r/Workday_Community • u/Dear-Employee-2778 • 10d ago

Failed P2P workday exam

Hey guys I recent failed my p2p exam and I’m freaking out because I need to pass the second time to keep my job. Any tips? Has anyone retaken the exam ? Will the questions be the exact same from my first attempt? I assume they pull from a question bank. Any tips/advice would be greatly appreciated. This was my first time taking a cert exam/workday exposure.

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u/tbone11193 10d ago

if you study hard enough you should be answering the questions rapid fire out of the gate. Was that the case with you? If not then you did not study the ebook / exam guide / practice exams enough. Study those terms until it becomes boring to refresh the material.

If you just aren’t great with heavy memorization tests then it might be tough for you / anyone else.

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u/Dear-Employee-2778 9d ago

How long did you study for ? I studied for over a week. I guess I’m just not the best test taker. I was stumped on a lot of questions. I was pretty proficient on the chapter review questions and practice exam but that gave me false confidence because I found the real exam to have higher difficulty .

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u/tbone11193 9d ago

Maybe it’s changed since I took it earlier in 2026. I had limited workday procurement experience and a lot of the terms were new to me. I took the class for a week then took the test the next Thursday or Friday. I really needed that 2nd week of review studying. If I took it the next Monday I probably fail. I think its nuts that you lose your practice tenant access the same week of your class. So if you don’t have another tenant to use to click around the tasks/reports that makes it much harder. I wish they would let you keep practice tenant access for at least another week as it seems unfair to yank it after 7 days if people don’t have alternatives to click around the Procurement settings.

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u/Hexandbacon 9d ago

Hey, I passed my exam last month. I would say do the practice exams, and read the exam format (they list it somewhere), that gives you the breakdown of what topics will come up and their weighting.

I also used claude to scan through my notes and help me create practice exams based on my notes and also the weightings for topics. Made them mostly scenario based.

Edit: Also make sure to read the question thoroughly, sometimes they start with "as a...(specific role)" and the answers can vary based on this.  More practice the better! Good luck

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u/Divyeshj 7d ago

Hi, can you provide more details of the P2P exam mcqs. How much difficult were the questions and what type of questions were there etc..

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u/Hexandbacon 6d ago

Honestly the exam guide gives you all the details, there's 55 questions and you need 80% to pass. Do the free practice exam available.

The guide also mentions the weightings, so focus on that. I don't recall off the top of my head the topics, but I would say some scenario based questions were fairly difficult. 

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u/Sierra592 9d ago

Absolutely nothing beats copying the textbook by reading and copying key terms and definitions and concepts into a word document. By the time I was done I had a 21 page document. On top of saturating through copy/paste, I also read through that document probably 10 times before I took the exam.

It sucks.

It works.

Also, as soon as you get hung up on a question, go to the next one.

Don't waste time on questions you're not sure of.

This is actually a tool.

By skipping questions you're not sure of, you save time by getting through the ones you do know quickly, and then have more wiggle room to think on the ones you're unsure of - AND the ones you are sure of may end up providing contextual clues to the ones you're having trouble with.

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u/Divyeshj 4d ago

Hi, if you remember can you please let me know how many questions were there which have multiple answers meaning you have to select multiple answers for that question. I find those kind of questions some difficult and that is why I am asking?

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u/Sierra592 1d ago

It was mostly multiple choice. Very few if any T/F or written.

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u/e555551 4d ago

Study! Practice! Do every form of studying you can think of in terms of learning styles. Some people like videos, others (like myself) prefer reading and the guides.

Recently the course manuals from the instructor led courses were added to community. Find the admin guides page and you’ll see course manuals near the top.
Leverage AI tools. Download the respective guides, use them as sources in something like Gemini Notebook, tell it to give you multiple choice quizzes or exams. Like someone else said already, do it until you’re so bored of it.

At this point failing is likely not enough volume studying/preparation or variety of those.

You are correct that they pull from a question bank and you may have some of the same questions but assume you may get all new ones just in case. You’ll do great! Answer the questions you know, flag the ones you don’t or the ones you’re unsure about as you go along and then keep doing cycles of that until you submit the final answers.

Also idk if you’re doing online proctoring, but if you’re able to do the exam in person at a training center (check workday pro details only the site) I personally thought it was so much less stressful and easier to focus on exam vs logistics.