Free CIS-DF: Certified Implementation Specialist - Data Foundations (CMDB and CSDM) Exam Questions and Answers

Which pair of CI fields is used together to record where a CI is in its lifecycle under CSDM guidance?

• AA. Operational Status and Business Criticality
• BB. Life Cycle Stage and Life Cycle Stage Status
• CC. Install Status and Operational Status
• DD. Life Cycle Stage and Install Status

In CI Class Manager, what does the Suggested Relationships setting for a class define?

• AA. The relationships that Discovery patterns create automatically when a CI of that class is found
• BB. The relationships that Unified Map displays by default when a CI of that class is opened
• CC. The relationship types and related classes offered when a user manually adds a relationship to a CI of that class
• DD. The relationship types that identification rules use to find a CI through its related items

A CMDB administrator reviews the CMDB Health dashboard after a data center consolidation. Several hundred server CIs still show a last discovered date older than the staleness threshold, and the physical servers have been decommissioned. Which CMDB Health KPI group reports these CIs?

• AA. Compliance
• BB. Completeness
• CC. Reconciliation
• DD. Correctness

A Service Graph Connector loads computer data into the CMDB, and Discovery has already created CIs for many of the same computers. Which mechanism decides whether an incoming record updates an existing CI or creates a new one?

• AA. The identification rules evaluated by the IRE as part of the ETL load
• BB. The coalesce field defined on the import set table for the connector
• CC. The data source precedence set on the connector's data source record
• DD. The reconciliation rules defined for the Discovery data source

A CMDB architect is modeling the Payroll application with CSDM. The Business Application record already exists. The team now needs a record that represents the production deployment of Payroll and links to the servers and databases it runs on. Which table should store that record?

• AA. Business Capability [cmdb_ci_business_capability]
• BB. Business Application [cmdb_ci_business_app]
• CC. Service Offering [service_offering]
• DD. Application Service [cmdb_ci_service_auto]

A Discovery schedule scans the 10.40.8.0/24 range through a MID Server whose status is Up. The Discovery log shows that the port scan found port 22 open on 60 Linux servers, but the classification step failed on every one with authentication errors. The network team confirms that no firewall blocks traffic between the MID Server and the servers. What should the administrator do to get these servers discovered and added to the CMDB?

• AA. Raise the probe timeout on the Discovery schedule so classification has longer to finish
• BB. Add a second MID Server to the schedule so the scan load is split between two hosts
• CC. Create SSH credential records that are valid for the servers and make them available to the MID Server
• DD. Reinstall the MID Server on a host in the same subnet as the Linux servers

A CMDB administrator loads server data from a spreadsheet by using an import set and a transform map that target cmdb_ci_server. The administrator must make sure every incoming row is processed by the Identification and Reconciliation Engine (IRE) before any CI is inserted or updated. Which approach should the administrator use?

• AA. Set the serial number as the coalesce field on the transform map
• BB. Enable de-duplication tasks on the cmdb_ci_server class
• CC. Use the CMDBTransformUtil script include in an onBefore transform script
• DD. Run a CMDB Health job after each import completes

An audit requires that Windows server CIs not updated for 180 days be removed from the active CMDB tables so that they no longer appear in lists, reports or reference fields. The records must remain retrievable for later investigation. A CMDB administrator is configuring a CMDB Data Manager policy to meet this requirement. Which policy type should the administrator choose?

• AA. Archive
• BB. Retire
• CC. Attestation
• DD. Delete

During a CSDM adoption review, a CMDB administrator presents the CSDM Data Foundations Dashboard to the governance board. The board wants to know what the dashboard can tell them. Which two capabilities does the dashboard provide? (Choose two.)

Select 2 answers.

• AA. It measures CMDB data against CSDM guidance for each adoption stage
• BB. It shows the trend of CSDM alignment results over time
• CC. It creates remediation tasks that merge duplicate CIs automatically
• DD. It scores completeness, correctness and compliance for each CI class

A CMDB administrator must add a class for container orchestration clusters, which the base system does not provide. The new CIs will be populated later by a third-party integration. Which two tasks can the administrator complete in CI Class Manager? (Choose two.)

Select 2 answers.

• AA. Define an identification rule with identifier entries for the new class
• BB. Create the class under an existing parent class to inherit its attributes
• CC. Map the integration's source fields to the new class in IntegrationHub ETL
• DD. Build a Discovery pattern that populates the new class