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Workday object model (workers, positions, organizations, business processes), Worklets, Search, Related Actions, Find vs Search, tasks vs reports, inbox vs archive, My Tasks, delegation, notifications, W-Drive, book dashboards, Workday AI Assistant natural-language navigation, Discovery Boards basics.

Supervisory organizations (primary, top-level, subordinate), cost centers, cost center hierarchies, company, region, location, custom organizations, matrix organizations, reorganizations and effective dating, organization assignments on positions, availability for staffing, inactivation vs deactivation, organization IDs and external IDs.

Staffing models (position management, job management, hybrid), hire, contract contingent worker, add job (dual employment), change job (transfer, promote, demote, data change, lateral), terminate, end contingent worker, end additional job, propose compensation change downstream events, staffing event audit trail.

Job profiles, job families and job family groups, management levels, job catalog, position vs headcount, position restrictions, availability date, close position, freeze position, edit position restrictions, job requisitions, compensation grade eligibility on job profile.

Business process framework, BP types, conditions, action vs approval vs approval chain vs to-do vs checklist, initiator and subject, parallel and serial steps, step completion order, BP security (initiators and approvers security groups), delegation, sub-processes, rescind vs cancel vs correct, BP configuration options (Organization Subtype, Service Center), event effective date vs entry moment, Workday Illuminate AI for BP summarization and next-best action.

Security group types (role-based constrained/unconstrained, user-based, job-based, segment-based, integration system, public, service center), domain security policies (get, put, view, modify), business process security policies (initiate, approve, view, rescind), functional areas, activate pending security policy changes, assignable roles, role assignments on organizations and positions, configurable security, context and rules-based security groups, audit.

Compensation components (salary, allowance, bonus, commission, stock, merit, period salary plans), compensation packages, grades, grade profiles, steps, pay ranges, eligibility rules, compensation plans and defaulting, one-time payments, compensation review (merit/bonus/stock award cycles), total rewards statements.

Talent profile (career, job history, education, certifications, languages, competencies), Skills Cloud and skills taxonomy, performance review templates, anytime feedback, goal management (SMART goals, cascading, org goals), calibration, succession planning, talent pools, 9-box talent matrix, development items, Workday Journeys for personalized experiences.

Absence plans (accrual, balance period, carryover), time-off plans and types, eligibility rules, entry validation, absence calendars, request time off and correct, work schedule calendars, holiday calendars, LOA types and eligibility, absence with pay/without pay, return from leave.

Job requisitions, job posting (internal, external, career sites, job boards), candidate pipeline stages (review, screen, interview, offer, background check, ready for hire), candidate pools, recruiting events, prospect vs candidate, referral program, offer letter and eSignature, move candidate to hire/contingent, Workday AI candidate matching and screening assistance.

Report types (advanced, matrix, composite, search, simple, trending, transposed), report writer data sources and indexed sources, related business objects, calculated fields (text, date, arithmetic, logic, lookup related value, evaluate expression, format), sharing reports, scheduling, report security, drill down, output options (on-screen, Excel, PDF, RTF), Prism Analytics datasets and derived datasets, Discovery Boards, People Analytics.

Integration system types (Core Connectors, Cloud Connect, Packaged, EIB, Studio, Extend), web services (SOAP, REST, RaaS — report as a service), Workday APIs and WQL, integration system users (ISU), integration system security groups (ISSG), launch parameters, transaction log, Integration Event auditing, Agent System of Record for AI agents.

EIB inbound vs outbound, EIB spreadsheet template generation, data sources (custom report, web service), transformation (XSLT, none), delivery methods (email, SFTP, attachment, Workday), launch parameters, recurring EIBs, EIB errors and reprocessing, EIB vs Core Connector decision criteria.

Workday twice-yearly releases (2025R1, 2025R2 Scout, 2026R1), release notes and feature opt-in, Workday Community and Brainstorm, configuration migration (tenant copy, environment promotion), sandbox/preview/implementation/production tenants, Workday Illuminate AI features, Agent System of Record, Workday Extend apps, Workday Wellness, Workday AI Assistant, configurable security by release.