50 Oracle Absence Management Cloud 2025 Implementation Professional Practice Questions: Question Bank 2025

An organization needs to configure an absence plan where employees can carry forward unused vacation days to the next year, but the maximum carryover should not exceed 5 days. Which configuration should the implementation consultant use?

A company has employees in multiple countries and needs to display absence durations differently based on location. US employees should see absences in hours, while UK employees should see absences in days. What is the correct configuration approach?

During absence calculation processing, an employee's sick leave accrual is showing an incorrect balance. Where should the implementation consultant first investigate to troubleshoot this issue?

What is the primary purpose of the Absence Accrual Matrix in Oracle Absence Management?

A company wants to implement a donation plan where employees can donate their unused sick leave to colleagues who have exhausted their leave due to medical emergencies. What configuration steps are required?

An employee submits an absence request that spans across a holiday. The organization's policy is that holidays should not count against absence balances. How should this be configured?

A client requires that absence requests be automatically approved if the employee has sufficient balance and the absence duration is 2 days or less, but requires manager approval for longer absences. What is the best implementation approach?

What is the purpose of the repeating time period in an absence accrual plan?

An organization needs to integrate absence data with their external payroll system. The payroll system requires a daily feed of all approved absences with specific pay codes. Which Oracle Absence Management feature should be configured to meet this requirement?

A company implements a vacation plan with front-loaded accruals where employees receive their full annual entitlement on their hire anniversary date. An employee who joined mid-year is terminated before their first anniversary. The company policy requires recovering unused vacation days. What configuration supports this requirement?

An organization wants to ensure that employees cannot take vacation during the company's peak business season from November 15 to December 31. Which Absence Management feature should be configured to enforce this restriction?

A company has implemented Oracle Absence Management and needs to automatically update employee absence balances every night. The HR manager wants to know which process should be scheduled to recalculate absence accruals for all employees. What is the appropriate scheduled process?

An employee submitted a sick leave request for 3 days, but the manager notices that the system deducted 5 days from the employee's balance. Upon investigation, it was found that the absence plan includes weekends in the duration calculation. Where should the implementation consultant configure the system to exclude weekends from absence duration calculations?

A global organization needs to implement different approval workflows for absence requests based on the duration of the absence. Requests for 1-3 days should go to the line manager only, while requests for 4+ days should require both line manager and HR approval. What is the recommended approach to configure this requirement?

An implementation consultant needs to configure a vacation plan where employees accrue 1.67 days per month, but the accrual should be frontloaded at the beginning of each year instead of accumulating monthly. The employee should still lose unvested days if they leave before year-end. Which combination of accrual configuration settings achieves this requirement?

A company wants to display an employee's available absence balances on their payslip. Which integration approach should be used to make absence balance data available to Oracle Payroll?

An employee's absence accrual balance shows as negative (-8 hours) even though the company policy does not allow negative balances. What is the most likely cause of this issue?

A manufacturing company requires that when employees record unplanned sick leave, the system should automatically notify their team lead via SMS within 15 minutes so shift coverage can be arranged. Which combination of Oracle HCM Cloud features would best accomplish this real-time notification requirement?

An organization has a parental leave policy where employees can take 12 weeks of leave, but they want the first 6 weeks to be paid at 100% of salary and the remaining 6 weeks to be paid at 50% of salary. How should this be configured in Absence Management to integrate properly with Payroll?

A company wants to implement a 'use it or lose it' vacation policy where any unused vacation hours over 40 hours at year-end are forfeited. However, they want to allow employees to carry forward up to 40 hours into the next year. Which absence plan configuration setting controls this requirement?

An organization wants to allow employees to donate their unused vacation days to a charitable pool that other employees can draw from during emergencies. Which Absence Management feature should be configured to support this requirement?

When configuring repeating time periods for absence accrual, what is the primary purpose of defining a 'Start Date Rule'?

A company has multiple absence plans and wants to ensure that when an employee requests time off, the system automatically uses days from their Sick Leave balance if the absence reason is 'Medical Appointment', but uses Vacation balance for other reasons. How should this be configured?

An implementation consultant needs to troubleshoot why accrual balances are not calculating correctly for a subset of employees. The accrual formula references a Fast Formula that uses assignment-level data. What is the most likely cause of the calculation failures?

Which statement accurately describes the relationship between Absence Types and Absence Plans in Oracle Absence Management?

A company wants to implement a 'use-it-or-lose-it' policy where employees forfeit any vacation balance over 200 hours at the end of each calendar year. Which configuration approach best accomplishes this requirement?

During an integration testing phase, absence data from an external timekeeping system is being imported via HCM Data Loader, but some absence records are failing to load. The error log indicates 'Invalid absence status transition'. What is the most likely cause?

What is the primary function of the 'Rate Definition' in an absence accrual plan?

A multinational organization needs to implement country-specific absence legislation, including different notice periods, documentation requirements, and duration limits for the same absence type across different countries. What is the recommended architectural approach?

When configuring absence accrual plans, what is the purpose of the 'Accrual Matrix' component?

An employee requests a vacation absence that spans across two accrual plan periods. The employee has 5 days remaining in the current period and needs 8 days total. What configuration ensures the system automatically draws from both accrual periods?

A company wants to prevent employees from submitting sick leave requests more than 2 days in advance, but allow vacation requests up to 12 months in advance. How should this be configured?

During absence accrual processing, you discover that some employees in the same accrual plan are accruing at different rates despite having the same hire date and full-time status. What is the MOST likely cause?

What is the primary purpose of the 'Plan Usage' field when configuring an absence plan?

A company needs to implement a floating holiday plan where employees can choose 3 days from a list of 8 designated holidays, and unused selections expire at year-end. Which configuration approach is required?

An absence administrator needs to correct an absence record that was already approved and processed through payroll. What is the recommended approach?

Which certification action formula is used to automatically calculate and reduce an absence plan balance when an absence is recorded?

A global organization needs managers in different countries to approve absences according to local business rules. Some countries require two-level approval while others need only one level. What configuration strategy best addresses this requirement?

What happens when an employee's work schedule changes mid-accrual period from full-time to part-time in a plan configured with 'Prorate Accrual' enabled?

An implementation consultant needs to load historical absence balances for employees transitioning from a legacy system. Which tool should be used?

An organization wants to allow employees to donate their unused vacation days to colleagues facing medical emergencies. Which Absence Management feature should be configured to enable this functionality?

A company's absence policy requires that employees must work at least 20 hours per week to accrue vacation time. Where should this requirement be configured in Absence Management?

During an absence calculation batch process, several employees' accruals are failing with errors. An administrator needs to investigate the specific error messages for each failed employee. What is the most efficient way to review these errors?

A company wants employees in different countries to see absence duration displayed in their local format (days vs. hours) based on their location. What configuration approach should be implemented?

An organization needs to prevent employees from taking vacation during peak business periods (e.g., December for retail). What is the recommended approach to implement this restriction?

A company uses integration with Payroll to deduct absence hours from paychecks. After processing absences, some deductions are not appearing in Payroll. What is the most likely cause that should be investigated first?

An administrator needs to mass-update absence balances for 500 employees due to a policy change that grants additional PTO days. What is the most efficient method to accomplish this?

A company's absence policy states that employees can carry over a maximum of 10 vacation days to the next year, but any days beyond that are forfeited. Where should this carryover limit be configured?

An organization has configured absence certification requirements for medical leaves exceeding 5 days. Employees are reporting that they can submit longer leaves without being prompted for certification documents. What configuration element is most likely missing or incorrectly configured?

A company wants to implement a policy where part-time employees accrue vacation at 50% of the rate that full-time employees accrue. What is the best practice approach to configure this requirement?