System has two user person types: Civil Servants & Regular Employees. Both of these have the system person type as employee. An employee is hired on Ol-Jan-2000 as Civil Servant. One year after the…

Question

Options

• ANavigate to person type usage form and date track update the person type from Civil Servant to
• BNavigate to People Enter and Maintain form, query this Employee, date track to Ol-Jan-2001, and
• CNavigate to Secondary status (on Assignment form) and date track update the person type from
• DCreate a secondary assignment for the employee with the person type as Regular Employee from
• ENavigate to the Assignment form and update the Assignment status to Regular Employee from l-

• A
  78% (32)
• B
  7% (3)
• D
  12% (5)
• E
  2% (1)

Explanation

Option A is correct because Oracle HRMS manages person type changes through the dedicated Person Type Usage form, where date tracking allows you to update the person type effective 01-Jan-2001 without disturbing any historical records - the 15 processed leaves remain intact because date tracking preserves prior-period data rather than overwriting it.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• B is incorrect because the People Enter and Maintain form is used for personal/biographical data, not for directly changing person type assignments; person type is managed through its own Usage form.
• C is incorrect because Secondary Status on the Assignment form relates to assignment statuses (e.g., Active, Suspended), not to the person type classification.
• D is incorrect because creating a secondary assignment is used when an employee holds two concurrent roles, not to change the person type on an existing record.
• E is incorrect because Assignment Status (e.g., Active Assignment) is a separate concept from Person Type - updating one does not update the other.

Memory tip: Think "Person Type → Person Type Usage form." Any time the question involves changing who the person is (their classification) rather than what they do (their assignment/status), the answer points to the Person Type Usage form with date tracking.

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