SCCM collect software information from client using different methods such as Software inventory , software file scan, and hardware inventory. These information can be used to create dynamic collection for devices.

SCCM Computer hardware classes can be used to create dynamic query based device collection. There are different classes such as Computer System , PC_BIOS , System Enclosure , TPM etc which can be used for queries. A collection or query created in Configuration Manager uses WMI Query Language (WQL) to request objects from the SMS Provider WMI Schema, which in turn retrieves the data from site database.