ServiceNow Certified System Administrator

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ServiceNow Certified System Administrator Pass Rate

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The score you need to pass the ServiceNow Certified System Administrator certification exam, what the cut score actually means, and how to read your mock results against it.

70% to pass
60 questions
2/10 difficulty

The number you need to hit

Published cut score for this certification.

Passing score
70%
Not published by the provider
Margin
30%
room for wrong answers, on a flat mock
Wrong answers allowed
18
out of 60 questions

Pass score vs pass rate

Two different numbers that get mixed up constantly.

Pass score (cut score)

The scaled score the vendor publishes. For the ServiceNow Certified System Administrator it is 70%. This is the number you can actually prepare against, and it is the one that decides your result on exam day.

Pass rate (percentage of candidates)

The share of candidates who pass. ServiceNow generally does not publish this for individual exams, and the numbers you find online usually come from candidate self-reported surveys. We would rather tell you nothing than tell you a figure we cannot source.

Where you lose points

The exam is not scored flat. Each domain carries its own weight, so a domain where you lose everything can sink a score that looks fine on paper.

Collaboration10%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 10% of the exam, and it has 6 practice questions here.

Integration & APIs10%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 10% of the exam, and it has 6 practice questions here.

Application Development20%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 20% of the exam, and it has 12 practice questions here.

Database Administration20%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 20% of the exam, and it has 12 practice questions here.

Security & Access Control10%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 10% of the exam, and it has 6 practice questions here.

Service Management & ITSM15%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 15% of the exam, and it has 9 practice questions here.

User Interface & Navigation15%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 15% of the exam, and it has 9 practice questions here.

The practical version: the ServiceNow Certified System Administrator is not passed by knowing most of the content. It is passed by being strong in the domains that carry weight, and by not leaving one of them empty.

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