C_ARSUM Ariba Supplier Management Practice Test 21 — 15 Questions

Question 1

A procurement analyst is reviewing a supplier's profile in SAP Ariba Supplier Management and notices that the supplier has an expired certificate listed under their qualifications. What is the most appropriate action for the analyst to take?

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Accepted Answer

Initiate a requalification or update request so the supplier can provide a renewed certificate. An expired certificate means the supplier may no longer meet qualification requirements. The correct action is to initiate a requalification or update request so the supplier submits a renewed certificate through the proper workflow. Editing dates, deleting records, or changing status does not restore compliance and undermines the controls that protect supplier data integrity.

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Manually edit the certificate expiration date in the supplier profile to extend it

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Delete the expired certificate record from the supplier profile

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Change the supplier's status to Preferred to compensate for the expired certificate

Question 2

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 3

A supplier manager is reviewing the Supplier 360 profile for a key supplier. They need to quickly assess the supplier's overall health and compliance. Which two types of information are directly accessible from the Supplier 360 profile? (Choose two.)

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Supplier's current qualification status and expiry dates. The Supplier 360 profile is designed to provide a holistic view of a supplier's relationship with the buying organization. It aggregates data from various modules, prominently featuring the supplier's qualification status and expiry dates, as well as performance scorecards and KPI trends. These two elements are essential for quickly assessing overall health and compliance. Other details like financial statements, org charts, or full sourcing event lists are either not included or require accessing separate areas of the system.

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The supplier's internal organizational chart with employee names

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A list of all sourcing events the supplier has participated in

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Detailed financial statements from the supplier's last fiscal year

Question 4

A buying organization maintains a modular questionnaire template in SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance. During an internal audit, the compliance team discovers that a supplier's submitted answers to the financial stability section were never reviewed by anyone, even though the supplier's overall qualification project advanced to the next phase. Which configuration element most likely caused this gap?

Accepted Answer

The questionnaire was configured as a 'Modular Questionnaire' with no internal owner assigned to the financial stability module.. Modular questionnaires in SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance divide content into sections, and each module can be assigned an internal owner who is responsible for reviewing the supplier's responses. When no internal owner is assigned, the review step for that module is effectively omitted, and the overall qualification project can advance without anyone evaluating that section. Assigning internal owners per module ensures accountability and prevents review gaps.

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The supplier's registration template was set to auto-approve, which bypassed all internal review steps for the financial stability section.

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The financial stability module was marked as 'External Only,' meaning only the supplier could view it and no internal reviewer could access the content.

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The supplier submitted the questionnaire after the project deadline, so the system automatically accepted the responses without routing them for review.

Question 5

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?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 6

A procurement specialist is creating a new supplier registration project in SAP Ariba. They want to ensure that suppliers are automatically screened against a predefined set of compliance criteria (e.g., anti-corruption, labor practices) during registration. Which feature should they configure?

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Supplier registration template with integrated compliance questions. The supplier registration template is the correct place to configure compliance screening because it is directly used during the registration process. By adding compliance questions to the template, the system automatically presents them to suppliers, and their responses can be evaluated against predefined criteria. This ensures that all new suppliers undergo the necessary screening without manual intervention. Other options are either separate processes or monitoring tools that do not provide automatic screening during registration.

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Supplier risk exposure dashboard

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Sourcing project with compliance requirements

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Supplier qualification project with critical questions

Question 7

A supply chain risk analyst at a manufacturing company needs to monitor ongoing financial, operational, and legal risks for 300 strategic suppliers that are already fully qualified in SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance. The analyst wants automatic alerts when a supplier's risk exposure crosses a defined threshold. Which capability should the analyst configure?

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Supplier risk profiles in SAP Ariba Supplier Risk with engagement risk thresholds and alert notifications configured per supplier segment.. SAP Ariba Supplier Risk is designed for continuous monitoring of supplier risk across financial, operational, and legal dimensions using external data feeds. By assigning risk profiles to supplier segments and configuring engagement risk thresholds, the analyst can receive automatic alerts whenever a monitored supplier's risk exposure crosses the defined level. This provides scalable oversight across hundreds of strategic suppliers without relying on periodic self-reported questionnaires.

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Supplier registration templates with mandatory compliance attestation fields that suppliers must renew annually.

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Supplier qualification projects with recurring questionnaires sent to each supplier on a monthly schedule.

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Preferred supplier status flags combined with performance scorecards updated quarterly by the category team.

Question 8

A supplier manager needs to update the qualification status of a supplier from 'Registered' to 'Qualified' for a specific commodity. They have completed all required questionnaires and approvals. However, the system does not allow the status change. What is the most likely reason?

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The qualification process for the commodity is not yet complete or has not been approved.. The supplier cannot be moved to 'Qualified' until the qualification process for the specific commodity is fully completed and approved. This includes all questionnaires being submitted and reviewed, and any required approvals being granted. If any step is pending, the system will prevent the status change. The other options are less likely because the supplier is already 'Registered', and permissions or tax ID issues would typically manifest earlier in the process.

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The user does not have the required permission to change supplier status.

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The supplier's registration has not been approved by the buying organization.

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The supplier has not provided a valid tax identification number.

Question 9

A buyer administrator at a manufacturing company has configured a modular questionnaire for supplier qualification. During a pre-qualification project, the system fails to display a new question about ISO 14001 certification that the administrator added to the questionnaire. The administrator confirms the question is marked as 'Active' and visible in the template preview. What is the most likely cause of the question not appearing in the project?

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The question was added to the questionnaire after the project was created, and the project uses a snapshot of the questionnaire taken at creation time.. When a modular questionnaire is used in a supplier qualification project, the project captures the questionnaire structure at the time of project creation. Later additions to the questionnaire do not propagate to existing projects. The administrator must either create a new project or, if versioning is enabled, update the project to reference the latest questionnaire version. This ensures the new question is included.

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The question's response type is set to 'Attachment', which is not supported in pre-qualification projects.

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The question's visibility condition is set to a supplier segment that does not match the supplier's registered segment.

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The supplier has not yet completed all prerequisite questions, so the new question is dynamically hidden until those are answered.

Question 10

A buying organization maintains a modular questionnaire for supplier registration. A category manager complains that suppliers can skip the 'Quality Certifications' section even though the business requires an ISO 9001 certificate for all suppliers in the 'Manufacturing' commodity. The template designer wants to force the section to appear and be mandatory only when the supplier selects the 'Manufacturing' commodity during registration. Which configuration should the designer apply?

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Create a conditional section with a visibility rule that evaluates the selected commodity, and mark the ISO 9001 question as required inside that section.. Conditional sections evaluate answers already captured in the registration form and control whether subsequent questions appear at all. By tying the section's visibility rule to the commodity selection and flagging the certificate question as required, the organization enforces ISO 9001 only for Manufacturing suppliers. This keeps the form short for everyone else while guaranteeing the required evidence is collected before submission.

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Configure a supplier qualification template with a mandatory 'ISO 9001' question and assign it to the Manufacturing commodity, then rely on the supplier to open the qualification project.

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Add the ISO 9001 question to the internal questionnaire and set the registration template to 'Requires Approval' so an approver verifies the certificate manually.

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Create a custom field on the supplier profile named 'ISO 9001' and set the field-level permission to 'Editable by supplier' so suppliers can enter the certificate number whenever they choose.

Question 11

A supply chain risk analyst is configuring a supplier risk engagement in SAP Ariba Supplier Risk. The analyst needs to identify which data elements feed the inherent risk calculation for a supplier before any mitigation controls are applied. Which two data elements are used as inputs to inherent risk? (Choose two.)

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The supplier's geographic locations, including countries where they operate or source from.. Inherent risk represents the exposure a supplier carries before any controls are applied. The model derives this from the supplier's commodity or category assignments and its geographic locations, because these determine which regional and category-specific threats apply. Internal attributes such as revenue, open purchase orders, or preferred status do not feed the calculation, so they cannot raise or lower inherent risk on their own.

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The number of open purchase orders currently issued to the supplier in the SAP Ariba sourcing pipeline.

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The supplier's declared annual revenue and employee headcount recorded on the supplier profile.

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The supplier's preferred status in the supplier master and the date that status was granted.

Question 12

A buying organization's category manager needs to send a supplier a questionnaire that includes a mix of internally authored questions and a standard set of questions maintained by the buying organization. The supplier has already been registered in SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance. Which feature should the category manager use to assemble and send this questionnaire?

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A modular questionnaire in the Supplier Lifecycle and Performance module. Modular questionnaires are the correct mechanism because they draw content from multiple modules and allow a buying organization to combine its own standard questions with one-off internal questions, then issue the questionnaire to an already-registered supplier. Registration questionnaires and sourcing templates serve different processes and cannot produce the blended, supplier-management-focused content the category manager needs.

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An SAP Ariba Supplier Risk engagement request

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A sourcing request template in SAP Ariba Sourcing

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The supplier's registration questionnaire

Question 13

A supplier manager is launching a modular supplier qualification project for a new logistics provider. The project includes a prequalification module, a financial assessment module, and a site inspection module. The site inspection must only begin after both the prequalification and financial modules have been approved by their respective reviewers. Which configuration achieves this dependency?

Accepted Answer

Set the site inspection module's 'Start' condition to depend on the completion of both the prequalification and financial modules, so it activates only after both are approved.. Module dependencies are the mechanism that enforces sequencing within a modular qualification project. By setting the site inspection module to start only after both the prequalification and financial modules are approved, the project automatically activates the inspection at the correct time. This removes manual coordination, prevents premature work, and leaves a clear audit trail of the enforced sequence.

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Place all three modules in a single qualification template and set the template's overall approval rule to 'All modules must be approved' before the project can be closed.

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Assign the same internal reviewer to all three modules and instruct that reviewer to open the site inspection task only after manually confirming the first two modules are approved.

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Create the site inspection as a separate qualification project and send the supplier a notification to start it after the first project is approved.

Question 14

A supplier manager wants to know which suppliers are currently blocked from receiving new purchase orders because of an expired certificate of insurance. Where in SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance would the manager most directly find suppliers whose qualification has lapsed?

Accepted Answer

The supplier's qualification status and expiration date. Qualification status paired with its expiration date is the field that governs whether a supplier remains qualified for a commodity. Once the expiration passes, the supplier is treated as unqualified and downstream purchasing is blocked for that commodity. Registration status, preferred status, and risk scores describe different aspects of the supplier relationship and do not control the qualification gate.

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The supplier's preferred status indicator

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The supplier's registration status field

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The supplier's risk exposure score

Question 15

A procurement specialist needs to invite a new supplier to complete a registration questionnaire in SAP Ariba Supplier Management. The supplier does not yet have a record in the system. Which action should the specialist take to initiate the process?

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Create a supplier request that captures the supplier's basic information and routes it through the configured registration and approval process.. Supplier onboarding begins with a supplier request, which captures initial details and drives the configured registration and approval flow. It creates the supplier record and sends the registration questionnaire to the supplier through the system. Sourcing events, contracts, and manual profile creation do not initiate registration, so they cannot satisfy the requirement to onboard a new supplier properly.

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Create a contract workspace with the supplier as a party, which prompts the system to generate a registration task for the supplier.

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Manually create a supplier profile in the supplier master and email the questionnaire to the supplier as an attachment.

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Open a sourcing event and invite the supplier as a participant, which automatically generates a supplier registration questionnaire.