C_ARSUM Ariba Supplier Management Practice Question
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?
⚠ Common exam trap
The trap here is assuming that changes to a questionnaire template are immediately reflected in all existing projects, when in fact projects use a snapshot of the questionnaire at creation time.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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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.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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The question's response type is set to 'Attachment', which is not supported in pre-qualification projects.
Why it's wrong here
SAP Ariba Supplier Management supports various response types, including attachments, in qualification projects. The scenario does not specify the response type, and even if it were an attachment, it would still appear as a question. The failure to display is not due to unsupported response types. The most plausible cause is that the project uses a fixed version of the questionnaire that predates the addition of the new question.
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The question's visibility condition is set to a supplier segment that does not match the supplier's registered segment.
Why it's wrong here
While visibility conditions can hide questions, the scenario states the question is marked 'Active' and visible in the template preview. If a visibility condition were the cause, the question would not appear in the preview for the relevant segment. The administrator already confirmed it appears in the template preview, so a visibility condition mismatch is unlikely. The snapshot behavior of projects is a more common cause when questions added post-creation do not appear.
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The supplier has not yet completed all prerequisite questions, so the new question is dynamically hidden until those are answered.
Why it's wrong here
Modular questionnaires can have conditional logic, but the scenario does not indicate any dependencies. The question is new and added after project creation; dynamic hiding based on prerequisite answers would only occur if such conditions were configured. Since the administrator added the question without mentioning conditions, and it appears in preview, the issue is more likely due to the project not reflecting the updated questionnaire version.
- ✓
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.
Why this is correct
In SAP Ariba Supplier Management, when a modular questionnaire is used in a project, the project references the questionnaire version as it existed at the time the project was created. Any subsequent changes to the questionnaire, such as adding new questions, are not automatically reflected in existing projects. To include the new question, the administrator must either create a new project or update the project to use the latest version of the questionnaire if versioning is enabled.
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