Workday Pro Payroll Practice Exam

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