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25 Common Qs
25 Common Qs
Ans: You can easily expect a technical interview start with this question but
generally so only for freshers. Freshers are tested for theory and concepts more
than their experienced peers.
Ans: An ERP is the backbone of any large organisation. Without using an ERP,
the functioning of these organisations is bound to suffer. I had always dreamt of
working in an MNC and since SAP is at the top of the ERP market, it was a no-
brainer to choose it. SAP is said to have 140,000+ installations and 25+ specific
business solutions.
Seemingly very easy, such SAP interview questions are asked to understand the
market awareness of the candidate.
Q4 What are the different modules in SAP and which one have you chosen
and why?
Ans: There are around 25 modules in SAP but the most popular ones are
Financial Accounting, Controlling, Treasury, Human Resources, Sales &
Distribution, Materials Management, Plant Maintenance, Business Warehousing,
Production Planning, Quality Management and many more.
Now, if you are answering SAP Basis interview questions or SAP Security
interview questions, you need to talk about them. You need to inform the
interviewer about your interest in the module. Be genuine here, there is no right
and wrong answer.
Ans: This is a very common SAP interview question. It helps the hiring manager
determine the level of hands-on exposure a person has with SAP applications.
The answer to this is that a user can have 6 simultaneous sessions at one time
for one client.
Ans: In order to run multiple products from mySAP suite, an integrated platform
is used. This platform is called NetWeaver. It helps all these applications run on a
single instance.
A wonderful use of using NetWeaver is that you can access SAP data using the
web, and in a rare, case you can also use it from mobile. This means saving
costs on training clients.
Q8 Give a brief about Meta Data, Master Data and Transcation Data?
Ans: OLAP which is the short name given to, Online Analytical Processing is a
reporting tool. It is used to understand data schema, composition facts, and
dimensions.
Data Mining, on the other hand, is a process. It is used to analyse data for
consistent patterns and even some systematic relationships between different
variables.
Ans: In order to set the parameters of a query in SAP, variables are used.
Variables do not work unless queries are entered in the workbook. There
different types of variables, needless to say, that they all have different
applications. Some commonly applied ones are text, hierarchies, hierarchy
nodes, formulas, processing types, characteristics variable etc
Ans: At this stage, the interview is going to get a bit complex. Whether it be SAP
security interview questions or SAP basis interview questions, SAP interview
questions do get harder as the interview gains momentum. Although true with all
interviews, it is important that a candidate shows wit and composure when stress
rises in the room.
Ans: BEX or Business Explorer allows end users to locate reports. BEX has the
components BEX analyser, Bex Map and BEX Web. This allows them to view
reports, analyse information and execute queries as well. These queries can be
saved in the BEX browser.
Ans: An ODS is an object that serves to store debugged and other consolidated
transaction data on a document level. An ODS helps to define a consolidated
dataset from single or multiple sources. Such datasets can be evaluated with the
help of Infoset queries or even bex queries.
ODS objects can be updated with a delta update to other ODS object or
InfoCubes, within the same system or even across systems. Data in ODS objects
are stored in transparent flat database tables.
Q14 What is the primary difference between Domain and Data Element?
Presentation Layer
Database Layer
Application Layer
1. SAP BW
2. Flat Files
3. SAP R/3 Source System
4. External Systems
Ans: Extractors are data retrieval mechanisms. They lie in the SAP source
system. It is used to fill the extract structure of a data source with data obtained
from the source system datasets of SAP.
Ans: Pooled tables is a simple concept, they are used to store and control data.
When many pooled tables are united, they form a table pool. The difference
between pooled tables and tabled pools is that table pool is a table on a
database in which all the records of some specifically assigned pooled tables are
stored. So pooled tables come within the purview of table pool.
It might seem like SAP interview questions at times are too easy to answer. But
in reality, many people miss very obvious answers due to the pressure of the
interview. In this article, we have tried to list the most frequent SAP interview
questions in order to make you more comfortable for an interview.
Data Mining
Ans: There are three main stages of data mining, which include, initial
exploration, model building and finally deployment.
Ans: It is done in three easy steps. First, you need to create domains that define
data type, field length, and range. Then you move to create data elements which
clarify the properties and type for a data field. Finally, you move on to creating
tables.
Q24 What are the most common transport errors that you can come
across?
Ans: There are numerous transport errors, but the most common ones in
occurrence are:
1. Return Code 4
2. Return Code 8
3. Return Code 12
4. Return Code 18