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A valuable resource for students and professionals seeking to understand workday payroll processes. it features a series of questions and answers covering various aspects of workday payroll configuration, security, tax reporting, and payroll processing. The detailed explanations make it an excellent study aid for exams or professional development.
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What are the three different ways that pre-hire records can be created in Workday HCM? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Manually, through an integration, or through Workday Recruiting Which security group is assigned directly to a worker? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------User-based Role-based security group permissions are given to a worker when their position is linked to what? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------An assignable role on an organization T/F Editing a security policy takes effect immediately? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------False Match the security terms with their definitions: ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------a. 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? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Business Process Configuration Options What are some payroll-specific business processes? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Assign 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? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Constrained - 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? --------- CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Defines 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? -- -------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) What is the term for the U.S individual income tax return? --------- CORRECT ANSWER----------------- 1040
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? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------True On the Maintain Tax Authority Exceptions Pay Component Groups report, when do you select Exclude Pay Component(s)? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------When 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) ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------1. 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? ---------CORRECT ANSWER----------- ------True If self-service is enabled, which tasks can workers use to enter federal tax election themselves? (2 correct answers) ---------CORRECT ANSWER------- ----------1. 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? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------True
What do supplemental wages include? (3 correct answers) --------- CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Bonuses, 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? ------- --CORRECT ANSWER-----------------False. 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? --------- CORRECT ANSWER-----------------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: --------
Where can you find information on the latest compliance changes? --------- CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Payroll Compliance Updates Earnings and deductions are also called? ---------CORRECT ANSWER------ -----------pay components You need to calculate the year-to-date amount of employee reported tips. What do you need to create? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Pay Balances T/F PCGs only sum values. They do not subtract values ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------True What type of calculation returns the sum, average, minimum or maximum of two or more values? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Aggregate What type of calculation can you use to return a t/f value? --------- CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Logic What field links an earning to a compensation plan? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Compensation Element You just entered payroll input for three workers. What is the most efficient way to run a pay calculation for these workers? ---------CORRECT
ANSWER-----------------Run a calculation selecting Smart Calculation Based on Events > Payroll Input What is a Pay Component Related Calculation (PCRC)? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------A 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? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------True When would you select the Special Entry checkbox when adding payroll input? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Select 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? ----- ----CORRECT ANSWER-----------------False T/F When using payroll input to enter an ongoing deduction, the Start Date and End Date fields are both required? ---------CORRECT ANSWER---------- -------False Which payroll input processing option do you select when you need to add or subtract from an existing payment? ---------CORRECT ANSWER----------- ------Adjustment
You need to see what workers have costing allocations assigned to them. What report can you access? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------All Workers Costing Allocations What must be defined before setting up banks and other financial institutions? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Companies, Company hierarchies, Payment type What task do you use to specify the options employees have when selecting their payment elections? ---------CORRECT ANSWER----------------
T/F A worker can have one on-demand replacement per subperiod? --------- CORRECT ANSWER-----------------True For what type of off-cycle payment will Workday calculate all scheduled deductions? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Replacement T/F Workday treats all companies in the single legal entity relationship as a single company? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------True Which is a company relationship that establishes a one-to-many relationship between one managing company (designated as legal entity) and related companies? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Single 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. ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------False T/F By default, Workday uses the common pay agent for Federal withholding and FICA taxes (minus FUTA)? ---------CORRECT ANSWER--- --------------True To create a single legal entity or common pay agent, which functional areas must you have security permission to access? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------USA Payroll, Organization and Roles
Retirement savings plans are first configured in which product area? --------- CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Workday Benefits Which contributions are type of 401(k) contributions? (3 correct answers) -- -------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------401(k) Elective deferral, 401(k) Employer match, 401(k) Roth T/F Workday supports payroll processing for tips? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------True What is a supported type withholding order? (3 correct answers) --------- CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Bankruptcy, 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? ---------CORRECT ANSWER----------------- False In order to process withholding orders correctly, which pay component group should be added to non-statutory deductions for mandatory union dues? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Withholding 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? ---------CORRECT ANSWER----------------
What is the primary organizational structure within Workday HCM? --------- CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Supervisory Organization What of the following are changes that can be made to supervisory organizations? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Create Subordinate, Dividing Organization, Assign Superior, Inactive Organization T/F All workers in a supervisory organization must be assigned to the same company? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------False T/F If a worker changes positions, any roles assigned to them will follow them to the new position. ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------False How are workers included in a location hierarchy? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------By 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? --------- CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Company Which staffing model has the most control? Why? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------1. 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? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------1. 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. ---- -----CORRECT ANSWER-----------------False Where are hiring restrictions set when using Job management staffing model? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Supervisory 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. ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------False Which staffing model requires a position to be open in order for a worker to be hired, contracted, or transferred in? ---------CORRECT ANSWER---------- -------Position Managment
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? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------The 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? ---- -----CORRECT ANSWER-----------------a. 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? --------- CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Supervisory T/F Hire reason is a required field. ---------CORRECT ANSWER----------------
T/F The pre-hire object is separate from the employee object. --------- CORRECT ANSWER-----------------True T/F All business processes are only considered successfully complete when all steps in the process have executed. ---------CORRECT ANSWER- ----------------False Business process configuration allows us to route steps to whom in order to complete a transaction? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Security Groups T/F An Approval step type provides the ability to edit data. --------- CORRECT ANSWER-----------------False 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. ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------False How can you distinguish between an employee and a contingent worker within Workday? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------[C] notation next to their name If you enter the termination date of 12/31/2018: ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------This is their last day as an employee.