SAP Human Resource Self-Assessment Questions and Answers

1) What are attributes of objects? Is vacancy a common attribute for all objects?

Object attributes are object name and abbreviations object type object ID planned status planned version relationship validity.

2) Name the three administrators? How do you default these in IT0001?

Personnel administrator, Payroll administrator and Time administrator. these are defaulted using the feature PINCH

3) What are employee attributes and how are they classified?

Employee attributes are activity status, employment status and training status.

4) What are features? What is the transaction for features?

Features are objects in the system that determine a specific value by querying different enterprise personnel or data structure fields. The value is known as a "return code" or "result". This value is used to determine default values and to control certain system processes. Features enhance system flexibility. Transaction: PE03. Example: Feature ABKRS provides a default value for the payroll area. This is based on the data found in an employee’s Org Assignment.

5) What are the features to default and in which infotype

1. Work Schedule Rule SCHKZ- IT0007
2. Pay Scale Data TARIF-IT0008
3. Wage Type Model LGMST-IT0008
4. Administrator groups PINCH-IT0001
5. Number Range Intervals NUMKR

Feature NUMKR is used to define whether the employee numbering created for such personnel area would be created internal (proposed by the system) or external assignment (User Define).
Feature TARIF can be used to default basic pay Info group entries per Personnel Sub Area based on pay scale type/area and its relationship with pay scale group and leveling.
Another useful feature is ABKRS, that is the feature which defaults payroll area.

6) Number Range Intervals

NUMAP is the feature in order to identify the Applicant Number Ranges NUMKR is the feature in order to identify the Infotype 0000 (Actions) while Hiring an employee.

7) What is ABKRS?

ABKRS : Default Value for Payroll Area Task : This feature enables you to obtain the default value for the payroll area. Use : Infotype 0001, Organizational Assignment Procedure : The return value of the feature is a payroll area from table T549A, Payroll Areas. This can be overwritten and is reassigned and displayed in a warning message when changes are made to the organizational assignment.

8) What are the two ways of maintaining features?

Transaction Code PE03

9) What is the info type to store personal data for an employee?

0002

10) What is pay scale type and pay scale area?

Payscale type - industry e.g.: Metal/Chemical Industry Payscale Area - Geographic Region.

11) You assign payscale types and areas to

1. Company code
2. Payroll area
3. Employee subgroup
4. Personnel subarea

12) What are wage types? How wage types are broadly classified?

Wage types are classified as Model Wage types starts with M Customized wage types start with number Technical Wage types always starts with /

13) How do you set up wage types?

PU30 - copy wage type from model wage type T511- Wage type characteristics

14) What are slash wage types?

Technical wage types, these are generated during payroll calculations and cannot be maintained directly.

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