1. What is the difference between PCR and CAP?
Ans) PCR.. Personnel calculation Rules Conditions that are written to the Schemas (in pay roll and TM). To edit them to met the specific requirement of the Clients Time and Wages evaluation.CAP is Collective Agreement Provision based on which the different groups of Employees are eligible for different kinds of pay scale structures and benefits and son on.  CAP is based on the following components : 
1) Pay scale type 
2) Pay scale area 
3) Employee subgroup grouping for CAP
4) Pay Scale Group and Pay Scale Level

2. How do you run payroll?
Ans) There are the steps to run the pay roll
a) Simultaion.. to see wheather everything is fine or not
b) Release Pay roll( here you are actually changing the staus in the pay roll control reord)
c) Start pay roll
d) Check the pay roll
e) Correction and Exit the pay roll

3. How do your correct payroll?
Ans) In the pay roll log you would see the errors or thriugh the Check tpay roll  and make necessary correction in Corrections (PC00_M99_PA03_CORR) 

4. If I want to include some more wage types, say bonus from today. How should I do that?
Ans) you have to configure those wage types.

5. What is meant by payroll area? What are the uses of payroll area?
Ans) Pay roll area indicates group of Employees for Whom pay roll is run at the same time.*Payroll can be run* separately for different employee groups, using different payroll areas Which payroll area the employee belongs to dependsorganizational assignment. Employees who belong to different company codes can, also be grouped in the same payroll area. Sap recommends to have as less no pay roll areas as possible.

6. What is meant by a control record.
Ans) It controls the Activites of the Pay roll. You can see the status of pay roll in  this record. You can change the status of pay roll manually here.( tcode PA03).

7. What is meant by retroactive accounting?
Ans) Running pay roll from a previosus date. if you dont do any thing in the system, the system will take the Earliest Retoactive account date stored In Pay roll staus Infotype that 003.

8. How do you create customized ITs? What is the no. range for customer specific ITs?
Ans) It can be done through PM01 and the range is 9000 to 9999

9. What are day types? How many day types exist? What are they? Where do you configure them?
Ans) The day type determines the payment relevance for a day and the relevancy of the day for calculating attendancesthe for each day of DWS. 0,(work paid) 1-- Off--paid 2--Off--unpaid 3 off--special day and 4 to 9 are customer specific are the days types, They configured in after Work schedules in TM.

10. What is a counting rule?
Ans) Counting rules ar rules used to count absences and special attendances.

11. What is absence type?
Ans ) Absence types are nothing but leave type, Basing on the type Absence Type, pay roll is affected.

12. How do you configure absence? Give an example.
Ans) In Time record administration you will have to configure the absences.firstyou group the employees for the absences and configure the different absences in the next screen.

13. What is absence quota type?
Ans) Absence quota is the quota up to which an employee can be absent from work. Generally sickness leave, Annual leave, Casual leave etc are types of absence Quotas whci vary according to ESGs.

14. What are the features you used in benefits?
Ans) Common Features Used in benefits:
P0167.defaulting screens  for IT0167..
P0168 defaulting screens  for IT0168
P0169 defaulting screens  for IT 0169
P0170   defaulting screens  for IT170
P0171  defaulting screens   for 0171
P0172  defaulting screens   for IT 0172

15. How many health plans have you configured, what are they?
Ans) This is always your choice.but general names are
- Health Dental Plan
- Medical Plan  fro children
- Health Medical Plan 2
- Medical plan with  Partner
- Medical  plan for Singles

16. What are the most important ITs in benefits?
Ans) - General Benefits Information 0171
- Adjustment Reasons I 0378
- Health Plans  0167
- Insurance Plans  0168
- Savings Plans  0169
- Stock Purchase Plans  0379
- Credit Plans  0236
- Miscellaneous Plans  0377
- Retirement Plan Cumulations  0602
- Retirement Plan Cumulations  0602)
- Retirement Plan Valuation Results 0565
- Benefits Medical Data  0376

17. List the applicant actions in recruitment.

18. What is the feature used for Personnel Administrator. What group should you use in that?
Ans) PINCH

19. What are the IT's used in NUMKR? (I said NUMKR is associated with Org. Assgnmt.)
Ans) Its for defaulting No range in IT 0000,0002,0001,0006,007,0008,0009 etc .Infact this  feature enable to default no range in all the ITs of Hiring infogroup which again customized on clients specifications.

20. What is an applicant group?
Ans) An Applicant Group(AG) is used to group together applicants on the basis of the type of work relationship for which they have applied for example,permanent employees , temporary employees, Casual workers etc,.. TheApplicant Class is a characteristic of the AG.Theapplicantclassindicates whether the applicant is internal (class *P*) or external (class *AP). The required configuration has to be done  for the groups.*

21. What is an unsolicited applicant group?
Ans) the group of Applicants who have applied without any advertisement or requirement from the company.(the best example is , these days, most of the job seekers, go to companys URL and and load their cv details.. these details get stored as UNSOLICITED APPICANTS in the Companys Intranet.

22. What is the t.code for authroizations?
Ans) PFCG for roles authorizations and SU01 for creating Users

23. Differentiate between Payroll area and payscale area.
Ans) Pay roll area indicates the group of employees for whom pay roll is run together, Pay scale area iis geographical are or groups of employees for whom a particular CAP is Valid.                     *-- Madhuuri

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