SHARP CBT Test - Workforce Admin & Compensation

SHARP Workforce Administration and Compensation Test

Complete the test below by filling in your personal information and completing the questions. When you press Submit, your answers will be evaluated. If you receive a Congratulations page, then you completed the test correctly; otherwise a pop up window will open in a separate window or tab and notify you of the questions that need to be corrected. Correct your answers and press Submit again.

The SHARP User Id field can be left blank if you have not yet been assigned a User ID. All other fields on this test are required.

Please ensure the State of Kansas Employee ID you entered is correct. If it is incorrect, the test result will not be loaded to your employee training record in SHARP.

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Test Questions

Select the letter of your choice.

1. You may have a personnel action that requires two rows in Job Data with the same effective date. What options do you have?

A.	You can’t have two rows with the same effective date. The second row needs to be a different date.
B.	Enter a sequence number 1 for the second effective dated row on the Work Location page so that you have two Job Data rows with the same effective date.
C.	Forget the second row – you don’t really need it!

2. Which page in Job Data do you use to enter an Annual Benefits Base Rate for an employee?

A.	Compensation
B.	Work Location
C.	Benefits Program Participation
D.	Salary Plan

3. The Annual Benefits Base Rate is used to:

A.	Calculate the employee’s annual rate of pay
B.	Increase an employee’s salary.
C.	Change an employee’s health insurance coverage.
D.	Calculate an employee’s imputed income for the cost of group term life insurance coverage in excess of $50,000.

4. If you save before you Add the Relationship when hiring a person using the Add a Person function, the following occurs:

A.	You cannot retrieve the person from the system.
B.	You cannot hire the person into a position.
C.	You cannot add the person again.
D.	All of the above.

5. The Action Reason User Guide:

A.	Helps you determine the appropriate Action and Reason to use for your data entry.
B.	Explains how to run SHARP reports.
C.	Inserts a new field in Job Data.

6. When entering an end of probation review for an employee, you must also enter a corresponding Data Change/End of Probation row in the employee’s Job Data. What does this Job Data row do?

A.	Increases the employee’s rate of pay.
B.	Changes the Employment Status from Probationary to Permanent and the Probation End Date field becomes blank.
C.	Changes the employee’s HR Status from Inactive to Active.
D.	Calculates the employee’s rate of pay.

7. The Default Pay Components button on the Compensation page in Job Data is used to:

A.	Change the Action and Reason on the Job Data row
B.	Default the job code title and department for the position.
C.	Pull in the hourly rate that corresponds to the step on the Salary Plan page and calculate the Pay Rates (for employees who pay is tied to a pay matrix)

8. An employee is promoting from a non-exempt Public Service Executive I to an exempt Public Service Executive II. Which day of the pay period should you use for the effective date of the promotion?

A.	Day 3 of the pay period (cut off).
B.	Last day of the pay period.
C.	Beginning (Day 1) of the pay period.

9. The categories of effective dates in SHARP are:

A.	Current
B.	History
C.	Future
D.	All of the above

10. What is the best resource for learning and using SHARP?

A.	SHARP Customer Service web site at www.da.ks.gov/sharp/
B.	SHARP Action Reason User Guide
C.	How Do I’s
D.	They’re all good!

Please email Kristine Scott at kristine.scott@da.ks.gov if you have any questions!

Page last modified on: January 02, 2013