SAP Certified Associate - Implementation Consultant - SAP SuccessFactors Compensation Sample Questions:

1. Your EC-integrated client has employees in several countries. While all the countries are planned on the same worksheet at the same time, there are slight differences in the Effective Dates of the new salaries when they are published back to EC.
How can this requirement be met through configuration?

A) Create a lookup table that contains the different dates that uses country as an input.
*Create a custom date column that reads from the lookup table based on employee country.
*Map the column ID of the custom date column to the "start-date" of the pay component in the XML.
B) On the Employee Central Settings screen in Compensation Home, set the Effective Date to be that of the largest country.
*Use the Publish Selected Employees in Employee Central to publish the data for this country.
*Manually modify the effective date to be that of the next country publish the data for them. Repeat for all countries.
C) Create a lookup table that contains the different dates that uses country as an input.
*Map the lookup table name to the "start-date" of the pay component in the XML.
D) Enter the effective date for the largest country in the Employee Central Settings screen.
*Publish the results of the planning for all countries.
*Manually modify the effective dates of the resulting EC data for the smaller countries.

2. In provisioning for your customer's instance, you select the "Assign default required field values for new users if none specified" option. You want to import a compensation-specific user data file (UDF).
Which columns are required?
Note: There are 2 correct answers to this question.

A) STATUS
B) USERID
C) USERNAME
D) MANAGER

3. Your client wants to display a paragraph in the body of the Compensation Statement that is displayed only to employees who are on a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP). An employee is on a PIP if they have a rating of 1 or 2. The standard Rating column is available on the worksheet.
However, the client does not want the rating itself to ever be displayed on the Statement. How can you satisfy this requirement?

A) Add a paragraph to the body of the Statement that states that the section applies only to those who are on a Performance Improvement Plan those employees who are not may ignore the paragraph.
B) Include a Conditional Text Section on the statement using the rating field as a condition because all columns on the worksheet are available for conditional logic.
*Ensure the rating field is hidden from employees on the worksheet with Field-Based Permissions.
C) Include the rating on the statement in the right section.
*Include a Conditional Text Section on the statement using the rating field as a condition.
*Ensure the rating field is hidden from employees on the worksheet with Field-Based Permissions.
D) Include the rating on the statement in the right section.
*Include a Conditional Text Section on the statement using the rating field as a condition.
*Ensure the rating field is hidden on the statement by setting an impossible display condition.

4. Which of the following can you use to explore released APIs?

A) SAP Application Interface Framework
B) SAP Integration Suite
C) SAP Business Accelerator Hub

5. Your customer has two pay components, with IDS SALARY_US SALARY_UK, that are used for employees' base salary in their respective countries. They want to plan for all employees on a single worksheet using the employees' periodic salary, NOT the annual value.
What is the best way to accomplish this?

A) Create two different templates use eligibility rules to ensure employees appear on the correct one.
B) Create two custom columns map each to the pay components. Use a third custom column to display whichever is non-zero.
C) Create a pay component group that includes both pay components use that for the planning.
D) Ensure the Used for Comp Planning flag of the pay components is set to Comp do NOT map to a specific pay component ID in the worksheet.

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