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Tell me how data flows from Hire to Retire Process?

So, tell me what’s so special about Employee Central versus SAP HCM. What is the value
proposition that appeals to customers?
What gotcha’s have you found during your Employee Central implementations and do you
have any advice for customers implementing Employee Central?
Are you able to shed some light on integration between Employee Central and other systems,
such as Employee Central Payroll, SAP HCM, and third party solutions?
What are the key features would you like to see added to Employee Central?

And what would say are the weak spots of Employee Central?
If you could give one piece of key advice to a customer who is going to implement Employee
Central, what would it be?
Tell us a bit about Employee Central Payroll
Do you have anything else you’d like to add?

What does the Succession Data Model contain?

What is configured in the Country -Specific Succession Data Model?
What does the Corporate Data Model define?
What is defined in the Country -Specific Corporate Data Model?

What is the propagation data model used for?

How many data models are there in Employee Central?
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How do you masked sensible data in a field?

Set the attribute pii=”true”

How do you set a field so the user can edit it?

Set the attribute visible=”both”

How do you make a field to be required to be filled?

Set the attribute required=”true”

How does SAP recommend that you edit a Succession Data Model?
1. Export the Succession Data Model.
2. Make your updates.
3. Import the model into provisioning.
What right is automatically granted to an administration user created in provisioning?

Manage Role Based Permission Access

How does SAP recommend that you add a value to an
existing picklist in Picklist Management?
a) Insert a new row into the picklist file.
b) Export the picklist from the system.

Module 1 SAP Success Factors HCM – Systems

The customer has purchased a language pack and needs it to be enabled in the system.
Who can enable it?

Professional Services (Implementers) or Consultants

You are a consultant implementing a module for ACME Corporation and your
Administrator account is locked. What can you do to recover it?

Create a backup administrator

Module 2 SAP Success Factors HCM – Permissions

What is a simple process to grant RBP in SAP Success Factors?

Create Groups
Create a Permission Role
Grant the Role to a User or Group
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Module 3 SAP Success Factors HCM - Basic Configurations

What is the recommended best practice for UDF?

Best practice to download the existing UDF before making changes
And importing.

It is acceptable to modify the data in the first two rows of the .csv file.
NO.

To inactivate a user, export the current data, edit the STATUS field of the user to inactive and
import back into the system. The system recognizes the USERID and inactivates the user.

YES

The company culture requires the use of company-specific terms instead of some of the
Words used in Success Factors.

On the Admin Center screen, on the Company Processes & Cycles portlet, click
Company Settings →Text Replacement.

Module 4 SAP Success Factors HCM - Employee Profile

With SAP Success Factors, how many custom elements (fields) can add to the Employee
Profile.
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15

The customer has been using the same values for a particular picklist for a while, but now one
of the values is no longer necessary. In your picklist file, which status should you choose to
remove that value from the picklist but preserve the information for reporting?

OBSOLETED

XML Structure.

 Standard Elements: Used to define the fields and labels used in the Employee Profile.
 Background Elements: Used to define data field mappings to the SM Background table (No
updates to this element will be made in this course).
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 Custom Filters: Used to turn 1 or more of the 15 custom fields into a filter that can be used
in the system for tasks, such as reporting.
 Element Permissions: Used to set read, write, and deny (or none) permissions for the
Different elements in the system.

Module 5 SAP Success Factors HCM - Competencies and Job Profile Builder

How can you add a new competency to a competency library?

From Manage Competencies, select the desired library and click Create New
Competency.
You can build your own library, or use one of the SAP Success Factors competency

Libraries, or use a third party competency library is it True?

YSE.

Module 7 SAP Success Factors HCM - Language Packs and Intelligent Services
Are all languages available as language packs in SAP Success Factors?

No, we have many languages available but not all.

What is 3 Tier language architecture?

The 3 Tier Language Architecture is a provisioning option to replace system text that has not been
enabled for Text Replacement in Admin Centre.
Why is it called 3 Tier?
The name 3 Tier comes from the technical nature of the solution.

1 Tier = language (for example, fr = French)

2 Tier = language + region (for example, fr_FR = French for France, fr_CA = French for

Canada, and so on)

3 Tier = language + region + variant (for example, fr_FR_Customer = French for France with
Customer modifications)
Module 8 SAP Success Factors HCM – Analytics

When creating an Ad Hoc Report, what is the default Report Type option?
Single Domain
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Unit 1 SAP Success Factors Employee Central – Introduction

What are the Functions that Data Models Control?

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Setting the visibility of a field to none in the Data Models overrides RBP.

YES.

By default, any user can choose his/her own proxies.

YES
The audit trail shows proxies.
YES

How do you enable Contingent Workforce Management?

Manage Employee Central Settings
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How do you customize the Add Contingent Worker Wizard?

Configure Business Rules

PMGM Evaluation
Where do you create a new performance form template?
Admin Tools -> Form Templates
Your customer wants employees to copy goals from a prior plan in to their current goal plan?
What button do you enable to implement this requirement?
TGM/CDP objective transfer wizard

Your customer wants to use specific combinations of average objective and competency
rating as the overall performance rating. How do you set this up?

Turn on the OCOC rating in the Performance Form template XML.

Insert the specific mapping scale in the Objective /competency section.

Insert the specific mapping scale in the Meta section of Performance Form template XML.
How can you configure introduction section of a Performance Management form?
You can include hyperlinks.
You can edit using XML or admin tools.

You can create one section of type introduction.

Where do you set up the restriction so that a user appears in only one active calibration
session at a time?
Provisioning -> Company Settings

Admin Center -> Calibration Settings -> Global Settings

What action does the following XML code allow a user to perform from their goal plan?

<permission for=”cascade-push”>
<role-name><![CDATA[EM+]]></role-name>
</permission>
A manager can cascade goals to all employees in their reporting chain.

Your customer wants to add a mid-year feedback step to their performance management
process. Which route map modifications are required?

Add a new step in the modify stage.

Move the new step to the requested location in the workflow.
Your customer wants to allow users to set a minimum of two goals and maximum of five goals
in their goal plan. Where can you configure this for the entire goal plan?

In Goal Plan template XML file

During testing, it is noticed that a field is missing from the goal plan. The XML template seems
to be correct. What else you should check?
Role Based Permissions

How do you lock a goal plan?

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Configurethe <obj-plan-states> element in a Goal plan template XML.

Configure the switches block of code in Goal plan template XML.

How do you sync employee goals with the PM Template?

Set obj-sect-type to ‘plan’ and sync attribute to be ‘true’.

Your customer plans to mass create Performance review forms for all employees and wants
the review start date, due date and end date to be non-editable. How is this accomplished?

Check the “Disallow users from changing start, due and end date” option in admin tools->Manage
templates.

Your customer wants to add a new competency to the library. How can you accomplish this?
Select create new competency in the library.

Add a new competency by submitting a service request to Customer Support.

Import a new competency in to the competency library

How do you configure a field so it can be used in the goal plan?

Define the field, permission the field, and add the field to the plan layout.

Where can you delete a field from a goal plan?

In the Goal Plan XML Template file.
Under Admin tools -> Manage templates -> Goal Plan

Where do you enable the spell check feature for a Performance Management Form template?
In Admin Tools -> Form Template Settings

In Provisioning -> Company Settings

Where do you set the frequency of goal execution status report email reminders?

In Admin Tools-> Goal Execution Settings.

Where is legal scan enabled in a Performance Management form?
In Admin tools -> Manage Templates -> Advanced settings
You are editing the global settings in the goal plan template. The following settings are made
<share-confirm=”true”> and <unshared-confirm=”true”>. How would you expect the system to
behave?

When you change the status of a goal, a notification appears.

What is the difference between signature steps and modify stage in a route map?
Users cannot edit rating on PM form in signature stage.

Users can edit ratings on PM form in modify stage.

PM form reside with only one user at a time in signature stage.

PM form can reside with multiple users in modify stage.