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Compensation
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Security
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Business Processes
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Report Writer
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Quick Facts
- Exam
- Workday Pro HCM Core
- Audience
- Workday customers and partners
- Duration
- 2 hours
- Items
- 50 scored; up to 5 unscored
- Result
- Pass/Fail; numeric threshold unpublished
- Initial attempt
- 1 Training Credit
- Retake
- Wait 4 calendar days
- Recertification
- Exam every 2 years
Six HCM Concepts
Org, staffing, profile, pay, security, process
Supervisory organizationsStaffing modelsJob profilesCompensationSecurityBusiness processes
Supervisory Org vs Cost Center
Supervisory org
- Manager reporting chain
- Staffing context
Cost center
- Financial responsibility
- Expense rollup
People management versus cost ownership
Organizations
- Supervisory org
- Management and staffing hierarchy
- Superior org
- Parent supervisory node
- Subordinate org
- Child supervisory node
- Manager
- Leadership role on supervisory org
- Company
- Legal entity organization
- Cost center
- Financial responsibility organization
- Role assignment
- Person or position holds org role
- Org hierarchy
- Rollup within an organization type
Position vs Job Management
Position Management
- Persistent vacant seat
- Restrictions per position
- Open/filled position reporting
Job Management
- No persistent vacant seat
- Restrictions per supervisory org
- Current headcount reporting
Seat control versus hiring flexibility
Staffing Model Picker
- Need approved individual seats→Position Management(Create position first)
- Need vacancy history→Position Management(Seat persists)
- Need rapid flexible hiring→Job Management(Org-level restrictions)
- Different teams need different models→Separate supervisory orgs(Hybrid hierarchy)
- Position already exists→Check position restrictions(Before Hire)
- Job-management hire blocked→Check org hiring restrictions(Scope: supervisory org)
Staffing Models
- Position Management
- Persistent approved seats
- Job Management
- Flexible jobs without vacant seats
- Position restrictions
- Rules on individual unfilled seat
- Hiring restrictions
- Rules across job-management org
- Vacant position
- Seat persists after worker leaves
- Close Position
- Retire the seat
- Staffing model
- One per supervisory org
- Hybrid hierarchy
- Different models across subordinate orgs
HCM Object Chain
Profile defines; position seats; job staffs; worker holds
Profile: catalogPosition: seatJob: relationshipWorker: person
Job Profile vs Position
Job Profile
- Reusable catalog definition
- Classifies many jobs
Position
- Specific staffing seat
- May remain vacant
Template versus seat
Job Profiles
- Job Profile
- Reusable job catalog definition
- Job Family
- Related profiles grouped
- Job Family Group
- Related families grouped
- Position
- Seat within supervisory org
- Job
- Worker staffing relationship
- Worker
- Person holding job
- Job change
- Existing worker assignment changes
Compensation
- Package
- Bundle of compensation rules
- Grade
- Reference pay range
- Grade Profile
- Segment-specific range within grade
- Salary plan
- Base salary arrangement
- Allowance plan
- Additional defined payment
- Eligibility rule
- Determines available compensation components
- Defaulting
- Proposes eligible compensation values
Security Pair
Domain sees data; BP acts on events
Domain: View/ModifyServices: Get/PutBP: Initiate/ApproveActivate pending changes
Domain vs BP Policy
Domain Policy
- Data and task access
- View/Modify; Get/Put
BP Policy
- Workflow participation
- Initiate/Approve/Rescind
Data access versus event actions
Security Groups
- User-based
- Maintained membership list
- Role-based
- Membership follows organization role
- Constrained
- Access bounded by organization context
- Unconstrained
- No organization-context restriction
- Workday-assigned
- System-maintained delivered membership
- Functional area
- Groups domains and processes
Security Policies
- Domain Policy
- Secures data, tasks, reports
- View
- Read secured UI data
- Modify
- Change secured UI data
- Get
- Read through web services
- Put
- Write through web services
- BP Policy
- Secures workflow participation
- Activate Pending Changes
- Applies edited security policies
Entry vs Validation Condition
Entry condition
- Decides step execution
- False can skip step
Validation condition
- Checks entered data
- True blocks step completion
Route step versus block error
Staffing Event Picker
- New employee relationship→Hire(Employee path)
- New contractor relationship→Contract Contingent Worker(Contingent path)
- Existing job attributes change→Change Job(Retain worker)
- Worker gains second job→Add Job(Concurrent staffing)
- Employee relationship ends→Terminate(Check position vacancy)
- Contractor engagement ends→End Contingent Worker Contract(Contingent path)
Business Processes
- BP type
- Delivered process kind
- BP definition
- Configured step sequence
- BP event
- One running process instance
- Initiator
- Person starting event
- Subject
- Person affected by event
- Approval
- Decision gate for actor
- Subprocess
- Invoked nested process
- To Do
- Assigned instructional step
- Entry condition
- Controls whether step runs
- Validation condition
- Blocks invalid step completion
Cancel vs Rescind
Cancel
- In-progress event
- Stops unfinished workflow
Rescind
- Completed event
- Reverses completed change
Unfinished versus completed event
Staffing Events
- Hire
- Start employee employment
- Contract Contingent Worker
- Start contingent engagement
- Change Job
- Change existing job assignment
- Add Job
- Add concurrent worker job
- Terminate
- End employee employment
- End Contingent Worker Contract
- End contingent engagement
- Cancel
- Stop in-progress event
- Correct
- Edit supported event data
- Rescind
- Reverse completed event
Report Design Chain
Source sets rows; fields add values; security filters
Data sourcePrimary objectRelated fieldsRunner security
Report Sharing vs Data Access
Sharing
- Allows report run
- Controls report availability
Domain security
- Controls visible data
- Restricts fields and rows
Run permission never bypasses security
Reporting Picker
- Need detailed related-object rows→Advanced report(Choose data source)
- Need grouped cross-tab totals→Matrix report(Rows, columns, measures)
- Need combined subreports→Composite report(Multiple data sources)
- Need visual exploration→Discovery Board(Supported data source)
- Need related-object field→Lookup Related Value(Check object path)
- Need conditional output value→Evaluate Expression(First true condition)
- Need Boolean test→True/False Condition(Group AND/OR)
Report Writer
- Data source
- Defines report population
- Primary object
- Defines row instance type
- Standard source
- Business-object starting population
- Indexed source
- Preindexed report population
- Advanced report
- Detailed shareable rows
- Matrix report
- Grouped measures across dimensions
- Composite report
- Combines advanced or matrix subreports
- Discovery Board
- Visual exploration of supported sources
- Report sharing
- Run access, subject to security
- Schedule
- Run report on cadence
Calculated Fields
- Lookup Related Value
- Fetch related-object field
- Evaluate Expression
- Return first matching conditional value
- True/False Condition
- Return Boolean from conditions
- Concatenate Text
- Join text values
- Date Difference
- Calculate interval between dates
- Filter
- Limit rows matching criteria
Common Traps
Legacy exam numbers
Older guide: 80% threshold ≠ Current threshold: unpublished
Course enrollment
Program enrollment: no approval ≠ Exam course: coordinator approval
Position vacancy
Position Management: seat remains ≠ Job Management: no vacant seat
Security activation
Policy edit: pending ≠ Activation: runtime access
Event state
Cancel: still running ≠ Rescind: already completed
Report access
Shared: can run ≠ Domain policy: can see
Discovery Boards
Indexed source: supported directly ≠ Matrix report: no prerequisite
Last Minute
- 1.HCM Core topic weights: Not published
- 2.50 scored; sometimes five unscored
- 3.Two hours; result Pass/Fail
- 4.Retake after four calendar days
- 5.Recommended courses generally optional
- 6.Exam enrollment needs coordinator approval
- 7.Supervisory org = manager hierarchy
- 8.Cost center = financial responsibility
- 9.Position Management = persistent seat
- 10.Job Management = org-level hiring rules
- 11.Domain Policy = data access
- 12.BP Policy = workflow actions
- 13.Activate pending security policy changes
- 14.Data source determines report rows
- 15.Sharing never bypasses data security
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