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A comprehensive set of questions and answers related to workday pro payroll in 2024. It covers a wide range of topics, including payroll calculations, tax configurations, withholding orders, payment elections, and various workday hcm functionalities. Structured in a question-and-answer format, making it a valuable resource for workday payroll professionals and students preparing for exams or seeking to deepen their understanding of the workday payroll system. The questions cover both conceptual and practical aspects of workday payroll, ensuring a well-rounded learning experience. Whether you are a workday payroll administrator, a student, or a lifelong learner, this document can serve as a valuable study guide, reference material, or exam preparation tool.
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What is an example of an object? - ANSWEROrganizations, workers, and positions T/F You can calculate payroll multiple times during a pay period? - ANSWERTrue T/F To include compensation data in your payroll results, you must run a compensation? - ANSWERFalse What three items comprise the payroll processing framework, which identifies the when, what, and who process? - ANSWERPeriod Schedule(when), Run Category (what), and Pay Group (who) T/F Workday Payroll, Absence and Time Tracking can share period schedules? - ANSWERTrue What are two specific types of pay accumulations that you specified in your regular run? - ANSWERGross and Net What are run categories assigned to in order to pay workers? - ANSWERPay groups and Period Schedules T/F You cannot complete payroll until you have defined the payment elections rules for the run category? - ANSWERTrue What is an organization type that is unique to payroll? - ANSWERPay Groups T/F Workday delivers and maintains tax data required for payroll tax processing, including rate, limits, and calculations? - ANSWERTrue Where can you find information on the latest compliance changes? - ANSWERPayroll Compliance Updates Earnings and deductions are also called? - ANSWERpay components You need to calculate the year-to-date amount of employee reported tips. What do you need to create? - ANSWERPay Balances T/F PCGs only sum values. They do not subtract values - ANSWERTrue What type of calculation returns the sum, average, minimum or maximum of two or more values? - ANSWERAggregate
What type of calculation can you use to return a t/f value? - ANSWERLogic What field links an earning to a compensation plan? - ANSWERCompensation Element You just entered payroll input for three workers. What is the most efficient way to run a pay calculation for these workers? - ANSWERRun a calculation selecting Smart Calculation Based on Events > Payroll Input What is a Pay Component Related Calculation (PCRC)? - ANSWERA related calculation that is used in the definition of an earning or deductions T/F 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? - ANSWERTrue When would you select the Special Entry checkbox when adding payroll input? - ANSWERSelect this checkbox if you want to change an earning or deduction even if input is not allowed, based on the pay component's configuration. When Special Entry is selected, Input Details will allow entry of any type, such as hours, amount, or rate T/F You cannot delete payroll input once you have run pay calculation? - ANSWERFalse T/F When using payroll input to enter an ongoing deduction, the Start Date and End Date fields are both required? - ANSWERFalse Which payroll input processing option do you select when you need to add or subtract from an existing payment? - ANSWERAdjustment You need to process a spot bonus payment for a worker in the current, regular pay period. What processing options should you use? - ANSWEROne time, Override, regular run You want to add a pay component to the Workday-delivered Payroll Register. What task do you use? - ANSWERMaintain Register Configuration task What are the steps for processing a withholding order? - ANSWER1. Identify disposable income or appropriate wage base for a withholding order. 2. create a deduction recipient. 3. record the details of the withholding order. T/F You need to define the calculation rules and components required to process withholding orders? - ANSWERFalse T/F You must set up withholding order priorities in Workday? - ANSWERFalse
When defining ledger account type, which types should be set up for payroll? - ANSWERAssets, Liabilities, and Expense. Best practice to set up the Balance Sheet and Income Statement T/F You can define default account for posting and modify posting condition rules? - ANSWERTrue You need to see what workers have costing allocations assigned to them. What report can you access? - ANSWERAll Workers Costing Allocations What must be defined before setting up banks and other financial institutions? - ANSWERCompanies, Company hierarchies, Payment type What task do you use to specify the options employees have when selecting their payment elections? - ANSWERMaintain Payment Election Rules T/F Payroll is the only area of Workday that uses the Settlement Engine. - ANSWERFalse. Payroll Supplier and expense payments T/F Workday recalculates supported retroactive changes and forwards the difference to the current period? - ANSWERTrue What is the processing sequence for off-cycle and on-cycle payments? - ANSWERManual Payments, Reversals, On-Demand pay calculations, On-cycle pay calculations. T/F A worker can have one on-demand replacement per subperiod? - ANSWERTrue For what type of off-cycle payment will Workday calculate all scheduled deductions? - ANSWERReplacement What are some payroll-specific business processes? - ANSWERAssign Pay Group, Assign Costing allocation, Assign Pay Group for Position Restrictions Event, Pay Cycle Event, Change No Retro Prior To Date, What type of security access remains with the position, not the worker if a worker leaves that position? What type of access does this type of security have to the tenant? - ANSWERConstrained - indicated that role access is limited by relationship to the objects and unconstrained - has no constraints based on organizations the role supports. What is the purpose of a pay component security segment? - ANSWERDefines pay components that non-payroll users can view, such as managers and benefits administrators. You have the ability to specify which earnings and deductions are
included in the security segment, and which groups or roles have the ability to view the pay components included in that segment. What is the name of the U.S federal payroll (or employment) tax imposed on both employees and employers to fund Social Security and Medicare? - ANSWERFederal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) What is the term for the U.S individual income tax return? - ANSWER Maintain Pay Result - Balance Period Mapping - ANSWERYou want pay results to show Amount and YTD. What task do you access to configure this display? You accessed the Edit Tenant setup - Payroll task and made the United States of America a supported country for Workday Payroll. However, you cannot access any U.S. specific task. What should you check to troubleshoot the problem? ( correct answers) - ANSWER1. Run a report to see if there are any pending security changes. 2. Verify that the USA Payroll function area is enabled. 3. Verify that your user has the needed security groups assigned. You want pay results to show Amount and YTD. What task do you access to configure this display? - ANSWERMaintain Pay Result - Balance Period Mapping You set up company taxes in the following order: - ANSWERFederal, State, Local Which task do you use to set up company tax ID numbers? - ANSWEREdit Company Tax Details T/F You need to configure tax reporting for each location the organization employs workers and pays taxes. - ANSWERTrue T/F If you have workers who travel to work in various locations, you can set up company taxes by location to accurately withhold taxes for time worked in those locations? - ANSWERTrue On the Maintain Tax Authority Exceptions Pay Component Groups report, when do you select Exclude Pay Component(s)? - ANSWERWhen the pay component is part of the group, but the tax authority treatment of it doesn't apply Before you can accurately report taxes for a worker, you must verify the following (3 correct answers) - ANSWER1. The company is defined for federal and state taxes. 2. The employee is assigned to a company and a pay group. 3. Employee has a valid work and primary address in the U.S. T/F Security permitting, you can enter worker federal, state, and local tax elections manually or via a data load? - ANSWERTrue
If self-service is enabled, which tasks can workers use to enter federal tax election themselves? (2 correct answers) - ANSWER1. Withholding Elections. 2. Add Federal Withholding Elections T/F When employees work in multiple sates, 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? - ANSWERTrue What do supplemental wages include? (3 correct answers) - ANSWERBonuses, Commissions, Overtime Pay, Payments for accumulated sick leave, Severance Pay, Awards, Prizes, Back pay, Retroactive pay increases, and Payments for nondeductible moving expenses T/F Workday only supports one supplemental tax rate for each state? - ANSWERFalse. Up to Two supplemental tax rates for each state T/F You can set up Workday Payroll to track unemployment data for employees whose primary work state is Washington or Wyoming? - ANSWERTrue An agreement that exists between different tax jurisdictions to determine where and how taxes are to be collected and remitted is known as a: - ANSWERReciprocal Agreement T/F Workday treats all companies in the single legal entity relationship as a single company? - ANSWERTrue Which is a company relationship that establishes a one-to-many relationship between one managing company (designated as legal entity) and related companies? - ANSWERSingle Legal Entity T/F Federal, state, and local tax configurations do not need to be the same for all companies in the single legal entity relationship. - ANSWERFalse T/F By default, Workday uses the common pay agent for Federal withholding and FICA taxes (minus FUTA)? - ANSWERTrue To create a single legal entity or common pay agent, which functional areas must you have security permission to access? - ANSWERUSA Payroll, Organization and Roles T/F 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 report? - ANSWERTrue
Which report displays all Workday-delivered pay component groups? - ANSWERAll Pay Component Groups Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, which employees are entitled to overtime pay? - ANSWERNon-Exempt What is the term for all payments made to the employee that are eligible under Fair Labor Stands Act? - ANSWERFLSA Wages What is the term for bonuses that are announced to employees to encourage them to work more steadily, rapidly, or efficiently? - ANSWERNon-discretionary bonus T/F FLSA is only required for special U.S. Workday Payroll customers. - ANSWERFalse Which of the following steps are included in the required configuration for FLSA? (3 correct answers) - ANSWER1. Create an FLSA calendar. 2. Create earnings for overtime and premium pay. 3. Create an FSLA calendar rule. Retirement savings plans are first configured in which product area? - ANSWERWorkday Benefits Which contributions are type of 401(k) contributions? (3 correct answers) - ANSWER401(k) Elective deferral, 401(k) Employer match, 401(k) Roth T/F Workday supports payroll processing for tips? - ANSWERTrue What is a supported type withholding order? (3 correct answers) - ANSWERBankruptcy, Creditor Garnishment, Federal Administrative Wage Garnishment, Federal Student Loan, Federal Tax Levy, State Tax Levy, Support Order (including Lump Sum), Wage Assignments T/F When a monthly limit exists, Workday will bypass the limit to deduct the full withholding order amount? - ANSWERFalse In order to process withholding orders correctly, which pay component group should be added to non-statutory deductions for mandatory union dues? - ANSWERWithholding Order (All): Mandatory Union Dues T/F When the IRS issues a federal tax levy on a employee, Workday enables you to either all or disallow the employee from making any tax election changes via self-service? - ANSWERTrue T/F Defining payment elections is a step in the setup of banking and settlement - ANSWERTrue
T/F Workday can be integrated with bank accounts for settlement processing and check printing? - ANSWERTrue What does a sequence generator do in Workday? - ANSWERIdentify each person, position, or incident with a number that is unique within a specified time period. T/F Even if the company is licensed to use Workday Payroll in more then one country, only one payslip configurations is needed? - ANSWERFalse Which settlement business process uses the integration system associated with the appropriate bank account to transfer funds for electronic payments? - ANSWERPayment Release Event T/F A worker's primary U.S. work address determines the available payroll reporting codes? - ANSWERTrue T/F Workday delivers all payroll reporting codes? - ANSWERFalse Which report displays quarterly wages by worker and whether they are active for the 12th day of each month of the quarter? - ANSWERMultiple Worksite Report by Worker T/F Tenant-specific earnings and deductions must be mapped to the appropriate areas on the W-2 boxes using the View W-2 Box Configuration report? - ANSWERTrue What is the name of the icon that allows you to view information or perform tasks on landing page? - ANSWERApplication T/F Search allows you to use partial searches, abbreviations and misspelled word. - ANSWERFalse What is the name and location of the icon you should select when you want to act on or make changes to an object? - ANSWERRelated Action Icon T/F Security and Business Processes are considered cross applications and impact all Workday solutions. - ANSWERTrue What is the primary organizational structure within Workday HCM? - ANSWERSupervisory Organization What of the following are changes that can be made to supervisory organizations? - ANSWERCreate Subordinate, Dividing Organization, Assign Superior, Inactive Organization
T/F All workers in a supervisory organization must be assigned to the same company? - ANSWERFalse T/F If a worker changes positions, any roles assigned to them will follow them to the new position. - ANSWERFalse How are workers included in a location hierarchy? - ANSWERBy being hired or contracted into a particular location that is included with a location hierarchy What organization type groups workers based on a Tax ID? - ANSWERCompany Which staffing model has the most control? Why? - ANSWER1. Position Management: a. Allows for the most control, b. a Single position is created to be filled, to hire, promote, demote, contract, or transfer into a position, there must be an approved and available position as of the worker's start date, c. Positions can open after a job change, d. positions can be moved from one supervisory organization to another as part of a job change, a position can be closed if it is no longer needed Which staffing model is the most flexible? Why? - ANSWER1. Job Management: a. Allows the most flexibility and speed, b. hiring restrictions are established at the organization level, c. No quantity is defined for the number of jobs available for hire within and organization, d. A position no longer exists after a worker is transferred, demoted, promoted, or terminated, unless it is moved with the employee T/F Staffing models can be easily changed at any following deployment. - ANSWERFalse Where are hiring restrictions set when using Job management staffing model? - ANSWERSupervisory Organization T/F When hiring restrictions are set on a supervisory organization using Job Management, they have no impact on who can be hired or contracted into the organization. - ANSWERFalse Which staffing model requires a position to be open in order for a worker to be hired, contracted, or transferred in? - ANSWERPosition Managment T/F A job profile can be assigned to any position, in any supervisory organization
T/F Besides the Availability Date and Earliest Hire Date, positions must have hiring restrictions - ANSWERTrue - Even No Job Restrictions is a hiring restriction The Edit Position task can only be used on what type of positions? - ANSWERFilled Under what circumstances should you use the option to close a position rather than freeze a position? - ANSWERIf it is a permanent change and you no longer need that position open or available for future staffing transactions. T/F When you use the Edit Position task, you are changing the restrictions that are set but not impacting the worker currently occupying the position. - ANSWERFalse T/F Compensation eligibility rules use a framework that is completely unique to compensation and is unlike anything else in the Workday system. - ANSWERFalse The system will allow you to enter a base pay amount that is less than or greater than the grade range for which the employee was eligible. - ANSWERTrue What will happen if an employee is eligible for three allowance plans but the plans are not in the compensation package for which they are eligible for? - ANSWERThe plan will not default in, but you can manually select the plan(s) during the compensation step of a transaction Match the terms on the right with the definitions listed on the left below? - ANSWERa. Provides pay range guidelines as references. Compensation grades b. Groups compensation plans and grades. Compensation package c. Determines an employee's eligibility for a compensation component during staffing event. Compensation eligibility rules d. A component for which an employee is paid and for what purpose (e.g., salary, hourly, allowance) Compensation plan e. Required component to link compensation in HCM with Payroll to ensure accurate payroll earnings. Compensation element f. Allows localization of pay range guidelines. Compensation grade profile A worker can only be hired into which type of organization? - ANSWERSupervisory T/F Hire reason is a required field. - ANSWERFalse T/F When hiring into a position, if there are position restrictions, they will default in and cannot be changed. - ANSWERTrue and False. If configured in Edit Tenant
Setup - HCM to 'Allow Override of Restrictions on Staffing Events', these restrictions can be changed at the time of hire T/F The pre-hire object is separate from the employee object. - ANSWERTrue What are the three different ways that pre-hire records can be created in Workday HCM? - ANSWERManually, through an integration, or through Workday Recruiting Which security group is assigned directly to a worker? - ANSWERUser-based Role-based security group permissions are given to a worker when their position is linked to what? - ANSWERAn assignable role on an organization T/F Editing a security policy takes effect immediately? - ANSWERFalse Match the security terms with their definitions: - ANSWERa. Groups of users who need to perform actions or access data. Security Groups b. Define tasks and reports which are functionally similar. Domains c. The security group that allows self-service access. Employee As Self d. Define which security groups can participate in the business process. Business process security policies What is the name of the report that provides the parameters for configuring a business process? - ANSWERBusiness Process Configuration Options T/F All business processes are only considered successfully complete when all steps in the process have executed. - ANSWERFalse Business process configuration allows us to route steps to whom in order to complete a transaction? - ANSWERSecurity Groups T/F An Approval step type provides the ability to edit data. - ANSWERFalse T/F If a step is marked optional in a business process definition, the assigned owner of that task can ignore the step and not take any action on it in their Inbox.
T/F Job Overlap can only be used with the Position Management staffing model. - ANSWERTrue T/F You can rescind an event such as Hire when it is "In Progress" - ANSWERFalse T/F Delegates inherit the security profile of the delegator. - ANSWERTrue T/F You can only reassign a task to someone who has the security permission to complete that task. - ANSWERTrue T/F A supervisory organization can only be inactivated if there are no works or unfilled positions dependent on it. - ANSWERTrue List three report types available for Report Writer. - ANSWERSimple, Advanced, Matrix, Search, Transposed, nBox, Trending, Composite What is the name of the report that displays the Workday-delivered reports? - ANSWERWorkday Standard Reports T/F Selecting a data source when creating a custom report is not important. - ANSWERFalse Name at least four worker self-service tasks available in Workday. - ANSWER1.Request time off, edit personal information, edit payment or withholding elections, create an expense report, request a leave of absence, enter time T/F You can choose which Self-Service tasks to enable for your workers. - ANSWERTrue T/F A worker needs a Workday Account to be able to edit their Personal Information. - ANSWERTrue Name three Self-Service tasks a manager can do in Workday to support their teams. - ANSWERTransfer, promote, change job, change business title, terminate, start performance review T/F You cannot approve expense reports from your Inbox on a mobile device. - ANSWERFalse Which of the following items can be done using Workday Mobile? - ANSWERa. Approve a new hire b. Submit an expense receipt c. View a report
d. Receive alerts about birthdays, anniversaries, upcoming time off e. All the above True - ANSWERT/F Employees can view their pay slips in a mobile device. T/F Most standard or common integrations can be built using Report Writer - ANSWERTrue What is the main difference between packaged integrations and tailored integrations? - ANSWERCustom integrations require deployment for each new customer and may require periodic maintenance Give one example of an integration to Workday HCM and an integration from Workday HCM: - ANSWER1. To Workday: Recruiting systems. From Workday Charles Schwab, Blue Cross
Which feature lets you easily search for custom reports? - ANSWERReport Tags What is determined by selecting the data source for a report? - ANSWERPBO, Starting Data Set, which users you can share the report with Which type of class report field will display all expense lines for an expense report? - ANSWERMulti-Instance When creating a custom report, which information do you not have specified? - ANSWEREffective date When a filter is being applied, which logic is executed first? - ANSWERSubfilter You need to filter a customer report to only show regular employees. Which comparison type should you use when creating the filter? - ANSWERValue specified in their filter A custom report has a prompt for Include Subordinate Organizations. How can you set the prompt value always be yes and hide this prompt from users? ( correct answers) - ANSWER1. Select Specify Default Value. 2. Identify the default selection and Select the Do Not Prompt at Runtime checkbox Which of the following is not a source of prompts on a report? - ANSWERBusiness Object When totaling data on a report, how many aggregations can you select per row - ANSWEROne What is the first step of setting up grouping in you report? - ANSWER1. Add the Group Name field to the top of the columns grid When creating a custom report, which security domains do you not need access to? - ANSWERAny unconstrained security group A user gets the following error message when running a report "Attempt to run a report where you do not have access to one or more fields referenced in the report's filter. Fields: Age. Filter. "What is the root cause of this issue? - ANSWERThe user doesn't belong to a security group that has access to a report used in a filter An HR partner runs an employee report that includes the Citizenship Status field. She can see the Citizenship Status for some employees on the report but not all. Why can't she see this data for some employees. (2 correct answers) - ANSWER1. The Citizenship Status data is missing for these employees. 2. She only has constrained access to the Citizenship Status report field
When can you schedule a report to run? (two correct answers) - ANSWER1. A specific date and/or time in the future 2. On a recurring basis (every day, week, month) Logan McNeil scheduled a report to run on a weekly basis. She shared the report output with Betty Liu. What data will Betty see in the report output? - ANSWERData that Logan can access What is the maximum number of Row Groupings you can use in a matrix report definition? - ANSWEREight When drilling into a summarization on a matrix report output, what detail data will they see? - ANSWERFields you define in the Detail Data section that the user also has access to Where can calculated fields not be used? - ANSWERSecurity Configurations What type of report allows you to access fields from Related Business Object one level away without using a calculated field function? - ANSWERAdvanced To optimize processing times, sort your report results by field types? - ANSWERSimple What is the single biggest factor in report performance? - ANSWERData Source When should you use report logs to check the performance of your reports? - ANSWEROn a recurring basis