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SAP Interview Questions And Answers

What is SAP?
SAP is the name of the company founded in 1972 under the German name
(Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing) is the
leading ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software package.

SAP Basics feature

* Configuration of the SAP modules
o Transaction SPRO - this is the main tree for all the configuration.
* Function Key
o F1 - Help
o F4 - Possible entries or matchcode for the field you are accessing
o F5 - Selection screen
o F7 - Previous screen
o F8 - Next screen
o F9 - Technical info
o CTRL+X - Cut
o CTRL+C - Copy
o CTRL+V - Paste
* Navigation
o /n Skip to the next record if you are processing one batch input session
o /bend Cancel a batch input foreground process
o /nend Close all R/3 sessions and logoff
o /nxxx x Call the transaction xxxx in the same session
o /o Generate a session list
o /oxxx x Call the transaction xxxx in an additional session
o /i Delete the current session
o /h Turn the debug mode on
o /$tab Reset all buffers (for System Administrators)
o /$syn c Synchronize instances buffers (for System Administrators)

In 4.x, you can have long SAP transaction code up to a maximum of 20 character

Different types of ERP ?
SAP, BAAN, JD Edwards, Oracle Financials, Siebel, PeopleSoft. Among
all the ERP's most of the companies implemented or trying to implement
SAP because of number of advantages aver other ERP packages.

What is ERP?
ERP is a package with the techniques and concepts for the integrated
management of business as a whole, for effective use of management
resources, to improve the efficiency of an enterprise. Initially, ERP
was targeted for manufacturing industry mainly for planning and
managing core business like production and financial market. As the
growth and merits of ERP package ERP software is designed for basic
process of a company from manufacturing to small shops with a target
of integrating information across the company.

Explain the concept of "Business Content" in SAP Business Information Warehouse?
Business Content is a pre-configured set of role and task-relevant
information models based on consistent Metadata in the SAP Business
Information Warehouse. Business Content provides selected roles within
a company with the information they need to carry out their tasks.
These information models essentially contain roles, workbooks,
queries, InfoSources, InfoCubes, key figures, characteristics, update
rules and extractors for SAP R/3, mySAP.com Business Applications and
other selected applications.

Why do you usually choose to implement SAP?
There are number of technical reasons numbers of companies are
planning to implement SAP. It's highly configurable, highly secure
data handling, min data redundancy, max data consistency, you can
capitalize on economics of sales like purchasing, tight
integration-cross function.

Can BW run without a SAP R/3 implementation?
Certainly. You can run BW without R/3 implementation. You can use
pre-defined business content in BW using your non-SAP data. Here you
simply need to map the transfer structures associated with BW data
sources (InfoCubes, ODS tables) to the inbound data files or use 3rd
part tool to connect your flat files and other data sources and load
data in BW. Several third party ETL products such as Acta, Infomatica,
DataStage and others will have been certified to load data in BW.

What is IDES?
International Demonstration and Education System. A sample application
provided for faster learning and implementation.

What is WF and its importance?
Business Work Flow: Tool for automatic control and execution of
cross-application processes. This involves coordinating the persons
involved, the work steps required, the data, which needs to be
processed (business objects). The main advantage is reduction in
throughput times and the costs involved in managing business
processes. Transparency and quality are enhanced by its use.

What is SAP R/3?
A third generation set of highly integrated software modules that
performs common business function based on multinational leading
practice. Takes care of any enterprise however diverse in operation,
spread over the world. In R/3 system all the three servers like
presentation, application server and database server are located at
different system.

What are presentation, application and database servers in SAP R/3?
The application layer of an R/3 System is made up of the application
servers and the message server. Application programs in an R/3 System
are run on application servers. The application servers communicate
with the presentation components, the database, and also with each
other, using the message server. All the data are stored in a
centralized server. This server is called database server.

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