HCM Fundamentals Exam terms with Complete &
Comprehensive Answers.
Supervisory Organizations - ANS -The Foundation of WD HCM
-this type of organization groups workers into a management hierarchy
Staffing Models - ANS Defines how jobs and positions are created and filled in a
supervisory organizations
Job Profiles - ANS Defines generic features and characteristics of a job and of a
position that is built off the profile
Compensation - ANS The umbrella term for compensation packages, grades, grade
profiles and plans
Security - ANS A security group is a collection of users or a collection of objects that are
related to users. Allowing a security group access to a securable item in a security
policy granted access to the users associated with the security group.
Business Processes - ANS A sequence of one or more tasks that accomplishes a
desired business objective
Related action icon - ANS -these features make WD's reports and viewable pages
actionable
-when you want to act on or make changes to an object
Business Objects - ANS -WD stores data as business objects
-has fields and instances
Basic Navigation - ANS -navigation tools
-single and multi-select fields
-standard screen icons
Work lets - ANS -is a report that can be displayed as a tile on a WD landing page.
-provide users quick access to frequently referenced data and tasks common to a
specific functional area
Work lets - ANS can be identified as required or optional based on the user's security
group(s)
Required Work lets - ANS cannot be removed or rearranged from the page
Optional Work lets - ANS can be added or removed by the user
Application Headers (page 14) - ANS -Home
,-Search
-Workday Icon
-Worker Profile
Workers Profile Menu (pg. 15) - ANS -Home
-Inbox
-Notifications
-Workbench
-Sitemap
-Favorites
-Audit
-Drive
-Documentation
-Help
-My Account
Home - ANS The Home landing page uses one consolidated view to display work lets
giving employees, contingent workers and managers access to information and
commonly used tasks for self-service and manager self service
Inbox - ANS the Inbox will contain all activity which required of you. When Inbox is
selected, you inbox opens in full-screen mode.
Notifications (pg. 20) - ANS displays notifications regarding business processes and
rules-driven alerts such as birthdays and time off
Workbench - ANS provides technical administrators and implementer quick and easy
access to all the tools needed to create and manage custom reports, calculated fields,
analytic indicators and other administrative task and reports
Sitemap - ANS a list of standard reports and tasks available to you, sorted by functional
category
Favorites - ANS this page provides access to a configurable list of favorite business
objects, reports and tasks. Favorites can also be used when searching in prompts
Audit - ANS a list of all the audit reports and task available to you, sorted by functional
area
W: Drive - ANS the WD drive is a virtual drive in which you can store generated reports.
Users can find the same information through a Reports work let on the Home landing
page. When a new report is available in our W: Drive, a notification will display in the
application header and in you’re in Inbox. You can also tag reports to your W: Drive to
make them easier to locate
,Documentation - ANS WD documentation can be used to obtain information on
attributes of objects, system procedures. This link will take users to the Documentation
section of the Workday Community
Help - ANS To direct your end users to your training and help documents, use the Edit
Tenant Setup - System task and enter your training and help website's URL in the 'Help'
Link field. To add other links, such as one to your support center, create Quick links
work lets and include them as required work lets on the Home landing page
My Account - ANS allows you to change your preferences and password
Gear Icon (at the top right of each landing page) (pg. 16) - ANS -you can personalize
your land page
-add or remove any recommended or optional work lets to our from this page
-specify the order in which you would like these work lets to appear
Prompts (pg. 16) - ANS -help users navigate in search fields
-display all content available to that field, allowing you to drill into folders or levels to
more easily find the value(s) you desire
Work lets - ANS what is the name of the icon that allows you to view information or
perform tasks on a landing page
Inbox (pg. 20) - ANS is an activity steam that displays business process tasks,
approvals and to dos which require action under the Actions tab
Archive tab (pg. 20) - ANS displays historical actions and business processes within the
last 30 days
Bulk Approvals (pg. 20) - ANS Under the action of your Inbox, there is a dropdown icon
on the top right that gives you the option to Bulk Approve items in your inbox, refresh
your inbox or begin delegations
Translations (pg. 21) - ANS -WD can deliver Employee Self Service and Manager -Self
Service into over 20 languages
-These languages are primarily allocated based on the location the worker is hired into
-or Profile/My Account/Change Preferences
-The Choices of languages can be restricted using Edit Tenant Setup - Global
Custom Labels (pg. 21) - ANS -if certain terms used by WD do not Mach up with the
language used in your company, you do have the ability to override some of these
objects labels.
Maintain Custom Labels task (pg. 21) - ANS -enables you to create, edit, and delete
custom labels which will override the original WD term in certain tasks and reports
, -you can define override values for different variations of the term when relevant, such
as the singular, plural, and possessive forms of the terms (see list on page 22)
Synonyms (pg. 22) Maintained: Edit Tenant Setup - Search - ANS these are used as
search criteria to find information in the system. The advantage of this is that it allows
customers to map their terminology with WD terminology.
Find Worker (pg. 22) - ANS use this page to filter search results by various criteria, such
as Location, Job Profile and Supervisory Organization
Prefixes (pg. 14) - ANS -allow you to narrow down your results to a specific type of
search result.
-WD searches all items of that type and returns all the results available to you.
-Example: "org:" or "bop:"
-to find all search prefixes you have access to, type "?"
Object in WD (pg. 26) - ANS When you see an object in WD you can click on it to get
more information or use the Related Action icon to open the menu and initiate an action
Landing Pages (pg. 26) - ANS -are a collection of work lets that allow users to access
information, tasks and reports
-are configurable; Work lets can be added and removed at any time
Workday Icon (pg. 14) - ANS Click on Workday icon to return to your configured default
landing page
Home (pg. 14) - ANS this icon on the upper left corner takes you back to the Home
landing page
Search (pg. 14) - ANS you can search on tasks, objects (such as workers, pre-hires and
organizations) and reports in the search bar
Worker Profile (pg. 14) - ANS Click on your name or picture to view your worker profile,
access all menus including your inbox and notifications, manger your user preferences
or sign out of your WD session
There are 4 key characteristics to a supervisory organization (pg. 28) - ANS 1. Positions
are only created within a supervisory org.
2. EEs must be hired into a supervisory org
3. Assignable roles have responsibilities within a supervisory org
4. Unique business processes can be assigned to a supervisory org
Supervisory Organizations (pg. 28) - ANS -group workers into a management hierarchy
-can be a business unit, department, group or project
Comprehensive Answers.
Supervisory Organizations - ANS -The Foundation of WD HCM
-this type of organization groups workers into a management hierarchy
Staffing Models - ANS Defines how jobs and positions are created and filled in a
supervisory organizations
Job Profiles - ANS Defines generic features and characteristics of a job and of a
position that is built off the profile
Compensation - ANS The umbrella term for compensation packages, grades, grade
profiles and plans
Security - ANS A security group is a collection of users or a collection of objects that are
related to users. Allowing a security group access to a securable item in a security
policy granted access to the users associated with the security group.
Business Processes - ANS A sequence of one or more tasks that accomplishes a
desired business objective
Related action icon - ANS -these features make WD's reports and viewable pages
actionable
-when you want to act on or make changes to an object
Business Objects - ANS -WD stores data as business objects
-has fields and instances
Basic Navigation - ANS -navigation tools
-single and multi-select fields
-standard screen icons
Work lets - ANS -is a report that can be displayed as a tile on a WD landing page.
-provide users quick access to frequently referenced data and tasks common to a
specific functional area
Work lets - ANS can be identified as required or optional based on the user's security
group(s)
Required Work lets - ANS cannot be removed or rearranged from the page
Optional Work lets - ANS can be added or removed by the user
Application Headers (page 14) - ANS -Home
,-Search
-Workday Icon
-Worker Profile
Workers Profile Menu (pg. 15) - ANS -Home
-Inbox
-Notifications
-Workbench
-Sitemap
-Favorites
-Audit
-Drive
-Documentation
-Help
-My Account
Home - ANS The Home landing page uses one consolidated view to display work lets
giving employees, contingent workers and managers access to information and
commonly used tasks for self-service and manager self service
Inbox - ANS the Inbox will contain all activity which required of you. When Inbox is
selected, you inbox opens in full-screen mode.
Notifications (pg. 20) - ANS displays notifications regarding business processes and
rules-driven alerts such as birthdays and time off
Workbench - ANS provides technical administrators and implementer quick and easy
access to all the tools needed to create and manage custom reports, calculated fields,
analytic indicators and other administrative task and reports
Sitemap - ANS a list of standard reports and tasks available to you, sorted by functional
category
Favorites - ANS this page provides access to a configurable list of favorite business
objects, reports and tasks. Favorites can also be used when searching in prompts
Audit - ANS a list of all the audit reports and task available to you, sorted by functional
area
W: Drive - ANS the WD drive is a virtual drive in which you can store generated reports.
Users can find the same information through a Reports work let on the Home landing
page. When a new report is available in our W: Drive, a notification will display in the
application header and in you’re in Inbox. You can also tag reports to your W: Drive to
make them easier to locate
,Documentation - ANS WD documentation can be used to obtain information on
attributes of objects, system procedures. This link will take users to the Documentation
section of the Workday Community
Help - ANS To direct your end users to your training and help documents, use the Edit
Tenant Setup - System task and enter your training and help website's URL in the 'Help'
Link field. To add other links, such as one to your support center, create Quick links
work lets and include them as required work lets on the Home landing page
My Account - ANS allows you to change your preferences and password
Gear Icon (at the top right of each landing page) (pg. 16) - ANS -you can personalize
your land page
-add or remove any recommended or optional work lets to our from this page
-specify the order in which you would like these work lets to appear
Prompts (pg. 16) - ANS -help users navigate in search fields
-display all content available to that field, allowing you to drill into folders or levels to
more easily find the value(s) you desire
Work lets - ANS what is the name of the icon that allows you to view information or
perform tasks on a landing page
Inbox (pg. 20) - ANS is an activity steam that displays business process tasks,
approvals and to dos which require action under the Actions tab
Archive tab (pg. 20) - ANS displays historical actions and business processes within the
last 30 days
Bulk Approvals (pg. 20) - ANS Under the action of your Inbox, there is a dropdown icon
on the top right that gives you the option to Bulk Approve items in your inbox, refresh
your inbox or begin delegations
Translations (pg. 21) - ANS -WD can deliver Employee Self Service and Manager -Self
Service into over 20 languages
-These languages are primarily allocated based on the location the worker is hired into
-or Profile/My Account/Change Preferences
-The Choices of languages can be restricted using Edit Tenant Setup - Global
Custom Labels (pg. 21) - ANS -if certain terms used by WD do not Mach up with the
language used in your company, you do have the ability to override some of these
objects labels.
Maintain Custom Labels task (pg. 21) - ANS -enables you to create, edit, and delete
custom labels which will override the original WD term in certain tasks and reports
, -you can define override values for different variations of the term when relevant, such
as the singular, plural, and possessive forms of the terms (see list on page 22)
Synonyms (pg. 22) Maintained: Edit Tenant Setup - Search - ANS these are used as
search criteria to find information in the system. The advantage of this is that it allows
customers to map their terminology with WD terminology.
Find Worker (pg. 22) - ANS use this page to filter search results by various criteria, such
as Location, Job Profile and Supervisory Organization
Prefixes (pg. 14) - ANS -allow you to narrow down your results to a specific type of
search result.
-WD searches all items of that type and returns all the results available to you.
-Example: "org:" or "bop:"
-to find all search prefixes you have access to, type "?"
Object in WD (pg. 26) - ANS When you see an object in WD you can click on it to get
more information or use the Related Action icon to open the menu and initiate an action
Landing Pages (pg. 26) - ANS -are a collection of work lets that allow users to access
information, tasks and reports
-are configurable; Work lets can be added and removed at any time
Workday Icon (pg. 14) - ANS Click on Workday icon to return to your configured default
landing page
Home (pg. 14) - ANS this icon on the upper left corner takes you back to the Home
landing page
Search (pg. 14) - ANS you can search on tasks, objects (such as workers, pre-hires and
organizations) and reports in the search bar
Worker Profile (pg. 14) - ANS Click on your name or picture to view your worker profile,
access all menus including your inbox and notifications, manger your user preferences
or sign out of your WD session
There are 4 key characteristics to a supervisory organization (pg. 28) - ANS 1. Positions
are only created within a supervisory org.
2. EEs must be hired into a supervisory org
3. Assignable roles have responsibilities within a supervisory org
4. Unique business processes can be assigned to a supervisory org
Supervisory Organizations (pg. 28) - ANS -group workers into a management hierarchy
-can be a business unit, department, group or project
