WORKDAY PRO PAYROLL EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS LATEST 2025-2026 UPDATE
Which payroll input processing option do you select when you need to
add or subtract from an existing payment? - Answer-Adjustment
You need to process a spot bonus payment for a worker in the current,
regular pay period. What processing options should you use? - Answer-
One time, Override, regular run
You want to add a pay component to the Workday-delivered Payroll
Register. What task do you use? - Answer-Maintain Register
Configuration task
What are the steps for processing a withholding order? - Answer-1.
Identify disposable income or appropriate wage base for a withholding
order. 2. create a deduction recipient. 3. record the details of the
withholding order.
T/F You need to define the calculation rules and components required
to process withholding orders? - Answer-False
T/F You must set up withholding order priorities in Workday? -
Answer-False
,When defining ledger account type, which types should be set up for
payroll? - Answer-Assets, Liabilities, and Expense. Best practice to set
up the Balance Sheet and Income Statement
T/F You can define default account for posting and modify posting
condition rules? - Answer-True
You need to see what workers have costing allocations assigned to
them. What report can you access? - Answer-All Workers Costing
Allocations
What must be defined before setting up banks and other financial
institutions? - Answer-Companies, Company hierarchies, Payment type
What task do you use to specify the options employees have when
selecting their payment elections? - Answer-Maintain Payment Election
Rules
T/F Payroll is the only area of Workday that uses the Settlement
Engine. - Answer-False. Payroll Supplier and expense payments
T/F Workday recalculates supported retroactive changes and forwards
the difference to the current period? - Answer-True
What is the processing sequence for off-cycle and on-cycle payments? -
Answer-Manual Payments, Reversals, On-Demand pay calculations, On-
cycle pay calculations.
, T/F A worker can have one on-demand replacement per subperiod? -
Answer-True
For what type of off-cycle payment will Workday calculate all
scheduled deductions? - Answer-Replacement
What are some payroll-specific business processes? - Answer-Assign
Pay Group, Assign Costing allocation, Assign Pay Group for Position
Restrictions Event, Pay Cycle Event, Change No Retro Prior To Date,
What type of security access remains with the position, not the worker
if a worker leaves that position? What type of access does this type of
security have to the tenant? - Answer-Constrained - indicated that role
access is limited by relationship to the objects and unconstrained - has
no constraints based on organizations the role supports.
What is the purpose of a pay component security segment? - Answer-
Defines pay components that non-payroll users can view, such as
managers and benefits administrators. You have the ability to specify
which earnings and deductions are included in the security segment, and
which groups or roles have the ability to view the pay components
included in that segment.
What is the name of the U.S federal payroll (or employment) tax
imposed on both employees and employers to fund Social Security and
Medicare? - Answer-Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA)
AND ANSWERS LATEST 2025-2026 UPDATE
Which payroll input processing option do you select when you need to
add or subtract from an existing payment? - Answer-Adjustment
You need to process a spot bonus payment for a worker in the current,
regular pay period. What processing options should you use? - Answer-
One time, Override, regular run
You want to add a pay component to the Workday-delivered Payroll
Register. What task do you use? - Answer-Maintain Register
Configuration task
What are the steps for processing a withholding order? - Answer-1.
Identify disposable income or appropriate wage base for a withholding
order. 2. create a deduction recipient. 3. record the details of the
withholding order.
T/F You need to define the calculation rules and components required
to process withholding orders? - Answer-False
T/F You must set up withholding order priorities in Workday? -
Answer-False
,When defining ledger account type, which types should be set up for
payroll? - Answer-Assets, Liabilities, and Expense. Best practice to set
up the Balance Sheet and Income Statement
T/F You can define default account for posting and modify posting
condition rules? - Answer-True
You need to see what workers have costing allocations assigned to
them. What report can you access? - Answer-All Workers Costing
Allocations
What must be defined before setting up banks and other financial
institutions? - Answer-Companies, Company hierarchies, Payment type
What task do you use to specify the options employees have when
selecting their payment elections? - Answer-Maintain Payment Election
Rules
T/F Payroll is the only area of Workday that uses the Settlement
Engine. - Answer-False. Payroll Supplier and expense payments
T/F Workday recalculates supported retroactive changes and forwards
the difference to the current period? - Answer-True
What is the processing sequence for off-cycle and on-cycle payments? -
Answer-Manual Payments, Reversals, On-Demand pay calculations, On-
cycle pay calculations.
, T/F A worker can have one on-demand replacement per subperiod? -
Answer-True
For what type of off-cycle payment will Workday calculate all
scheduled deductions? - Answer-Replacement
What are some payroll-specific business processes? - Answer-Assign
Pay Group, Assign Costing allocation, Assign Pay Group for Position
Restrictions Event, Pay Cycle Event, Change No Retro Prior To Date,
What type of security access remains with the position, not the worker
if a worker leaves that position? What type of access does this type of
security have to the tenant? - Answer-Constrained - indicated that role
access is limited by relationship to the objects and unconstrained - has
no constraints based on organizations the role supports.
What is the purpose of a pay component security segment? - Answer-
Defines pay components that non-payroll users can view, such as
managers and benefits administrators. You have the ability to specify
which earnings and deductions are included in the security segment, and
which groups or roles have the ability to view the pay components
included in that segment.
What is the name of the U.S federal payroll (or employment) tax
imposed on both employees and employers to fund Social Security and
Medicare? - Answer-Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA)
