Workday Pro Payroll Practice Exam

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• Which statement best describes the components of Workday's FLSA configuration?
• When a filter is applied in a report, which logic is executed first?
• Which of the following is NOT a report type available for Report Writer?
• Which term describes the centralized payment authority used for federal withholding and FICA?
• A worker can only be hired into which type of organization?
• Which payroll input processing option do you select when you need to add or subtract from an existing payment?
• Which term allows localization of pay range guidelines?
• Before you can accurately report taxes for a worker, which statement is true?
• You need to view the report that shows which workers have costing allocations assigned to them. Which report should you run?
• True or False: You cannot delete payroll input once you have run pay calculation.
• Under what circumstances should you use the option to close a position rather than freeze a position?
• What are two specific types of pay accumulations that you specified in your regular run?
• Most standard or common integrations can be built using Report Writer.
• Is it possible to schedule a report to run on both a specific date/time in the future and on a recurring basis?
• When should you use report logs to check the performance of your reports?
• Which component is used to group base pay, overtime, and deductions under a compensation framework?
• What is the term for bonuses that are announced to employees to encourage them to work more steadily, rapidly, or efficiently?
• If you need to discontinue a position permanently so it won't be used for future staffing, which action should you choose?
• In a single legal entity relationship, do federal, state, and local tax configurations need to be identical across all companies?
• Which statement about the Workday Standard Reports scope is true?
• True or False: All workers in a supervisory organization must be assigned to the same company.
• True or False: You need to define the calculation rules and components required to process withholding orders?
• A worker can have exactly one on-demand replacement per subperiod. This statement is:
• What is the name of the report that provides the parameters for configuring a business process?
• Which statement accurately defines unconstrained security access?
• The Adoption Kit must be maintained and updated by you for each Workday release.
• In Job Management, where are hiring restrictions established?
• Compensation eligibility rules use a framework that is completely unique to compensation and is unlike anything else in the Workday system.
• Which term describes a grouping of compensation plans and grades?
• Which three items comprise the payroll processing framework?
• How many report types are listed for Report Writer?
• For which off-cycle payment type will Workday calculate all scheduled deductions?
• Which component defines what to process in a payroll run?
• A worker's primary U.S. work address determines the available payroll reporting codes.
• Retirement savings plans are first configured in which product area?
• Which of the following withholding orders is explicitly supported in Workday?
• Workday supports up to two supplemental tax rates for each state.
• Which security group is assigned directly to a worker?
• Which component of the payroll processing framework defines when payroll is run?
• Which of the following is not a source of prompts on a report?
• What is the primary organizational structure within Workday HCM?
• What type of calculation can you use to return a t/f value?
• Which of the following is a valid report type listed for Report Writer?
• Rescinding a Hire event when it is In Progress is allowed.
• To optimize processing times, sort your report results by field types?
• Which component defines the overtime calculation logic in FLSA configuration?
• You need to filter a customer report to only show regular employees. Which comparison type should you use when creating the filter?
• To create a single legal entity or common pay agent, which functional areas must you have security permission to access?
• Tax reporting across locations must be configured per location that employs workers and pays taxes. Which option reflects this requirement?
• Which security term identifies the group that allows self-service access?
• Which of the following is a required component of FLSA configuration?
• Which statement about Security and Business Processes is true in Workday?
• In a security access model, which term describes security access that remains with the position when a worker leaves the role?
• A user runs a report and gets an error indicating they do not have access to a field referenced in the report's filter. What is the root cause?
• List the steps required to create and load an EIB in Workday.
• To include compensation data in payroll results, you must run a compensation?
• Which form number represents the U.S. individual income tax return?
• Which form number corresponds to the U.S. individual income tax return?
• Which report type is best for analyzing data across multiple dimensions such as employee, department, and time?
• How is a contingent worker distinguished from an employee in Workday?
• Which statement describes Pay Balances in payroll?
• Which security term corresponds to 'Groups of users who need to perform actions or access data'?
• Which statement must exist for accurate federal and state tax reporting?
• Which term corresponds to the definition: Determines an employee's eligibility for a compensation component during staffing event?
• What is an organization type that is unique to payroll?
• In Workday, is it true that all companies within a single legal entity relationship are treated as a single company?
• What is the name of the icon you select to perform actions on an object in Workday?
• If a pay component is part of a group and its tax treatment applies, what should you do with Exclude Pay Component(s)?
• To add a pay component to the Workday-delivered Payroll Register, which task should you use?
• An HR partner runs an employee report that includes Citizenship Status. She can see Citizenship Status for some employees on the report but not all. What could explain this?
• What are run categories assigned to in order to pay workers?
• Which of the following is a valid withholding order type?
• In Job Management, is there a defined quantity for the number of jobs available for hire within an organization?
• Which report displays all Workday-delivered pay component groups?
• You want pay results to show Amount and YTD. What task do you access to configure this display?
• A job profile can be assigned to any position, in any supervisory organization.
• Which statement about retroactive changes in Workday is accurate?
• If self-service is enabled, which task allows workers to enter federal tax elections themselves?
• Earnings and deductions are also called?
• In the payroll framework, which item expresses the 'what' to process?
• Which step comes first when creating a Hire EIB upload?
• When you use the Edit Position task, you are changing the restrictions that are set but not impacting the worker currently occupying the position.
• In the processing sequence, which item is the third step?
• Where do you grant access to the Documentation link on the Worker Profile menu that routes to the Workday Administrator Guide?
• Which calculation type would you use to obtain a true/false result from a condition?
• Which report type enables access to fields from a Related Business Object one level away without a calculated field function?
• Which of the following is listed as a report type for Report Writer?
• Which action is NOT typically performed by a manager in Workday Self-Service?
• Which term matches the definition: A component for which an employee is paid and for what purpose (e.g., salary, hourly, allowance)?
• When would you use Special Entry?
• Which of the following is NOT typically considered a payroll-specific business process?
• Which staffing model provides the most control over positions and movements between supervisory organizations?
• A supervisory organization can be inactivated only if there are no works or unfilled positions dependent on it.
• When creating a custom report, which security domains do you not need access to?
• A worker needs a Workday Account to edit their Personal Information.
• What must be defined before configuring banks and other financial institutions?
• When the IRS issues a federal tax levy, Workday enables you to either allow or disallow the employee from making any tax election changes via self-service.
• Can payroll be calculated multiple times during a pay period?
• What term describes the main organizational unit in Workday HCM used for governance and reporting?
• Which component identifies who gets paid in a payroll run?
• When creating a custom report, which information do you not have specified?
• Which company relationship defines a one-to-many structure where one managing company designated as the legal entity has related companies?
• What is the correct processing sequence for off-cycle and on-cycle payments?
• Is the following statement true? Compensation eligibility rules use a framework that is completely unique to compensation and is unlike anything else in the Workday system.
• Which statement is true about the Employee As Self security group?
• Which statement about processing a withholding order is false?
• What is another reason the HR partner cannot see Citizenship Status for some employees?
• Defining payment elections is a step in the setup of banking and settlement.
• When totaling data on a report, how many aggregations can you select per row?
• How are workers included in a location hierarchy in Workday?
• All business processes are considered fully complete only when every step in the process has executed.
• Which of the following are payroll-specific business processes?
• Not a type of 401(k) contribution?
• You need to calculate the year-to-date amount of employee reported tips. What do you need to create?
• Which task do you use to set up company tax ID numbers?
• You can choose which Self-Service tasks to enable for your workers.
• In Workday's business process configuration, steps can be routed to which entity to complete a transaction?
• Which type of class report field will display all expense lines for an expense report?
• Does Workday support payroll processing for tips?
• When Logan scheduled a report weekly and shared the output with Betty, what data will Betty see in the report output?
• Besides the Availability Date and Earliest Hire Date, positions must have hiring restrictions.
• To set the Include Subordinate Organizations prompt so the value is always Yes by default, which action should you take?
• What is a likely requirement to resolve a filter access-related issue for a user?
• Where can you go to find out more about courses and additional training offered by Workday Education?
• Setting up company taxes by location provides withholding based on time worked in each location.
• Is the pre-hire object separate from the employee object?
• When viewing the output of a report, which action cannot be used to manipulate data?
• In a single legal entity relationship, which entity is designated as the legal entity?
• You cannot complete payroll until you have defined the payment elections rules for the run category?
• If employees work in multiple states, cities or countries on an ongoing basis and do not report hours separately for each jurisdiction, you can have Workday calculate and withhold taxes for each jurisdiction based on percentages you specify?
• Which statement best describes the purpose of a pay component security segment?
• What is the first step of setting up grouping in your report?
• Which report displays quarterly wages by worker and whether they are active for the 12th day of each month of the quarter?
• If a report is shared with Betty, the data she sees is determined by...
• Employees can view their pay slips on a mobile device.
• Can tenanted Change Job Reasons be mapped to Workday-delivered Change Job Types?
• Staffing models can be easily changed at any following deployment.
• What is a Pay Component Related Calculation (PCRC)?
• FICA funds which programs?
• Workday delivers all payroll reporting codes.
• Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, which employees are entitled to overtime pay?
• A worker can have exactly one on-demand replacement per subperiod.
• Which option describes what the data source selection defines for a report?
• Where is the Workday Documentation Link domain security policy located?
• Which staffing model is the most flexible and fastest to hire under?
• Which statement best describes the role of payment elections rules in payroll runs?
• What is the term for all payments made to the employee that are eligible under the Fair Labor Standards Act?
• How many supplemental tax rates can Workday apply per state?
• Tenant-specific earnings and deductions must be mapped to the appropriate areas on the W-2 boxes using which report?
• Which statement about Workday Search capabilities is true?
• An agreement that exists between different tax jurisdictions to determine where and how taxes are to be collected and remitted is known as a:
• In Workday, 401(k) contributions are configured under which category?
• Which statement about hiring restrictions is accurate?
• What are the three different ways pre-hire records can be created in Workday HCM?
• If Special Entry is selected, Input Details can accept which types?
• A Pay Component Group is used to group earnings, deductions, and related calculations. Which description best describes its purpose?
• Which category of workers is not entitled to overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act?
• To process a spot bonus for the current pay period, which processing options should you use?
• Workday retroactive changes are recalculated and the difference is forwarded to the current period.
• Which report is used to manage Tax Authority Exceptions Pay Component Groups?
• Which type of class report field will display all expense lines for an expense report?
• When using payroll input to enter an ongoing deduction, are Start Date and End Date fields required?
• Where can calculated fields not be used?
• When a step is marked optional in a business process, can the assigned owner ignore it and take no action?
• Where can you find information on the latest compliance changes?
• The Workday Community is designed as a tool for Workday development.
• In Workday payroll configuration, is it possible to define a default posting account and modify posting condition rules?
• What does EIB stand for in Workday context?
• Selecting a data source when creating a custom report is not important.
• What is the term for the U.S. federal payroll tax imposed on both employees and employers to fund Social Security and Medicare?
• What type of report allows you to access fields from Related Business Object one level away without using a calculated field function?
• Which reports are displayed by the Workday Standard Reports report?
• Where are hiring restrictions set when using the Job Management staffing model?
• True/False: You can define the order in which to eliminate or reduce deductions if an employee's net pay is zero or drops below the minimum net amount for the run category?
• Which action is the best way to request that a new feature be prioritized by the development team?
• Which of the following is included in supplemental wages?
• Which feature lets you easily search for custom reports?
• Which term defines which security groups can participate in a business process?
• Can a base pay amount outside the employee's eligible grade range be entered into the system?
• Are position restrictions always fixed and cannot be changed at the time of hire?
• What are the steps for processing a withholding order?
• When defining ledger account types for payroll, which types should be set up?
• Best practice ledger account types for payroll?
• A matrix report supports how many Row Groupings maximum?
• Which statement best describes hiring restrictions set on a supervisory organization using the Job Management staffing model?
• Can tenanted Change Job Reasons be mapped to Workday-delivered Change Job Types?
• When drilling into a summarization on a matrix report output, what detail data will be seen?
• Which report is described as displaying quarterly wages by worker and their active status on the 12th day of each month within the quarter?
• A withholding order such as a federal tax levy is processed as a type of deduction.
• What field links an earning to a compensation plan?
• Workday delivers and maintains tax data required for payroll tax processing, including rate, limits, and calculations?
• What is the recommended timing to review report performance using logs?
• What is the main difference between packaged integrations and tailored integrations?
• Which statement about aggregations per row is correct?
• What is the single biggest factor in report performance?
• True/False: PCGs only sum values. They do not subtract values.
• Position Management: A position can be closed if it is no longer needed.
• In Position Management, to hire, promote, demote, contract, or transfer into a position, what must be in place on the worker’s start date?
• Pay Result Balance Period Mapping controls which aspect?
• Which task is used to specify the options employees have when selecting their payment elections?
• What is an example of an object in the payroll domain?
• Role-based security group permissions are granted to a worker when their position is linked to what?
• Which items can be done using Workday Mobile?
• Which option is the correct placement for Brainstorm as the method to influence Workday enhancements?
• Which of the following is NOT a worker self-service task listed in the material?
• What does a sequence generator do in Workday?
• Does editing a security policy take effect immediately?
• Is FLSA required for all U.S. Workday Payroll customers?
• Which scheduling options are available for a report's run?
• Calculated fields cannot be used in which area?
• If a worker changes positions, do any roles assigned to them automatically follow to the new position?
• While troubleshooting after enabling the USA Payroll function area, which check should you perform to confirm access to U.S. tasks?
• You can reassign a task only to someone who has the security permission to complete that task.
• Which of the following is an example of an integration from Workday HCM?
• What is the name of the report that displays the Workday-delivered reports?
• Which statement best describes a Pay Component Related Calculation (PCRC)?
• Which type of calculation returns the maximum value among two or more values?
• Can expense reports be approved from your Inbox on a mobile device?
• Security permitting, you can enter worker federal, state, and local tax elections manually or via a data load?
• In Job Management, hiring restrictions set on a supervisory organization have no impact on who can be hired or contracted into the organization.
• Which of the following best describes the function of a sequence generator in Workday?
• What type of calculation returns the sum, average, minimum or maximum of two or more values?
• When creating a custom report, which item is not specified?
• Is the following statement true: Workday can be integrated with bank accounts for settlement processing and check printing?
• If you use the Edit Position task, which statement is true?
• Which task would you use to modify payroll register settings for new components?
• Which pay component group should be added to non-statutory deductions for mandatory union dues?
• You can set up Workday Payroll to track unemployment data for employees whose primary work state is Washington or Wyoming?
• Which staffing model requires a position to be open in order for a worker to be hired, contracted, or transferred in?
• Which organization type groups workers based on a Tax ID?
• Delegates inherit the security profile of the delegator.
• What is the name of the icon that allows you to view information or perform tasks on landing page?
• A pay component group is a set of related earnings, deductions, and pay component related calculations that return an aggregate value for use in payroll calculations and reports. True or False?
• In multinational Workday deployments, is separate payslip configurations required for each country?
• The Edit Position task can only be used on what type of positions?
• Which term describes bonuses that are discretionary?
• True or False: You must set up withholding order priorities in Workday?
• Can you set up company taxes by location to accurately withhold taxes for time worked in multiple locations?
• What is the purpose of the Special Entry checkbox when adding payroll input?
• Which of the following actions is a valid change to a supervisory organization?
• The Settlement Engine is used only by payroll processes in Workday.
• Which statement correctly describes the standard order for configuring company taxes?
• If a company is licensed to use Workday Payroll in more than one country, how many payslip configurations are needed?
• On the Maintain Tax Authority Exceptions Pay Component Groups report, when do you select Exclude Pay Component(s)?
• Which of the following is a worker self-service task in Workday?
• You just entered payroll input for three workers. What is the most efficient way to run a pay calculation for these workers?
• Which statement best describes the factor influencing report performance?
• Entering a termination date of 12/31/2018 means what?
• Which statement correctly describes mapping earnings and deductions to W-2 boxes using a specific report?
• Which term provides pay range guidelines as references?
• If an employee is eligible for three allowance plans but none of the plans are included in the compensation package they are eligible for, what happens?
• By default, does Workday use the common pay agent for Federal withholding and FICA taxes, minus FUTA?
• What term is the required component to link compensation in HCM with Payroll to ensure accurate payroll earnings?
• An Approval step type provides the ability to edit data.
• When drilling into a matrix report's summarization, the detail data visible is...
• Workday Payroll, Absence and Time Tracking can share period schedules?
• Is Hire Reason a required field when hiring?
• Who can view pay components included in a security segment?
• Which settlement business process uses the integration system associated with the appropriate bank account to transfer funds for electronic payments?
• What is determined by selecting the data source for a report?
• If a monthly limit exists for a withholding order, Workday will bypass the limit to deduct the full amount.
• Job Overlap can be used only with which staffing model?