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Workday Pro HCM Core Exam Syllabus

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Before starting your Workday Pro HCM Core exam preparation, it is recommended to review the complete Workday Pro HCM Core exam syllabus and carefully go through the exam objectives listed below. Once you understand the exam structure and objectives, you should practice using our free Workday Pro HCM Core questions. We also provide premium Workday Pro HCM Core practice test, fully updated according to the latest exam objectives, to help you accurately assess your preparedness for the actual exam.

Workday Pro HCM Core Exam Objectives

Section Objectives
Navigation, Finding Data and Business Objects • Demonstrate knowledge of navigation techniques in Workday
• 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 the 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
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 the hiring 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
Business Process Framework • Explain the high-level relationships between organizations,
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 Steps • Complete tasks within Workday during business processes
with actions and subprocesses
• Require approval of information with approvals and approval
chains
Business Process Configuration: Step-Level • Create and test a condition rule to modify business process
behavior in certain situations
• 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 Configuration: Definition-Level • Use letters to order and insert steps
• Apply a validation condition to require certain information
before a user submits a process
Business Process Configuration: Definition-Level • Use letters to order and insert steps
• Apply a validation condition to require certain information
before a user submits a process
Business Process Management • Use mass and individual tasks to manage business processes
Business Process Security  
• Describe how business processes interact with other parts of configurable security
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