1.What conditions are required to establish parent child relationship between two records?

What are the advantages with that? Conditions are: 1) The child record should have all the key fields of parent record and at least one more key field other than the key fields of parent record. 2) We should mention the parent record in the record properties of child record. 3) We can not go for more than three levels of parent/child relationships. Advantages are: 1) To have referential integrity. 2) No need to enter information again and again 2. Which effective dated rows can be retrieved in update/display mode, update/display all and correction mode? Update/display can view current and future rows. Can update only future rows. Update/display all can view history, current and future rows. Can update only future rows. Correction can view and update history, current and future rows. 3. What types of audits are supported by people soft? In case of record level audit what is the structure of table? We have field level audit and record level audit. The structure of the table in record level audit is: AUDIT_OPRID, AUDIT_STAMP, AUDIT_ACTN, AUDIT_RECNAME and can add fields from record. 4. What are Table Edits? We have prompt table edit, yes/no table edit, translate table edit as the table edits. 5. What is the difference between Key and alternate search Key? KEY-It is the primary key of the record. Can be used as search key or need not be. Alternate search key-it is used for searching purposes. 6. Can you place Sub page into Grid? If yes How? Yes we can insert subpage using insert subpage. After insert subpage into main page, drag the subpage into the grid. When we save the page we are successfully able to save the page showing that we can insert a subpage into a grid. 7. Can you hide a primary page in a component? Reason? No, we can not hide the primary page of a component. If the component had only one page then by making this page also invisible we wont have any component existing so we are not allowed to hide the primary page. 8. What is an Expert Entry? Expert entry enables a user to change from interactive to deferred mode at runtime for appropriate transactions.

9. What is Auto Update? This record field property is used to update the date field of particular record with the server's current date and time whenever a user creates or updates a row. Even the user enter the data into that field, the data which the user enters will be updated by the systems current date and time. 10.How can a component have more than one search record? Give a situation. You might want to reuse the same component multiple times with different search records. You can accomplish this by overriding the component search record at runtime when the component is opened from a menu item without creating separate copies of the component. The component override is temporary, and occurs only when the component is opened from the menu item in which the override is set. It does not change the component definition. 11. How can you improve the security and usability of a Prompt table edit.? Prompt table view 12. What are the different ways to setup row level security? We can setup row-level security using a SQL view that joins the data table with an authorization table. And By having Query search for data using a query security record definition. The query security record definition adds a security check to the search. 13. How does peoplesoft use views? Which are online functions? A) People soft uses views for search records, summary pages, prompt views, reports. Search records and summary pages are online functions. 14. Why do PeopleSoft often use views as search records? A) Search views are used for three main reasons. 1. Adding criteria to the search dialogue page 2. Providing row level security. 3. Implementing search page processing. 15. What is Record Group? Which records can be included into a record group? Record group consists of records with similar functionality. To setup a record in record group we should enter a set control field value in record properties

Please find below some of the basic Interview Questions asked on PeopleSoft HRMS Module. What are all the components will have data permission security control access? Departments Employee, Contingent Worker, and POI with Jobs. POI without jobs. Recruiting Federal People with jobs.

 Template based hires. What are all the organisational relationships available while hiring an employee? Employee Contingent Worker Person of Interest (POI) List down the people part of the POI? COBRA Participants Pension Payees Global Payroll Payees Stock non-HR Person Stock board members External Instructor Payroll Employees External Trainers What are all the People Tools Security? Permission List Roles User Profiles What are all the default programs you need to run after the creating the user profile? Refresh SJT CLASS ALL Refresh Trans. SJT tables Refresh SJT OPR CLS What are all the default Permission List used while creating the User ID? Navigator Homepage Permission List Process Profile Permission List Primary Permission List What are all the methods for assigning Data Permission Access to Permission List? Tree based data permission security Role based data permission security What are all the Access types for Department security sets? Departments by Tree Departments by non tree Departments by set id What are all the Access types for People with jobs security sets? Job department tree Job location Jon business unit Job Company Job regulatory region Job salary grade Person organisation

 Department ID non tree Company Pay group What are all the Access types for People without jobs security sets? POI Business Unit POI Location POI Institution Person of Interest What are all the Access types for Recruiting Job Opening security sets? RS Company RS Business Unit RS Department ID RS Location Recruiting Team What are all the Access types for Template Based Hire security sets? Template ID Template Category Person Organisation Country

Please find below some of the basic Interview Questions asked on PeopleSoft HRMS Module. PeopleSoft HRMS/HCM Interview What are all the tree manager definitions? Level Node Parent Sibiling Child What are all the various types of SJT? SJT_CLASS SJT_CLASS_ALL SJT_PERSON SJT_DEPARTMENT What are all the organisational instance components? Add Employment Instance (Job_Data_Emp) Add Contingent Worker Instance (Job_Data_CWR) Add Person of Interest Job (Jon_Data_POI)

What are all the job instances used for POIs? COBRA qualified beneficiaries Stock employees not administered in Human Resources Global Payroll Employees Pension Payees Stock board members What are all the purpose of the Job Earnings Distribution Information Page? We can distribute the workers compensation on the basis of the following: Department Job Code Earnings Code Business Unit Shift Position Number General Ledger Pay type What are all the job level defaults? Work Job Information Job Labor Payroll Salary Plan Compensation Employment Information Benefit Program Participation Earnings Distribution What are all the main components for setting the hire template? Template Record/Field Template Section Template Category Table Template Creation What are all the statuses used to define templates? Test (Default Value) Active Inactive What are all the statuses available on the template hire status page? Pending Hires Cancelled Hires Processed Hires What are the methods available to update workers compensation packages? Seniority Pay increases Grade Advance increases Automated step increases Step increases using review bands

 Amount increases Percentage increases What are all the components available under Setup HRMS? Install Security Upgrade Foundation Tables Common Definitions Product Related System Administration

Below are some of the basic Interview Questions asked on PeopleSoft HRMS/HCM Module. What isEffective Date? Information Component /Record linked to the data EFFDT. Information changes based on the EFFDT. What is Effective Sequence? Identifier to find the order of multiple transactions occurring on a same EFFDT. What is the effective sequences default number? 0 Whats the difference between a position number and a job code? Position number is the unique identification number for driven by business unit , department ,location , job code and other parameters What is the purpose of update/display mode? To add the new information current and future as well view the current data. What is the purpose of correct history mode? To correct the past and current information based on the EFFDT. What is the purpose of include history mode? To view the past information based on the EFFDT. What is Employee Record Number? Number to identify an employees different organizational relationships. What are all the mandatory fields need to key in while add a person on the system? 1) Name 2) Organizational relationship National ID , Address, Birthdate gives us warning message.

What is employment instance? Employee relationship with organization. Where employee can have multiple relationship (instances) with the organization. What is the difference between Set Id and a Business Unit? Where a Business Unit organizes your company or your organization, SetIDs help you organize your data within the system. The HRMS system uses tables (Control Tables or Prompt Tables) that use a high-level key that enables you to identify and retrieve data from the system. A secondary high-level key,referred to as a SetID, has also been added on various tables. SetIDs are simply the labels used to identify a TableSet. Business Unit and SetID functionality in PeopleSoft also provides you with a higher business level for reporting purposes and other business data roll-up. What is HCCPALL? Delivered primary permission list with access to all the components and pages What is HCDPALL? Delivered row level security permission list with full access. What is the default tree name need to give while creating the new tree? Dept_Security followed by any name as per your requirement. What would be the default effective date for creating the new tree? 1/1/1900 or 1/1/1901