Question 160
During the automated service discovery design review, the team describes this situation: An enterprise runs a web service whose application tiers and host-to-port connections can be discovered from supported entry points. Which change should be selected?
- Create and steward an explicit typed relationship from the application service to the required database CI.
- Correct the relationship's parent-child orientation using the supported containing relationship type.
- Expand the supported cloud connector's account/project authorization and ingestion scope to the second account.
- Use an appropriate Service Mapping discovery method to populate the service instance composition and CI dependencies.
Explanation
Correct Answer
D:Use an appropriate Service Mapping discovery method to populate the service instance composition and CI dependencies.
Incorrect Answers
A:Create and steward an explicit typed relationship from the application service to the required database CI. That does not use an appropriate Service Mapping discovery method to populate the service instance composition and CI dependencies.
B:Typed CMDB relationships connect CI endpoints with an explicit supported relationship type and direction. That does not use an appropriate Service Mapping discovery method to populate the service instance composition and CI dependencies.
C:Expand the supported cloud connector's account/project authorization and ingestion scope to the second account. That does not use an appropriate Service Mapping discovery method to populate the service instance composition and CI dependencies.
Question 161
An enterprise runs a web service whose application tiers and host-to-port connections can be discovered from supported entry points. A governance reviewer wants outcome evidence rather than a configuration screenshot. Which observation is decisive?
- Confirm the same process name on two different hosts remains two distinct correctly hosted process CIs.
- Sample each service's map to confirm vendor infrastructure nodes have the expected typed links.
- Check the dependency map to confirm the database appears in the app's downstream impact path.
- Compare the discovered application-service map with known web, app and database tiers and their connections.
- Inspect the relationship direction in query results and Unified Map after the correction.
Explanation
Correct Answer
D:Compare the discovered application-service map with known web, app and database tiers and their connections.
Incorrect Answers
A:Confirm the same process name on two different hosts remains two distinct correctly hosted process CIs. It does not compare the discovered application-service map with known web, app and database tiers and their connections.
B:Sample each service's map to confirm vendor infrastructure nodes have the expected typed links. It does not compare the discovered application-service map with known web, app and database tiers and their connections.
C:Check the dependency map to confirm the database appears in the app's downstream impact path. It does not compare the discovered application-service map with known web, app and database tiers and their connections.
E:Inspect the relationship direction in query results and Unified Map after the correction. It does not compare the discovered application-service map with known web, app and database tiers and their connections.
Question 162
After deployment for automated service discovery, the team sees: A service is shown as a single web server because service mapping starts from an incomplete or incorrect entry point. What explains this failure?
- The missing dependency edge, not necessarily a missing CI, prevents the impact path from being traversed.
- The stored relationship type or endpoint direction is reversed for the intended traversal.
- The mapping path does not traverse the real entry endpoint and service connections.
- The feed conflated financial assets with operational CIs that participate in service dependencies.
Explanation
Correct Answer
C:The mapping path does not traverse the real entry endpoint and service connections. The evidence points to the mapping path does not traverse the real entry endpoint and service connections.
Incorrect Answers
A:The missing dependency edge, not necessarily a missing CI, prevents the impact path from being traversed. The evidence points to the mapping path does not traverse the real entry endpoint and service connections.
B:Typed CMDB relationships connect CI endpoints with an explicit supported relationship type and direction. That mechanism cannot explain the mapping path does not traverse the real entry endpoint and service connections.
D:The feed conflated financial assets with operational CIs that participate in service dependencies. The different cause concerns the mapping path does not traverse the real entry endpoint and service connections.
Question 163
An enterprise runs a web service whose application tiers and host-to-port connections can be discovered from supported entry points. To both implement the requested technical change and maintain the result under future drift, select TWO complementary actions.
- Use an appropriate Service Mapping discovery method to populate the service instance composition and CI dependencies.
- Assign and periodically review authoritative source priority per class and field.
- Alert on missed scheduled runs and stale source-specific data rather than only on connector installation state.
- Build owner attestation for manual vendor links and review it at contract-renewal time.
- Retest service maps when service endpoints or traffic paths change.
Explanation
Correct Answers
A:Use an appropriate Service Mapping discovery method to populate the service instance composition and CI dependencies. The necessary intervention is to use an appropriate Service Mapping discovery method to populate the service instance composition and CI dependencies.
E:Long-term integrity for automated service discovery depends on Retest service maps when service endpoints or traffic paths change.
Incorrect Answers
B:Reconciliation rules restrict which data sources may update each attribute of an identified CI. The combined controls instead need use an appropriate Service Mapping discovery method to populate the service instance composition and CI dependencies.
C:Alert on missed scheduled runs and stale source-specific data rather than only on connector installation state. The combined protection instead involves using an appropriate Service Mapping discovery method to populate the service instance composition and CI dependencies.
D:It preserves the non-discoverable relationship audit decision when data sources, policies or operational owners change. The combined controls instead need use an appropriate Service Mapping discovery method to populate the service instance composition and CI dependencies.
Question 164
A ServiceNow team is evaluating non-discoverable relationship audit. An outsourcing vendor provides manual dependency lists for ten business services, and the CMDB has no live discovery for the vendor systems. What should it implement?
- Use an appropriate Service Mapping discovery method to populate the service instance composition and CI dependencies.
- Import or enter controlled typed CI relations with accountable source and verification evidence.
- Expand the supported cloud connector's account/project authorization and ingestion scope to the second account.
- Create and steward an explicit typed relationship from the application service to the required database CI.
Explanation
Correct Answer
B:Import or enter controlled typed CI relations with accountable source and verification evidence.
Incorrect Answers
A:Use an appropriate Service Mapping discovery method to populate the service instance composition and CI dependencies. That does not establish import or enter controlled typed CI relations with accountable source and verification evidence.
C:Expand the supported cloud connector's account/project authorization and ingestion scope to the second account. That does not establish import or enter controlled typed CI relations with accountable source and verification evidence.
D:Create and steward an explicit typed relationship from the application service to the required database CI. That does not establish import or enter controlled typed CI relations with accountable source and verification evidence.
Question 165
An outsourcing vendor provides manual dependency lists for ten business services, and the CMDB has no live discovery for the vendor systems. After the implementation, what evidence most directly demonstrates the intended result?
- Compare the discovered application-service map with known web, app and database tiers and their connections.
- Sample each service's map to confirm vendor infrastructure nodes have the expected typed links.
- Check the dependency map to confirm the database appears in the app's downstream impact path.
- Check that approved risk tier values appear on the intended business application records with steward attribution.
Explanation
Correct Answer
B:Sample each service's map to confirm vendor infrastructure nodes have the expected typed links. That distinguishes a functioning non-discoverable relationship audit path from a configuration that was merely entered.
Incorrect Answers
A:Compare the discovered application-service map with known web, app and database tiers and their connections. That check cannot demonstrate sample each service's map to confirm vendor infrastructure nodes have the expected typed links.
C:Check the dependency map to confirm the database appears in the app's downstream impact path. That check cannot demonstrate sample each service's map to confirm vendor infrastructure nodes have the expected typed links.
D:Check that approved risk tier values appear on the intended business application records with steward attribution. That check cannot demonstrate sample each service's map to confirm vendor infrastructure nodes have the expected typed links.
Question 166
The non-discoverable relationship audit implementation shows an unexpected result: Relations disappear from reports because the vendor supplied only description strings on service records. Which underlying defect should be corrected?
- The mapping path does not traverse the real entry endpoint and service connections.
- The integration crossed the asset-versus-CI authority boundary when mapping fields.
- The missing dependency edge, not necessarily a missing CI, prevents the impact path from being traversed.
- Free-text dependency descriptions are not stored as queryable cmdb_rel_ci records.
Explanation
Correct Answer
D:The failure is in the non-discoverable relationship audit path, not simply a reason to rerun an unrelated dashboard.
Incorrect Answers
A:The mapping path does not traverse the real entry endpoint and service connections. The underlying failure instead involves free-text dependency descriptions are not stored as queryable cmdb_rel_ci records.
B:The integration crossed the asset-versus-CI authority boundary when mapping fields. That does not establish the correct relationship type and CI endpoints.
C:The missing dependency edge, not necessarily a missing CI, prevents the impact path from being traversed. The underlying failure instead involves free-text dependency descriptions are not stored as queryable cmdb_rel_ci records.
Question 167
An outsourcing vendor provides manual dependency lists for ten business services, and the CMDB has no live discovery for the vendor systems. Source owners and platform configurations can change. Which control is most relevant to this case?
- Assign a service owner to periodically certify manually curated dependencies.
- Build owner attestation for manual vendor links and review it at contract-renewal time.
- Monitor connector updates and preserve the source's canonical machine identifier.
- Include relation-direction assertions in automated ingestion acceptance tests.
Explanation
Correct Answer
B:The recurring risk is controlled by Build owner attestation for manual vendor links and review it at contract-renewal time. It preserves the non-discoverable relationship audit decision when data sources, policies or operational owners change.
Incorrect Answers
A:It preserves the manual critical dependency decision when data sources, policies or operational owners change. That does not establish build owner attestation for manual vendor links and review it at contract-renewal time.
C:IRE evaluates ordered identification entries; stable machine IDs should take precedence over weaker hostname fallbacks. That does not establish build owner attestation for manual vendor links and review it at contract-renewal time.
D:Include relation-direction assertions in automated ingestion acceptance tests. That does not establish build owner attestation for manual vendor links and review it at contract-renewal time.
Question 168
During the conflicting relation direction design review, the team describes this situation: A storage volume should be contained by a storage array; the import connected the records backward. Which change should be selected?
- Correct the relationship's parent-child orientation using the supported containing relationship type.
- Import or enter controlled typed CI relations with accountable source and verification evidence.
- Use an appropriate Service Mapping discovery method to populate the service instance composition and CI dependencies.
- Configure reconciliation ownership so the connector wins supported support-group updates while manual proposals remain visible for review.
Explanation
Correct Answer
A:Typed CMDB relationships connect CI endpoints with an explicit supported relationship type and direction. The needed intervention is correct the relationship's parent-child orientation using the supported containing relationship type.
Incorrect Answers
B:Import or enter controlled typed CI relations with accountable source and verification evidence. That does not establish the correct relationship type and CI endpoints.
C:Use an appropriate Service Mapping discovery method to populate the service instance composition and CI dependencies. The missing change involves correcting the relationship's parent-child orientation using the supported containing relationship type.
D:Reconciliation rules restrict which data sources may update each attribute of an identified CI. That does not establish the correct relationship type and CI endpoints.
Question 169
A storage volume should be contained by a storage array; the import connected the records backward. A governance reviewer wants outcome evidence rather than a configuration screenshot. Which observation is decisive?
- Sample each service's map to confirm vendor infrastructure nodes have the expected typed links.
- Compare the discovered application-service map with known web, app and database tiers and their connections.
- Create one approved sample asset and confirm the generated or linked CI has the proper class.
- Inspect the relationship direction in query results and Unified Map after the correction.
Explanation
Correct Answer
D:Inspect the relationship direction in query results and Unified Map after the correction. That distinguishes a functioning conflicting relation direction path from a configuration that was merely entered.
Incorrect Answers
A:Sample each service's map to confirm vendor infrastructure nodes have the expected typed links. It does not inspect the relationship direction in query results and Unified Map after the correction.
B:Compare the discovered application-service map with known web, app and database tiers and their connections. It does not inspect the relationship direction in query results and Unified Map after the correction.
C:Create one approved sample asset and confirm the generated or linked CI has the proper class. It does not inspect the relationship direction in query results and Unified Map after the correction.
Question 170
After deployment for conflicting relation direction, the team sees: A query for volumes contained by the array returns none although the link appears on the two CI forms. What explains this failure?
- The stored relationship type or endpoint direction is reversed for the intended traversal.
- The model category mapping, rather than the asset's serial number, chose the wrong CI subclass.
- The mapping path does not traverse the real entry endpoint and service connections.
- Free-text dependency descriptions are not stored as queryable cmdb_rel_ci records.
Explanation
Correct Answer
A:The stored relationship type or endpoint direction is reversed for the intended traversal.
Incorrect Answers
B:Identification rules distinguish a CI using stable, authoritative identifiers rather than display names alone. The evidence points to the stored relationship type or endpoint direction is reversed for the intended traversal.
C:The mapping path does not traverse the real entry endpoint and service connections. The evidence points to the stored relationship type or endpoint direction is reversed for the intended traversal.
D:The failure is in the non-discoverable relationship audit path, not simply a reason to rerun an unrelated dashboard. The evidence points to the stored relationship type or endpoint direction is reversed for the intended traversal.
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