply a saved filter?

A Form

What displays fields from one record and can be used to edit the record data?

Light red - required but has a saved value.
Green - Modified field content - need to save.
Red - Required and needs value.
Orange - Read-only

What are the field status indicators?

Invalid data or mis-typed word

What does a red-dashed line indicate?

Submit

What do you click to save changes on a new form and return to the previoiusly viewed page?

Update

What do you click to save changes on an existing record and return to the previously viewed form?

Right click form header and click save

What do you click on to save changes without leaving the form?

Insert or Insert and stay

What do you do to save a new record to the db instead of updating the current item?

UI Policy

What is a rule that applies to a form to dynamically change form information on the form itself?

Data Policy (not used much)

What enables admins to set mandatory and read-only states for a field?

UI Actions

What do you use to put buttons, links and context menu items on forms and lists?

A Business Rule

What is a control that applies permissions, sends notifications and triggers other processes when a record is displayed, inserted, updated or deleted or when a table is queried?

When accessed through the form

Client scripts only apply when?

Globally

Business Rules apply when?

When you can use UI policies or Access Control Rules

When SHOULDN'T you use client scripts?

onCellEdit
onChange
onLoad
onSubmit

Client scripts can be executed in four ways. What are they?

No, but they can be disabled

Can plug-ins be removed?

Record list view
Schema map
Tables and Columns module

Name three interfaces for viewing and manipulating tables?

Data Dictionary

What stores structure and relationship definitions?

Sys_dictionary
sys_documentation
sys_db-object

What three tables provide Data Dictionary and relationship information?

Order field - Best practice 3 digit numbers

How do you establish the sequence for displaying lists?

Configuration Item

What does CI stand for?

CMDB

What is a series of tables that contains all the assets and business services controlled by a company?

A Configuration Item (CI)

What do you call a tangible device or intangible dedicated software in the CMDB?

cmdb_ci

What is the core CI table?

Cmdb_rel_ci

What is the CI relationship table?

Computers/Devices on the network
software contracts and licenses
Business services

List CI examples

Task and CI

What are the two base tables of SN?

Locate failed changes and associate incidents
Facilitate quick analysis of impact, helping reduce or eliminate downtime
cost savings

List Benefits of CMDB?

Business Service Map graphically displays the CIs that compose a business service and indicates status

What is a BSM map?

A role that has special permissions for the duration of the log in session

After the High Security plugin is activated, a security_admin privilege is created. What is an elevated privilege?

security_admin

To access the control list you have to have which access?

In the User sys_user table

Where is the user record stored?

Sys_user_group table

Where are groups stored?

Sys_user_role table

Where are roles stored?

A role

What is a collection of permissions to grant access and assign security?

System Admin
Specialized Admin
ITIL
ESS

Name the four built-in roles?

All the permissions of any other roles it includes

What does a role inherit?

Assign users to groups, map roles to groups. Don't map roles to users. Apply general roles to large groups and specific roles to smaller groups

What is best practice for users/groups/roles?

System (username/pw)
Applications and Modules (Roles)
Tables and Fields (System Properties/ Access Control)

What are the 3 levels of Access?

Access Control in Tables and Fields

Where are row and column security set?

System Property in Tables and Fields

Where is Table security set?

Conditional Expressions
Scripts
Roles

What are the three ways Access Control Rules are defined?

ACL

What is the list of all Access Controls for a table?

A security rule defined and set at the row and column level

What is an Access Control?

Specific to general if all conditions are true (Conditions, Scripts and Roles)

What is the Access Control evaluation?

Start condition
Stop condition
Pause condition

In a SLA Definition, which one is a condition that will trigger an SLA?

Draft
Review
Publish

What is the sequencing of publishing an Knowledge Article?

Manually
From the Service Catalog with a Record Producer
Automatically from events
From existing Incidents or Tasks

Name 4 ways the Knowledge Base can be populated?

Topics
Categories
Articles

What is the Knowledge base hierarchy?

Roles

How do you protect KB articles?

Make it public and protect with roles

How do you allow users to access KB without logging in?

Event

What do you call an indication to the SN processes that something notable has occurred?

User actions
Scripts(Business Rules/Workflows)

What can cause events?

Event queue

What contains a record of every generated event?

Notifications

What do events trigger?

A mix of static and dynamically determined content

What does a Notification contain?

To copy prod over a sub-prod instance

Why would you clone an instance?

Feature
Patch
HotFix

What are the three release types?

No

Are user customization records upgraded?

Total Response Time - network browser and server 3 seconds
Server Response time below 800 ms

What are best practices response times?

A homepage

What is a dashboard of frequently used content with reports?

A gauge

What do you call a mapped graphic image on a homepage that are packed reports?

Metrics

What is used to measure and evaluate the effectiveness of IT service management process?

Data over time to show past history

What do metrics measure?

SLA

What is a measurement of the set amount of time for a task to reach a certain condition?

Breached

What do you call it when SLA is not met?

SLA Definition
Task SLA
SLA Workflow
SLA Automation (Business Rule and scheduled job)

What are the four major components that power SLA?

SLA
Operational Level Agreement(OLA) how departments work together
Underpinning Contract(UC) outside suppliers

What are the three types of SLA?

Start
Stop
Pause

What conditions define an SLA?

Customizations

What is another name for Customer Updates?

Variable Types

Multiple Choice, Single Line Text and Select Box are what type of elements in ServiceNow?

Approvals
Notifications
Task

What are the 3 basic components of Workflow?

Utilize he Graphical Workflow Editor

How do you modify or create a Workflow?

Utilize the Graphical Workflow Editor

How do you modify or create a Workflow?

Service Catalog

What is a robust ordering system for services, hardware and software and the central repository of goods and services that an IT service desk provides for users?

Record Producers
Items
Variables
Order Guides
Workflows

Name the major components of Service Catalog?

REQ
RITM
Catalog Task
Assignment Group

Name some of the various items that orders from Service Catalog generate?

A modular unit of variables that can be shared between catalog items

What is a variable set?

Define an order guide
Group items in order guide
Use questions to present item options

What are Service Catalog best practices?

Waiting for approval
Fulfillment
Delivery
Completed
Or Request canceled

What are the 5 workflow stages?

Approval
Notifications
Tasks

What 3 basic components are generated and assigned by workflows

Approvals
Conditions
Notifications
Tasks
Timers
Utilities

Name the 6 workflow activities?

Changes made to a form

By default in ServiceNow, what customizations are added to Update Sets?

System Properties, then CSS Properties

Where do you go in SN to change the banner and colors?

Import Set

What do you use to import data from various data sources and map data into SN tables?

Transform map

What determines the relationship between the Import Set Table and an existing ServiceNow table?

1. Load Data
2.Create Transform MAP
3.Run transform

What are the steps for using Import Sets and Transform Maps?

Makes a field the unique key

What does coalescing do before a transform?

An Update Set

What do you call a group of customizations or personalizations that can be packaged and moved from one instance to another?

Customer Update table (sys_update_xml)

What table is used to track changes in an update set?

New Records
New users and groups
Modified data
Schedules

What cannot be customized with update sets?

Only manually

Can homepages be added to update sets?

Many

Should you include few or many changes in one Update Set?

Yes

Can two update sets be merged?

Retrieve
Preview
Commit
Apply

What is the sequence on the production instance to run an Update Set?

Approvals
Notifications
Tasks

What are the three components of a workflow?

Problem
Incident
Change Request.

What are the three tables based on the Task table?

SYS ID

What is another name for the 32-character GUID?

Breadcrumbs link underlined text criteria

What do breadcrumbs do?

A list

What is it called when you display the contents of a table?

Fields and Records

What are the components of a table?

Fields and records

What are the components of a form?

Client Side

Where are UI Policies applied?

Buttons
Links
Context menus

What are the three types of UI Actions?

onLoad
onChange
onSubmit
onCellEdit

What are the four types of Client Scripts?

sys_user_group

What table holds groups?

sys_user_role

What table holds roles?

Approvals, Notifications, Tasks, and Invites

What can be Delegated? Hint: ANTI

Extensions
One-to-many
Many-to-many
DB views

What are the four types of table relationships?

The Schema Map is the Graphical Representation of Relationships between Tables.

What is the Schema Map?

Configuration Management Database

What does CMDB stand for?

cmdb_ci

What table holds CI information?

cmdb_rel_ci

What table holds CI relationships?

Import Data

What do Import Sets do?

Load data, create transform map, and transform data

What are the three steps in importing data?

Makes the coalesce field a unique key

What does the coalesce option do in Import Sets?

It is a repository of important information

What is a Knowledge Base?

Publish

What step makes workflows available to users?

System properties > CSS Properties

Where do you change banners and colors on your interface?

Retrieve
Preview
Commit
Apply

What is the Update Set run sequence?

Transform Map

What provides a guide for moving data from import set?

Modify the order field

How do you change the sort sequence of fields or tasks?

Record list
Forms
Tables and Columns

Where can tables and fields be manipulated?

Draft/Review/Publish

What is the sequence of publishing Knowledge articles?

Approvals
Notifications
Tasks

What are three basic components of a workflow?

Utilize the graphical workflow editor

How do you modify or create a workflow?

System Properties and CSS properties

Where do you go in ServiceNow to change the banner and colors?

Security Admin

Which access is needed to access ACLs?

A row is a record

What is a row?

Utilize Coalesce field to make the field unique

How to save duplicate data while importing?

ACL provides permission to access any object in ServiceNow

What controls what type of data users can access?

Service catalog>Maintain Item

Where do you modify Service catalog items?

Transform map

What provides a guide to move data from import sets?

Data

What is stored in a table?

One-to-many relationships

How are users related to roles and groups?

Group of customizations can be captured and moved from one instance to another instance with the help of data sets

What are update sets?

Configuration Item

What is a CI?

A record producer is a module of Service Catalog to create records from catalog view

What is a record producer?

REQ>RITM>TASK

When you open a service catalog form and click on Order now button what gets created?

Unit of variable which can be shared with catalog items

What is a variable set?

Waiting for Approval
Fulfillment
Delivery
Completed

What are workflow stages?

1. Manually on the catalog item form
2. Automatically, based on conditions
3. Automatically, if no other workflow is attached

What are 3 ways by which Service catalog workflow can be attached

Start
Pause
Stop

What are the steps of SLA?

UI Policy and Client scripts run on client side
Business Rules and Data policy run on server side.

What runs on client side and what runs on server side?

UI Policy

How do you set read only fields?

A piece of javascript configured to run when record is displayed, insterted, deleted, or queried

What is a Business Rule?

System Properties>Security

Where do you limit attachments?

When an event is fired

When is a notification sent?

System Diagnostics>Upgrade History

What module tracks all UPGRADES to the system?

Software as a Service

What is SaaS?

It takes you to the homepage

What is the functionality of the Home icon?

Provide links to all applications and modules

What is the function of the navigator?

The link that appear as underlined text to display content criteria

What are breadcrumbs?

Mysearchitem%

What is the syntax to return the items that start with phrases?

#NAME?

What is the syntax to return the items that equal the phrase

sys_script table

Where are business rules stored?

A record in the sys_user_role table

What is a role?

System Administrator
Specialized Administrator
ITIL
Employee Self-Service

What roles are provided by ServiceNow?

Another user in the instance is designated to receive or interact with approvals and tasks assigned to you

What is a delegate?

Discovery
Import Sets
Integrate with external CMDB
Web Services
Help the helpdesk
Manual Input

What methods are available to populate CMDB?

Manually
From Service Catalog record producer/
Automatically from events
From existing incident

How can KB be populated?

Record Producers
Items
Variables
Order guides
Workflows

What are major components of Service catalog?

An indication to the SN process that something notable has occurred

What is an event?

The Event queue

What contains a record of events?

Email sent to the user when any event occurs in SN

What is a notification?

Feature Release
Patch Release
Hotfix

What are the different types of ServiceNow releases?

Pie Chart
Bar Chart
List
Calendar
Pivot Table
Box Chart
Trend

What are types of Standard reports?

A mapped graphic image on a homepage

What is a gauge?

Used to measure effectiveness of IT Service Management process

What is a metric?

SLA is breached

What happens when an SLA task does not reach the condition?

SLA - Service Level Agreement/OLA - Operation Level Agreement/UC - Underpinning Contracts

What are types of SLA?

Set the start time equal to when an Incident was created

What is retroactive start?