SAP Directory structure

ABAP only

JAVA only

Dual Stack(ABAP+JAVA)

Job GRAC_GENERATE_RULES Failed

Job GRAC_GENERATE_RULES is cancelling with dump TSV_TNEW_PAGE_ALLOC_FAILED

AIX 7.1, Oracle 11g, NW 7.3

Make sure following parameter values are at least 4GB

abap/heap_area_total
abap/heap_area_dia
abap/heap_area_nondia 

SAP BASIS sample interview questions part VII

What is SAP R/3?
What are the programming standards followed?
What is an instance?
How to take care of performance in ABAP Development?
What is the difference between 'Select single * ' and 'Select up to 1 rows'?
What Function does data dictionary perform?
Difference between domain and data element? What are aggregate object?
What is view? Different types of view. Explain?
What is step-loop? Explain all the steps?
What are the different functions used in sap script? What are the parameters used in each Function?
What are standard layouts sets in the SAP Script?
What is SAP Script? What is the purpose of SAP Script? Difference between
SAP Script and Report?
What is the difference between Get and Get Late?
What are Interactive Reports?
What are the commands used for interactive reports?
What is the difference between Primary key and Unique Key?
What is an RFC?
What are the events in Screen Programming?
What is an R DBMS?
How many layout sets can you create at a time?
What are the mass maintenance tools used in SAP r/3 like master data, maintenance?
What is SAP..? Does it related to Database? And what is the basic concept?
Which functions are used to transfer an excel sheet to an sap system.
what is the difference between homogeneous and heterogeneous system copy?
what is SM37, SM31, SM30 ?
When is Material determination triggered?
what is difference between role and profile?
How instance is been used in sap application?
Difference between scripts and smart-forms?
What should be the approach for writing a BDC program?
Can you call report in sap script?
What is the advantage of structures? How do you use them in the ABAP programs?
Which transaction code can I used to analyze the performance of ABAP program?
On which even we can validate the input fields in module programs?
Difference between Search Helps and Match Codes?
How to create client independent tables?
What are the types of windows in SAP Script?
What are the function modules used in a SAP Script driver program?
What are Extracts?
What is LUW?
Different types of LUWs. What r they?
Logo in SAP Script?
What are lock objects?

SAP BASIS sample interview questions part VI

1. Can I apply support packages while users are online?
2. How do you change the default directories?
3. What is the best approach to installing SAPGUI on multiple machines?
4. What can and can't I do when copying data between two clients?
5. Can you replace the default SAPGUI image?
6. My server's starting, then stopping. Why?
7. Can we make changes in operation mode effective immediately by force?
8. Logging on takes forever. Can I speed it up?
9. How can I determine which users have access to specific transactions?
10. How do you check the patch level of SAPGUI?
11. I forgot the password to a stand-alone machine. How do I get in?


1. What databases and operating systems are supported by SAP?
2. What databases and operating systems does mySAP ERP run on?
3. What is the best approach to heterogeneous system copy?
4. How can I clone an SAP system for sandbox purposes?
5. What kind of backups should I run during an upgrade?
6. Can I extract one module and continue another module?
7. Why can't I rollback a transport?
8. Is there a way to refresh without losing system history?
9. What is the best way to create indexes in SAP?
10. Is there a way to determine the amount of data in a client?
11. What is a CUA buffer?

SAP BASIS sample interview questions part V

1. What is TP group, TP Layer and TP Dev class
2. Give me steps to configuration of tms
3. Diffrent ways of configuring the stms
4. Se06
5. What is reason for overwritting the originals
6. Would overwrite the DEV to test in se06
7. strongest area in Basis
8. Last installation
9. What would be your strategy if asked to install system in next 3 days
10. What is the function of dispatcher in Kernel
11. Where do you activate the trace for WP and increase the trace level
12. IS there a menu path
13. What happens if you restart the system, will you loose the trace file, or can you see
14. What happens if we restart the system twice
15. Where will you defind logon balancing, how would define and what strategy will you use
16. Example of daily system check ?
17. What would tell you in SM50 if something is wrong
18. What are diffrent types of TABL Buffering
19. What process will you follow for SM12 deletion
20. Diffrent update process
21. Post installation checks and procedure you will follow, after installing and restore
22. Diffrent between 000 and 001
23. What is your knowledge in BW systems
24. Have you done adm on BW
25. Role on AIG project
26. What is the use of profile ztta/roll_area
27. How is it dependent on other ztta profiles like ztta/short_area ztta/cua_area ztta/roll_first
28. Where was AIG located
29. What do you understand by roll back segments
30. what is your startegy for applying SP
31. Trouble shoot printing issue
32. If the user complains that he is not able to print
33. What do you understand by local printing and network printing
34. What do you understand by operations mode
35. What are most common RC when importing a CR
36. Where you use SPAM and SAINT
37. How abt Audit
38. More on O/S or on APPlication level
39. If you have problem starting the SAP where will you look
40. Where to look at the WP in O/S
41. How abt Memory mgmt, is there a program to be used at O/S
42. If you see Red in ST02 what will you do to analyze the RED
43. What are the diffrent types of table buffering
44. Is there a Tcode where you can change the profile
45. How are you familiar with setting up STMS
46. How you supported BW
47. How abt system copies
48. How abt performance tuning
49. have you worked on 24/7
50. Are you open to work on challenging environments
51. Do you have any commitments
52. How soon can you join us

SAP BASIS sample interview questions part IV

1. What is the largest Installation that you have managed in terms of DB size ?
2. What is the largest Installation that you have managed in terms of number of users and concurrent users?
3. What is the largest Installation that you have managed in terms of number of application servers?
4. What is NFS mount?
5. What are the problems, which you have faced with NFS mount?
6. Can you explain a Cluster Environment?
7. Explain how you will go about doing sizing?
8. I have to install an R/3 instance, the PM says you have NT, and you have to convince him to go for Unix, how would go about it and what facts would you present to him?
9. What is the use of transaction ST05?
10. A user get’s and hourglass while executing a Tcode, what would you do? You are also getting hourglass while logging on.
11. What is the table used to store the ABAP dumps?
12. What is the tool used from SIDadm similar to output of SM50? - DPMON

SAP BASIS sample interview questions part III

Administration

1. As an administrator what are the Transactions code that you would use
Ans. The most commonly used transactions by me are sm50, st02, st06, st07, spad, db01, st05.
2. What are ST04, DB02, DB16 and ST06 used for?
St04 – database performance
Db02 – database monitoring
Db16 – database tuning
St06 – OS monitor

Backup & Restore

1. Suggest a backup strategy for a client, which works 365 days a year.
Online backup is the solution I will provide and the archive log mode is on.
2. What is the advantage of taking backup to a disk and then to the tape?
3. Have you used any other backup solution?
4. Have you ever restored?

Homogenous / Heterogeneous Copy

1. What is the difference between remote client copy and client export and import?
2. What is homogenous system copy?
3. What is heterogeneous system copy?
4. Your PM tells that you have to move a whole SAP system from one machine to the other how would you go about it?
5. What is the step where you would specify the different SID to be used?
6. Can you change the SID during copy?
7. Can you change the hostname during copy?

Patches

1. You have to load new kernel patches, how would you go about the same?
2. If there is a problem in R3 trans after the kernel upgrade, what would you do?
3. What is Spam used for?
4. What is the Client that you would use to apply patches?
5. Will you use DDIC, or SAP*? If not why?
6. What are the phase while loading the patches?

Profile Parameters

1. A colleague of yours changed a parameter in one of the application server, and it is behaving differently what would you do?
2. What is the program that you would use from SID ADM to check the parameters? - SAPPFPAR
3. Where are the profile files located?

Saprouter

1. How and where would you configure the Saprouter?
2. Why not on CI or DI?
3. What is the name of the file where you specify the permissions?
4. Do you think that it is cost effective tool?

Printing

1. Have you worked on any third party printing option with SAP?
2. How will you configure a printer in SAP?
3. Where are the Spool Logs stored?
4. How would you clean them? Why not delete them?

Background Jobs

1. A user calls and reports to you that his background job is taking long time, and which normally does not take so much time. What will you do?
2. Can you kill an active job?
3. What is repercussion of the same?

BW

1. How will you enable BW statistics cube?
2. How would you enhance the performance of the Delta load from R/3 to BW?

EDT (Electronic Data Transfer)

1. How do you go about configuring EDT?
2. What are the ini files in EDT?
3. What type of RFC connection would you use for EDT?
4. What is the program file that you would execute in the Background for the Email transfer to happen?
5. How would the FAX used to pick the number to be dialed
6. How would you configure internet users?
7. How would you enable SAP office for the users?

Oracle

1. What would you do if you get an error called SNAP Shot too Old, or ORA -1555 or ORA -1650
2. Can you create your own roll back segments?
3. Can you allocate Rollback segments for a particular JOB or Tcode?
4. What is SGA?
5. Which is the process that is used for writing logs?
6. What is the process that may or may not run and would not affect your functioning of oracle?
7. Can you give a size of data file more than 2 GB?
8. Which is the profile file for listener and where is it located?

SAP BASIS sample interview questions part II

What is your system landscape?
What are you roles and responsibilities in your company?
What are versions of SAP & R/3, Oracle you are using?
Patch numbers of SAP kernel & Oracle you are using
If a user wants to execute a background job immediately but there is no Background work process available. How u will do?
What is common House keeping background jobs that run in your system?
What are common transport errors u faced while transporting?
How you will do client copy? If SAP * user is not available at all in your system then how u will do client copy?
How u will apply OCS patches?
What is the database backup strategy in your company?
What is upgrade process? And how u will do that?
How u will give new authorizations?
How to adjust user master records? If user master record doesn’t adjust what will you do?
How to check Kernel, tp versions?
Briefly explain a recent problem you faced, which u felt proud by solving that? And ho u solved?
How you will rate your self in SAP, Oracle from a scale 1 – 10?

What are you roles and responsibilities in your company?
How you will do client copy?
If SAP* is not available then how u will do?
After client copy is table space and database sizes will be increased or not?
How to do client copy fast?
What are various profiles available for client copy?
How to do transport’s between Production and Development?
How to apply OCS Patches?

What are you roles and responsibilities in your company?
How to do client copy?
How to do transports from OS level?
Where the transport data files will be placed?
How to make security authorization reports?
In which table failed user login attempts will be there?
How to see the t able entry values?
How you will give new authorizations?
Have you participated in Kernel upgrading and OCS Patches?
Have you done any up gradations?
How to configure TMS?
What is transport domain?
What is Consolidation route and delivery routes? How you will identify them?
Transport error codes and their description?
The transaction should not be displayed in User Easy access menu but he must execute that transaction how to do that?

SAP BASIS sample interview questions part I

What are your daily activities in your company?
What are you roles and responsibilities in your company?
What are common background jobs that will run in your system?
If a background job runs more than the time it should be completed normally then what actions will u take?
How to schedule background jobs at OS level?
How to add authorizations, how you will maintain profiles?
What are common transport errors and their codes?
Transport request types and its syntax
Where will u find transport error logs?
How to do transport at OS level?
How to transport objects from Production to Development?
How to define instances and operation modes?
What are Homogenous system copy and Heterogeneous system copy and how you will do that?
What is oracle Architecture?
At OS level in which directory oracle alerts are stored?
If a lock entry is holding more than 24 hours then what will you do? If another user wants to share that lock but the user using that lock haven’t released lock he went for holiday what will u do? This user wants lock ASAP then what will u do?
What will you do if u got Update failure?
What will you observe in System log (SM21)?
How to increase tables space, resizing, backups and when will you do?
Various client copy methods and how you will do them?
How you will get help from OSS notes?
What is the need of having Development system?
Difference between Application server and Central Instance?
How you will check whether database is active or not from OS level?
What is Transport domain and Domain controller?
What is Consolidation route and delivery routes?
How to lock a client? How to delete a client?
How to login in to SAP from command level?
How to define Logon groups? And what is Logon load balancing?
How you will rate your self in SAP, Oracle from a scale 1 – 10?