SUCCESSFACTORS – THINGS SHOULD KNOW REG EMPLOYEE CENTRAL

1. How do you integrate Employee Central with other SuccessFactors Products?

2. How do you integrate Employee Central externally with other products?

3. What does the Succession Data Model contain?

4. What is configured in the Country-Specific Succession Data Model?

5. What does the Corporate Data Model define?

6. What is defined in the Country-Specific Corporate Data Model?

7. What is the propagation data model used for?

8. What other two data models are used?

9. How many data models are there in Employee Central?

10. How do you masked sensible data in a field?

11. How do you set a field so the user can edit it?

12. How do you make a field to be required to be filled?

13. What is a DTD?

14. What is included in the Organization Structures?

15. What is included in the Pay Structures?

16. What is included in the Job Structures?

17. In which data model do you find the Organization structures?

18. In which data model are the Pay Structures?

19. In which data model are the Job Structures?

20. Who has access to the Provisioning system?

21. Who has access to the Admin Tools?

22. What types of Admins are there and list them in the order of their power from top to bottom?

23. Is the role of Local admin mandatory?

24. What is the role of the local admin?

25. What access gets the Admin User?

26. What is the Security Admin responsible for?

27. How is a Super Admin created?

28. What rights do Super Admin have?

29. What access gets the Super Admin in the Admin Tools automatically?

30. Associations: Can the legal entity belong to several countries?

31. What is determined by the legal entity?

32. Can location belong to different legal entities?

33. What is the adjustment factor in GeoZone used for?

34. What is stored in Job Classification?

35. What is in a Job Function?

36. Where do you group employees who share the same payroll?

37. For what calculation is Pay Range used for?

38. What is a Full Purge?

39. What is an incremental load?

40. What means effective-dated?

41. What are the Workflow limitations for Foundation Objects?

42. How do you create a new picklist?

43. What do you need to do in the system to start the translation process?

44. What rows in the csv file do you need to provide to the translator?

45. Can you incrementally load the translations you receive back from the translator?

46. How can you make changes to translations once loaded via the Admin Tools?

47. How do you test your translations?

48. What are non-effective dated Peron Data?

49. What are effective dated Person Data?

50. What are non-effective employment data?

51. What are effective dated employment data?

52. Can one person have more than one active employment at the same time?
53. How do you configure concurrent employment?

54. What is the sequence of the employee import?

55. What are examples where mass changes are used?

56. The fields of which elements in the SuccessionData Model cannot be duplicated in the Country-
Specific Data Model`

57. Propagation: How to always map from the foundation object to a specific field of the employment
object?

58. What is the definition of Employee Self Service?

59. What can the manager edit in Manager Self Service?

60. Where are Workflows managed?

61. What type of approver can you select?

62. What is a dynamic role?

63. What is a dynamic group?

64. Where do you define the members of a dynamic group?

65. Can a contributor stop a workflow?

66. Where can you search for workflow requests and take action?

67. What action can you take as admin on workflows?

68. How can you change email notifications?

69. Is it possible to auto delegate an approval to another user?

70. Where do configure auto delegation?

71. Where can the user set up auto delegate?

72. What are the two import reasons to have Events and Events reasons?

73. Can you change events?

74. Can you customize Event Reasons?

75. Where are Event Reasons managed in the Admin Tools?

76. Where are the Events and Event reasons configured?

77. Where are workflows configured?

78. In which order are rules processed?

79. What happens if you have similar rules?

80. What are the two options for filtering a report?

81. Has any user access to the Standard Reports?

82. Which tool do you use to create custom reports and which formats can you distribute them in?

83. Which tool do you use to build pivot tables?

84. What types of table joins?

85. What does the Report Distribution tool allow you to do?

86. What are the four ways to calculate fields?

87. What are the two functions Reporting in Employee Central serves?

88. What is the definition of a report schema?

89. With which systems does Employee Central integrate?

90. What are the options to trigger a sync job?

91. What are the sync job types?

92. Which Elements have a default sync mapping?

93. For which Elements can you configure a custom sync mapping?

94. What XML Tag do you use for sync mapping and what do you have to watch out for?

95. To which Products does Employee Central integrate to via cloud?

96. What does the Employee Central Integration Platform include?

97. What are the steps to create a custom sync mapping?

98. How does basic implementation process for Employee Central to Employee Central Payroll look like?

99. What parts are there to the basic configuration of Employee Central to Employee Central Payroll?

100. Which data models require modification for Employee Central Payroll in EC?

101. What is the maximum length of the ID for location in the Corporate Data Model?

102. What field is required in the Succession Data Model for payroll configuration?

103. What fields in the Country-Specific Succession Data Model must be activated?

104. What views do you need to enable in the instance and what do you need to watch out for
regarding the super admin?

105. What type of user has which permission for payroll?

106. What must be considered for Employee Central Picklists?

107. For which fields must you have a picklist in Employee Central?
108. What APIs do you need to enable and where?

109. What type of user do you need to create and what else do you need to do?

110. What permissions do you grant the API user?

111. For replicating master data what Employee Central Elements require additional configuration?

112. What are process steps to setting up Employee Central Payroll?

113. How does the cutover strategy for EC Payroll look like?

114. What is Middleware?

115. What are APIs?

116. How to set up position management?

117. How is Position Management maintained?

118. Where do you administrate Positions in the Instance?

119. What are the benefits of Time Off?

120. Can an employee have multiple time accounts?

121. Must all days appear in the work schedule?

122. Which fields need to be maintained at jobInfo for each employee to use time off?

123. How to setup Time Off for Employees?

124. What does MDF Rules provide?

125. What Rules are used for?

126. What actions can be triggered within the then logic?

127. How to add a custom rule?

128. Where do you create a new message that is raised by a rule?

129. Where do you create the new rule?

130. What are options for hooks?

131. Where can users create new workflows?

132. What types of Event Rules?

133. What do you need to consider when you assign rules to basic objects?
134. What rule do you use to automatically populate a field in the new hire window?

135. Is NationalID an MDF object?

136. Can you use the MDF to assign a rule to nationalID?

137. What are the steps to set up Accrual Management for Time Off?

138. How to assign business rules for Time Off?

139. How to set up the Seniority Criteria in Time Off?

140. What are MDF Limitations?

141. How many custom fields can you add to a Metadata Object?

142. Can MDF Picklists be effective dated?

143. What kind of associations does MDF support?

144. What can you do with the Business Configuration UI?

145. In order to maintain the data from the Succession Data Model within the instance what do you
need to in regards to the data?

146. What are the options to hook a rule to an object or to a field?

147. What are the major features of the Configurable UI?

148. To use the configurable UI what must you do?

149. What are the basic steps to set up a custom UI?

150. What do you have to do display a configurable UI on the Employee Files?

151. Where can you manually populate data for employees?

152. Where can you import and export data for employees?

153. Can you delete a permission group?

objects used in the data models?

160. In which data models can you define associations?

161. Which HRIS elements can you not delete from the Corporate Data Model?

162. What do you need to consider when you delete the HRIS element costCenter from the data
model?

163. For what other HRIS elements should you watch out when you delete those from the data model?

164. How do you use the type attribute for generic objects?
165. How to associate the costCenter field to many departments?

166. Where do you define fields the person objects globalInfo and homeAddress?

167. Which HRIS elements can you not delete from the Succession Data Model?

168. What happens when you delete an HRIS element in the Succession Data Model?

169. For which field should you not set visibility=”both”?

170. For which field should you not use the type attribute?

171. What happens if an administrator disables an HRIS element in the BCUI (Business Configuration
User Interface)?

172. What happens if an administrator disables an HRIS field in the BCUI?

173. What must an administrator do if she enables a field for which permissions are controlled?

174. When can rules only be assigned as configurable rules in the BCUI?

175. Which base object does not support rules to be configured with the BCUI?

176. To which HRIS elements can the administrator add country-specific fields in the BCUI?

177. What do you need to consider when defining fields more than once and for more than one
country?

178. To which HRIS elements can you only add country-specific fields, value and format?

179. What do you have to do if you want to change attributes of a field depending on a country?

180. What are the steps to configure a country specific picklist?

181. Propagation: does it work when the field in the succession data model is set to not visible?

182. Do you have to have event reasons even though the customer decides not to create own events?

183. Can you combine And with OR in a rule condition?

184. Is there an order in which rules are executed?

185. How to set a column to invisible or required through a rule?

186. Can you set required fields to not required through a rule?

187. Why can’t you add a configurable rule to the user Account Info HRIS element?

188. Can you assign rules to all fields in the Succession Data Model?

189. How to automatically add leading zeros?

190. How can you set the middle name field in the Add New Employee Screen to required?
191. What is the difference between Rules and Propagation?

192. Are all foundation objects effective-dated?

193. Can you create workflows for all foundation objects

194. Can you assign a workflow to a field in a foundation object?

195. Can you assign a workflow to the pay Calendar object?

196. Which approver types can be used in workflows for foundation objects?

197. Which contributor types can be used in workflows for foundation objects?

198. Who can be put in CC in workflows for foundation objects?

199. What happens if you use an approver type in a workflow is not supported for foundation objects?

200. Can you assign several workflows to one foundation object?

201. How to translate the jobCode foundation objects?

202. What do you need to watch out for when you import translations?

203. What happened when the downloaded CSV file only contains the first two rows of the translation
file?

204. Can you create and modify picklists at the same time?

205. How to remove picklists from the system and how do you deal with duplicated records in picklists?

206. What is recommended when you add a customer-specific picklist?

207. Which files are mandatory in a zip file upload of employee data?

208. How to import inactive employees?

209. What rows can you change in a picklist file?

210. How to purge inactive users?

211. What is in the personal Info object?

212. What is the recommended implementation sequence for Employee Central?