Demo Workday Workday-Pro-HCM-Reporting Exam Questions

Workday delivers many standard (delivered) reports that are available to all customers. These reports 
are a great starting point but are not editable directly. If the delivered report does not meet your 
requirements, you should copy it and then modify the copy to create a custom report. This ensures 
that you retain the delivered report as-is, while still tailoring the report output to your business 
needs. 
From the Workday Module 1 and 2 Reporting sections: 
“Workday delivers standard reports that are available for all customers. If necessary, you can copy 
many of the Workday-delivered reports to create a custom report and modify it as needed.” 
“There still may not be a report that meets my specific needs though. In that case, I can either create 
a report from scratch or copy a delivered report and make changes.” 
“Standard reports are already available in all customer tenants and span across the functional areas 
in Workday. Workday creates standard reports using either the report writer tool or XpressO. 
However, you can copy and modify reports created with report writer as needed.” 
Therefore, the correct recommendation is to copy and modify the delivered Headcount By Job Profile 
report (Option D) instead of editing the original.

Workday provides multiple types of data sources when creating reports. Among them, Indexed Data
Sources are specifically designed for performance optimization on large data volumes. They allow
faster retrieval and better scalability when working with high record counts, because they are pre
optimized for reporting and queries.
From the Workday Reporting guide:
“Indexed data sources provide optimized performance for large data volumes. These data sources are
indexed on commonly used fields and are specifically designed to support high-performance
queries.”
Thus, the correct choice is A. Indexed for ensuring performance with large datasets. 

When reports use Indexed Data Sources, performance issues can arise if sorting is attempted on 

fields that are not indexed. In the case of the Worker object, sorting directly by the Worker object 

field is slower. Workday best practice is to sort by text-based fields such as the “Full Name (text)” 

field, which improves query performance because it leverages indexed fields. 

From the Workday reporting materials: 

*“For indexed data sources, performance improves when sorting by text fields such as Full Name 

(text), instead of object fields. Sorting by object fields causes slower performance, whereas text- 

based fields use the

Matrix reports in Workday allow grouping of data, applying summarizations, and drilling into the 

summaries for deeper analysis . To calculate percentages relative to the overall total, Workday 

provides a built-in summarization option called “Percent of Overall Total.” This option is applied to 

numeric summarizations like “Number of Hires.” 

From the Workday Reporting Guide: 

“Matrix reports allow you to group data, summarize the metrics for each grouping, and drill into the 

summarizations for further analysis.” 

“You can apply different summarizations such as Count, Sum, Average, and Percent of Overall Total 

on numeric fields.” (Matrix Report Options – Workday Module 1 Binder) 

Therefore, to show the percentage of hires per recruiter relative to the grand total across recruiters 

and regions, you would select “Percent of Overall Total” on the Number of Hires summarization. 

Workday offers several custom report types: Advanced, Matrix, Composite, Search, and Trending . 
Advanced Reports: Allow sorting, filtering, grouping, totals, and charts but are not designed for 
percentage summarizations across grouped data. 
Search Reports: Show search results based on facet filters, not suited for summarization and 
percentages. 
nBox Reports: Used for displaying workers or positions across two dimensions (e.g., performance vs. 
potential). 
Matrix Reports: Specifically designed for grouping data, applying summarizations (count, sum, 
percent), and drilling