C_ARSUM Practice Test 14 — 15 Questions

Question 1

A supplier management administrator is reviewing the audit trail for a supplier that was disqualified. The administrator notices the supplier's status changed from 'Qualified' to 'Disqualified' but cannot find who made the change. Which action should the administrator take to identify the user and timestamp of the status change?

Choose an answer to begin — your selection is scored in the full session.

Accepted Answer

Open the supplier's history or audit log in the supplier record to view the status change event and its actor.. Status transitions such as Qualified to Disqualified are recorded in the supplier's history or audit log, which captures the event, the acting user, and the timestamp. Reviewing that log is the reliable way to establish accountability. Supplier questionnaires, sourcing reports, and supplier inquiries do not record internal qualification decisions, so they cannot identify who performed the change.

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Ask the supplier to confirm whether they requested the disqualification.

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Run a sourcing event report filtered by the supplier to find the disqualification entry.

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Check the supplier's registration questionnaire responses for a note about the disqualification.

Question 2

A supplier manager is setting up a new supplier to be eligible for future sourcing events and purchase orders in SAP Ariba. Which two conditions must be satisfied for the supplier to be considered fully onboarded and usable in downstream procurement? (Choose two.)

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The supplier has an approved and active registration or qualification record. A supplier becomes usable downstream when its registration or qualification is approved and active, and when its profile is mapped to the appropriate commodity or region so it can be discovered. Performance scorecards, master agreements, and risk alerts are either post-transaction artifacts or warning signals and play no role in establishing basic eligibility for sourcing and purchasing.

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The supplier has completed a performance scorecard for the previous period

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The supplier has at least one risk alert recorded on its profile

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The supplier has signed a multi-year master purchasing agreement

Question 3

A supplier has completed all required qualifications and is now approved for a specific commodity. The procurement team wants to ensure that this supplier is automatically considered in future sourcing events for that commodity. Which status must be assigned to the supplier for that commodity to enable this automatic inclusion?

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Preferred. In SAP Ariba Supplier Management, the Preferred status for a commodity indicates that the supplier is a preferred source and is automatically included in sourcing events for that commodity. Qualified and Approved statuses are prerequisites but do not trigger automatic inclusion. Registered status is even earlier in the lifecycle. The Preferred status is the key to ensuring the supplier is considered in future sourcing without manual intervention.

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Registered

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Approved

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Qualified

Question 4

A procurement manager at a manufacturing company wants to ensure that all suppliers providing direct materials are evaluated for financial stability, compliance, and quality before they can be awarded contracts. The manager needs to automate this evaluation and track each supplier's progress. Which feature in SAP Ariba Supplier Management should the manager use to create and manage this evaluation process?

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Supplier Qualification. Supplier Qualification is the correct feature because it provides a structured, automated way to evaluate suppliers against multiple criteria (financial, compliance, quality) before awarding contracts. It includes configurable templates, approval workflows, and status tracking, which directly address the manager's need to automate and monitor the evaluation process.

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Supplier Risk Management

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Supplier Registration

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Supplier Performance Management

Question 5

A buying organization runs a modular questionnaire in SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance that combines internal and external recipients. The internal category manager must answer questions about the supplier's strategic fit, while the supplier must answer compliance questions. The project owner needs both sets of answers to trigger the same downstream qualification decision, but the supplier should never see the internal questions. What is the most appropriate configuration to achieve this?

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Create two separate modular questionnaires and link them to the same supplier qualification project, assigning one to the internal category manager and one to the supplier.. Using separate modular questionnaires linked to the same qualification project isolates internal and supplier-facing content while still consolidating both into one qualification decision. It preserves confidentiality, keeps recipients scoped to relevant questions, and allows the project owner to evaluate combined results without manual workarounds.

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Configure a supplier registration questionnaire and an internal survey, then merge the responses manually into the supplier's qualification record.

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Use a single modular questionnaire with a conditional section that hides internal questions from the supplier based on the recipient's registration status.

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Send the supplier the full questionnaire and instruct them to skip internal questions, then have the category manager edit the submitted response afterward.

Question 6

A supplier manager is configuring a supplier qualification process in SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance. The process must automatically assign a 'High' risk level to suppliers in a specific region and route them to an additional compliance review. Which configuration element should the supplier manager use to achieve this conditional routing?

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A qualification template with a conditional approval rule based on the supplier's region. Conditional approval rules within a qualification template allow SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance to evaluate supplier attributes, such as region, and dynamically insert approval steps. This provides automatic, consistent routing of high-risk suppliers to compliance review without manual intervention. Supplier groups, modular questionnaires, and sourcing projects do not deliver attribute-based conditional routing inside the qualification workflow, so they fail to meet the requirement.

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A modular questionnaire with a question that asks the supplier to self-identify as high risk

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A supplier group with a static membership list of high-risk suppliers

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A sourcing project with a pre-qualification gate for the region

Question 7

A supplier manager notices that a supplier's qualification for a critical commodity was revoked after a risk alert was triggered. The manager wants to understand which risk category caused the revocation and what action to take next. Which SAP Ariba Supplier Risk feature provides this insight?

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Supplier risk dashboard with drill-down to the specific risk category and recommended actions. The supplier risk dashboard is the central place to view risk alerts by category and drill into the specific event that caused a qualification revocation. It also provides recommended actions, enabling the manager to understand the cause and determine the appropriate response, such as remediation or re-qualification.

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Supplier registration audit log

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Supplier performance scorecard with historical trend analysis

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Sourcing event history report

Question 8

A template designer at Tailspin Toys is building a supplier qualification questionnaire where respondents must select their primary manufacturing country from a fixed list, and the selection must drive which follow-on compliance questions appear. Which question configuration best supports this requirement?

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A Choice question whose selected value controls the visibility of dependent questions.. Driving dependent questions from a fixed selection requires a structured question whose value can act as a condition. A Choice question with a controlled value list supplies both the fixed country options and the value that conditional logic reads to show the appropriate compliance questions. Text, numeric, and attachment approaches lack the structured, list-bound value needed for reliable branching.

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A Numeric question that captures a country code and a separate internal approval task.

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An Attachment question where the supplier uploads a document listing the country.

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A Text question with a regular expression that validates the country name.

Question 9

A supplier manager at Fabrikam Retail needs to see which internal users have viewed a supplier's submitted qualification questionnaire and which sections remain unread before scheduling a review meeting. Which feature should the supplier manager use?

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The questionnaire's activity or audit trail, which records user actions against the supplier's project.. Internal reviewer activity is captured in the project's activity and audit records, which log user actions such as viewing submitted content. Public profiles, Supplier 360 aggregation, and supplier-side registration history each describe different data and cannot show which internal users have read the questionnaire, making the activity trail the only suitable source.

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The Supplier 360 profile, which aggregates supplier data but not internal reviewer behavior.

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The supplier's registration update history, which shows changes the supplier made to their own data.

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The supplier's public profile page in the SAP Ariba Discovery network.

Question 10

A supplier manager is reviewing the results of a supplier qualification project. The supplier achieved a 'Qualified' status for the 'IT Hardware' commodity but was disqualified for 'IT Services'. The supplier manager now wants to ensure that the supplier cannot be invited to sourcing events for 'IT Services'. Which configuration in SAP Ariba Supplier Management should the supplier manager verify?

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The supplier's qualification status per commodity in the supplier's profile, ensuring that 'IT Services' is marked as 'Disqualified' and that sourcing events enforce qualification requirements.. In SAP Ariba Supplier Management, qualification is managed at the commodity level. A supplier can be qualified for one commodity and disqualified for another. Sourcing events can be configured to require qualified suppliers for the relevant commodity, automatically excluding disqualified suppliers. Verifying the per-commodity qualification status and the sourcing event's qualification requirement ensures the supplier cannot be invited to IT Services events while remaining eligible for IT Hardware.

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The supplier's preferred status, removing 'Preferred' for all commodities to indicate they are not qualified for IT Services.

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The supplier's overall registration status, changing it to 'Blocked' so that the supplier cannot participate in any sourcing events.

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The supplier's risk exposure score, increasing it manually to exceed the threshold for IT Services sourcing events.

Question 11

A supplier risk analyst is configuring a supplier risk exposure report in SAP Ariba Supplier Risk. Which two data sources are typically used to calculate the risk exposure score? (Choose two.)

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Supplier qualification status from SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance. Risk exposure in SAP Ariba Supplier Risk is calculated from internal qualification status and external financial and credit data feeds. Qualification status shows whether the supplier meets requirements, while third-party feeds provide objective financial health indicators. Together they form the core inputs for the risk exposure score.

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Buying organization's marketing spend forecast

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Supplier's internal employee satisfaction survey results

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Supplier's social media follower count

Question 12

A supply chain risk manager is configuring supplier risk monitoring in SAP Ariba Supplier Management. They want to define a risk exposure threshold that, when exceeded, automatically creates a task for the risk manager to investigate. Which configuration element should the risk manager set up to achieve this?

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Risk alert with a threshold and a task action. To automatically create a task when a risk threshold is exceeded, the risk manager must configure a risk alert with a threshold and a task action. This is the standard mechanism in SAP Ariba Supplier Management for proactive risk response. The other options pertain to qualification, sourcing, and contracts, which do not provide risk threshold monitoring.

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Contract term with a renewal notification

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Sourcing project with a milestone reminder

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Supplier qualification template with a scoring rule

Question 13

A supplier risk manager is configuring a risk exposure model in SAP Ariba Supplier Risk. The manager wants to ensure that the model accounts for both inherent risk factors and mitigation controls. Which two components should the manager include in the risk exposure model configuration? (Choose two.)

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Risk factors that represent inherent risk dimensions, such as geographic location and industry.. A risk exposure model in SAP Ariba Supplier Risk is built from risk factors and mitigation controls. Risk factors define inherent risk dimensions, while mitigation controls adjust the risk downward when present. Together, they allow the system to calculate both inherent and residual risk scores. The other options belong to different modules and do not directly configure the risk exposure model.

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Sourcing project templates from SAP Ariba Sourcing.

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Supplier registration questionnaires from the supplier onboarding process.

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Supplier performance scorecards from the Supplier Performance Management module.

Question 14

A buying organization runs a modular questionnaire where a supplier must answer a parent question about having an ISO 9001 certificate. If the supplier answers Yes, a follow-up question requesting the certificate number should appear; if No, a question asking for a remediation plan must appear. Which configuration in the SAP Ariba Supplier Management modular questionnaire accomplishes this?

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Set both follow-up questions as conditional and define visibility rules based on the answer to the parent question.. Conditional questions with visibility rules are the native branching mechanism in SAP Ariba modular questionnaires. They evaluate the parent response and display only the relevant follow-up, ensuring the supplier sees the certificate number field when the answer is Yes and the remediation plan when it is No, without manual template switching.

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Use a calculated field that concatenates the parent answer with the child question text to control display order.

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Mark the two follow-up questions as optional and rely on the supplier to answer only the relevant one.

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Create two separate registration templates and assign the supplier to the appropriate template manually after reviewing the parent answer.

Question 15

A supplier manager wants to measure how a strategic supplier is performing against contractual KPIs over the last four quarters and share the results with internal stakeholders. Which SAP Ariba Supplier Management capability should be used?

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Supplier performance management with scorecards and KPI surveys. Measuring a strategic supplier against contractual KPIs over multiple quarters requires a structured performance management capability. Supplier performance management supplies scorecards and KPI surveys that capture periodic data, support trend analysis, and allow sharing with stakeholders. Registration, sourcing, and risk reports serve different purposes and do not deliver the required performance measurement.

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Supplier risk exposure report with financial health indicators

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Sourcing project with reverse auction and award scenarios

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Supplier registration questionnaire with compliance attestations