Certified Implementation Specialist — Data Foundations

New exam is prerequisite for below certifications

• CIS — Discovery (DISCO)
• CIS — Hardware Asset Management (HAM)
• CIS — IT Service Management (ITSM)
• CIS — Service Mapping (SM)
• CIS — Security Incident Response (SIR)
• CIS — Software Asset Management (SAM)
• CIS — Vulnerability Response (VR)

Without the new certification, current implementation specialist certification(s) within the ITAM, ITOM, ITSM, and SecOps domains will expire after 31/12/2026.
Below free Now Learning links for the new CIS — Data Foundations exam. As of December 2025, first attempt of the new exam is free if you already hold one of the above CIS credentials.

Configuration Management Database (CMDB) Fundamentals On Demand

Configure the CMDB Micro-Certification Simulator (Yokohama)

Common Service Data Model (CSDM) Fundamentals

CMDB Health Deep Dive

CMDB Health Micro-Certification Simulator (Yokohama)

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