General Questions to Understand Workday - I

General Questions to Understand Workday Product - I

1. What are actions in the inbox?

Ans. Tasks the user must complete

2. What are archives in the inbox?

Ans. Tasks the user has completed in the past

3. Related Actions?

Ans. Able to easily navigate to related actions for any specified object

4. Workday Community?

Ans. An interactive space where customers, partners, and workday SME'S can collaborate, learn and share the best practices to enhance their workday user experience.

5. What is the name of the icon that allows you to view information (or) perform tasks on the landing page?

Ans. Worklet

6. Search allows you to use partial searches, abbreviations and misspelled words? (T/F)

Ans. Not misspelled words

7. What is the name and location of the icon you should select when you want to act on or make changes to an object?

Ans. Related Objects-Next to Objects [...] Represented by 3 dots.

8. Security and Business Processes are considered cross application and impact all of Workday?

Ans. True

9. What are objects?

Ans. Workday is object based, The data is stored in the form of objects. When you click on an object it brings up a related action icon

10. EIB

Ans. Enterprise Interface Builder: Used to receive data, transform data, and deliver data

11. Tenant

Ans. This is the application where exactly we work. This some times called as instance, or environment or application. Broadly there are Sandbox, Production, Implementation Tenants. Each tenant has a unique URL.

12. GMS

Ans. Global Modern Services Tenant, a training tenant, sample data that is pre-populated by Workday

13. Gold Tenant

Ans. The tenant being implemented

14. Sandbox

Ans. Production Copy(Weekly) for testing information

15. What are the 6 stages of tenant implementation?

• GMS
• Prototype
• Design
• Full Data Load
• Testing 
• Gold Tenant

16. What are the three types of tenants used by the customer?

Production: Final Tenant (live working in)

Sandbox: Copy of production tenant (can do testing)

Sandbox Preview: Copy of production tenant (cannot do testing)

17. What are the 2 ways to access tenant management in the Workday Customer Center?

Click "menu" drop down on the top left corner and select "tenant management'

Click "tenant management" title on right panel

18. Proxy

Ans. Viewing Workday through another users eyes

19. How do you start proxy?

Login to a tenant

Type in search bar "start proxy"

Select "start proxy"

Type a user name: example "Logan McNeil"

20. What is HCM ?

Ans. Human Capitol Management. HCM is used for adding, editing, maintaining CORE employee data, transfers and terminations

21. Personal Data Change

Ans. Personal Data Changes are made either by an Employee themselves or by the manager who has a certain security clearance

22. Examples of Personal Data

Change of birth date

Change of national ID

Change of personal information

Update licences 

Update visa information

23. What is the position of an employee?

Ans. The position of an employee is a "seat" in the organization and the key element that ties together the job information, location, organizational information

24. Remote Worker

Ans. Workers who are 100% off site.

25. Security Levels

Ans. Who can access what information

26. Related Action Icon

Ans. Three dots within a box. Next to an item where you can preform an action.

27. Which app is designed for managers?

Ans. My Team

28. How many max workers can be compared at one time using the Find Workers Report?

Ans. 5

29. What is the virtual drive where generated reports can be stored?

Ans. Drive

30. Which feature Displays action items and historical actions and business processes for a user

Ans. Inbox

31. Searching on which value will return the search prefix a user has access to see

Ans. "?" (Type Question mark on the search bar)

32. The search feature in workday returns all matching objects and actions a user has access to see

Ans. True

33. What is the home page feature called in Workday?

Ans. Home

34. Which in the list is not a search prefix: employee, bp, .org, worker?

Ans. Employee

35. What landing page is given to tech admin and implementers' ?

Ans. Workbench

36. The workday community is designed as a tool for workday development(T/F)?

Ans. False

37. Where can you go to find out more about courses and additional training offered by Workday Education?

Ans. Training Catalog

38. What is the best way to request that the development team make a new feature or enhancement a high priority?

Ans. Check out brainstorm and vote for features or enhancements that matter most to you

39. Workday landing pages containing applications with related reports and tasks?

Ans. Home & Workbench

40. The Find Workers Report allows you to compare up to 10 workers at a time(T/F)?

Ans. False

41. Where can all workers find and configure their own applications?

Ans. Home Landing Page

42. What is the name of the report that allows you to view workers by facet/criteria?

Ans. Find Worker

43. Where do you access the Inbox?

Ans. From the inbox icon next to the worker's profile

44. What is the search prefix to use when searching for BP?

Ans. bp:

45. How do you distinguish between an employee and a contingent worker in workday?

Ans. Contingent workers are notated with a [C] next to their name

46. You can choose which Self Service tasks to enable for your workers (T/F)?

Ans. True

47. Name at least four self service tasks available in workday?

Ans. request time off, edit personal information, edit payment or withholding elections, create an expense report, request a leave of absence, enter time, etc

48. A worker needs a workday account to be able to edit their Personal Information (T/F)?

Ans. True

49. Name three Self Service tasks a manager can do in Workday to support their teams?

Ans. Transfer, promote, change job, change business title, terminate, start performance review, etc

50. You cannot approve expense reports from your Inbox on a mobile device (T/F)?

Ans. False