Payroll Processing and Configuration Guide
Payroll Processing and Configuration Guide
NO.1 Your customer's bonus payments are based on a percentage of salary. Therefore, salary must
be calculated before bonus in the payroll run. How do you determine the element processing
sequence within a payroll run?
A. Use the default priority of the primary classification of the element.
B. Set the priority of the element on the element definition page.
C. Set the effective process priority within the element entries page.
D. Alter the sequence of the elements on the element entries page.
Answer: B
NO.2 Your customer has some questions around the parameters that must be entered when running
the prepayments process.
From which two work areas can you access the prepayment process? (Choose two.)
A. Payroll Checklist
B. Payment Distribution
C. Accounting Distribution
D. Payroll Calculating
Answer: A B
NO.3 You are implementing retropay. You have created a retroactive event group to tract the
changes that need to be considered by the retropay process.
To which feature should the retroactive event group be associated?
A. Element
B. Payroll relationship records
C. Payroll definition
D. Work relationship records
Answer: A
NO.4 Which action should you take in a checklist to enable the process to be automatically reprocessed?
A. Rollback
B. Skip
C. Mark for Retry
D. Re Process
Answer: C
NO.5 Which two delivered reports can be used to view the results of a payroll run immediately after
running the Calculate Payroll process? (Choose two.)
A. Payroll Activity Report
B. Payroll Balance Report
C. Payment Register Report
D. Payroll Register Report
Answer: A B
NO.6 A line manager has hired a worker who will be paid on a weekly basis. What navigation path
should the payroll user take to enter the weekly payroll details for the worker?
A. Manage Work Relationship > Work Relationship Record
B. Manage Work Relationship > Assignment Record
C. Manage Payroll Relationship > Assignment Record
D. Manage Payroll Relationship > Payroll Relationship Record
Answer: C
NO.7 Which two seed job roles have access to the Setup and Maintenance work area and can access
all payroll setup tasks? (Choose two.)
A. Application Implementation Consultant
B. Payroll Interface Coordinator
C. Payroll Administrator
D. Payroll Manager
Answer: C D
NO.8 You were trying to attach the lookup that you created to an input value in order to restrict the
values for that input value, but the lookup field is not enabled.
What is the reason for the lookup field not being enabled?
A. The unit of measure for the input value should be Date.
B. The unit of measure for the input value should be Character.
C. This is a bug in the application.
D. The unit of measure for the input value should be Number.
Answer: B
NO.9 What happens if the costing process does not find a value for a segment defined as mandatory,
and you create a suspense account at Payroll level?
A. Costing results display a blank (null) value in the segment.
B. Calculation displays an error, and the person's results are not costed.
C. Costing results are placed into suspense account.
D. No costing results are created for the person.
Answer: C
NO.10 What three options should be considered while defining a costing key flexfield structure?
(Choose three.)
A. Value sets for the segments
B. Cost hierarchy levels enabled to populate each cost account segment
C. segments required for the offset account
D. GL Accounting key flexfield structure
Answer: A B C
NO.11 Which statement accurately describes how you create a tax reporting unit (TRU)?
A. When you identify a legal entity as a legal employer, the application transfers the legal reporting
units that are associated with that legal employer to HCM as tax reporting units.
B. When you identify a legal entity as a payroll statutory unit, the application transfers the legal
reporting units that are associated with that legal entity to HCM as tax reporting units.
C. You can identify a legal entity as a tax reporting unit.
D. If you identify a legal entity as a payroll statutory unit, you will have the option to identify the
payroll statutory unit as a tax reporting unit.
Answer: B
NO.12 There are several flows showing on the payroll dashboard that are incomplete. What action
should be taken to complete the flow and remove it from showing on the dashboard?
A. From the Payroll Calculation Work Area, highlight the flow and select the complete flow action.
B. From the Payroll Calculation Work Area, highlight the flow and select the delete flow action.
C. From the Payroll Calculation Work Area, highlight the flow and select the skip all tasks action.
D. From the Payroll Calculation Work Area, highlight the flow and select the rollback all tasks action.
Answer: D
NO.13 Your customer is using a third-party time product. You have created elements using the time
category and now need to import time card hours into cloud payroll.
How can you meet this requirement?
A. Use the batch Loader task to import time element entries into cloud payroll.
B. Use the Load Time Card process to import time entries into cloud payroll.
C. It is not possible to load time directly from a third-party time product into cloud payroll.
D. Use the Load Time Card process to import time entries into cloud Time and Labour, and then use
the batch loader task to import time element entries into cloud payroll.
Answer: B
NO.14 You have a requirement to verify the costing results, such as debit and credit, of a particular
payroll run at costing segments combination level, without manually adding the individual costing
results.
Which two options achieve this requirement?
A. Run the Payroll Activity Report in Detail scope.
B. Run the Payroll Costing Report in Summary scope.
C. You can use the OTBI - Payroll Run Costing Real Time subject area.
D. You cannot achieve this requirement.
Answer: B C
NO.15 You created organization payment methods of type Check and EFT for your customer.
However, they inform you that they only want to allow their employees to create personal payment
methods of type EFT.
Which additional setup step must you also complete?
A. Disable the payment type field from the personal payment method page.
B. Create a formula to restrict payment types available to employees and attach it to the payroll user
interface configuration user-defined table.
C. Only attach organization payment methods of type EFT to the employees' payroll.
D. Create an information element, with an input value to store the payment types available to
employees.
Answer: B
NO.15 You want to restrict the Employee personal payment methods to only 1
Which additional setup step must you also complete?
A. This requirement cannot be achieved
B. Restrict the no of payments in Payment Preferences Page
C. Only attach organization payment methods of type EFT to the employees' payroll.
D. Create an information element, with an input value to store the no of payment types allowed to employee
Answer: B
NO.16 A court has issued an order for deductions to be taken from a worker's salary and paid to an
ex-spouse. The court order includes instructions for the company to make payments directly to the
ex-spouse and has included their bank details.
How should you enter these details into the application?
A. Enter the bank details on the manage third-party person payment methods page.
B. Enter the bank details on personal payment methods page.
C. This requirement cannot be met in cloud payroll; all such payments should be sent to the court.
D. Enter the bank details on a third-party organization page.
Answer: A
NO.17 Your customer is using HCM Cloud Absence Management and wants to transfer absence
information to Cloud Global Payroll so that it can be processed.
Aside from creating your absence plan, which two steps do you need to complete in Cloud Global
Payroll?
(Choose two.)
A. Create your absence elements
B. Create an Absence Calculation Card to store the absence details
C. Create element eligibility for each absence element
D. Manually enter the absence units in the employees' element entry
Answer: A C
NO.18 A person has one Payroll Relationship and two assignments. Each assignment has two
different departments.
Each department is associated with a different cost center. You would like to transfer all the costs of
this period to one cost center only.
Which two options achieve this requirement?
A. Define payroll costing with the cost center required.
B. Define element entry level costing for all elements for this person with the required cost center.
C. You cannot achieve this because the cost center is automatically picked up from the manage
department costing.
D. Define the Person - Payroll Relationship level costing with the required cost center so that all costs
are changed to the same cost center.
Answer: BD
NO.19 How should you configure the predefined payslip report to meet your customer's payslip
requirements?
A. Payslips cannot be configured and must be built from the beginning.
B. Modify the copy of the seeded payslip template and use it in a copy of the seeded payslip report.
C. Open the seeded Payslip report and edit the template.
D. Rename the seeded Payslip report and edit the content within the seeded template.
Answer: B
NO.20 You have run the payroll calculation and several workers have an error status.
What action should you take to remove the payroll calculation results for all workers?
A. Delete Records
B. Rollback
C. Retry
D. Mark for Retry
Answer: B
NO.21 Where would a payroll flow task retrieve its parameter information when selecting "Bind to
Flow Task Parameter"?
A. Derives the value from a SQL Bind
B. Derives the value from the output of the previous task
C. Derives the value from the context of the current flow instance
D. Derives a specific value to the parameter as entered by the user
Answer: B
NO.22 You are creating a car allowance element. The rules for this allowance need to reference the
salary balance.
How can you meet this requirement?
A. Associate the salary balance to a calculation card and reference the calculation card in the
allowance element formula.
B. Enter the salary balance value as an input value on the car allowance element.
C. Create a balance feed to feed the salary balance to the car allowance element.
D. Reference the database item and appropriate dimension for the salary balance in the allowance
element formula.
Answer: D
NO.23 Your customer is running their weekly payroll, which includes a number of high-performing
workers, who will be receiving a bonus. They want these workers to be able to view their payslip two
days earlier than other workers on the weekly payroll.
What action should be taken to meet this requirement?
A. Navigate to the Document of Records (DOR) and override the payslip availability date for the
impacted employees.
B. Create a payroll object group for the impacted workers and enter the overriding payslip availability
date when submitting the payroll run.
C. It is not possible to override the payslip availability date for a subset of workers.
D. Using the payroll time definition, override the payslip availability date for the impacted workers.
Answer: B
NO.24 A worker's check has been returned to the company as it is damaged. This must be recorded
in the application.
What action should they take?
Answer: B
NO.52 Which two statements regarding the relationship between legal entities, legal employers, and
payroll statutory units (PSU) are correct? (Choose two.)
A. A legal employer can be associated with multiple PSUs.
B. PSUs are legal entities responsible for payroll tax and social insurance reporting.
C. Legal employers are legal entities responsible for paying workers.
D. A legal entity cannot be both a legal employee and a PSU.
Answer: B C
NO.53 Which is the correct cost hierarchy used to build each account segment?
A. Element Entry, Person Element, Person Payroll, Position, Job, Department, Element Eligibility,
Payroll.
B. Element Entry, Person Payroll, Person Element, Position, Job, Department, Payroll, Element
Eligibility.
C. Element Entry, Person Payroll, Person Element, Position, Job, Payroll, Department, Element
Eligibility, Payroll.
D. Element Entry, Person Element, Person Payroll, Job, Position, Department, Payroll, Element
Eligibility.
Answer: A
NO.54 You want to define your own rules for converting a rate value from one periodicity to
another, such as from weekly to annual.
How can you achieve this?
A. Create an additional input value, calculate the converted value outside the system, and enter it
while creating an element entry.
B. Define your own Periodicity Conversion Rule and select it while creating the element.
C. You cannot define your own rules for converting from one periodicity to another.
D. Define an indirect element, write a fast formula to convert the processed value and create the
result for an indirect element.
Answer: B
NO.55 You are a payroll customer but when you have created an earnings element using the
Manage Elements feature it has not created a pay value input value.
What is the reason for this?
A. The earnings element template always creates "Pay Value" as the input value.
B. The selected extension in Manage Features by Country or Territory was set to "Human Resources
or None".
C. The selected extension in Manage Features by Country or Territory was set to "Payroll".
D. The selected extension in Manage Features by Country or Territory was set to "Payroll Interface".
Answer: B
NO.56 Your customer pays their workers on a semi-monthly payroll frequency. To save costs, the
customer is changing their company policy and effective from 1st January, all workers will be paid on
accounts and is yet to create a personal payment method. How will the employee receive their
payroll payment for the month of January?
A. They will be paid by check, because this is the default payment method on the employee's payroll.
B. They won't receive payment until they have created a personal payment method.
C. A cash payment request will be sent to accounts payable, and the employee will be paid in cash.
D. The payment process will error and they will not receive payment for the month of January.
Answer: A
NO.71 Where do you define a custom schedule to be used during payroll flow submission?
A. Within Manage Flow Patterns, create a custom schedule and associate it with the flow pattern.
B. Within Manage Fast Formula, create a formula that defines the required schedule.
C. Within Manage Time Definitions, create a schedule using the type "Time Span".
D. Within Manage Run Types, create a schedule of the category "Normal".
Answer: B
NO.72 You are using a third-party time product and want to import time to Fusion Payroll using the
time interface.
What steps should you take?
A. Import time card entries by submitting the load Time Card Batches process from the Payroll
Checklist or Payroll Administration work areas
B. Import time entries using the Batch Loader task in the Payroll Administration work area.
C. Import time card entries by submitting the Load Time Card process from the Time and Labor work
area.
D. Import element entries using the Batch Loader task in the Payroll Administration work area.
Answer: A
NO.73 You are testing the retropay process and enter a retrospective bonus entry for a worker. The
bonus is calculated based on a percentage of the worker's salary. When you review the results of the
retropay process you identify the bonus has not been included.
Identify two reasons why this is happening. (Choose two.)
A. Retropay has not been enabled on the bonus element.
B. Retropay has not been enabled on the salary element.
C. Element entry changes are not included in the retroactive event group.
D. Bonus element changes are not included in the retroactive event group.
Answer: A C
NO.74 An element is defined with costing type as "Fixed Costing".
Which costing levels are considered while building cost account?
A. Payroll, Department, Element Eligibility
B. Payroll, Element Eligibility, Element Entry
C. Payroll, Element Eligibility, Department, Element Entry
D. Payroll, Person Element Entry, Department, Job or Position, Person, Element Eligibility
Answer: B
NO.75 A customer's organization has three Business Units - BU1, BU2, and BU3. You have an Onsite
Allowance element, which is at Assignment level, for which only the employees in BU2 and BU3 are
eligible.
How do you define the element eligibility for Onsite Allowance element so that the element entry is
restricted only for BU2 and BU3?
A. You cannot meet the requirement as you cannot create element eligibility using business unit as
the eligibility criteria.
B. Onsite Allowance element should be defined as the Payroll Relationship level element so that the
element eligibility can be defined using Business Unit as the criteria.
C. Define the element eligibility as an Open Eligibility and create an element entry only for employees
with BU2 and BU3.
D. Define multiple element eligibilities using BU2 and BU3 for Business Unit criteria.
Answer: A
NO.76 When a customer runs a payroll, it creates payroll run actions for all workers included in the
process.
On which employment record are the process actions created?
A. Payroll Relationship only
B. Assignment, Work Relationship
C. Assignment only
D. Assignment, Payroll Relationship
Answer: A
NO.77 You have completed the setup of third parties and third-party payment methods for your
company. However, you receive a notification that one of the third-party persons to whom an
employee is making payment has changed his or her bank details.
What action should you take to rectify this?
A. Search for the employee using the "Manage Third-Party Person Payment Methods" task and
correct the bank details associated with the third-party person.
B. Create a new third party and attach the new bank account details.
C. Correct the bank account details associated with the employee's personal payment method.
D. Change the bank details on the involuntary deduction card.
Answer: A
NO.78 Which legislative data group (LDG) description is incorrect?
A. An LDG marks a legislation in which payroll is processed.
B. An LDG can be associated to multiple cost allocation key flexfield structures.
C. An LDG is associated with a legislative code and currency.
D. An LDG can contain many legal entities that act as payroll statutory units.
Answer: B
NO.79 You defined the department costing information after the Calculate Payroll process is run
that creates the costing results also. You noticed that the department costing information is not
created for the employees who are in that department.
What should you do to ensure the department costing information is reflected for those employees
without rolling back and rerunning the Calculate Payroll?
A. You roll back only the costing process and rerun it.
B. You run the Calculate Retroactive Costing process to recalculate costs for retroactive changes to
costing setups.
C. You cannot rectify the costing results after they are created.
D. You do the adjustments in General Ledger because you cannot do changes in the costing results.
Answer: B
NO.80 You have run payroll process and need to validate and audit the run results before moving on
to processing the payment. Which report helps you in diagnosing the results?
A. Payroll Data Validation Report
B. Payroll Balance Report
C. Balance Exception Report
D. Payroll Activity Report
Answer: D
NO.81 Which option represents the costing hierarchy necessary to build a cost account when the
element costing is defined with costing type as "Costed"?
A. Element Eligibility, Payroll, Department, Job or Position, Person, Element Entry
B. Payroll, Department, Job or Position, Element Eligibility, Person, Element Entry
C. Payroll, Element Eligibility, Department, Job, Position, Person, Person Element, Element Entry
D. Payroll, Person Element Entry, Department, Job or Position, Person, Element Eligibility
Answer: C
NO.82 If the status of a task on the checklist is "On Hold", what actions can be taken against that
task?
A. Mark for Retry
B. Skip, Retry, and Submit
C. Resubmit, Force Resubmit, and Skip
D. Resubmit, Rollback, and Skip
Answer: B
NO.83 You have a requirement to control the values of one input value from another input value.
How do you achieve this?
A. You cannot achieve this because interdependency on input values is not possible.
B. You can achieve this requirement using the table-validated values sets.
C. You can achieve this requirement using the independent and dependent value sets on input
values.
D. You can achieve using lookups.
Answer: C
NO.84 You notice that the Cost Center segment, which is defined using Manage Department Costing,
Payroll if we would like to submit multiple BIP reports.. It would create multiple tasks .What is best way to submit it so it will
No.87: Where to check Retroactive element run results after payroll run ?
A) Element Entries
B) Payroll Run Results
c) Balance Results
D) Retroactive Notification Report
Ans: D
88. Balance in the payroll Balance results is not coming as expected. What is the first step to rectify the concern
A) Check Element Entries
B) Check Balance feeds
C) Balance group Configuration
D) Balances are not valid in Legal Entity
Ans: B
89. Payroll is processed and there are a set employees who are erring out. What is the best method to handle to process for a
A) create Work relationship group of errored employees and select them while Payroll flow submission to exclude them from
B) This is not possible to achieve
c) Run the payroll flow in Rollback error mode so that the all employees are processed except errored are rolled back and pay
D) Create Element Entries Group which are erroring in payroll run and exclude them while submitting the payroll flow
Ans: B
90. What is the Fast Formula Type for scheduling Payroll Flow
A)Payroll Schedule
B) Schedule Flow
C) Submission Date
D)Flow Schedule
Ans: D