HCM Training UPDATED Questions and
CORRECT Answers
What is Workday? - CORRECT ANSWER - - Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Software
- Delivered in the Cloud
- Uses one version across devices
- HCM, payroll, benefits, absence, time tracking, talent, recruiting, financials
b. Tenant - CORRECT ANSWER - A _____________ is a single instance of the Workday
platform
a. Environment
b. Tenant
c. URL
d. Apartment
Tenant - CORRECT ANSWER - A single instance of the Workday platform/suite. Tenants
can have different designations such as partner, implementation, production etc.
Multi-tenant - CORRECT ANSWER - Having single tenants share the same code line and
all being on the same version, providing for faster innovation, stronger collaboration, lower cost
and vendor managed updates.
Apartment analogy - CORRECT ANSWER - Clients will have to adopt the same features
within the tenant that are offered by Workday and there can not be much customization on those
like you can not move the walls or plumbing of the apartment. But each client however can move
, the little components inside the system you can opt in or out of some features. like you can
arrange furniture within an apartment. But the core structure of the system remains the same.
Factory Defaults - CORRECT ANSWER - To help accelerate deployments and provide a
starting point for additional configurations, Workday offers more than 200 pre-defined business
process definitions as well as setup configurations.
WD Setup - CORRECT ANSWER - The tenant in which the Factory Defaults are stored
and extracted from to configure an empty tenant for use.
Business Process Framework - CORRECT ANSWER - Technology that gives you the
ability to configure and reconfigure processes whenever and wherever you need—without
involving your IT department.
Business Process - CORRECT ANSWER - The definition of the work that is to be
conducted, the order of that work, who does it, and what steps they are to do relative to an event
What is GMS? - CORRECT ANSWER - Global Modern Services (GMS) is a tenant used
for demonstrative purposes.
Optimized BPs - CORRECT ANSWER - The Optimized BPs come from the Factory
Defaults as a starting point for loading an empty tenant.
BPs should not be used as a starting point.
Global Modern Services (GMS) - CORRECT ANSWER - A demonstration tenant with a
sample company pre-populated by Workday often used for demonstrative purposes, including
sales.
GMS was configured to "show off" Workday's potential and configuration.
CORRECT Answers
What is Workday? - CORRECT ANSWER - - Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Software
- Delivered in the Cloud
- Uses one version across devices
- HCM, payroll, benefits, absence, time tracking, talent, recruiting, financials
b. Tenant - CORRECT ANSWER - A _____________ is a single instance of the Workday
platform
a. Environment
b. Tenant
c. URL
d. Apartment
Tenant - CORRECT ANSWER - A single instance of the Workday platform/suite. Tenants
can have different designations such as partner, implementation, production etc.
Multi-tenant - CORRECT ANSWER - Having single tenants share the same code line and
all being on the same version, providing for faster innovation, stronger collaboration, lower cost
and vendor managed updates.
Apartment analogy - CORRECT ANSWER - Clients will have to adopt the same features
within the tenant that are offered by Workday and there can not be much customization on those
like you can not move the walls or plumbing of the apartment. But each client however can move
, the little components inside the system you can opt in or out of some features. like you can
arrange furniture within an apartment. But the core structure of the system remains the same.
Factory Defaults - CORRECT ANSWER - To help accelerate deployments and provide a
starting point for additional configurations, Workday offers more than 200 pre-defined business
process definitions as well as setup configurations.
WD Setup - CORRECT ANSWER - The tenant in which the Factory Defaults are stored
and extracted from to configure an empty tenant for use.
Business Process Framework - CORRECT ANSWER - Technology that gives you the
ability to configure and reconfigure processes whenever and wherever you need—without
involving your IT department.
Business Process - CORRECT ANSWER - The definition of the work that is to be
conducted, the order of that work, who does it, and what steps they are to do relative to an event
What is GMS? - CORRECT ANSWER - Global Modern Services (GMS) is a tenant used
for demonstrative purposes.
Optimized BPs - CORRECT ANSWER - The Optimized BPs come from the Factory
Defaults as a starting point for loading an empty tenant.
BPs should not be used as a starting point.
Global Modern Services (GMS) - CORRECT ANSWER - A demonstration tenant with a
sample company pre-populated by Workday often used for demonstrative purposes, including
sales.
GMS was configured to "show off" Workday's potential and configuration.
