We have also included some unique features in this book that make it stand out from other study materials available in the market. For example, all the questions in this book are in multiple-choice format, which is the same format used in the actual exam. Additionally, both authors of this book have themselves cleared the SAP HCM Payroll certification exam, so you can be sure that the information provided is accurate and reliable.

Key Exam Features

• This certification builds on basic consultant skills and experience, further honed through practical experience on multiple projects.
• The exam validates advanced business skills and the ability of SAP-focused payroll consultants to apply methodologies and tools.
• It's a computer-based exam with three hours to answer 80 questions.
• Questions are mostly multiple choice with no penalty for incorrect answers.
• Some questions require selecting all correct answers (multiple choice with checkboxes).
• No reference materials (online documentation or SAP systems) are allowed during the exam.
• Passing the certification doesn't guarantee a job, but certification with project experience opens doors.

Question 1: The default values for the payroll accounting area or basic pay are determined by:

Question 2: What is the SAP HCM submodule used to process an employee's compensation after the appraisal process is complete?

Question 3: Payroll comprises a number of work processes, including the generation of payroll results and compensation statements, bank transfers, and check payments. True or False?

Question 4: Calculation of remuneration comprises which of the following steps:

Question 5: Payroll compensation elements include which of the following:

Question 6: Only minor changes of master data or time data affecting the payroll past or present are allowed during a payroll run. True or False?

Question 7: If there are errors after a payroll run, where can details on employees requiring corrections be found?

Question 8: Which of the following entries can the Compensation Status field have?

Question 9: After you activate Compensation Adjustment, the system creates a record of the Basic Pay infotype (0008).

Question 10: Where is an employee's work schedule maintained?

Question 11: While calculating payroll, deductions can be made for:

Question 12: What program do you need to run payroll?

Question 13: An employee's compensation consists of all wage types calculated for them during a payroll period. True or False?

Question 14: Where is an employee's assignment to a payroll area maintained?

Question 15: The payroll area is an organizational unit used for running payroll. True or False?

Question 16: Employee may change payroll accounting areas when:

Question 17: What are the different ways to create employees' time records in Time Management?

Question 18: Payroll is the calculation of payment for work performed by each employee. True or False?

Question 19: What feature determines the default value for the payroll area?

Question 20: What is the earliest possible retroactive date?

Question 21: Which of the following are roles in payroll?

Question 22: If changes are made for a retroactive period, the payroll must be run again for this period using the current payroll period. True or False?

Question 23: Where is the earliest master data change for individual employees maintained?

Question 24: What steps make up the payroll process?

Question 25: What status needs to be maintained in a control record to post payroll results?

Question 26: In Payroll, the expression ADDWT* is used to:

Question 27: What are some of the correct statements related to the payroll area?

Question 28: If you want to select fewer employees for a payroll run or other evaluations, you can also use additional selection criteria.

Question 29: How can we default the values of pay scale data?

Question 30: Payroll Status infotype (0003) should be part of the hiring action for each employee. True or False?

Question 31: When the "Release Payroll" function is chosen, past records for payroll-affecting infotypes cannot be changed. True or False?

Question 32: When live payroll is run, which of the following should be checked?

Question 33: If an error occurs for an employee during payroll processing, does it appear in a separate log for every employee? True or False?

Question 34: Does checking payroll allow you to make corrections to past or present data when errors occur during the payroll run? True or False?

Question 35: What are some of the correct statements related to the payroll process?

Question 36: The SAP System also enables you to create a payroll journal for what purpose?

Question 37: Payroll journal is a reporting tool that can provide details on wage types for a specific period employee? What could you configure to achieve this? With in-period or for-period views.

Question 38: Posting process includes which of the following activities?

Question 39: Following activities have to be carried out in Financial Accounting after the payroll results have been posted to Accounting?

Question 40: Which of the following Infotypes are used/referenced by the Benefits Administration component?

Question 41: What does the assigned payroll area on IT0001 (Organizational Assignment) determine for an employee?

Question 42: A customer needs a report that combines time wage types generated from time evaluation with employees' pay data from IT0008 (Basic Pay). What do you propose?

Question 43: What object type 'K' corresponds to?

Question 44: A customer needs to ensure the correct pay scale type and area are entered on IT0008 (Basic Pay).

Question 45: During a payroll run, organizational data and planned working time are not being imported. Which payroll function should be enabled in the schema to fix this?

Question 46: A customer pays a vacation bonus for each day of leave, depending on the employee's organizational assignment. What are the relevant configuration steps to accomplish this?

Question 47: What does the assigned payroll area on IT0001 (Organizational Assignment) determine for an employee?

Question 48: What of the below statements are true related to bank transfer of payroll?

Question 49: A payroll Control record can group more than one payroll area. True or false?

Question 50: Personnel Administration is well integrated in the Human Resource component of the SAP System. If you require additional functions to those offered by Personnel Administration, you will need to set up the following application components.

Question 51: What of the below are correct related to payroll control record?

Question 52: What is the feature determining default value for payroll area?

Question 53: What of the below are prerequisites in configuration for running payroll in SAP system?

Question 54: What is the feature used to determine payroll administrator group assigned in infotype 0001 (Organizational assignment)?

Question 55: Employee's working time for his pay is as a work schedule rule in the Planned Working Time infotype (0007). Is the statement true or false?

Question 56: For payroll calculation, the system takes working hours per period from which infotype?

Question 57: A company has employees who are paid either weekly or bi-weekly and have the payment day as Thursday. But in case of bi-weekly, some employees 
are paid a week in advance, and the remaining employees are paid the next week. How many payroll areas do we require?

Question 58: Which of the following are true on Pay Scale type and Pay Scale Area?

Question 59: The earliest possible retroactive date is:

Question 60: What are the different stages of a payroll process?

Question 61: What are the different stages of posting document?

Question 62: What are the remuneration types used in SAP payroll?

Question 63: Where in configuration pay scale structure is defined?

Question 64: A work schedule consists of several different elements that can be combined much like building in a variety of ways to form a complete work schedule. 
Which of the following elements are available within Work?

Question 65: What are the components that pay scale structure consists of?

Question 66: The grouping of employee subgroups for the collective agreement provision allows you to assign different employees to different pay scale groups. Is the statement true?

Question 67: What of the below is true related to pay scale structures?
 

How This Book Can Help If you have little or no experience, get certified, gain project experience, and explore the vast opportunities in the SAP world. This book is your first step to success! Unique Features of This Book There's no other material available for the SAP HCM Payroll Certification exam. The authors have passed the exam themselves. All questions are in the same multiple-choice format as the actual exam. Over 200 authentic questions test the exact same concepts you'll encounter on the exam. Author's background and qualifications The authors have a combined experience of over 25 years in SAP HR, starting from SAP R/2. They've worked for various top-tier companies around the world and have trained students for the past four years to pass their associate and professional HCM certifications. The authors themselves are HCM certified and are currently involved in a European rollout, based in Germany.

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