Workday Pro HCM Core: Exam Guide

Workday Pro HCM Core
Exam Guide
Congratulations on making it this far in your Workday Pro journey. You’re one
test away from the benefits of being a Workday Pro, including access to the Workday
Touchpoints Kit and membership to an exclusive Workday Pro collaboration group on
Workday Community.
This study guide is designed to help you prepare for the Workday Pro exam. This guide
provides general testing information and outlines the specific topics covered in each
segment of the exam.
Testing Information
The Workday Pro exam consists of 50 questions. To pass the exam and become a Workday
Pro, you must achieve a score of at least 80% (40 out of 50 questions). You will have 100
minutes to complete the exam. You will also have two attempts to successfully complete the
exam. Subsequent attempts require a fee of 0.5 Training Credits. To learn more about the
exam, review the Workday Pro FAQ on Workday Community.
Courses Included in the Track Number of Related Questions

HCM Fundamentals 30 questions
Report Writer 10 questions
Business Process Fundamentals 10 questions
The exam topics covered in each course are listed below. For best exam results, we
recommend that you should be familiar with how to perform the tasks listed in each topic area.
You will be tested on some or all of these tasks.
HCM Fundamentals Exam Details
Topic Task
Navigation, Finding • Demonstrate knowledge of navigation techniques in
Data and Business Workday
Objects • Recognize the purpose and use of business objects
Organizations • Maintain organization types and subtypes

• Create a supervisory organization reporting structure
• Create a cost center organization
• Configure company and cost center hierarchy reporting
structures
• Create locations and location hierarchies
• Establish leadership and supporting roles on different
organization reporting structures
• Adjust worker assignments to organizations
Staffing Models • Differentiate between two staffing models

• Describe the characteristics of the position management
staffing model
• Explain position restrictions and illustrate how they are used
when creating positions
• Describe the characteristics of the job management staffing
model
• Explain hiring restrictions and how to set them on an
organization
Job Profiles • Create a Job Profile

• Edit a Job Profile
• Explain the relationship between job profiles, jobs,
positions, and workers
• Create job family / family groups
• Create job requisitions
Compensation • Name the components that make up the compensation

framework
• Create compensation eligibility rules
• Explain the purpose of compensation defaulting
• Create a compensation package
• Configure a compensation grade with multiple grade profiles
• Configure a compensation salary plan
• Configure an amount-based allowance plan
• Maintain worker compensation events
Jobs and Positions • Demonstrate how to create positions

• Demonstrate how to set hiring restrictions
• Summarize how to manage filled and unfilled positions
• Summarize how to close and freeze positions
• Perform hire process
• Perform staffing movements - job changes & additional
staffing
• Terminate employees
• Contracting contingent workers
• End contingent worker contracts
Security • Differentiate between functional areas, domains, and

business processes
• Update a security policy and activate changes
• Differentiate between user-based, role-based, and Workday
Assigned security groups
• Maintain security groups and assignable roles
• Explain how to maintain domain security policies to assign
permissions to new security groups
• Demonstrate how to maintain business process security
policies to assign permissions to new security groups
• Summarize the security group access rights to organization
options
Business Process Fundamentals Exam Details
Topic Task
Business Process • Explain the high-level relationships between organizations,
Framework security, and business processes
• Identify rule based, organization-specific, and default business
process definitions
• Define business process terminology, such as definition, type,
event, and step
Business Process • Complete tasks within Workday during business processes

Steps with actions and subprocesses
• Require approval of information with approvals and approval
chains
Business Process • Create and test a condition rule to modify business process
Configuration: behavior in certain situations
Step-Level • Control who interacts with a business process using advanced
routing
• Provide more information to users with step label overrides
and help text
• Create and test custom notifications with business process
triggers
Business Process • Use letters to order and insert steps

Configuration: • Apply a validation condition to require certain information
Definition-Level before a user submits a process
Business Process • Use mass and individual tasks to manage business processes
Management
Business Process • Describe how business processes interact with other parts of
Security configurable security
Report Writer Exam Details
Topic Task
Reporting • Copy Standard Report and modify columns
Overview
Building Custom • Create a custom report by starting with/copying a delivered
Reports report
• Decide on Index vs. Standard data source
• Add fields from business object and related business
objects
• Enable as a web service when required
Sorting and • Sort and subsort
Filtering • Create filters (Navigate and use And/Or, Parentheses,
Field, Operator, Comparison Type, and Comparison Value)
with performance in mind
Prompting • Configure prompts on a report definition
• Identify a built-in prompt
Report Security • Design report that considers security access of report users
• Select the sharing option for use case
• Transfer report ownership
Scheduling • Run the Scheduling Report task
Reports • Configure report criteria; specify value or calculate at
runtime
Introduction to • Describe the capabilities of the Matrix report type
Matrix Reports • Create a matrix report that groups the data by rows and
columns
• Configure the drillable fields and detail data in a matrix
report
• Create a Discovery Board visual
• Use prompts on Discovery Board
• Apply Filters on Discovery Board
Working with • Create a calculated field
Calculated Fields
Report • Describe the factors that impact report performance
Performance
Next Steps: Take the Exam
After completing the required training, you’ll be able to access the Workday Pro Exam
lesson. You can access this lesson from your transcript in the Workday Learning
Center. This lesson contains information on how to access your exam, as well as a
practice exam.

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Courses Included in the Track Number of Related Questions

HCM Fundamentals Exam Details

Organizations • Maintain organization types and subtypes

Staffing Models • Differentiate between two staffing models

Job Profiles • Create a Job Profile

Compensation • Name the components that make up the compensation

Jobs and Positions • Demonstrate how to create positions

Security • Differentiate between functional areas, domains, and

Business Process • Complete tasks within Workday during business processes

Business Process • Use letters to order and insert steps

Report Writer Exam Details

Next Steps: Take the Exam

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