ServiceNow CIS-HAM - Certified Implementation Specialist - Hardware Asset Management

 Operational expenses are the costs incurred by an organization to maintain and use an asset throughout its lifecycle. These costs include the expenses related to the repair, maintenance, upgrade, and disposal of the asset. Some examples of operational expenses are:

Replacement parts: These are the costs of purchasing and installing new parts or components for an asset that is damaged, worn out, or obsolete. For example, replacing a hard drive, a battery, or a keyboard for a laptop.

Maintenance agreements: These are the costs of contracting with a vendor or a service provider to perform regular or preventive maintenance on an asset. For example, paying a monthly fee for a technician to check and service a printer or a scanner.

Other examples of operational expenses are:

Storage costs: These are the costs of renting or owning a space to store an asset that is not in use or awaiting disposal. For example, paying for a warehouse, a locker, or a shelf to keep unused or surplus computers or monitors.

Warranty costs: These are the costs of extending or renewing the warranty coverage for an asset that is still under the manufacturer’s warranty or has expired. For example, paying an extra fee for a one-year or a three-year warranty extension for a tablet or a smartphone.

The Product Catalog is a table that contains all the hardware and consumable models that are available in your organization12.

The Service Catalog is a portal that allows users to browse and request items and services that are approved by the IT department13.

Publishing an item to the Service Catalog means making it visible and available for users to request13.

To publish an item to the Service Catalog, you need to use the “Publish to Hardware Catalog” related link in the Product Catalog1 .

This related link creates a catalog item for the selected model and adds it to the Hardware Catalog category in the Service Catalog1 .

Therefore, the correct answer is A. Product Catalog, as this is where you can use the “Publish to Hardware Catalog” related link to publish an item to the Service Catalog.

Normalization is the process of restructuring data to maintain consistency, accuracy, and completeness across different sources and systems. Normalization helps to eliminate data duplication, conflicts, and errors, and to ensure that the data conforms to predefined standards and rules. Normalization is especially important for hardware asset management, as it enables users to have a clear and unified view of their hardware models, manufacturers, product names, device types, and other attributes. ServiceNow Hardware Asset Management provides a feature called Hardware Model Normalization, which allows users to normalize the details of their hardware and consumable models using predefined or custom rules, data sources, and schedules. Hardware Model Normalization can be accessed from the Hardware Asset Management application menu in the ServiceNow platform1. References: Hardware Asset Management - ServiceNow, Hardware Asset Management - Product Documentation: Tokyo - ServiceNow, Hardware Asset Management Implement - Customer Success - ServiceNow, Work with hardware normalization - ServiceNow - Now Support, Getting Started with ServiceNow Hardware Asset Management

Normalization is the process of standardizing the hardware model data by manufacturer name, model name, and model number1.

Normalization helps to maintain a clean and consistent configuration management database (CMDB) and to avoid duplicate or inaccurate hardware models1.

Normalization first runs to normalize the record when you save the hardware model record1.

This means that when you create or edit a hardware model record, the system automatically checks the record against the normalization rules and the Hardware Content Service Lifecycle data, and updates the record with the normalized values if applicable1.

Therefore, the answer that reflects when normalization first runs is C. When you save the hardware model record.

The other options are not the correct answer because they describe different scenarios or actions:

A. When the daily scheduled HAM – Daily job runs: This is not the correct answer, because the daily scheduled HAM – Daily job does not run normalization. The daily scheduled HAM – Daily job is a scheduled job that runs various tasks related to hardware asset management, such as updating the asset status, calculating the depreciation, and sending notifications2.

B. When the weekly scheduled HAM – Normalization job runs: This is not the correct answer, because the weekly scheduled HAM – Normalization job does not run normalization for the first time. The weekly scheduled HAM – Normalization job is a scheduled job that runs normalization for all the existing hardware models in the CMDB on a weekly basis1. It does not affect the newly created or edited hardware models, which are normalized when they are saved1.

D. When you click the Normalize Hardware Model link under Related Links: This is not the correct answer, because clicking the Normalize Hardware Model link under Related Links does not run normalization for the first time. Clicking the Normalize Hardware Model link under Related Links is a manual action that allows you to run normalization for a specific hardware model record at any time1. It does not affect the automatic normalization that runs when you save the hardware model record1. References:

1: Hardware Normalization

2: Daily Scheduled HAM – Daily Job

According to the Hardware Asset Management documentation, a transfer order is a record that tracks the movement of assets from one stockroom to another.

A transfer order line is a record that specifies the quantity and type of assets to be transferred, as well as the source and destination stockrooms1.

When using the HAM application, what happens when you create a new transfer order line on a transfer order is that a transfer order line task is automatically created to move the transfer order line from one stage to another1.

A transfer order line task is a record that tracks the progress of the transfer order line through the following stages1:

Requested: The transfer order line is created and waiting for approval.

Approved: The transfer order line is approved and ready for fulfilment.

Fulfilled: The transfer order line is fulfilled and the assets are shipped from the source stockroom.

Received: The transfer order line is received and the assets are checked in at the destination stockroom.

Closed: The transfer order line is closed and the transfer is complete.

Therefore, the correct answer is option C, a transfer order line task is automatically created to move the transfer order line from one stage to another, as it describes what happens when you create a new transfer order line on a transfer order. References:

Hardware Asset Management documentation

What is Hardware Asset Management?

According to the Hardware Asset Management documentation, the hardware model normalization process is a process of comparing the model data in the ServiceNow platform with the data from the Content Library, which is a cloud-based service that provides normalized and enriched hardware model data.

The Content Library automatically populates your inventory with non-discoverable asset metadata, which are the data that cannot be obtained from discovery tools or manual entry, such as manufacturer name, model name, model number, and product lifecycle information1.

The product lifecycle information includes the manufacturer lifecycle dates, which are the dates when the manufacturer stops selling, supporting, or servicing a hardware product1.

The manufacturer lifecycle dates are important for hardware asset management, as they help customers plan for hardware refreshes based on end-of-life (EOL) and end-of-service (EOS) dates2.

Therefore, the correct answer is option C, manufacturer lifecycle dates, as they are the non-discoverable asset metadata that the Content Library automatically populates your inventory with as part of the hardware model normalization process. References:

Hardware Asset Management documentation

What is Hardware Asset Management?

The ServiceNow Agent mobile app allows the user to conduct asset audits by scanning asset barcodes or QR codes1.

The user can perform audits offline when they are in areas without connectivity1.

The app automatically compares the scanned assets against the expected assets based on the inventory records to identify discrepancies1.

The user can also view the audit results and generate reports from the app2. References:

Audit your inventory - Product Documentation: San Diego - ServiceNow

Hardware Asset Inventory Management - ServiceNow

Hardware Asset Management - ServiceNow

According to the Hardware Asset Management page, the three tiers of Lifecycle Management are:

Know what you have: This tier involves tracking and managing the end-to-end lifecycle of all your hardware assets, physical and consumable, on a single system of action.

Improve management controls: This tier involves aligning hardware investments to business outcomes, and quickly identifying and mitigating technology risks such as tech debt, regulatory audits, and lost assets.

Improve efficiency: This tier involves improving efficiencies and simplifying every stage of the asset lifecycle with prescriptive workflows and tasks, normalizing hardware to maintain a clean CMDB, and getting actionable insights to minimize waste and strategize for asset refreshes.

These three tiers correspond to the options C, D, and E in the question.

The options A and B are not part of the Lifecycle Management framework, and are not mentioned in the ServiceNow Hardware Asset Management documents. References:

Hardware Asset Management

What is Hardware Asset Management?

Your asset lifecycle: How to manage it all

A blind audit is a type of inventory audit that does not provide any information about the expected assets in a location. The auditor scans all the assets in the location and compares them with the records in ServiceNow1.

To perform a blind audit, you need the Hardware Asset Management (HAM) application, which enables you to manage the lifecycle of your hardware assets, and the ServiceNow Agent mobile app, which allows you to scan asset tags and barcodes using your mobile device12.

The ServiceNow My Assets mobile app is used to view and request assets from the enterprise asset catalog, not to perform audits3.

The Software Asset Management (SAM) application is used to optimize software licenses and compliance, not to perform audits4.

The ITSM Asset Management application is used to track the financial, contractual, and inventory details of hardware and devices, not to perform audits. References:

1: Audit your inventory - Product Documentation: San Diego - ServiceNow

2: Enterprise Asset Inventory Management - ServiceNow

3: My Assets mobile app - Product Documentation: San Diego - ServiceNow

4: Software Asset Management - ServiceNow

: IT Asset Management - ServiceNow