SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Exam Guide
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Exam Guide
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What Time Off feature defines the available time types for a user?
Please choose the correct answer.
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Time profile
Work schedule
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A manager changes an employee's division, job classification, and cost center. The manager then submits the request and an
event reason is triggered. As shown in the attached screen shot, what event reason ID does the system select?
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EVENT_REASON4
EVENT_REASON3
EVENT_REASON1
EVENT_REASON2
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How do you create a new CSV legacy picklist?
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Export all picklists and add a new picklist ID and new picklist values to the file.
Export the data format and add a new picklist ID and new picklist values to the file.
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Which of the following is not found on the quick card?
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Org Chart
National ID
Go To
Take Action
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What can you do with the Pivot Query Designer?
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You can calculate statistics, such as the average, variance and standard deviation.
You can schedule the distribution of created tables and charts directly from the tool.
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You want to create a generic (MDF) object that has a composite association with two other MDF objects. Where do you
define the association?
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Which of the following are the benefits of EC as compared to a traditional HRIS?
There are 3 correct answers.
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Strategic insight
Difficult to connect
Workforce support
Expensive
Data Management
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What happens if a mapped role is deleted in Role Based Permissions?
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Response:
Nothing
The permissions are permanently removed and ungranted from the relevant groups.
Users can continue to access the role until they are removed from the relevant groups.
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Your customer has legal entities that share locations. What type of association do you configure between the foundation
objects (FO)?
Please choose the correct answer.
Response:
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A customer has proposed to implement position management to keep track of the position. How do you define the
permissions in Position Management?
Response:
Assign Authorization for Position Organization Chart and Position Management Settings
For users to be able to display the position organization chart, you must assign the Manage user
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What tool do you to add a new field to an existing Generic Object?
Please choose the correct answer.
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Manage Data
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You are creating a generic (MDF) object and you want to add a foundation object (FO) as a field. Based on the attached
screenshot, what value would you enter for the valid values source?
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Code
Location Name
location
externalCode
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What data elements are only valid for a generic object field?
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Auto Number
String
User
Date
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What picklist feature is only available for generic object picklists?
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Response:
Effective dating
Language translation
Exporting
Ordering
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Where can a user delegate some tasks to another user in an instance?
Please choose the correct answer.
Response:
In Manage Data
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You have imported all employee files and find that the base pay rate for one of the employees is NOT displayed under
Compensation Information. What could cause this issue?
Response:
The data from the Compensation Information Import does NOT have the same effective date as the data from the Pay Component Recurring
Import.
The Pay Component Recurring Import does NOT include a record for the employee.
The Pay Component Recurring Import has the wrong sequence number.
The Pay Component Non Recurring Import does NOT include a record for the employee.
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Where do you create a new Event Reason?
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What tools can you use to assign business rules?
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Response:
Manage Data
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Your customer completed a Job Information portlet import. They realized that a field value was NOT correct for all
employees. How can they fix this issue?
Response:
Use the import and export data tool and select the incremental load mode with Business Key as Key Preference.
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Use the Import Employee data tool and select the Full Purge mode to perform a partial import.
Use the import and Export data tool and select the Full Purge Mode with Business Key as Key Preference.
Use the Import Employee Data tool and select the Incremental Load mode to perform a partial import.
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What Employee Central component is found in the Corporate Data Model?
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Role-based permissions
Foundation objects
Generic objects
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What does the system do when a label for a language is missing in one of the data models?
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What do you use to create hierarchical structure between Foundation Objects?
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Associations
Business Rules
Propagations
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Which configuration sections are available when a generic object definition is created using the Metadata Framework?
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Searchable Fields
Configuration UI
Associations
Picklist Values
Security
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You need to add custom Country Specific Fields that appear in the Personal Information Portlet. How do you add the fields?
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Your customer wants to create an association with the requirement ‘One division can belong to many business units’. What
association do you need to build?
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Your client has a requirement to create an escalation path for their New Hire workflow. Which steps will you follow to
configure this escalation path?
There are 2 correct answers to this question.
Response:
Create the escalation path using the Manage Organization, Pay and Job Structures tool
In the Succession Data Model, confirm that the hris-field escalation is enabled for the hris-element wfConfig
In the Corporate Data Model, confirm that the hris-field escalation is enabled for the hris-element wfConfig
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How can you assign a business role to a business user?
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Your client informs you that they require an additional Rule Type for their Business Rules in the Production instance. What
tool will you use to add this new Rule Type value?
Please choose the correct answer.
Response:
Picklist Mappings
Picklist Management
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A customer has decided they will NOT use the standard weekly hours field on the Foundation Object Legal Entity in their
implementation.
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Which actions can you perform with the Import and Export Data tool?
There are 2 correct answers to this question.
Response:
Import Config
Employee Export
Import Template
Download Template
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In which formats can you export reports built in the online report designer (ORD)?
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Text (.txt)
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What must be set up in the system before managers can use the Change Job and Compensation Information feature for their
direct reports?
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Events
Event reasons
Workflow configurations
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Which section in permissions would you navigate to provide access to the “My Processes” user interface?
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You are importing the job history (job information) for an employee. You receive an error message that the specified
manager does not exist.
You check the system and confirm the manager does exist in the system. What is wrong?
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What do you need to download before importing organization, pay, and job data into the system?
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A CSV template containing all objects from the Manage Organization, Pay and Job Structures tool
A blank CSV template for each object from the Manage Organization, Pay and Job Structures tool
A blank CSV template for each object from the Import Foundation Data tool
A CSV template containing all objects from the Import Foundation Data tool
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Your customer reports that every employee's compa ratio, stored under Compensation Information, is incorrect. Which
foundation object should you review first with the customer to verify the data?
Please choose the correct answer.
Response:
Pay grade
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Pay range
Pay component
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You need to set up a new warning message that will appear when an employee modifies their marital status in their
employee data. How would you set up this rule?
There are 2 correct answers to this question.
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Assign the rule to the appropriate field in the metadata framework (MDF) object.
Create a message definition under Manage Organization, Pay, and Job Structures.
Assign the rule to the appropriate field in the Succession Data Model.
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What does the Report Distributor allow you to do?
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After submitting an employee data import file for validation, the customer received an email messages informing them that
several errors were found.
In order to troubleshoot the issues with the data, what tool can the customer use to find the error log file?
Response:
Monitor Job
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Which reporting feature allows you to manipulate the relationships between tables in a query?
Please choose the correct answer.
Response:
Calculated column
Filter
Report distributor
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You are helping your client to extend their Employee Central footprint to their subsidiary in China. You have added the
translations for the FO records in the client system in Simplified Chinese.
One of the testers logs into the instance and changes the logon language to Simplified Chinese. What translations of FO records will the
tester in the instance?
Response:
If the system does not find the translation in Simplified Chinese, it will show the translation maintained in German
If the system does not find the translation in Simplified Chinese or in German , it will show an error
If the system does not find the translation in Simplified Chinese, it will show the translation maintained in US English
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If the system does not find the translation in Simplified Chinese or in German, it will show the translation in US English
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A customer plans to have time off settings for individual employees. What do you do achieve this?
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If you want to have accruals created automatically for your employees, you need to define a rule and assign this rule to the work schedule.
If you want to have accruals created automatically for your employees, you need to define a rule and assign this rule to the time account type.
For each leave type, you create a time type, specifying, for example, the workflow needs for thism particular leave type.
To actually create accrual bookings, you need to create and run a time off calendar with scenario leave balance.
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Where do you configure the fields in a dynamic role?
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How would you create a workflow rule to trigger a rule when a promotion occurs?
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How do you provide user access to reports?
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Your customer reports that they are unable to add a new "Bonus" pay component to their "Total Target Compensation" pay
component group. There is an association between the pay component group and the pay component.
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The "Bonus" pay component has a different currency than the "Total Target Compensation" pay component group.
The "Bonus" pay component has a different frequency than the "Total Target Compensation" pay component group.
The "Bonus" pay component also has an association to another pay component group.
The "Bonus" pay component has a later effective date than the "Total Target Compensation" pay component group.
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A business rule triggers a merit increase event reason when the base salary amount is increased. What base object would
you use for this business rule?
Please choose the correct answer.
Response:
Employee Information
Compensation Information
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YYour customer has a subsidiary in another country that requires an approval workflow, whenever a new position is created.
You created a business rule to trigger a workflow when that legal entity is chosen.
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The following table shows an extract from a customer's configuration workbook. Which of the following XML configurations
meet the customer's requirements?
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Your customer wants to allow employees to manage their own benefits. You made the required changes to the Succession
data model.
Which tool in the Admin Center do you use to activate the Global Benefits tab?
Response:
Manage Configuration UI
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Your customer asks you to create a custom field for employees in Germany to track personal information. Where would you
configure this?
Please choose the correct answer.
Response:
In the next custom field that is available in the globalInfo element of the Succession Data Model
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In the next custom field that is available in the personalInfo element of the country-specific Succession Data Model
In the next custom field that is available in the personalInfo element of the Succession Data Model
In the next custom field that is available in the globalInfo element of the country-specific Succession Data Model
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Which of the following is not an Incremental load type?
Please choose the correct answer.
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Append
Insert
Correct
Purge
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What is the purpose of SuccessFactor's Application Programming Interface (SFAPI)?
Please choose the correct answer.
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Allows data to be extracted from SuccessFactors' Employee Central and used for internal products.
Allows data to be extracted from SuccessFactors' products and used in external products.
Maps and transfers extracted data from SuccessFactors' Employee Central to internal products.
Maps and transfers extracted data from SuccessFactors' products to external products.
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Your customer requires a new custom MDF foundation object (MDF FO) linked to legal entities to build their organization
structure. What are possible steps?
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Define the association to the legal entity with the Corporate data model.
Create records using the Manage Organization, Pay and Job Structures tool.
Import the records using the Import and Export Data tool.
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Your customer wants to set the default value of the "Is Full Time" field to "Yes" during the new hire process. What would be
the base object of this rule?
Please choose the correct answer.
Response:
Employment Details
Job Information
Personal Information
Employee Information
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What tools can you use to update an MDF picklist value translation that was just imported in the system?
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Manage Data
Picklists Management
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You create a Config UI based on the Uniform Request Custom Generic Object as shown in the screen shot. What field must have the ID of
externalCOde to display the UI in People Profile?
Please choose the correct answer.
Response:
Employee
Shoes Size
Requested date
Apron Size
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How do you translate the label for the Legal entity object so that users in different countries can see the label on their own
language?
Please choose the correct answer.
Response:
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What is the correct sequence in which to load the employee data files into SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central?
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1. Basic Import
2. Biographical Information Import
3. Employment details import
4. Job History import
1. Basic Import
2. Biographical Information Import
3. Job history import
4. Employment details import
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You have configured a custom field in the Employment Information portlet of the Succession Data Model as follows.
You edit the Employment Information portlet of an existing employee file and the ‘Remote Worker’? field only displays No Selection in the
drop down list.
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Your customer wants to add three job classifications: Manager, Administrative Assistant and HR Representative. These
classifications will be used in France, Germany, and the USA.
Response:
In the Job Classification local element in the CSF Corporate Data Model
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What are the two types of ways to access the add new employee page?
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What is the purpose of the Fine Tuning activity during business configuration?
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To adjust the list of values for all standard and custom fields based on the scoping decisions
To apply scoping changes to implement modules within SAP Cloud for Customer
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You need to define time account types for time types that have a balance that needs to be checked. So, for time types where
you want to have a check against a balance you normally need to:
Response:
Define a rule governing how the accruals should be calculated, and assign it to a work schedule type.
Define a rule governing how the accruals should be calculated, and assign it to a time account type.
Configure a time account type to suit your needs and assign it to a work schedule type.
Configure a time account type to suit your needs and assign it to a time account type.
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Which of the following list of events can trigger retroactive accounting?
There are 3 correct answers to this question.
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Hiring
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The e-mail domain of a company has changed and you need to update only this field for all employees. (skipped)
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Prepare the Email Information import file for partial import and use the Incremental Load mode.
Delete all cell contents except EMAIL and USERID from the employee data CSV file.
Prepare the Email Information import file for partial import and use the Full Purge mode.
Delete all columns, except EMAIL and USERID from the employee data CSV file.
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What tasks can be performed on the Benefits Admin Overview page?
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Your customer wants to grant restricted proxy rights to their HR Department to act on behalf of employees belonging to
their legal entity. How can you perform this requirement?
Response:
Fill the Basic Import template with the requested proxy configuration and import the file using the Import and Export Data tool.
Use the Proxy Management tool to configure the requested proxy assignments.
Fill the PROXY column of the Basic Import template to match the requirements and import the file using the Import Employee Data tool.
Use the Manage Permission Roles tool to grant proxy rights to the HR Department.
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When creating field for a generic (MDF) object, which data types require a valid values source?
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Response:
Translatable
Generic Object
Picklist
Foundation Object
User
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Which Workflow Context identifies a Future Role?
Please choose the correct answer.
Response:
Source
Target
Approver
Contributors
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As a best practice, the FTE field must be visible to the HR department and to managers. They should not be able to edit this
field. How would you configure the FTE field in the system?
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In the Succession Data Model XML, set the FTE field visibility to "none".
In role-based permissions, grant the HR role and Manager role the "View Current" and "View History" permission for the FTE field.
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In role-based permissions, grant the HR role and Manager role the "View Current" and "View History" permission for the job information actions.
In the Succession Data Model XML, set the FTE field visibility to "view".
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You configure the hris-element personInfo with the following XML.
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Place of Birth
Birth Name
Date of Death
Person Id
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What is the best definition for self-service?
Please choose the correct answer.
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A feature that allows employees to initiate or complete personal data changes without HR assistance.
A feature that allows employees to inform their HR Representative of errors in the system.
A feature that allows managers to initiate changes on behalf of their employees without HR assistance.
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Which of the following actions can you perform in the position organization chart?
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How do you enable Position Management?
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The HR Representative for employees in the Sales department has changed. How does SAP recommend that you make this
change to the job relationships in the system?
Response:
Update the picklist file and use the Picklist Management tool to import the HR Representative.
Use the Manage Mass Changes tool to select the Sales department and change the value in the HR Representative field.
Use the Manage Permission Roles tool to allow the new HR Representative to access the Sales department target population.
Update the employee data file and use the Import Employee Data tool to import this file.
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What must be created before synchronizing position information and employment information?
Please choose the correct answer.
Response:
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Which import files are mandatory in order to create a new employee in SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central?
Response:
Personal Information
Job History
Biographical Information
Employment details
Basic Import
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You have configured a custom field in the Employment Information portlet of the Succession Data Model as follows.
You access the employee file and the field is not visible. What is the most likely issue?
Please choose the correct answer.
Response:
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You remove the Cost Center HRIS element from the Corporate Data Model. What must be done in the Succession Data Model
to avoid errors in the system?
Please choose the correct answer.
Response:
The Cost Center field in the Job Info element must be set to required = "false".
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The Cost Center field in the Job Info element must be set to visibility = "none".
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