SAP BASIS Interview Questions

Easy Questions on SAP BASIS

• 1. Define SAP 
  SAP stands for Systems Application and Products in Data Processing. It is standards based ERP software. Some of the complete software include Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics etc.
• 2. What are other ERP systems available in the market ?
  Some of the major ERP systems other than SAP are from Oracle, Microsoft and Infar. QAD, Lawson, EPCOR, Sage and IFS are the players in mid-size businesses and Exact Globe, Syspro, NetSuite, Visibility, Consona, CDC Software and Activant Solutions round out the ERP vendors for small businesses.

• 3. What is meant by “Business Content” in SAP ?
  Business Content in SAP is a pre-defined and pre-configured models of information contained in the SAP warehouse which can be used directly or with desired modification in different industries. This information model includes integral roles, workbooks, queries, InfoSources, InfoCubes, ODS objects, key figures, characteristics, update rules, and extractors for SAP R/3, mySAP.com Business Applications, and for other selection applications.

  
  
• 4. What is SAP IDES ?
  SAP IDES stands for SAP Internet Demonstration and Evaluation System. This system is used to demonstrate the functionality of various SAP solutions used by important customers. This system uses data of the IDES model company.

  
  
• 5. Define Data Sets in SAP ?
  SAP Data sets are the sets of information which are required to solve some queries which cannot be solved by using the method interfaces.

  
  
• 6. What is ODS ?
  ODS is Operational Data Store. It is a component of business warehouse. It is mainly used for reporting of details.

• 7. Name the different types of info cubes ?
  1. Physical data stores:

  a. Basic InfoCubes

  b. Transactional InfoCubes

  2. Virtual data stores:

   a. Remote Cube

  b. SAP Remote Cube

  c. Virtual Info Cube with Services

  
  
• 8. What is Business KPIs ?
  Business KPIs are Key Performance Indicators. They indicate the performance of a company at strategic level. They also help in leading the company on the desired track by comparing company’s performance with the previous performances and with that of market leaders in the same sectors. SAP is building a project called “Business KPI wiki” to standardize the process of indication.

• 9. What is a Multi Cube ?
  Multi Cube is a Info cube which is a collection of several Basic Cubes. Using Multi Cubes one can test the data from Basic Cubes in a single context. Multi Cubes itself does n’t contain any data but works only on data from Basic Cubes.

• 10. What is the profile ?
  Profile is what a user can do within that role that is assigned to the user.

   When a role is created; a profile is created based on the authorization data i.e. object class, authorization object, filed and values.

   The word "profile" is used in 2 different concepts.

   1) Authorization Profiles

  2) System Profiles

  Authorization Profile: This profile is the one created when a role is created and is called as authorization profile.

  System Profile: This profile exists to change the parameters for the instances.

• 11. What is an OK code? What are the differences an OK code to a T-code ?
  An OK Code is used by a program to execute a function for example after a push button has been clicked. A transaction code is a “shortcut” that helps a user run a program.

  
  
• 12. Where are t-code name and program values stored? How can I find a list of all the t-codes in the  SAP system ?
  We can use transaction st11 to view Table TSTC. You can define a new t-code using transaction se93.

• 13. How can one disable the “Import All” button on STMS for the queues ?
  Login to your Transport Domain Controller. Run STMS->Overview->System.

  Choose the System you want to disable import all. Go to Transport Tool tab.

  Add/Create Parameter “NO_IMPORT_ALL” set its value to 1.

• 14. What is a background processing batch scheduler ?
  It is a process which runs as defined by the parameter rdisp/btctime to check the scheduled background jobs and to execute them. The parameter defines the delay between two runs which means that a job start can delay at the most for that much time.

• 15. What is SAP Basis ?
  It is a component of SAP System, act as a technological platform that support the entire range of SAP applications. It acts as an operating system on which SAP applications run.

• 16. What is the difference between a client copy and client refresh ?
  Copying or over writing to existing client called as client refresh.

  Copying to newly created client called client copy.

  
  
• 17. What is the importance of table T000 ?
  Table T000 contains a list of defined clients, which you can maintain with transaction SCC4.

• 18. What is the purpose of table USR02 ?
  This table stores User IDs and passwords

• 19. What is the purpose of table TADIR ?
  Table TADIR contains object directory entries.

• 20. What is the purpose of table TDEVC ?
  Table TDEVC contains development classes and packages.

• 21. What is the transaction code associated with changing requests, request headers, or request object lists ?
  The following tables hold information about change requests.

  E070 Change request headers

  E071 Change request object lists

  
  
• 22. Where can you find a list of object keys included in a transport ?
  E071K Object keys contained within transports.

• 23. How can you View Locked Transactions ?
   As you know, you can lock/unlock transaction codes via SM01. But, how do you go about viewing the transactions that are locked in the system? You need to look in field CINFO, table TSTC. Within SAP, you can use either SE11 or SE16 to browse the table contents. Make sure you enter “A0″ as the “HEX01 data element for SYST” starting value and “A9″ as the ending value.

• 24. What is the difference between a support package and a kernel replacement ?
  A support package contains fixes to the ABAP code within a SAP instance. It must be applied using the SPAM transaction in the SAP instance. A kernel replacement is the replacement of the SAP executables on the OS level

• 25. What is the RFC Communication in SAP ?
  There are mainly 4 types of RFC communication in SAP. They are

  1. Synchronous RFC

  2. Asynchronous RFC

  3. Transactional RFC

  4. Queued RFC

Hard Questions on SAP BASIS

• 1. Where you can check system log at OS level ?
  Check /usr/sap//system/logs directory or goto SAP MMC console look for "system logs" Under SID.

  
  
• 2. How do you check whether a system is UNICODE system or not ?
  Go to ->SM51 tcode and click "Release Notes" button  or click System->Status->check UNICODE values is YES or NO under SYSTEM DATA in SAP Easy Access page or execute command "disp+work-version" at command prompt.

• 3. Define Transactional RFC (TRFC) ?
  Transactional RFC (TRFC): This type of RFC communication is similar to Synchronous RFC but by allocating a transaction id(TID) it guarantees that if a request is sent several times because of network problems it is processed only once. Unlike asynchronous RFC, in Transactional RFC the remote system does not have to be available at the moment the RFC client program start the call. The data is held in the source system until the target system is available. The report program RSARFCSE is called in the background at regular intervals and tries to place the unsuccessful requests, identified by their transaction id again.

  
  
• 4. What are the common transport errors ?
  Return code 4 --> Imported with warnings

   -Generation of program, columns or row missing.

  Return code 8 --> Imported with errors

    -Syntax error

    -Program generation error

    -Dictionary activation error or method execution error

  Return code 12 --> Indicates Import Cancelled

    -Program cancelled due to job

    -Import cancelled due to object missing

    -Import cancelled due to object not active

  Return code 18 --> Indicates Import Cancelled

    -Due to system down while import

    -Due to user expired during import

    -Due to insufficient roles or authorization

  
  
• 5. How to transport users from one client to another client ?
  To transport users within a system(same SID) go to tcode-->SCC1 -->give source and target client -->select profile SAP_USER --> schedule in background job execution.

  Note: if you want to transport from different system(SID) means we can use SCC9 or SCC8 tcode by selecting SAP_USER profile in other terms called client copy or client refresh.

• 6. What is "OK" code and Tcode ?
  OK code is used within a program to execute a function.

  Tcode is "Shortcut" which helps to run a program.

  
  
• 7. How to check list of tcodes within a SAP system and where to look for Tcode names and program values ?
  -Use tcode ST11 to view table TSTC

  -Go to SE93 tcode to view or Define a tcode

• 8. How we can disable the "IMPORT ALL" button on STMS tcode ?
  Login to DC(Domain controller) STMS-->System overview -->double click on corresponding system -->go to Transport Tool tab --> add/change parameter "NO_IMPORT_ALL" set its values 1.

  
  
• 9. How can you View Locked Transactions ?
  As you know, you can lock/unlock transaction codes via SM01. But, how do you go about viewing the transactions that are locked in the system? You need to look in field CINFO, table TSTC.

  Within SAP, you can use either SE11 or SE16 to browse the table contents. Make sure you enter “A0″ as the “HEX01 data element for SYST” starting value and “A9″ as the ending value.

  This will list all the transactions locked in the system.

• 10. What is difference between 4.7, ECC 5 and ECC6 from SAP Security point of view ?
  SAP GRC which is a security tool can be implemented only to ECC 5.0 and ECC 6.0 but not to the 4.7EE.

  SAP 4.7 is an ABAP based system, here we can see only about R/3 security.

   SAP ECC5.0 and SAP ECC6.0 included both ABAP + JAVA stacks, means enterprise portal also included here we can have both R/3 security for ABAP stack and JAVA stack security which includes in portal concept(Enterprise Portal Security).

  
  
• 11. What do you mean by profile and object ?
  Profile is an authorization profile and where as object can be an authorization class or authorization object or field and value. So, to make up a profile it requires several objects. More precisely profile is set of different authorizations for different objects. It means when you create role and go for generating profile whatever the list of transactions you have added in role menu its corresponding objects automatically fetch up by profile generator. For which transaction which objects get fetch up this you can check using SU24 tcode only objects with check/maintain status get fetch up by profile generator during  Profile generation. And for better understanding you just keep in mind for every tcode there are certain set of objects. And each objects has different fields and its value is called its value i.e. 01, 02, 03 create, change, display respectively.

  
  
• 12. What are the password related parameters ?
  Password related parameters are:

  login/min_password_lng (Defines minimum length for password)

  login/min_password_digits

  login/password_expiration_time

  
  
• 13. Which are the most frequent errors encountered while dealing with Transports ?
  Return code (4) indicates import ended with warning.

  Return code (8) indicates not imported ended with error

  Return code (12) indicates import is cancelled.

  Return code (16) indicates import is cancelled.

• 14. How will go about doing a client copy ?
  We are using client copy using the SCCL transaction

• 15. What are the differences between asynchronous and synchronous transport ?
  Synchronous Transport – Dialog or batch process are blocked until import is ended.

  Asynchronous Transport – Dialog or batch process is released after import is started.

  
  
• 16. Define Queued RFC (QRFC) ?
  Queued RFC (QRFC) : This RFC communication is an extension to the transactional RFC. In this method, all the requests are queued up(inbound queue and outbound queue) and are processed in a sequence only if it is certain that all preceding calls are processed correctly. This method guarantees that all the requests are processed in the sequence in which they are received. This type of RFCs will be used in SCM (APO) systems for CIF queues etc where requests have to be processed in an order.    

  
  
• 17. List the types of Transport requests ?
  There are 4 types of transport requests in SAP -

  1. Customizing Request

  2. Workbench Request

  3. Transport of Copies

  4. Relocation

• 18. What is the difference between Consolidation and Development route ?
  In consolidation route – objects can be changed and they can transport from one system to other. This is the route between development to quality.

  In Development route – Objects cannot be changed and they cannot be transported from one system to other. This is the route between quality to production.

  
  
• 19. What is supplementation language ?
  Default SAP systems are pre-installed with English and German.

  SAP does support many other language which may not full translate from the default English and German. To fill this gap, Supplementary language (a program) is installed.

  
  
• 20. What is logical system? How to create and why ?
  Logical system is required for communication between systems With in the landscape. Logical system enables the system to recognize the target system as an RFC destination.