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12 practical questions
60 minutes
Mid level

Questions are drawn from a bank of 36. Your report includes a skill breakdown and lessons to practice next.

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Junior tasks cover the fundamentals. Mid and senior tasks add debugging, changing requirements and review decisions.

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10 interviews

HR operations specialist
Junior
20 min

An approved title change in the inbox

Cedar Instruments approved a title and location change for W009. Start Change Job as change-101, effective September 24, 2026. Set jobTitle to Service coordination specialist 101 and location to Chicago. Complete the inbox approvals and inspect the worker history. This request doesn't change pay, position or manager.

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Skills and rubricEffective change and approval history

Completes the requested tenant task and names its business object.
Explains the direct saved result with a concrete record.
Names a concrete source check before delivering the output.

HRIS analyst
Junior
20 min

A September leaver screening report

Build Cedar Instruments' September exit review as report wd-review-102, named Cedar review 102. Include worker ID, name, hireDate, terminationDate and status for exits from September 1 through September 30, 2026 inclusive. Sort by termination date then worker ID, both ascending. Preserve former workers in the source.

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Skills and rubricWorker population and reporting grain

Completes the requested tenant task and names its business object.
Explains the direct saved result with a concrete record.
Names a concrete source check before delivering the output.

HRIS analyst
Junior
20 min

A missing-manager exception queue

Cedar Instruments' support queue flags every blank manager, including the chief executive W001. Replace that rule with report wd-review-103, named Cedar review 103: active workers with a blank manager except W001. Show id, name, organizationId, managerId and jobTitle, sorted by id. Preserve the blank manager field so the owner can investigate.

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Skills and rubricMissing relationships and valid roots

Completes the requested tenant task and names its business object.
Explains the direct saved result with a concrete record.
Names a concrete source check before delivering the output.

Workday reporting consultant
Mid
27 min

A compensation planning calculation

Cedar Instruments needs a planning report for O004, not a pay change. Build wd-review-104, named Cedar review 104, for active workers with id, name, salary, fte and a proposed amount equal to salary multiplied by 1.09. Use Worker Arithmetic calculated field cf-budget-104, named Proposed planning salary 104; keep worker ID order.

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Skills and rubricField calculations with changing salaries

Checks source exclusions, effective dates and blank relationships.
Explains how changed requirements affect the existing definition.
Tests a realistic boundary and traces its effect on the result.

HRIS analyst
Mid
27 min

A leaver report with mysteriously missing rows

A colleague saved wd-review-105, named Cedar review 105, but its active-only source removes the leavers before the date filter runs. Repair the report to include workers terminated from August 31 through September 30, 2026. Keep id, name, organizationId, terminationDate and location in id order, then run the corrected report.

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Skills and rubricData source debugging

Checks source exclusions, effective dates and blank relationships.
Explains how changed requirements affect the existing definition.
Tests a realistic boundary and traces its effect on the result.

Workday reporting consultant
Mid
27 min

A reusable support extract for several teams

Cedar Instruments' support team copies one large worker report for each organization. Build one reusable active-worker report wd-review-106, named Cedar review 106, with id, name, organizationId, location and jobTitle. Use an Organization prompt on organizationId, initially O003; sort by id. Don't hardcode an additional organization filter.

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Skills and rubricPrompt-backed scope at scale

Checks source exclusions, effective dates and blank relationships.
Explains how changed requirements affect the existing definition.
Tests a realistic boundary and traces its effect on the result.

HR operations specialist
Mid
27 min

A roster request changed during the interview

Cedar Instruments requests every active worker in O003. report wd-review-107, named Cedar review 107, must include all active workers in O003, retaining id, name, workerType, organizationId and location in id order. Keep contingent workers included and don't change their source records.

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Skills and rubricEmployee and contingent worker scope

Checks source exclusions, effective dates and blank relationships.
Explains how changed requirements affect the existing definition.
Tests a realistic boundary and traces its effect on the result.

Workday reporting consultant
Senior
35 min

A related absence field with a wrong instance

A reviewer found that Cedar Instruments' latest-absence draft can select an unapproved request. Build report wd-review-108, named Cedar review 108, with worker id, name and days on the latest Approved Vacation request. Use Worker Extract Single Instance cf-absence-108, named Latest approved vacation days 108, on timeOff; filter before choosing the latest startDate, break ties by id ascending, and leave no-match workers blank. Preserve all workers in id order.

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Skills and rubricFiltered related-instance extraction

Defends grain, dependencies and delivery scope.
Proposes repeatable regression evidence and names authorization limits.
Identifies the review owner and the affected downstream artifact.

HRIS analyst
Senior
35 min

A completed roster with an overbroad audience

Review Cedar Instruments' report wd-review-109, named Cedar review 109. It exposes salary and is shared with All Employees. Replace its output with active workers in O003, showing only id, name, organizationId and jobTitle in id order. Share the definition with exactly HR Analysts and export the final corrected output. Underlying domain permissions must still be checked separately.

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Skills and rubricReport audience and final export

Defends grain, dependencies and delivery scope.
Proposes repeatable regression evidence and names authorization limits.
Identifies the review owner and the affected downstream artifact.

Workday reporting consultant
Senior
35 min

A workforce summary with mixed worker types

Cedar Instruments' workforce partner wants a Matrix report wd-review-110, named Cedar review 110, for active workers, grouped by organizationId and workerType. Show distinct worker count labeled Workers and summed fte labeled FTE. Sort both groups ascending. Explain why the measures can differ without treating a part-time worker as missing.

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Skills and rubricMatrix grain and FTE reconciliation

Defends grain, dependencies and delivery scope.
Proposes repeatable regression evidence and names authorization limits.
Identifies the review owner and the affected downstream artifact.

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Practice interviews

An approved title change in the inbox

A September leaver screening report

A missing-manager exception queue

A compensation planning calculation

A leaver report with mysteriously missing rows

A reusable support extract for several teams

A roster request changed during the interview

A related absence field with a wrong instance

A completed roster with an overbroad audience

A workforce summary with mixed worker types

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