1.

Workday application data is accessible only through configurable security structure that is
enforced through:
Ans: Workday Object Management System (OMS)

2. Roles are used to drive business process management.

Ans: True

3. Which of the following security groups is optional and customer-defined

Ans: Job Based

4. The following are true about User-Based Security Groups

Ans: a) Grants access across the system
b) Multiple people can be members if same user-based security group

5. Workday defaults organizations roles from superior organization

Ans: True

6. ------------- are used to only approve business process management tasks; they do not
determine task or report access and cannot initiate a business process
Ans: Job roles

7. There is no inheritance for business process security policies

Ans: True

8. Which of the following are user based groups:

Ans: Report Writer; Setup Administrator

9. -------- is automatically assigned based on criteria selected

Ans: Job based

10. -------------- is used to restore inheritance in a child policy

Ans: Use Parent Permissions

11. Is it possible to activate a previous timestamp while making changes needed to fix present
security configuration?
Ans: Yes

12. The following report views permissions the specified user has on an action & also security
policies and groups that grant access
Ans: Security Analysis for Action

13. Editing a security policy takes effect immediately

Ans: False (Need to ‘Activate Pending Changes)
14. You may configure securable actions and securable reporting items in a domain security
policy.
Ans: False

15. There are --- ways to assign security groups

Ans: 2 (By the system based on a process; manually)

16. ------------ are assigned to users based on administrative responsibility

Ans: User-based

17. ------------ are found as a related action off worker’s name

Ans: User-based

18. ------------ are assigned to users are based on criteria selected

Ans: Job based

19. Which of the following is not a role-based security group

Ans: Report Writer

20. Which of the following is not securable area of business process

Ans: Create new sub-processes

21. In case a secured item is included in more than one domain security policy, workers who
are granted different levels of access permission in different domains get the most access
granted
Ans: True

22. The following report views all domain security policies and business process security
policies that use the security group:
Ans: Action Summary for Security Group

23. Editing a child security policy does not affect inheritance in any of the others
Ans: True

24. ---------- report views all details about security group membership, security policies in which
the group is used, the permissions it has and the functional area
Ans: View Security Group

25. Workday system gives users multiple ways to initiate the same task or view the same
information.
Ans: True

26. Applicant status applies to a position , not applicant

Ans: True

27. Can applicants be deleted? What is the task?

Ans: Yes. Task: Mark applicants for Deletion.
28. Can we do mass rescind for a BP?
Ans: Yes

29. While hiring you can use an existing applicant or add a new applicant.
Ans: True

30. Applicant record must needed for

Ans: a and b

31. Temporary Workers are referred as

Ans: a and b

32. What are the 2 ways to convert a contingent worker to employee status?
Ans: 1. End the contract and then hire them as an employee
2. Use the convert to employee task

33. What is the process that supports promotions, demotions, transfers, lateral moves as well
as changes to position data and location?
Ans: Change Job Process.

34. You cannot reorder or remove sections on the business process template.
Ans: True

35. How many contents’ Change Job Process’ has:

Ans: 11

36. In which Job change reason the manager or organization cannot be edited
Ans: Lateral Move\Data Change

37. What is the task used by ‘Manager’ pull an employee into their organization? Hint: This
initiation action will be allowed when the security group initiating the action does not have
direct access to the worker.
Ans: Request transfer.

38. Is ‘Termination’ configurable event?

Yes.

39. Termination is complete in the system at midnight on the day after the termination
Ans: True

40. When is the action “Reassign task “available?

Ans: When the task is in progress

41. When is the action “Request Reassignment “available?

Ans: When the task is in progress

42. When is the action “Reassign a delegation change “available?

Ans: When the task is in progress
43. When is the action “Correct “available?
Ans: When the task is in progress and successfully completed.

44. When is the action “Rescind “available?

Ans: When the task is successfully completed

45. Is Mass Cancel for TODO Possible?

Ans: Yes

46. The Workday report writer gives you the option of creating custom reports to meet your
business requirements
Ans: True

47. Access to custom reports is by the assignment of ______________

Ans: Report Writer User Based Security Group

48. Simple reports can be shared

Ans: False

49. Advanced reports can be shared

Ans: True

50. What are the different custom report types?

Ans: All of the above

51. Who can make the changes in the report or share the report with other users?
Ans: Report Owner

52. Who are allowed to transfer the report from one user to another user?
Ans: Report Owner and Set up Administrator

53. What are the steps to create a report?

Ans:
1) Choose Report type and Data Source
2) Select Objects and Fields
3) Order Columns
4) Sort Output
5) Define Filter Criteria

54. Data Sources are defined and delivered by Workday

Ans: True

55. Each Data Source associated with primary Business Object has its own security
Ans: True

56. How many instances can be enabled for a custom object?

 Ans: 100

57. Where do you view/edit custom field related data for an employee
Ans: Under Additional Data

58. Custom fields are effective dated

Ans: False

59. Which task is used to delete the temporary report in the tenant that have expired and are
eligible for deletion?
Ans: Delete Temporary Report Definitions

60. What are the different custom field types?

Ans: Currency, Decimal, Integer, List, Text

61. The Tab on the Report definition allows you to control the order in which data will be
presented and grouped is
Ans: Sort

62. Which Report cannot publish Web service?

Ans: Simple

63. What is the task to convert a report from simple to advanced?

Ans: Change to Advanced Report type

64. What is the Primary Org Type in Workday HCM?

Ans: Supervisory

65. You cannot hire into a supervisory organization prior to the org availability date
Ans: True

66. Which of the following is not reorganization task?

Ans: Create Superior

67. Positions are created within a Supervisory Organization

Ans: True

68. Organization roles have responsibilities within a supervisory organization

Ans: True

69. Unique business processes cannot be assigned to a supervisory Organization

Ans: False

70. What is the task name to create organization subtypes

Ans: Maintain Organization subtype
71. Which of these is not a org type?
Ans: Location
72. Which org type does not have Reorg event?
Ans: Matrix Org

73. Workday gives you the ability to rescind reorganization task such as assign superior
Ans: True

74. Where in the supervisory organization can you limit the other organizational assignment?
Ans: Allowed Organizations

75. What is the task name to add Matrix member to the matrix organization?
Ans: Assign Matrix member

76. What are the Visibility options available?

Ans: All of the above

77. What is mandatory before creation of Location?

Ans: Time Profile

78. Can users override any inherited locale by changing it in their preferences?
Ans: Yes

79. Can organization roles be inherited down to subordinate organizations?

Ans: Yes

80. Region specifies

Ans: Area of Responsibility

81. Organization hierarchies do not store positions , workers or transactions

Ans: True

82. Who will be the organization owner?

Ans: Person who creates the organization

83. Transfer of organization ownership is possible in WD? How?

Ans: Yes. Task: Transfer Ownership

84. Can Supervisory Organization be deleted?

Ans: No.

85. Organization hierarchy includes only organizations of same type.

Ans: True
86. Compensation eligibility rule use a framework i.e., completely unique to compensation and
is unlike anything else in WD system
Ans: False.

87. What will happen if employee eligible for 3 allowance plan but the plans are not in
compensation package for which they are eligible?

Ans: Does not default but can select it from selection list.

88. What are 2 of the 7 compensation adjustment processes that can be initiated?

Ans:

 Any 2 of the below 7 can be answer.

 Set up allowance plan adjustment.
 Set up commission plan adjustment.
 Set up compensation grade job profile adjustment.
 Set up compensation step adjustment.
 Set up hourly plan adjustment.
 Set up unit allowance plan adjustment.
 Set up unit salary plan adjustment.

89. Can a role based security tag to more than one org?
Ans: Yes

90. In Security Breach, whom should you contact?

Ans: security@workday.com

91. What are the steps to create Role Based Security?

Ans: Steps-Org Role>Maintain Org Role>Attach the Role

92. What are the two components of Workday Security?

Domain Security
Business Security
93. How to disable Functional area?
Ans: Maintain Functional area

94. How to activate security policy?

Ans: Activate pending Security Policy

95. What determines access to landing page?

Ans: Security
96. Which Report is used to see the Security Policy?
 Ans: View Security for Securable Item

97. Groups of User who need to perform actions or access data.

Ans: a

98. Defined tasks and reports that are functionally similar

Ans: d.) Domains

99. This dictates who can view / modify data w/in the domain
Ans: Domain Security Policies
100. This dictates who can participate in the business process
Ans: b.) Business Process Policies

101. Type of security group automatically assigned based on user’s job criteria
Ans: c.) Job based security group

102. Security policies designate permissions for security groups to view, or view and modify
tasks within the domain
Ans: b.) Domain Security Policy

103. Security Policies contain such securable items as initiation steps, step actions, and
actions on the process as a whole

Ans: a.) Business Process Security Policy

104. How would you access workday Community?

Ans: c

105. Do You Store Confidential Information in GMS Tenant?

Ans: No

106. What is the prefix for searching an organization?

Ans: c

107. How Many Workers you can compare at a time in Workbox?

Ans: d

108. How Many Workers you can tag to Workbox a time?

Ans: b
109. In which Organization Worker is hired?
Ans: a
110. For Creating Location, Which option to be used?
Ans: a

111. What are the mandatory events to create a Sup org?

Ans: Availability Date, Subtype and Staffing Model

112. How many Supervisory organizations an employee can belong to?

Ans: b

113. What is Matrix Org?

Ans: It’s Indirect Relationship.

114. Can you change the default organization assignment?

Ans: By Change Org Assignment

115. Can we reuse reorg Event?

Ans: Yes

116. What is Location Hierarchy?

Ans: Org Type

117. How many Number of org Type can be assign to a Customer?

Ans. Unlimited

118. Manager and member cannot be in one Supervisory Organization except the top most
Supervisory Organization?
Ans: a

119. An organization can be inactivated even if events occurred on, or after the date of the
inactivation
Ans: b

120. Before inactivating an organization, which of the following is true.

Ans: A and B

121. Which of these is not a Location Usage Type?

Ans: d) Headquarter

122. From the List below, which one is not an Organization Type in Workday?
Ans: c.) Project

123. Workday provides the ability to create Custom Organizations to meet your unique
business needs 
 Ans: a.) True

124. Can we hire a worker into a Cost Center Organization?

Ans: b.) No

125. What are all the tasks which I can perform while reorganization?

 Assign Superior
 Create Subordinate
 Divide Organization
 Inactivate Organization
 Move Workers

126. How to Inactivate Supervisory Organization?

Ans: Supervisory org, Related Actions, Reorganization, Inactivate

127. While creating organization, which organization do not required reorganization event.
Ans: e

128. Can Applicant can be present in the system before creating the supervisory
organization
Ans: Yes

129. Can Company can be changed once it is defaulted

Ans: Yes

130. Name two types of compensation plans

Ans: Allowance plan and Salary Plan

131. Who is responsible for compensation structure for your company?

Ans: Compensation Administrator.

132. Compensation grades are used to define___________________.

Ans: Pay Ranges.

133. Compensation grade profile is used to define________________.

Ans: Localization.

134. What are the 3 ways for a compensation change for an employee?
Ans:

 Manually from a related action off the employees name.

 Request compensation change: any compensation plan can be edited.
 Request grade change: only the compensation grade or grade profile can be changed.
135. What are 3 different types of allowance plan?
Ans: d

136. If you are using compensation eligibility rules and default compensation from a
position, the default compensation will override the eligibility rule.
Ans: True.

137. Name any 2 compensation audit report?

Ans: Compensation component audit; Employee Compensation audit.

138. Employee Compensation components can include multiple currencies?

Ans: True

139. Compensation package should at least have _________________________salary plan.

Ans: One.

140. Bonus Plans can be defined as:

Ans: a and b

141. Total base pay is sum of?

Ans: Salary and allowance plans:

142. Which report is used to see the breakdown of all the components of compensation?
Ans: Total compensation report.

143. Name the task to maintain currency exchange rates?

Ans: Maintain Currency Conversion Rates.

144. Exchange rates are effective dated?

Ans: True.

145. Compensation matrix used for _____________________.

Ans: Employee Performance.

146. What is the use of Reimbursable check box while creating allowance plan?

Ans: When an allowance is not being paid through payroll but through an expense
report.

147. What is used to default Compensation while hiring?

Ans: a

148. If eligibility rule is placed in Compensation Package, will it inherit down?

Ans: b

149. How many Packages an employee eligible to default?

 Ans: a

150. Where can you find override checkbox?

Ans: a

151. Key Components of Compensation?

Ans:

 1.Eligibility Rule
 2.Grade Profile
 3.Grade
 4.Salary Plan
 5.Compensation Package

152. What allows you to assign worker to a different compensation Range than the
default?

Ans: c.) Grade Profiles

153. What currency will be used if the employee has multiple currencies in his
compensation component?

Ans: b.) Currency of Grade

154. What Business Process should be added so that Compensation Components will take
effect?

Ans: b.) Propose Compensation Business Process

155. The system will still let you enter a base pay amount that is outside the grade’s pay
range.

Ans: a.) True

156. What type of organization, Business process is associated with?

Ans .Sup org

157. Can you create BP for an organization

Ans: .b

158. Can you copy and modify the BP?

Ans: .Yes
159. Can you delete default definition for BP?

Ans: No

160. How can a Business Process which is In Progress be terminated

Ans: By Deny

161. Who is responsible for rescind the BP If required?

Ans: Business Process Administrator

162. In BP, as a default which step will complete?

Ans: Last Step

163. Can there be another step after completion?

Ans: Yes

164. Why do you get an unassigned task?

Ans .If Role is not assigned to any employee to perform the task

165. Who is responsible for to Cancel the BP If required?

Ans: Initiator

166. Report that will return all Business Processes which the sub-processes can be used

Ans: Business Process Configurations Options

167. Business Process will not inherited if the subordinate organization has its own version
of process

Ans: True

168. For you to see related action for step such as Maintain Routing restrictions, Maintain
Condition Rules etc. what mode you should be in Business Process Definition?

Ans: View Mode

169. If you want to add a sub-process, what step type will you use?

Ans: Action

170. You can rescind in-process business process event.

Ans: False
171. How to add custom notification?

Ans: Navigate to Business Process Name’s Related Action > Business Process > Add
Notifications

172. Consolidated Approval allows user to approve or deny several previous steps as a
SINGLE action.

Ans: True

173. How to set a step for Completion?

Ans: On Related Action of step > Business Process > Set as Complete.

174. It is a sequence of approvals that starts with an individual, then goes to the person’s
Manager, and on up the Management chain until it gets to the top or until some exit
condition is met.

Ans: Approval Chain

175. Where can we define notification for a transaction?

Ans: Business Process

176. How BP can be terminated

Ans: a

177. To Update the Business process which date can be used

Ans: c.

178. You can rescind an event such as hire when it is “In Progress”

Ans: - b

179. How to make a step as completed step?

Related actions of the step -> Business Process -> Set as Completion

180. You can rescind an event which is in completed status.

Ans: a

181. A Notification is:

 Ans: a and b.

182. You can setup a rule that is executed only if a particular condition is true?

Ans: a

183. How can you disable system notifications?

Go to Notification tab -> Maintain system notifications

184. You can use which one of the below to search for a business process in the same
category?

Ans: d

185. How can you add additional approvers to an event while the business process is 'In
Progress?

Using 'Additional Approvers button' in the Business Process tool bar, work feed and
Inbox.

186. You can only create __________ number of Business Process (es) per default definition
per Supervisory Organization?

Ans: a.

187. Can you reassign a task to anyone?

Ans: No (It can be assigned to the users who have relevant security group in BP Security
Policy).

188. Which dictates who can participate in BP?

Ans: Business Process Security Policy

189. How to make a step as optional?

Select the Optional check box in Business Process Definition

190. Which of the following Reorganization tasks are BP's?

Ans: e

191. One way to find a completed Business Process is to use the Inbox slide out tab?

Ans: a

192. Can you correct a Business Process event, which is in 'In Process' status?
 Ans: a

193. Business Process steps are sent to particular workers in order to complete them?

Ans: a

194. What task can be selected to configure notifications that will inform workers or their
managers about pending, due or overdue business process tasks?

Business Process step -> Business Process -> Maintain Step Delay

195. Can you use Routing Restrictions to exclude selected roles from the workflow based
on your selections?

Ans: a

196. Integration step is used to transfer the data to/from an external system?

Ans: a

197. How can an employee change language?

Ans: My Account>Change Preferences

198. Can you create a position before creating a supervisory organization?

Ans: b

199. At what position you can’t change the staffing model?

Ans:

 Create Position-Position Management

 Create Headcount-Headcount Management
 Set Hiring Restriction-Job Management

200. Staffing Model can be inherited to Subordinates?

Ans: a

201. What criteria are used for hiring restrictions?

Ans: Worker Type, Time Type, Job Profile, Job Family or No job Restriction
1. What tasks would you use to edit position restrictions and worker position information?

Ans: Edit position Restrictions and Edit Position

202. Worker has two types of records in workday system.

Ans:

 Applicant
 Employee (or ) Contingent

203. How can you remove a position in Workday?

Ans:

 Close a Position
 freeze a position

204. Which is mandatory in Workday?

Ans: a

205. What are the two things mandatory to create job profile?

Ans: c

206. What is the relationship between Job profile and Position?

Ans: 1: M

207. When a worker is moved from one organization to another, the staffing model can be
different in each organization.

Ans: b

208.  Which Staffing model applies hiring restriction to the entire Supervisory
Organization? Explain with steps involved there.

Ans: Staffing Model is Job Management.

209. If we have to set Hiring restrictions to the Supervisory Organization then the following
steps to be performed.

Select Related Action of your Supervisory Organization for which hiring restrictions need
to be set -> Organization -> Set Hiring Restrictions

210. In Position Management, a position still exists in the old Organization when a worker
together with his/her current position has been moved into a new Organization.

Ans: False

211. Changing the staffing model of a parent organization does not automatically change
the staffing model of existing subordinate organizations; you must change the staffing
model of the subordinate organization manually.

Ans: True

212. Which Staffing Model is useful for Organizations which prefers very broad
requirements?

Ans: Job Management

213. Headcount Group can be closed even if there are still filled positions

Ans: False

214. Once a position or headcount group has been created, the Edit Staffing model is no
longer available.

Ans: True

215. Headcount group can be increased or decreased?

Ans: True

216. Do you need to create a Position If need to hire an employee in to an organization

where the staffing model is enabled as “Job Management”? Explain.

Ans: If the Staffing model is enabled as “ Job Management” then not required to create
Position because we give hiring restrictions to the Organization level not to the individual
position level.

217. How to Edit the Staffing model for a Supervisory Organization?

Ans: If I have to edit staffing model then the Navigation path would be:
 Your Supervisory Org -> Related Action -> Organization -> Edit Staffing Model

Or

We can edit the staffing model using ‘Maintain Staffing Model’ task.

218. In which staffing model there is no hiring limit

Ans: - c

219. In Which staffing model Positions are grouped together that have similar/same job
and compensation requirements.

Ans: - Headcount Management

220. A Job Classification can be defaulted during the hire

Ans: b

221. If you turn on the no Job Restriction check box, a hiring restriction is not required

Ans: True

222. Workbench is for

Ans C

223. Dash board is for

Ans: b

224. What are the three staffing models?

Ans:

Position Management

Headcount Management

Job Management

225. Which report is used to maintain Staffing Model for multiple Supervisory
Organizations at a time?

Maintain Staffing Models

226. Which Staffing Model is useful for Organizations which prefers more controlling?

Ans: a
227. Which Staffing models have the capability to report on Open and Filled Positions?

Ans: d

228. In which Staffing model history of the position can be tracked?

Ans: a

229. In which Staffing Model(s) we can move individual positions as a part of

reorganization?

Ans: d

230. Staffing models can be modified at any time following deployment.

Ans: b

231. How can you identify which Staffing model has been assigned to your supervisory
Organization?

Your Supervisory Org -> Related Action -> Organization -> Edit Staffing Model (If positions
have not been created yet).

OR

In the Staffing tab

232. Which fields allows localization in Job Profile?

Ans:

Pay Rate Type

Certifications

Workers Compensation Code

Job Exempt

233. If a worker moved out of position and the position not going to be filled in the future,
or is no longer need, which of the below operation you need to perform?.

Ans: a.

234. Can we unfreeze a frozen position?

Ans: a.

235. Select all statements that are true in Position Management.

 Ans: b, c and d.

236. If you have a position that is restricted to full time only, a full time worker now wants
to work on part time. How can you make this happen?

Ans: a

237. Both filled and unfilled positions can be edited?

Ans: a.

238. Can we close a partially filled Headcount group?

Ans: b.

239. Once a position is closed, it can only be reopened by manager?

Ans: b.

240. How can you freeze multiple positions at a time?

Ans: Supervisory Organization -> Staffing -> Manage Position Hiring Freeze.

241. Can we freeze an occupied position?

Ans: a.

242. How can you freeze all positions in an Supervisory Organization?

Ans: Supervisory Organization -> Staffing -> Manager Organization Hiring Freeze.

243. Once a Position is frozen, it will appear in which of the following tab?

Ans: b

244. Job Catalog consists of following elements?

Ans: a, c and d.

245. A Job Profile can be used when creating multiple positions so that each position will
inherit all the attributes of the Job Profile

Ans: a.