201 SAP HCM (Human Capital Management) Interview Questions with Answers & Explanations

In fact, for contracting jobs, all it takes is a half-hour telephone interview before you get your first break. Though the interview procedure is more drawn out for permanent jobs, there is normally only ever one technical interview. A successful interview can provide you with that break, which will be the first step to a career in the SAP world.

So, what are the interviewers looking for? For an associate-level position (less than 2 years of project experience), here is what the interviewers typically look for:

• Decent overall knowledge of SAP HCM
• Deep knowledge in at least one or two areas (e.g., Payroll, Recruitment, etc.)
• Ability to work in a team environment (as you are a junior, you will probably be working as part of a larger team)
• Ability to find relevant technical information (with HCM being so broad, no single consultant is reasonably expected to know everything. However, you should have the skills to find out more wherever required)
• The kind of questions asked at the associate-level interview are less about tables and fields and more about your approach to a project issue or a support issue. This is something that can only come with experience or if you receive some coaching from experienced consultants.

Table of Contents (Sample Questions)

Question 1: Mention some of the most important infotypes in Administration.

Question 2: What are important transactions in SAP HCM Personnel Administration?

Question 3: How can you describe the e-Recruitment process using SAP?

Question 4: With which SAP HCM modules is e-Recruitment integrated?

Question 5: What is ECM in SAP?

Question 6: What is the reason for running the Compensation process?

Question 7: Explain the difference between delimiting and modifying a record in SAP.

Question 8: What are Dynamic Actions? Give a few examples. What are the infotypes you used in them?

Question 9: Work schedules determine what four pieces of information?

Question 10: When would you use time working?

Question 11: Under what conditions can you use Fast Entry?

Question 12: How can you create a report to read Infotype 105 (Communication Infotype) and produce a report with two fields: USERID and Personnel Number?

Question 13: What is the process for uploading a photo in employee data?

Question 14: Can we change the selection of the infotype fields used in "Free search" in Object Manager and collective search?

Question 15: Who is the personnel administrator responsible for moving an employee from one personnel area to another, and what authorization is required?

Question 16: Which data maintained in Management are not integrated into the administration? What is causing this issue?

Question 17: You want to change the payroll area of an employee, but the system does not permit this. How can this be resolved?

Question 18: What are technical characteristics in SAP HCM?

Question 19: How should an employee's seniority be determined when it is not simply based on the last hire date?

Question 20: If in an infotype, the key/bank account is the IBAN, is it updated automatically?

Question 21: Can you configure Infotype 2001 to record absence days' field?

Question 22: How can you get the transaction for different types of reports in the EMPLOYEE LIST folder?

Question 23: What kind of reports—SAP Query or otherwise—would you prefer for HCM and why?

Question 24: In which areas are administrators involved?

Question 25: What steps are involved in transitioning an applicant to an employee in SAP?

Question 26: What is an employee's place in each of the SAP HCM structures?

Question 27: What is the importance of SAP HCM infotypes?

Question 28: When users run PA30, PA20, or PPOSE/PPOME, there is a significant delay. Could this be due to a long hit list of employees? How can this be fixed?

Question 29: A new OM object is required by a customer. It has to be assigned to a range for easy usage. What are the steps to complete this task?

Question 30: Due to requirements, a new personnel area should be created in the HCM system. What are the steps for completing this?

Question 31: Is it possible to maintain explanatory text for a custom field when the user clicks on F1 for information?

Question 32: There is a business requirement for an action by configuration. How can this be performed?

Question 33: Many companies need to make payments directly from employees' salaries to third-party companies (e.g., charitable donations, medical insurance payments). How can this be set up?

Question 34: What is the feature used in Customizing for the Web to store different regulations for employee groups, and how can these regulations be displayed?

Question 35: If you undertake the task on SAP using the same input, what will be useful to set up?

Question 36: Multiple Employments, or Concurrent Employments, can often be challenging for organizations with SAP. What are important facts related to concurrent employments?

Question 37: What are the steps to add a new holiday to the public holiday calendar?

Question 38: When you archive old data, it is not lost but kept for historical evaluation. The system records a specific period of validity for each infotype, enabling it to store more than one infotype record at the same time, even if their validity periods overlap. What concept enables this?

Question 39: Is it possible to create custom IMG paths?

Question 40: You need to check if an item has reached a user's inbox. How can you do this?

Question 41: Can leave requests be checked via the backend?

Question 42: What are PA40 personnel actions and how are they used?

Question 43: Can warnings for leave requests be deactivated?

Question 44: What are the steps for creating a key?

Question 45: You created an ad hoc query, extracted the data you needed, and now you don't want other users to have access to change it. Is it possible to lock this query for use only by you?

Question 46: The organizational key is a 14-character field restricted to a combination of certain fields of the organizational assignment infotype. How can this data be used?

Question 47: An employee can be deleted using a specific transaction. Is there another way to do this, for example, through another transaction?

Question 48: What is the purpose of the ad hoc query tool and how can it be accessed?

Question 49: Can a custom field be added to the fast entry transaction?

Question 50: Standard text messages are used in Personnel Administration and Payroll. How can these be created in SAP?

The rest of the Questions and Answers are found in the book.
 

Why should you buy this book? Current questions that are being asked in interviews TODAY Every single question is based on project knowledge and personal experience Divided into functional areas for easy reading Covers the most important concepts and configuration settings Focuses on business scenarios Some unique features of this book: The questions are ACTUAL questions asked in some of the regular interviews conducted by companies like Accenture and IBM. (How do we know? Because we conduct some of these interviews!) The questions available on 'Google' are almost never asked in a 'real' interview. This book contains questions that are NOT available anywhere else. The authors have a combined experience of over 25 years in SAP HR.

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