C_ARSUM Ariba Supplier Management Practice Question
A buyer has a modular questionnaire in an SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance project. The buyer wants a section to appear only when a supplier answers "Yes" to a preceding question about handling hazardous materials. Which configuration should the buyer use?
⚠ Common exam trap
The trap here is assuming that marking a section optional or adding a scoring rule controls whether the supplier sees the section, when only a visibility condition changes display behavior.
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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Set the section's visibility condition to reference the hazardous materials question and value.
Conditional display in SAP Ariba modular questionnaires is driven by visibility conditions that reference earlier questions and their expected values. Configuring the section to appear only when the hazardous materials question equals Yes satisfies the requirement within a single questionnaire. The other choices either duplicate templates, rely on manual supplier discretion, or affect scoring rather than display.
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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Mark the section as optional and instruct suppliers to complete it only if applicable.
Why it's wrong here
Marking a section optional only affects whether the supplier must complete it; it does not hide or show the section based on a prior answer. Suppliers would still see the hazardous materials section regardless of their earlier response, which contradicts the requirement. Instructions rely on supplier compliance rather than system-enforced conditional logic.
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Use a supplier qualification template rule that skips the section during scoring.
Why it's wrong here
Scoring rules affect how responses are evaluated, not whether a section is displayed to the supplier. Skipping the section during scoring would still present the questions to the supplier and collect responses, which is not the desired behavior. The requirement is about conditional display, so a scoring rule is the wrong control.
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Set the section's visibility condition to reference the hazardous materials question and value.
Why this is correct
Visibility conditions in modular questionnaire sections can reference a prior question's answer, so the section is displayed only when the referenced response matches the configured value. This is the intended conditional-display mechanism in SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance, and it keeps the supplier's questionnaire dynamic without duplicating templates.
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Create a separate registration template for hazardous materials suppliers and assign it manually.
Why it's wrong here
A separate registration template would require the buyer to know in advance which suppliers handle hazardous materials and to assign the correct template manually. That defeats the purpose of a conditional section inside a single modular questionnaire and adds administrative overhead. It also does not respond dynamically to the supplier's answer about hazardous materials.
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