mySAP HR Interview Questions, Answers, and Explanations: SAP HR Certification Review

128 Pages·2005·2.48 MB·English

by  Jim Stewart

SAP HR Interview
Questions, Answers, and
Explanations

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Motivation

During the course of an average project, I am usually
called upon by a project manager to “help screen
resources” for different parts of the project. And one
thing comes to mind – if done properly, it’s very time
consuming, and it’s really hard work!

My interviews usually sound something like this –

Jim: “Please rate yourself, on a scale of 1-10 on your HR
knowledge and experience…”
Interviewee: “Um, probably something like 10…”
Jim: “OK, so, let me just say something... I don’t believe
there is such a thing as a ten.”
Interviewee: “What would you rate yourself?”
Jim: “I rate myself an 8.”
Interviewee: “Why so low?”
Jim: “There’s no such thing as a ten. All of the nines are
working at SAP, SAP Labs, or SAP Consulting, and so
basically that puts me at about an eight. But we’re here
to talk about your skills. And so you think you’re a 10,
huh? OK, so tell me what you know about debugging the
n-step approval workflow…”

And then I try to ask the questions that truly flesh out a
person’s understanding of the software. It’s part science,
part art to be sure – but the #1 thing I’m looking for in
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an interview is that the resource represents their skills
truthfully. The good resources know what they know,
know what they don’t know, and they’re open about it.
And so I hope that this book will serve as a much-
needed guide for managers trying to get the right
resource for their project. If you construct an interview
based on these questions, I’m confident you can get a
good idea about the depth and breadth of a consultant’s
experiences and accumulated knowledge.

SAPCOOKBOOK.COM

August 2005

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Introduction

This book is divided into three parts – configuration
related questions, technical and troubleshooting
questions, and finally, transaction code and table
references, plus an index that will help you quickly find
the information that you’re looking for.

Each interview question has a question and an answer –
that is pretty straightforward – but when you see the
guru icon – this is information that represents the
highest degree of knowledge in a particular area. So if
you’re looking for a “workflow guru” be sure to listen for
an answers similar to those given under the guru icon.

Don’t be bamboozled!

The HR Guru has Spoken!

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SAP HR Interview Questions, Answers, and
Explanations.............................................................1
Motivation.................................................................3
Introduction.............................................................5
The HR Guru has Spoken!......................................5
Part I: Configuration Related Questions....10
Question 1: Payroll Results..................................11
Question 2: Wage Components...........................12
Question 3: Deduction Wage Type......................13
Question 4: Payroll Simulation...........................14
Question 5: Leave Quota......................................15
Question 6: Compensatory Time.........................16
Question 7: Wage Type Leave Allowance...........17
Question 8: HR Year End.....................................18
Question 9: Compensation Plan..........................19
Question 10: Upgrading HR.................................20
Question 11: More Year End.................................21
Question 12: Creating new infotypes..................22
Question 13: IT0015..............................................23
Question 14: Parameter 1 .....................................24
Question 15: Wagetype Adjustment....................25
Question 16: Leave Credits...................................26
Question 17: Change Management .....................27
Question 18: Payroll Simulation..........................28
Question 19: Payroll Classes................................29
Question 20: Single Payroll..................................30
Question 21: Time Evaluation.............................31
Question 22: Other benefits.................................32
Question 23: Deleting Employees.......................33
Question 24: Employee Wages............................34
Question 25: ECC 5.0............................................35
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Question 26: Locking Infotypes...........................36
Question 27: Wagetype Processing......................37
Question 28: Manual Overtime Approval...........38
Question 29: User management...........................39
Question 30: HR Integration................................40
Question 31: Payroll Wage types..........................41
Question 32: Best Date for Hiring.......................42
Question 33: Employee Subgroups......................43
Question 34: Quota Computation........................44
Question 35: Screen Header.................................45
Question 36: New Hire Action.............................46
Question 37: PCR Accumulation..........................47
Part II: Technical and Troubleshooting
Questions..................................................................48
Question 38: Uploading Excel Files....................49
Question 39: Enter New Hire...............................50
Question 40: Screen Modification.......................51
Question 41: P60 Form..........................................52
Question 42: Customizing PAW1.........................53
Question 43: Fast Entry........................................54
Question 44: Infotype PA61..................................55
Question 45: Automated Tab Control.................56
Question 46: Small HR Department...................57
Question 47: Data Migration................................58
Question 48: Download to Excel..........................59
Question 49: Payroll Run......................................60
Question 50: Personnel Calculation Rules.........61
Question 51: Taxable Wage Types........................62
Question 52: HR Difficulty...................................63
Question 53: Hiring and Terminating.................64
Question 54: Debugging Rules.............................65
Question 55: Holiday Calendar............................66
Question 56: Time Confirmation.........................67
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Question 57: Planed Overtime.............................68
Question 58: Quota Problems..............................69
Question 59: Infotype IT0024.............................70
Question 60: Wage type values...........................71
Question 61: Personnel Rules..............................72
Question 62: Profile Match..................................73
Question 63: Retroactive Accounting.................74
Question 64: PCL Error........................................75
Question 65: Time Types......................................76
Question 66: Transporting Layouts....................77
Question 67: Query................................................78
Question 68: Custom Infotypes...........................79
Question 69: Infotypes and Users.......................80
Question 70: Default Wage Types.......................80
Question 70: Default Wage Types.......................81
Question 71: Compensation Management.........82
Question 72: Employee Overpayment................83
Question 73: Approval adjustments...................84
Question 74: MBP Appraisal Transactions........85
Question 75: Web Appraisal.................................86
Part III - Table and Transaction Code
References...............................................................88
Appendix A: HR Table Listing.............................89
Appendix B: Transaction Code Reference.........96
Appendix C: Structure Reference........................97
More Transaction Codes.....................................100

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Part I: Configuration
Related Questions

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