553001_ServiceNow Administrator & Application Developer

Become a certified application developer with the skills and knowledge to create ServiceNow applications that solve real business problems. This learning path is designed for anyone who wants to move beyond basic platform configuration and start building genuine custom applications on the Now Platform — whether you're a ServiceNow administrator ready to grow into development, or a developer who is new to the platform and its conventions.

Across this path, you'll get hands-on with Application Studio, the primary workspace for designing and packaging custom apps, and build practical fluency with ServiceNow's Server and Client APIs, data modeling, business rules, client scripts, and UI design. You'll also learn how ServiceNow expects applications to be structured — balancing configuration and scripting so your work stays stable, secure, and upgrade-safe as the platform evolves.

By the end, you'll have practiced the core competencies validated by the Certified Application Developer (CAD) exam, along with real, hands-on application-building experience you can point to. This path gives you the practical foundation to design, build, and deploy ServiceNow applications that hold up in production, not just in a training instance.