Workday HCM Core PRO – 2025-2026 Complete Study Guide
with Detailed Notes, Practice Questions, and Key Concepts for
Certification Success||Latest Version!!!Graded A+
Which organization type tracks financial transactions, budgets, and
workers?
A. Supervisory Organization
B. Company Organization
C. Cost Center Organization
D. Matrix Organization
- Answer-C. Cost Center Organization
Which statement about reorganization events is correct?
A. Reorganization events are optional and used for administrative
purposes only.
B. Reorganization events are used to define a common effective date
for multiple activities.
C. Reorganization events are only used for supervisory organizations
and not other organization types.
D. Reorganization events do not provide any reporting value.
- Answer-B. Reorg events are used to define a common effective date
for multiple activities
How do you include workers in a location hierarchy?
A. By hiring or contracting a worker into a location that is included
within the location hierarchy.
B. By allowing the location hierarchy on the supervisory org
assignments.
C. By assigning a location hiring restriction on a position or
supervisory org.
D. By manually assigning the worker into a location
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, - Answer-A. By hiring or contracting a worker into a location that is
included within the location hierarchy
When configuring organization assignments, which field(s) do you
populate for the organizations to default and also allow for
unrestricted changes?
A. Allowed Organizations
B. Default Organizations
C. Both Allowed Organizations and Default Organizations
D. Neither Allowed Organizations nor Default Organizations (leave
both fields blank) - Answer-B. Default Organizations
When configuring organization assignments, which field(s) do you
populate for the organizations to default and also allow for restricted
changes?
A. Allowed Organizations
B. Default Organizations
C. Both Allowed Organizations and Default Organizations
D. Neither Allowed Organizations nor Default Organizations (leave
both fields blank) - Answer-C. Both Allowed Organizations and
Default Organizations
True or False: Workers hired or transferred into a supervisory
organization automatically become members of that supervisory
organization's organization assignments, such as companies and cost
centers? - Answer-True
What general characteristics are stored within job profiles? (Select
three correct answers.)
A. Location
B. Job Family
C. Organization name
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,D. Job Code
E. Management Level
- Answer-B. Job Family, D. Job Code, E. Management Level
Which of these statements is true about job profiles? (Select two
correct answers.)
A. You can assign a job profile to any position, in any supervisory
organization. B. You can assign one job profile to many positions
concurrently.
C. You can assign a job profile to only one position at a time.
D. You can use job family groups as a hiring restriction on a position.
- Answer-A. You can assign a job profile to any position, in any sup
org.
B. You can assign one job profile to many positions concurrently
True or False? Management Level is an optional job profile field.
However, many system areas use management levels, so Workday
recommends including this field in job profiles. - Answer-True
True or False? Of the many fields available during job profile
creation, the only required fields are job profile name, job code, and
effective date. - Answer-True
True or False? Compensation eligibility rules use a framework that is
completely unique to compensation and unlike anything else in the
Workday system. - Answer-False
True or False? You can enter a base pay amount that is outside the
eligible compensation grade range for an employee - Answer-True
If an employee is eligible for three allowance plans and the plans are
not included in the employee's compensation package, will the plans
default?
A. Yes B. No - Answer-No
What allows localization of pay range guidelines?
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, A. Compensation grade profile
B. Compensation grade
C. Compensation package
D. Compensation eligibility rule - Answer-A. Compensation Grade
Profile
True or False? Besides the Availability Date and Earliest Hire Date,
positions must have hiring restrictions. - Answer-True - Even "No Job
Restrictions" is considered a hiring restriction.
The Edit Position and Edit Job tasks impact: (Select two correct
answers.)
A. The incumbent in the position.
B. Future hires into the position.
C. The incumbent in the job.
D. Future hires into the job management supervisory organization.
E. Anyone in the associated job profile. - Answer-A. The Incumbent
in the Position, C. The incumbent in the Job
Under what circumstances should you close a position rather than
freeze the position? - Answer-If it is a permanent change, and you no
longer need the position open or available for future staffing
transactions
True or False? You can rescind In Progress events - Answer-False -
you can only cancel in progress events
True or false? You can change which delivered items are in a given
domain. - Answer-False
True or False? If a worker changes jobs, their user-based security
group assignments will remain on their account unless manually
removed - Answer-True
How does a worker become a member of a role-based security group?
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Which organization type tracks financial transactions, budgets, and
workers?
A. Supervisory Organization
B. Company Organization
C. Cost Center Organization
D. Matrix Organization
- Answer-C. Cost Center Organization
Which statement about reorganization events is correct?
A. Reorganization events are optional and used for administrative
purposes only.
B. Reorganization events are used to define a common effective date
for multiple activities.
C. Reorganization events are only used for supervisory organizations
and not other organization types.
D. Reorganization events do not provide any reporting value.
- Answer-B. Reorg events are used to define a common effective date
for multiple activities
How do you include workers in a location hierarchy?
A. By hiring or contracting a worker into a location that is included
within the location hierarchy.
B. By allowing the location hierarchy on the supervisory org
assignments.
C. By assigning a location hiring restriction on a position or
supervisory org.
D. By manually assigning the worker into a location
pg. 1
, - Answer-A. By hiring or contracting a worker into a location that is
included within the location hierarchy
When configuring organization assignments, which field(s) do you
populate for the organizations to default and also allow for
unrestricted changes?
A. Allowed Organizations
B. Default Organizations
C. Both Allowed Organizations and Default Organizations
D. Neither Allowed Organizations nor Default Organizations (leave
both fields blank) - Answer-B. Default Organizations
When configuring organization assignments, which field(s) do you
populate for the organizations to default and also allow for restricted
changes?
A. Allowed Organizations
B. Default Organizations
C. Both Allowed Organizations and Default Organizations
D. Neither Allowed Organizations nor Default Organizations (leave
both fields blank) - Answer-C. Both Allowed Organizations and
Default Organizations
True or False: Workers hired or transferred into a supervisory
organization automatically become members of that supervisory
organization's organization assignments, such as companies and cost
centers? - Answer-True
What general characteristics are stored within job profiles? (Select
three correct answers.)
A. Location
B. Job Family
C. Organization name
pg. 2
,D. Job Code
E. Management Level
- Answer-B. Job Family, D. Job Code, E. Management Level
Which of these statements is true about job profiles? (Select two
correct answers.)
A. You can assign a job profile to any position, in any supervisory
organization. B. You can assign one job profile to many positions
concurrently.
C. You can assign a job profile to only one position at a time.
D. You can use job family groups as a hiring restriction on a position.
- Answer-A. You can assign a job profile to any position, in any sup
org.
B. You can assign one job profile to many positions concurrently
True or False? Management Level is an optional job profile field.
However, many system areas use management levels, so Workday
recommends including this field in job profiles. - Answer-True
True or False? Of the many fields available during job profile
creation, the only required fields are job profile name, job code, and
effective date. - Answer-True
True or False? Compensation eligibility rules use a framework that is
completely unique to compensation and unlike anything else in the
Workday system. - Answer-False
True or False? You can enter a base pay amount that is outside the
eligible compensation grade range for an employee - Answer-True
If an employee is eligible for three allowance plans and the plans are
not included in the employee's compensation package, will the plans
default?
A. Yes B. No - Answer-No
What allows localization of pay range guidelines?
pg. 3
, A. Compensation grade profile
B. Compensation grade
C. Compensation package
D. Compensation eligibility rule - Answer-A. Compensation Grade
Profile
True or False? Besides the Availability Date and Earliest Hire Date,
positions must have hiring restrictions. - Answer-True - Even "No Job
Restrictions" is considered a hiring restriction.
The Edit Position and Edit Job tasks impact: (Select two correct
answers.)
A. The incumbent in the position.
B. Future hires into the position.
C. The incumbent in the job.
D. Future hires into the job management supervisory organization.
E. Anyone in the associated job profile. - Answer-A. The Incumbent
in the Position, C. The incumbent in the Job
Under what circumstances should you close a position rather than
freeze the position? - Answer-If it is a permanent change, and you no
longer need the position open or available for future staffing
transactions
True or False? You can rescind In Progress events - Answer-False -
you can only cancel in progress events
True or false? You can change which delivered items are in a given
domain. - Answer-False
True or False? If a worker changes jobs, their user-based security
group assignments will remain on their account unless manually
removed - Answer-True
How does a worker become a member of a role-based security group?
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