Data Loads
To load user-based security via Advanced Load, which two identifiers do you need?
Tenant_Security_Group_ID & System_User_ID
What report tells you whether a specific object can be migrated with Object Transporter?
Object Transporter Supported Objects (OX)
You want to add Supervisory Organization and Employee ID to the top of the worker profile. What task do you run?
Configure Profile Header Card
How often does Duplicate Skills Management run?
Your configuration in the Implementation tenant is complete and validated. You need to copy that finished configuration into a testing tenant using an automated, repeatable template that uses DNU filtering for data that shouldn't carry over. What tool do you use here?
Migration Recipes
Which spreadsheet edit will break an advanced load?
- Reordering Columns
- Adding a notes column
- Renaming a column Header
- Filling optional fields
Renaming a column Header
Last Sequence Used = 2015, Increment = 5, Format = EMP[Seq], Name = EmployeeNum, Padding = 6. Next value?
EMP2050
Does organization hierarchies store transactions?
No, organizations do. Hierarchies handle rollups, security, and role inheritance.
A skill-level setup lists 3 skill-level sources, each weighted 0. The weightings must total 100. What does Workday do? What if one of the sources is weighted at 20 and the others are weighted at 0?
2) If one of the sources are weighted, and the others aren't, a critical error will appear, and the other sources will have to be weighted to = 100.
A tester found that exactly 3 calculated fields and one custom report need to go from Sandbox to Production. You want to hand-pick those specific objects and first see what differs between the two tenants. What tool do you use?
Object Transporter (OX) with Diff Analysis to compare tenants. Then you will bundle the 4 objects into a configuration package if you want them in one pass.
Organization Summary
You are loading the customer's legacy data. Which account do you need, and where does the data land?
A CCU to drive the tools, plus an implementer account in agpbaseload, where the data lands
Which report displays the Organization hierarchy and the roles assigned within it?
Roles for Organizations and Subordinates
Workday creates an inactive maintained skill with the same name and moves the usage over. It doesn't delete customer usages.
Foundation Recipes
You loaded a Workers advanced load and want to confirm the records are in the tenant. After which step are they visible, and what confirms it?
After Import Data from File; Confirms in the Process Monitor
A customer's HR Analyst wants to load new hires themselves after go-live. Which tool can they use? Why?
EIB; Not Advanced Load because customers lack Customer Central access, and that is the tenant where Advanced Loading takes place
When should the Service Dates Change business process run?
As a subprocess of staffing BPs like Hire, Change Job, etc., since service dates drive benefits, comp, and compliance.
Your organization uses a proprietary language 'Yukon' and wants a matching skills that maps to external systems. What skill type & tool?
a Maintained skill; Maintain Skills report
You want to bring a specific Workday delivered report into your sandbox as a starting point. What tool do you use here?
Configuration Catalog
A supervisory organization load errors immediately saying, "A referenced Location doesn't exist." What is the root cause?
A cross-type dependency; Locations must load before supervisory organizations
You are asked to copy live worker balances between tenants with OX to save re-entry. Can this be possible?
No, OX moves configuration/metadata only, never worker data, balances, or live transactions.
You want to see all domain and BP policies that include a specific security group. Which report do you use?
Action Summary for Security Group
The Suggested Skills for Job Profiles report draws from which 3 sources?
Job Profile Text, Job Requisition Text (10 recent), Recurring Requisition Skills
Loading supervisory organizations would use ____; a pay group area the tooling doesn't yet support would need ____; a customer loading new hires after go-live would use _____
Advanced Load; iLoad; EIB