EP Certification example questions

EP Certification example questions
SAP Enterprise Portal Fundamentals Certification questionsBy Aravindaaravind_sapep@yahoo.com

# 1 .What is the load-balancing mechanism that allows all requests of a specific user in asingle session forwarded to the same server?

A. Stickiness

B. destination based affinity

C. Active/passive clustering

D. Active/active clustering

# 2 .Which of the following stores roles and role components, and page-to-rolerelationships?

A. Portal LDAP directory

B. Portal Content Directory (PCD)

C. Corporate LDAP directory

D. Repository database

# 3 .What type of permission does the portal server needs to access to its Portal ContentDirectory (PCD) file system?

A. read/write

B. read

C. write

D. read/write/execute

# 4 .Which of the following are true regarding the Portal Roles? (Choose all that apply.)

A. In EP 6.0, the Role Editor is embedded in the central administration environmentfor the development and administration of content: the Portal Content Studio.

B. In EP 5.0, the Role Editor is a central tool which can be used to create and editExternal Services, master iViews and worksets as well as roles.

C. Roles and master iViews can be created and edited in the Role Editor.

D. The Role Editor is a Web-based tool for creating roles and hierarchies and forassigning content objects to roles.

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#5 .What are the different types of integrated authentication mechanisms that theEnterprise Portal 5.0 offers? (Choose all that apply.)

A. Authentication using a reverse proxy with UFS permissions

B. Authentication with X.509 digital certificates

C. Authentication Against User Data in SAP R/3 System

D. Authentication with User ID and Password

E. Authentication using Netegrity SiteMinder

F. Authentication using Digital envelopes

# 6 .For administration tasks in the Portal Catalog, it is recommended that you organizethe content in a folder taxonomy. Placing many objects in a single folder increases thetime it takes for that folder to load. How many objects objects does SAP recommends tokeep in a single folder?

A. 75

B. 100

C. 25

D. 50

E. 5

F. 10

# 7 .Which of the following is a prerequisite to enable Drag&Relate and Single Sign-On?

A. Retrieval and Classification (TREX)

B. Java Server Pages

C. Enterprise Portal Plug-In (WP-PI)

D. SAP Unification Server

# 8 .________ assembles the pages that are displayed in the Enterprise Portal.

A. Content Server

B. Unification Server

C. iViewServer

D. Page Builder

# 13 .True or false: Enterprise portal 6.0 SP2 supports only software based loadbalancing.

A. True

B. False

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ScenarioThe operating system collector SAPOsCol is a stand-alone program that runs in theoperating system background. It runs independently of SAP instances exactly once permonitored host.

# 9 .Which of the following data about operating system resources are collected bySAPOsCol? (Choose all that apply.)

A. IP filtering of the packets leaving the interface

B. Ile tie-out and gateway ping

C. Utilization of physical disks and file systems

D. Usage of virtual and physical memory

E. Process monitoring

F. Resource usage of running processes

G. CPU utilization

# 10 .User access to content is determined by ________________.

A. content management

B. The top-level navigation bar

C. iViews in the channels

D. Role definitions

# 11 .What are the two types of nodes that the J2EE Engine cluster consists of?

A. dispatchers

B. clients

C. gateway

D. servers

# 12 .The first time you log on to the portal as __________ (Choose two.)

A. default password, sap

B. default password, admin

C. predefined user, called administrator

D. predefined user, called admin

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# 14 .Which presents a hierarchical list of portal pages and services?

A. Channels

B. Roles

C. iViews

D. The navigation tree

# 15 .What type of request the client sends to the Unification Server through HTTP whenyou perform a Drag&Relate action in the front end?

A. SSL

B. TCP

C. HRNP

D. UDP

E. HSRP

# 16 .True or false: If you are using basic authentication, SAP recommends that you setup the browser and portal Web server to communicate using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).

A. True

B. False

# 17 .Your organization has the SAP System Release 3.1H and you have a tough time toaccept and verify SAP Logon Tickets in your portal server. What could be the problem?

A. Portal Servers digital signature is missing

B. SAP logon tickets are not supported in releases lower than 4.0B

C. Access control list (ACL) is denying access

D. SAP System Release 3.1H has a bug

# 18 .What does the reverse proxy filter enables the portal to do? (Choose all that apply.)

A. Distinguish between the HTTP requests

B. replaces your existing firewall in the DMZ

C. Replace the scheme, host, and port number in an HTTP request.

D. Respond to more than one domain name using different proxy servers.

E. Check all HTTP requests coming to the portal platform.

# 19 .Which of the following are true regarding iViews when it is invoked from anInternet Explorer or Netscape browser?

A. In Internet Explorer, each iView is contained in an HTML table

B. In Netscape, each iView is contained in an HTML table

C. In Internet Explorer, each iView in a portal page is contained in an iFrame

D. In Netscape, each iView in a portal page is contained in an iFrame

# 20 .Portal Admin tab provides the tools for creating Web components. (True or False)

A. True

B. False

# 21 .You want to set the log levels of your new EP 6.0 installation in productionenvironment to ERROR. Which file do you edit to accomplish this task?

A. config.xml

B. logger.xml

C. logger.csv

D. logadmin.xml

# 22 .Which of the following is a middleware component that enables the development ofSAP-compatible components and applications in Java?

A. SAP JCo

B. SDM

C. J2EE Engine

D. SAP Web AS

# 23 .Which of the following cryptography tool is used to configure securecommunication between the TREX preprocessor and the portal Web server and betweenthe TREX Web server and the TREX ISAPI Register?

A. SAPCAR

B. SAPSECPI

C. SAPSSLC

D. SAPGENPSE

# 24 .The standard delivery of SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0 contains four administrationroles, all of which subdivide the existing administration tasks into four groups. Which ofthe following deals with the administration roles? (Choose four.)

A. Security Administration

B. User Administration

C. System Administration

D. Content Administration

E. Super Administration (containing all administration tasks)

F. Network Administration

# 25 .Which of the following Enterprise Portal platform enables unstructured contentmanagement, and sophisticated search and retrieval functionality over unstructuredcontent in disparate information repositories?

A. Unification Server

B. Portal Server

C. Page Builder

D. Knowledge Management (KM)

ScenarioThe Knowledge Management platform (KM) provides functions that support themanagement of information in the form of unstructured data and partly structured datain SAP Enterprise Portal.

# 26 .What are the three elements of the KM platform that have different tasks?

A. Collaboration

B. TREX

C. Portal Content Directory (PCD)

D. Content Management

# 27 .Drag-and-Drop the iView interface with the matching numbers as shown in the followingfigure.Click here to view the figure

# 28 .Which component of the Enterprise Portal provides authentication of portal usersagainst user repository ?

A. Portal server

B. User management

C. Portal LDAP directory server

D. Corporate LDAP directoryserver

# 29 .What are the two variants in Enterprise Portal SSO mechanism available

on security requirements and the supported external applications?

A. SSO with SAP logon tickets

B. SSO with user ID and password

C. SSO with Digital Certificates

D. SSO with LDAP server

# 30 .Which of the following is used to organize iViews into logical groups, are alsoassigned to roles?

A. Channels

B. iPanel

C. iViews

D. Roles

# 31 .True or false: The SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0 permissions mainly define the accessrights of portal administrators to portal objects in the Portal Catalog. The accesspermissions are implemented with the Access Control List (ACL) method.

A. False

B. True

# 32 .What is the TCP/IP port number that the lock server use to identify the specificprocess request coming from each middleware client?

A. 3299

B. 1080

C. 80

D. 443

# 33 .True or false: Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) is a browser-based, device-independenttechnology which provides a runtime and a development environment for professionalbusiness Web applications.

A. False

B. True

# 34 .What are the two user management master iViews that you can modify to suit yourcompany’s requirements and integrate in the portal?

A. Self registration master iView

B. Anonymous Logon with Named Guest Users master iView

C. Change password master iView

D. Microsoft Active Directory Server master iView

# 35 .True or false: All machines in a portal cluster are covered by a license installed onany of them. However, for high availability purposes, you should install a license on atleast two portal machines, although a license on each machine is recommended. In this case, if the machine with the single license is stopped for more than an hour (the periodof time during which the license is cached), portal operation will not be interrupted.

A. False

B. True

# 36 .Which tab contains the default Welcome page plus the pages assigned to all of theroles to which the logged on user is assigned?

A. Portal Admin

B. My Pages

C. System Configuration

D. Content Admin

# 37 .When will you use a corporate LDAP directory as a primary store for central userdata? (Choose two.)

A. if the system landscape consists of Novell NetWare clients

B. if there is a mixed system landscape including both SAP and non-SAP systems

C. if there are large number of users in the system landscape

D. if there are large number of Windows XP users in the network

# 38 .Which technology relate business data across applications and/or databases forwhich you have installed a unifier on your Unification Server?

A. Drag&Relate

B. iView

C. Drag&Drop

D. Unifiers

# 39 .You want to tune your system database. How do you enable high load and avoiderrors when running SAP Enterprise Portal with an Oracle database?

A. by decreasing the maximum number of processes and sessions in the database.

B. by using the Oracle Enterprise Manager (or DBA Studio), decrease the processnumbers

C. by increasing the maximum number of threads and logs in the database.

D. by increasing the maximum number of processes and sessions in the database.

# 40 .Why is it not recommended to implement Single Sign-On with user ID andpassword?

A. the user ID and password are transmitted in plain text using HTTP POST

B. it takes longer hours to update the LDAP server

C. it requires additional configuration steps to enable CHAP

D. SAP does not support Single Sign-On with user ID and password

Question 1 Explanation:For SAP Enterprise Portal, the load-balancing solution should ensure session persistence,or “stickiness.” This means that all requests of a specific user in a single session areforwarded to the same server. Stickiness is achieved at initial logon, by linking to the IPaddress and local port of the load-balancing system. If one node fails, the other serversassume the tasks of the failed node without any pause in operation or loss of information.

Question 2 Explanation:Portal Content Directory (PCD) is a file system which stores roles and role components,and page-to-role relationships. It also stores deployable (PAR) and master iViews(written in Java) with their personalization data and derivations (Java iViews, ExternalServices). The PCD stores a copy of the page catalog.

Question 3 Explanation:The portal server needs read/write access to its PCD file system.

Question 4 Explanation:Roles are maintained with the Role Editor in both SAP Enterprise Portal 5.0 and 6.0. TheRole Editor is a Web-based tool for creating roles and hierarchies and for assigningcontent objects to roles. In EP 5.0, the Role Editor is a central tool which can be used tocreate and edit External Services, master iViews and worksets as well as roles. Othereditors are available for the administration of pages and iViews. In EP 6.0, the RoleEditor is embedded in the central administration environment for the development andadministration of content: the Portal Content Studio. This administration environment canbe used to call all editors for the creation and administration of content, including theRole Editor. Only roles can be created and edited in the Role Editor.

Question 5 Explanation:Authentication provides a way of verifying the user’s identity before he or she is grantedaccess to the portal. Once the user has been authenticated, he or she is issued a SAPlogon ticket that allows him or her to access all the applications, information and servicesin the Enterprise Portal using Single Sign-On. Since many of these applications maycontain sensitive data, it is imperative that the user in question can be identified and thisidentity authenticated.The process of authentication is based on each user having a unique set of credentials forgaining access. For example, with user ID and password authentication, theauthentication server compares a user’s authentication credentials with other usercredentials stored in a data repository. If the credentials match, the user is granted accessto the Enterprise Portal. Otherwise, the authentication fails and portal access is denied.The Enterprise Portal 5.0 offers the following integrated authentication mechanisms:· Authentication with User ID and Password· Authentication with X.509 digital certificates· Authentication using external mechanisms¡ Windows 2000 authentication¡ Authentication Against User Data in SAP R/3 System¡ External Web access management tools, such as Netegrity SiteMinder¡ COM interface allowing you to use any kind of external authentication serviceNote that you must use one method of authentication for all users. The only exception isauthentication with digital certificates. Digital certificates can be used as an additionalmethod of authentication. This means that users that have a client certificate use it to logon while other users have to provide credentials using a different authenticationmechanism.

Question 6 Explanation:The recommendation is that do not place more than fifty (50) objects in a single folder.

Question 7 Explanation:The Enterprise Portal Plug-In (WP-PI) enables the exchange of data between SAPEnterprise Portal and the mySAP.com components, for example SAP R/3 and SAP BW.It is a prerequisite to enable Drag&Relate and Single Sign-

Question 8 Explanation:The Page Builder assembles the pages that are displayed in the Enterprise Portal. It getsinformation about the navigation between pages and the layout of the pages from theroles assigned to a user. Information about which roles are assigned to which users isstored in the portal LDAP directory.

Question 9 Explanation:The operating system collector SAPOsCol is a stand-alone program that runs in theoperating system background. It runs independently of SAP instances exactly once permonitored host. SAPOsCol collects data about operating system resources, including:• Usage of virtual and physical memorySAP Enterprise Portal Fundamentals Certification questionsBy Aravindaaravind_sapep@yahoo.com• CPU utilization• Utilization of physical disks and file systems• Resource usage of running processes• Process monitoring

Question 10 Explanation:User access to content is determined by Role definitions. A portal role is a collection ofcontent. While portal content is developed to enable access to information relevant to theorganization in which the portal is deployed, roles define the subset of content availableto each functional role within the organization. Users are assigned to the role or roles thatprovide content relevant to them. A user has access to the content that has been assignedto all of his or her roles.

Question 11 Explanation:J2EE Engine cluster is a set of independent nodes that are addressed and managed as asingle system. The cluster consists of two types of nodes: dispatchers and servers. Theadministrator of the system determines the number of dispatchers and servers in a cluster.Each dispatcher node is connected to all server nodes in the cluster and each server nodemaintains connections to all other cluster nodes. Clustering enables dynamic loadbalancing by distributing client requests among the server nodes in the cluster, therebyproviding higher scalability and improved system performance

Question 12 Explanation:Users and passwords are defined in the directory server. To enable those users andpasswords for portal logon, you must define a security configuration, using the portaltools. However, in order to do so, you need to log on to the portal. The first time you logon to the portal, you log on as a default, predefined user, called admin, using the defaultpassword, admin. After you have defined a security configuration, you may continue tolog on as user admin, or you may log on with the user information defined in thedirectory server.The admin/admin logon provides you with access to the portal as a fully qualified superadministrator.Note that administrator access is enabled via Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers only.There is no administrator access via Netscape browsers.

Question 13 Explanation:Load balancing is dividing the work of one computer among several computers so thatmore work gets done in the same amount of time and all users get served faster. You canimplement a hardware or a software load balancing solution.

Question 14 Explanation:The role definition determines the navigation structure within the portal. The navigationstructure consists of the top-level navigation bar, and the detailed navigation tree. Thetop-level navigation bar is a series of tabs in the title area of the portal header. A usernavigates portal pages and services by clicking tabs in the top-level navigation bar.

Question 15 Explanation:When the user performs a Drag&Relate action in the front end, the client sends a HRNP(hyperrelational navigation protocol) request to the Unification Server through HTTP.The Unification Server resolves the relationship between the drag source and the droptarget, and queries the database and/or applications to determine the record set. Then itredirects the result set to the Portal Server and launches the screen which appears in thebrowser.

Question 16 Explanation:If you are using basic authentication, we strongly recommended that you set up thebrowser and portal Web server to communicate using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).Otherwise users‘ credentials will be transmitted in clear text.

Question 17 Explanation:The SAP System has Release 4.0B or higher. SAP logon tickets are not supported inreleases lower than 4.0B.

Question 18 Explanation:Reverse Proxy Filter enables the portal to do the following:• Check all HTTP requests coming to the portal platform.• Distinguish between the following HTTP requests to the portal: those coming fromexternal sources, such as the Internet and outside the firewall of an enterprise, and thosecoming from internal sources, such as the intranet within the firewall.• Replace the scheme, host, and port number in an HTTP request.• Respond to more than one domain name using different proxy servers.

Question 19 Explanation:An iView is handled differently by Enterprise Portal depending on whether it is invokedfrom an Internet Explorer or Netscape browser. In Internet Explorer, each iView in aportal page is contained in an iFrame. Each iFrame is a distinct container, independent ofthe other containers. In Netscape, each iView is contained in an HTML table. Whenmultiple iViews are displayed in a portal page in Netscape, you are actually viewing asingle HTML page formatted into HTML tables.

Question 20 Explanation:Content Admin tab provides the tools for creating portal-related content, such as roles,iViews, pages, Web components.

Question 21 Explanation:Portal applications are configured according to the logger.xml configuration file. Variousportal applications place information into different log files. SAP recommend that you setlog levels in production environments to WARNING or ERROR.

Question 22 Explanation:SAP JCo is a middleware component that enables the development of SAP-compatiblecomponents and applications in Java. SAP JCo supports communication with the SAP server in both directions: inbound calls (Java calls ABAP) and outbound calls (ABAPcalls Java). So, SAP JCo realizes communication between the ABAP and the J2EEenvironments that can be used in SAP Web AS.

Question 23 Explanation:You use the cryptographic tool SAPGENPSE to generate a keystore in which you canstore a certificate. You only need this keystore for storing the root certificate of the portalWeb server. It is therefore not necessary that you send the generated certificate request toyour CA.

Question 24 Explanation:The entire portal administration is performed using administration roles contained in thestandard content of the portal. The administration roles contain all the functions possiblefor portal administration.The standard delivery of SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0 contains four administration roles, allof which subdivide the existing administration tasks into the following four groups:· Super Administration (containing all administration tasks)· Content Administration· System Administration· User Administration

Question 25 Explanation:You implement the Knowledge Management (KM) platform of the Enterprise Portal toenable unstructured content management, and sophisticated search and retrievalfunctionality over unstructured content in disparate information repositories. Theknowledge management platform also provides collaboration functionality, such assending messages, annotating documents, and setting up discussion groups.

Question 26 Explanation:

Question 27 Explanation:The Enterprise Portal iView interface enables you to create and manage portal channelsand iViews. When you open the interface, a list of iViews and channels is displayed,along with a set of tools that let you create and maintain channels and iViews. In thissection, we describe the main functions of this interface.iView Editor screen: (1) Search Tool, (2) Toolbar, (3) Channel List, (4) iView List

Question 28 Explanation:The user management component of the Enterprise Portal is an extensive applicationprogramming interface (API) that allows iViews to read data from the corporate LDAPdirectory and to read and write data to the portal LDAP directory. It also provides SingleSign-On functions and Authentication of portal users against user repository.

Question 29 Explanation:Single Sign-On (SSO) is a key feature of the Enterprise Portal that eases user interactionwith the many component systems available to the user in a portal environment. Once theuser is authenticated to the enterprise portal, he or she can use the portal to accessexternal applications. With SSO in the Enterprise Portal, the user can access differentsystems and applications without having to repeatedly enter his or her user informationfor authentication.The Enterprise Portal SSO mechanism is available in two variants depending on securityrequirements and the supported external applications:· SSO with SAP logon tickets· SSO with user ID and passwordBoth variants eliminate the need for repeated logons to individual applications after theinitial authentication at the enterprise portal. Whereas SSO with SAP logon tickets isbased on a secure ticketing mechanism, SSO with user ID and password forwards theuser’s logon data (user ID and password) to the systems that a user wants to call.

Question 30 Explanation:Channels, used to organize iViews into logical groups, are also assigned to roles. While every iViewmust be assigned to a channel, not every iView is associated with a page. A user has access to theiViews displayed on the pages in his or her portal. When personalizing portal pages, the user will alsohave access to the iViews in the channels assigned to his or her roles.

Question 31 Explanation:There is a permissions concept for portal objects in SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0. It is valid for all objectsof the Portal Content Directory that can be maintained with a special editor (Permission Editor) in theportal. Portal permissions mainly define the access rights of portal administrators to portal objects inthe Portal Catalog. The access permissions are implemented with the Access Control List (ACL)method.

Question 32 Explanation:In a load balanced landscape with multiple portal server installations the lock server is the portalcomponent that enables the components of the middleware layer to work concurrently with thepersistence layer, notably with the Portal Content Directory (PCD) and the database server.The middleware layer is installed as clients that access the persistence layer and the shared resources.Each middleware client must not interfere with other clients accessing and modifying the sameresources, therefore there is the need to implement a concurrent control mechanism.The control mechanism is a synchronization process over TCP/IP at port 3299. Through the port, thelock server identifies the specific process request coming from each middleware client. It then allowsaccess to the shared resources and the persistence layer. By so doing, each portal works with aconsistent view of the shared resources. Portals communicating with the lock server become the lockclients.

Question 33 Explanation:Web Dynpro is a browser-based, device-independent technology which provides a runtime and adevelopment environment for professional business Web applications. Web Dynpro delivers adeclarative meta-model to minimize the need to write programming code. From this abstract definition,Web Dynpro generates code to create a ready-to-run Web application.

Question 34 Explanation:The Enterprise Portal includes two user management master iViews that you can modify to suit yourcompany’s requirements and integrate in the portal. These are:· Self registration master iView: Allows users, for example, external users that do not exist in thecorporate LDAP directory, to register themselves as portal users.· Change password master iView: Allows users to change their password and optionally other userdata.

Question 35 Explanation:For the portal cluster:· To guarantee proper portal functionality, external load-balancing solutions must alwaysimplement stickiness, using either a source-IP or cookie-based distribution policy.· All machines in a portal cluster are covered by a license installed on any of them. However, forhigh availability purposes, you should install a license on at least two portal machines,although a license on each machine is recommended. In this case, if the machine with thesingle license is stopped for more than an hour (the period of time during which the license iscached), portal operation will not be interrupted.

Question 36 Explanation:My Pages tab contains the default Welcome page plus the pages assigned to all of the roles to whichthe logged on user is assigned. My Pages display iViews, small applications designed to retrieveinformation from various information resources.

Question 37 Explanation:

If you have a mixed system landscape including both SAP and non-SAP systems, we reकॉम mendthat you use a corporate LDAP directory as a primary store for central user data। Also use thisoption if you have a large number of users in your system landscape।In the above figure, a system running CUA is used to administer user data from several SAPABAP systems centrally। The user data from the CUA is synchronized with a corporate LDAPdirectory। The UMEs of any standalone J2EE Engines are configured to use the corporate LDAPdirectory as data source। Third-party systems can also access user data on the LDAP directory।

Question 38 Explanation:The Unification Server enables your Portal for Drag&Relate (hyperrelational navigation)। This meansthat you can relate business data across applications and/or databases for which you have installed aunifier on your Unification Server। Moreover the Unification Server provides functions to display datafrom the installed database unifiers।

Question 39 Explanation:To enable high load and avoid errors when running SAP Enterprise Portal with an Oracle database,increase the maximum number of processes and sessions in the database।

Make sure no one is currently using the database, as you must restart the database server.To change the number of processes on an Oracle database server:

1. From the Oracle program group in the Windows Start menu, go to Database Administration >DBAStudio, and log on to your Oracle database using DBA Studio as user SYSDBA.

2. Open the Database branch and choose: Instances > Database.

3. Choose All Initialization Parameters.

4. Scroll down the list of parameters to the processes property and increase its value (e.g. 150).

5. Verify the increase with your DBA.

6. Scroll down to the sessions property and increase its value to 1.2 multiplied by the number ofprocesses.

7. Choose OK and then Apply. You are prompted to restart the database server.

8. Restart the IIS and the Oracle server.Question 40 Explanation:When Single Sign-On with user ID and password is used, the user ID and password are transmitted inplain text using HTTP POST. We strongly reकॉमmend that you protect the connections to the SAPSystem using HTTPS or SNC to prevent the user ID and password being eavesdropped by an external party.

SD Questions on Corporate Structure

SD Questions on Corporate Structure
In R/3 you can represent a company's structure by defining and assigning corporate structure elements. What is the purpose of doing that?

Enterprise organization diagram. Chart showing the organizational structure of an enterprise, its organization units and how they are related. A combined structure can be created from the point of view of accounting, MM, SD. This structure forms a framework in which all business transactions can be processed.

Which three organizational elements make up a sales area and briefly explain their function?

Sales organization: An organizational unit that sells and distributes products, negotiates terms of sale, and is responsible for these transactions.

Distribution channel: Channel through which salable materials or services reach customers. Typical distribution channels include wholesale, retail and direct sales. You can assign a distribution channel to one or more sales organizations.

Division: Product groups can be defined for a wide-ranging spectrum of products. For every division you can make customer-specific agreements on, for example, partial deliveries, pricing and terms of payment. Within a division you can carry out statistical analyses or set up separate marketing.

Name the three internal organizational elements within a sales organization and briefly explain their function.

Sales Office. Geographical aspects of the organization in business development and sales are defined using the term sales office. A sales office can be considered as a subsidiary.

Sales offices are assigned to sales areas. If you enter a sales order for a sales office within a certain sales area, the sales office must be assigned to that area.

Sales Group. The staff of a sales office may be subdivided into sales groups. For example, sales groups can be defined for individual divisions.

Salespersons. Individual personnel master records are used to manage data about salespersons. You can assign a sales person to a sales group in the personnel master record.

What does the term "business area" refer to and how can it be used?

Business Area. The system posts costs and revenue according to the business area. The business area can be equivalent to the:
- sales area (if the accounts are to be posted according to sales)
- plant/division (if the accounts are to be posted according to products)

The business area is defined in Customizing for Sales.

o Business area. A unit in an enterprise, grouping product and market combinations as homogeneously as possible for the purpose of developing unified business policy.

o Financial Accounting (FI). A business area is an organizational unit within financial accounting which represents a separate area of operations or responsibilities within an organization. Financial accounting transactions can be allocated to a specific business area.

Briefly explain the relationship between sales organizations and company codes.

Many to One.

What is the central organizational element in purchasing?

Purchasing Organization.

Explain the relationship between sales organizations and plants.

Many to Many.

Explain the relationship between sales organizations, plants and company codes.

Many to Many to One.

Can one business area be assigned to several company codes? Which (sub) module of SAP could make business areas obsolete?

Yes in CO .

What is a credit control area? What relationship exists between credit control areas and company codes?

Credit control area. Organizational unit in an organization that specifies and checks credit limits for customers. A credit control area can include one or more company codes. It is not possible to assign a company code to more than one credit control areas.

Which organizational element is central in shipping? Give a definition of it.

Shipping Point: Organizational unit at a fixed location that carries out shipping activities. A shipping point could, for example, be a company's mail department or a plant's rail depot. Each delivery is processed by only one shipping point.

Give a definition of plant (in SAP).

Organizational unit within Logistics, serving to subdivide an enterprise according to production, procurement, maintenance, and materials planning aspects.

A plant is a place where either materials are produced or goods and services provided.

Classification: Business object

Structure: A plant can assume a variety of roles:

As a maintenance plant, it includes the maintenance objects that are spatially located within this plant. The maintenance tasks that are to be performed are specified within a maintenance planning plant.

As a retail or wholesale site, it makes merchandise available for distribution and sale.

As a rule, the plant is the organizational unit for material valuation.

The preferred shipping point for a plant is defined as the default shipping point, which depends on the shipping condition and the loading condition.

For the placement of materials in storage (stock put-away), a storage location is assigned to a plant. The storage location depends on the storage condition and the stock placement situation.

The business area that is responsible for a valuation area is determined as a function of the division. As a rule, a valuation area corresponds to a plant.

Can you assign two different sales organization to the same company code?

Yes.

To what do you assign distribution channels and divisions?

Sales Organizations.

What are the highest organizational units in SD, MM.PP,FI,CO?

SD: Sales Organizations.
M: Plant
PP: Plant
FI: Company Code
CO: Controlling Area

Can you further subdivide a plant? If yes into what?

A plant can be subdivided into storage locations, allowing stocks of materials to be broken down according to predefined criteria (e.g., location and materials planning aspects).

A plant can be subdivided into locations and operational areas. Subdivision into locations takes geographical criteria into account, whereas subdivision into operational areas reflects responsibilities for production.

Can a sales organization sell from a plant belonging to a different company code?

Yes.

How many shipping points can you assign to a plant?

Many.

How many shipping points can you assign to a sales organization?

None.

If you have a warehouse management system active, to what would you assign the warehouse number?

Plant & Storage Location.

Some question related SAP BI/BW

Quiz: SAP BI/BW -- beginner level
1. The following transactions are relevant to the data sources in an SAP BW source system.
a. RSA3
b. RSA4
c. RSA5
d. RSA6
2. True or False? A reference characteristic will use the SID table and master data table of the referred characteristic.
a. True
b. False
3. The following statements are not true about navigational attributes.
a. An attribute of an info object cannot be made navigational if the attribute-only flag on the attribute info object has been checked.
b. Navigational attributes can be used to create aggregates.
c. It is possible to make a display attribute to navigational in an info cube data without deleting all the data from the info cube.
d. Once an attribute is made navigational in an info cube, it is possible to change it back to a display attribute if the data has been deleted from the info cube.
4. True or False? It is possible to create a key figure without assigning currency or unit.
a. True
b. False
5. The following statements are true for compounded info objects.
a. An info cube needs to contain all info objects of the compounded info object if it has been included in the info cube.
b. An info object cannot be included as a compounding object if it is defined as an attribute only.
c. An info object can be included as an attribute and a compounding object simultaneously.
d. The total length of a compounded info object cannot exceed 60.
6. The following statements are true for an info cube.
a. Each characteristic of info cube should be assigned to at least one dimension.
b. One characteristic can be assigned to more than one dimensions.
c. One dimension can have more than one characteristic.
d. More than one characteristic can be assigned to one line item dimension.
7. The following statements are true for info cubes and aggregates.
a. Requests cannot be deleted if info cubes are compressed.
b. A request cannot be deleted from an info cube if that request (is compressed) in the aggregates.
c. Deleting a request from the cube will delete the corresponding request from the aggregate, if the aggregate has not been compressed.
d. All of the above.
8. The following statements are true regarding the ODS request deletion.
a. It is not possible to delete a request from ODS after the request has been activated.
b. Deleting an (inactive) request will delete all requests that have been loaded into the ODS after this request was loaded.
c. Deleting an active request will delete the request from the change log table.
d. None of the above.
9. The following statements are true for aggregates.
a. An aggregate stores data of an info cube redundantly and persistently in a summarized form in the database.
b. An aggregate can be built on characteristics or navigational attributes from the info cube.
c. Aggregates enable queries to access data quickly for reporting.
d. None of the above.
10. True or False? If an info cube has active aggregates built on it, the new requests loaded will not be available for reporting until the rollup has been completed successfully.
a. True
b. False
11. What is the primary purpose of having multi-dimensional data models?
a. To deliver structured information that the business user can easily navigate by using any possible combination of business terms to show the KPIs.
b. To make it easier for developers to build applications, that will be helpful for the business users.
c. To make it easier to store data in the database and avoid redundancy.
d. All of the above.
12. The following statements are true for partitioning.
a. If a cube has been partitioned, the E table of the info cube will be partitioned on time.
b. The F table of the info cube is partitioned on request.
c. The PSA table is partitioned automatically with several requests on one partition.
d. It is not possible to partition the info cube after data has been loaded, unless all the data is deleted from the cube.
13. The following statements are true for OLAP CACHE.
a. Query navigation states and query results are stored in the application server memory.
b. If the same query has been executed by another user the result sets can be used if the global cache is active.
c. Reading query results from OLAP cache is faster than reading from the database.
d. Changing the query will invalidate the OLAP cache for that query.
14. The following statements are true about the communication structure.
a. It contains all the info objects that belong to an info source.
b. All the data is updated into the info cube with this structure.
c. It is dependent on the source system.
d. All of the above.
15. The following statements are untrue about ODSs.
a. It is possible to create ODSs without any data fields.
b. An ODS can have a maximum of 16 key fields.
c. Characteristics and key figures can be added as key fields in an ODS.
d. After creating and activating, an export data source is created automatically.


Correct answers:
Question #1: A, C, D
Transaction RSA3, or extractor checker, is used in the BW source system to check data sources for various extraction modes, including full update, delta update and delta initialization.
RSA5 is for installing standard business content data sources and RSA6 is for maintaining data sources.
Question #2: A
If an info object is created as a characteristic with a reference characteristic, it won't have its own sid and master data tables. The info object will always use the tables of the referred characteristic.
Question #3: D
All the statements except D are true. It is possible to change a navigational attribute back to a display attribute in an info cube, without deleting all data from the info cube.
Question #4: A
Yes, it is possible to create a key figure without assigning a unit if the data type is one of these four: Number, Integer, Date or Time.
Question #5: A, B, D
When a compounded info object is included in an info cube, all corresponding info objects are added to the info cube. If an info object is defined as an attribute, it cannot be included as compounding object. The total length of the compounding info objects cannot exceed 60 characters.
Question #6: A, C
Any characteristic in the info cube should be assigned to a dimension. One characteristic cannot be assigned to more than one dimension. One dimension can have more than one characteristic, provided it is not defined as a line item dimension.
Question #7: A, C
Once the info cubes are compressed it is not possible to delete data based on the requests. There won't be request IDs anymore. Requests can be deleted even if the requests in aggregates have been compressed. But the aggregates will have to be de-activated. Deleting an uncompressed request from an info cube will automatically delete the corresponding request from aggregate if the aggregate request has not been compressed.
Question #8: C
It is possible to delete requests from an ODS, even if the request has been activated. The "before and after image" of the data will be stored in the change log table using which the request will be deleted.
Deleting a request which has not been activated in ODS will not delete the requests which are loaded after this request. But if the request has been activated then the loaded and activated requests later will get deleted. Also the change log entries will be deleted for that request.
Question #9: A, B, C
Aggregates summarize and store data from an info cube. Characteristics and navigational attributes of an info cube can be used to create aggregates. Since aggregates contain summarized data, the amount of data in aggregates will be much less that the cube which makes the queries to run faster when they access aggregates.
Question #10: A
Newly-loaded requests in an info cube with aggregates will not be available for reporting until the aggregate rollup has been completed successfully. This is to make sure that the cube and aggregates are consistent while reporting.
Question #11: A
The primary purpose of multi-dimensional modeling is to present the business users in a way that corresponds their normal understanding of their business. They also provide a basis for easy access of data which is OLAP engine.
Question #12: A, B, C, D
BW allows partitioning of the info cubes based on time. If the info cube is partitioned, the e-fact table of the info cube will be partitioned on the time characteristic selected.
The F fact table is partitioned on request ids automatically during the loads. PSA tables are also partitioned during the loads and can accommodate more than one request. For an info cube to be partitioned, all data needs to be removed from the info cube.
Question #13: A, B, C, D
Query results are stored in the memory of application server, which can be retrieved later by another user running the same query. This will make the query faster since the results are already calculated and stored in the memory. By changing the query, the OLAP Cache gets invalidated.
Question #14: A, B
The communication structure contains all info objects in the info source and it is used to update the info cube by temporarily storing the data that needs to be updates to the data target. It doesn't depend on the source system.
Question #15: A, C
An ODS cannot be created without any data fields, and it can have a maximum of only 16 key fields. Key figures cannot be included as a key field in an ODS. The export data source is created after an ODS has been created and activated.


Quiz: SAP BI/BW -- intermediate level
1. Identify the statement(s) that is/are true. A change run...
a. Activates the new Master data and Hierarchy data
b. Aggregates are realigned and recalculated
c. Always reads data from the InfoCube to realign aggregates
d. Aggregates are not affected by change run
2. Which statement(s) is/are true about Multiproviders?
a. This is a virtual Infoprovider that does not store data
b. They can contain InfoCubes, ODSs, info objects and info sets
c. More than one info provider is required to build a Multiprovider
d It is similar to joining the data tables
3. The structure of the PSA table created for an info source will be...
a. Featuring the exact same structure as Transfer structure
b. Similar to the transfer rules
c. Similarly structured as the Communication structure
d. The same as Transfer structure, plus four more fields in the beginning
4. In BW, special characters are not permitted unless it has been defined using this transaction:
a. rrmx
b. rskc
c. rsa15
d. rrbs
5. Select the true statement(s) about info sources:
a. One info source can have more than one source system assigned to it
b. One info source can have more than one data source assigned to it provided the data sources are in different source systems
c. Communication structure is a part of an info source
d. None of the above
6. Select the statement(s) that is/are true about the data sources in a BW system:
a. If the hide field indicator is set in a data source, this field will not be transferred to BW even after replicating the data source
b. A field in a data source won't be usable unless the selection field indicator has been set in the data source
c. A field in an info package will not be visible for filtering unless the selection field has been checked in the data source
d. All of the above
7. Select the statement(s) which is/are true about the 'Control parameters for data transfer from the Source System':
a. The table used to store the control parameters is ROIDOCPRMS
b. Field max lines is the maximum number of records in a packet
c. Max Size is the maximum number of records that can be transferred to BW
d. All of the above
8. The indicator 'Do not condense requests into one request when activation takes place' during ODS activation applies to condensation of multiple requests into one request to store it in the active table of the ODS.
a. True
b. False
9. Select the statement(s) which is/are not true related to flat file uploads:
a. CSV and ASCII files can be uploaded
b. The table used to store the flat file load parameters is RSADMINC
c. The transaction for setting parameters for flat file upload is RSCUSTV7
d. None of the above
10. Which statement(s) is/are true related to Navigational attributes vs Dimensional attributes?
a. Dimensional attributes have a performance advantage over Navigational attributes for queries
b. Change history will be available if an attribute is defined as navigational
c. History of changes is available if an attribute is included as a characteristic in the cube
d. All of the above
11. When a Dimension is created as a line item dimension in a cube, Dimensions IDs will be same as that of SIDs.
a. True
b. False
12. Select the true statement(s) related to the start routine in the update rules:
a. All records in the data packet can be accessed
b. Variables declared in the global area is available for individual routines
c. Returncode greater than 0 will be abort the whole packet
d. None of the above
13. If a characteristic value has been entered in InfoCube-specific properties of an InfoCube, only these values can be loaded to the cube for that characteristic.
a. True
b. False
14. After any changes have been done to an info set it needs to be adjusted using transaction RSISET.
a. True
b. False
15. Select the true statement(s) about read modes in BW:
a. Read mode determines how the OLAP processor retrieves data during query execution and navigation
b. Three different types of read modes are available
c. Can be set only at individual query level
d. None of the above


Question #1: A, B
Change run activates the Master data and Hierarchy data changes. Before the activation of these changes, all the aggregates that are affected by these changes are realigned. Realignment is not necessarily done by reading InfoCubes. If these are part of another aggregate that can be used to read data for the realignment, change run uses that aggregate.
Question #2: A, B
Multiproviders are like virtual Infoproviders that do not store any data. Basic InfoCubes, ODSs, info sets or Info objects can be used to build a Multiprovider. Multiproviders can even be built on a single Infoprovider.
Question #3: D
The structure of PSA tables will have an initial four fields: request id, packet number, partition value and record number. The remaining fields will be exactly like Transfer Structure.
Question #4: B
Rskc is the transacation used to enter the permitted characters in BW.
Question #5: A, C
Info sources can be assigned to multiple source systems. Also, info sources can have multiple data sources within the same source system. Communication structure is a part of the source system.
Question #6: A, C
If the hide field is checked in a data source, that field will not be transferred to a BW system from the source system even after replication. If the selection field is not checked, that field won't be available for filtering the info package.
Question #7: A
ROIDOCPRMS is the table in the BW source system that is used to store the parameters for transferring data to BW. Max size is the size in KB which is used to calculate the number of records in each packet. Max lines is the maximum number of records in each packet.
Question #8: B
This indicator is used to make sure that the change log data is not compressed to one request when activating multiple requests at the same time. If these requests are combined to one request in change log table, individual deletion will not be possible.
Question #9: C
Transaction for setting flat file upload parameters is RSCUSTV6.
Question #10: A, C
Dimensional attributes have a performance advantage while running queries since the number of table joins will be less compared to navigational attributes. For navigational attributes, the history of changes will not be available. But for dimensional attributes, the InfoCube will have the change history.
Question #11: A
When a Dimension is created as a line item dimension, the SIDs of the characteristic is directly stored in the fact tables and these are used as Dimension IDs. Dimension table will be a view off of SID table and fact table.
Question #12: A, B, C
In the start routine, all records are available for processing. Variables declared in the global area can be used in individual routines. Returncode greater than 0 will abort processing of all records in the packet.
Question #13: A
If a constant is entered in the InfoCube-specific properties, only that value will be allowed in the InfoCube for that characteristic. This value will be fixed in the update rules and it is not possible to do the change in update rules for that characteristic.
Question #14: A
After makeing any type of change to an info set, it needs to be adjusted using the transaction RSISET.
Question #15: A, B
Read mode determines how an OLAP processor retrieves data during query execution and navigation. Three types of read modes are available:
1. Read data during expand hierarchies
2. Read data during navigation
3. Read data all at once
Read mode can be set at info provider level and query level.


Quiz: SAP BI/BW -- advanced level
1. Select the correct statements about the steps executed by a change run.
a. The steps activate the new master data and hierarchy data changes.
b. All aggregates are realigned and recalculated.
c. Aggregates containing navigational attributes are realigned and recalculated for the master data changes.
d. The steps delete the 'A' (active) records for which the 'M' (modified) records exist from master data tables, and makes all modified records active.
e. All of the above.
2. Key figures that are set for exception aggregation MIN or MAX in an aggregate cause the aggregates to be completely rebuilt for each change run alignment.
a. True
b. False
3. If special characters are not defined in transaction RSKC in BW then:
a. These characters cannot be loaded into BW at all.
b. These characters can only be loaded into text fields.
c. These characters can be loaded into attributes and texts.
d. BW won't be able to generate the SIDs for these characters because all the fields where SIDs are generated cannot be loaded.
e. None of the above.
4. A change run updates the 'E' table of the aggregates while doing the alignment for changes in the master data.
a. True
b. False
5. Select the correct statements related to the control parameters for a data transfer in table ROIDOCPRMS in the BW source system.
a. The field MAXSIZE is the maximum number of records which can be transferred to BW in a single packet.
b. The field MAXSIZE is the size in KB which is used to calculate the number of records per data packet.
c. MAXLINES is the maximum number of records which can be transferred to BW per data load.
d. If the number of data records per packet exceeds MAXLINES value the extraction process fails.
6. Identify the differences between an Infoset and a Multiprovider.
a. Both Multiproviders and Infosets can contain all the info providers in BW.
b. Queries built on Multiproviders use 'union' and queries on Infosets use 'join' to retrieve data from different info providers.
c. Both Multiproviders and Infosets do not have data, but data is accessed from the basic info providers used in these objects.
d. None of the above.
7. Select the correct statements about the OLAP Cache Monitor in BW.
a. The transaction for the OLAP Cache Monitor is RSRCACHE.
b. If the persistent mode is inactive then the cache is inactive and query results will not be cached in memory.
c. A 'read flag' is set in the Cache Monitor when data is read from the cache.
d. When new data is loaded into the info provider which the query is built on, the cache for that query is invalidated.
e. All of the above.
8. Select the correct statements about ODS settings.
a. Performance of the ODS activation improves when the BEx reporting flag is switched to off.
b. Overwriting a data record is not allowed if the 'unique' data record flag is set.
c. Data targets are updated from the ODS regardless of the ODS activation status.
d. All of the above.
9. It is not possible to activate an ODS which contains a request from a full load and a Delta Initialization load of the same data source.
a. True
b. False
10. Select the correct statements regarding data deletion settings in an InfoPackage.
a. It is possible to set an InfoPackage to delete all the data in an InfoCube during the loads.
b. Only uncompressed data can be set to be deleted from the cube in an InfoPackage during the loads.
c. Deletion settings can be done only for basic InfoCubes.
d. Data deletion settings in an InfoPackage are possible only for full loads.
e. All of the above.
11. Select the correct statements about parallel processing in Multiproviders.
a. Multiprovider queries create one process per info provider involved and are processed parallel by default.
b. It is not possible to make Multiprovider queries run sequential.
c. Multiprovider queries create a parent process which provides a synchronization point to collect the overall result from other sub processes.
d. Parallel processing is always faster than sequential processing in Multiproviders.
e. All of the above.
12. Select the correct statements about the ALPHA conversion routine in BW.
a. An ALPHA conversion routine is assigned to a characteristic info object automatically when it is created.
b. An ALPHA conversion routine is used to convert characteristic values from 'external to internal' values only.
c. Conversion is done on alphabets and numeric input values.
d. An ALPHA conversion routine removes the spaces on the right side of numeric values and right aligns them.
e. The left side of the numeric input values are filled with zeros.
13. Select the correct statements related to navigational attributes.
a. It is better to avoid using navigational attributes from a query performance point of view.
b.If a navigational attribute is used in an aggregate, the aggregate needs to be adjusted every time there is a change in the values of this attribute.
c. An attribute included as a characteristic in the InfoCube has the same effect as being used as a navigational attribute in the cube.
d. A navigational attribute can be made to display an attribute without removing data from the InfoCube.
e. None of the above.
14. A 'Check for Referential Integrity' can only be possible for information sources with flexible updating.
a. True
b. False
15. Select the correct statements about physical partitioning in BW.
a. New partitions on F table of an InfoCube are created during data loads to the InfoCube.
b. An E fact table is created when activating an InfoCube with a number of partitions corresponding to the partition value range.
c. If a cube is not partitioned before populating with data, it is not possible to partition the cube without removing all the data.
d. PSA table partitions can contain more than one request.
e. All of the above.


Question #1: A, C, D
Master data and hierarchy data changes are activated and all the aggregates which have navigational attributes which will be affected by the changes are realigned. Change run deletes all active records for which modified records exists in master data 'P' table and makes all modified records to active.
Question #2: A
If an aggregate contains key figures which are built as MIN or MAX, that will force a change run to recreate these aggregates during the alignment process.
Question #3: B, D
Unless specified using transaction RSKC, special characters cannot be loaded into BW fields where it needs to generte SIDs. So it is possible for these characters to be loaded into text fields.
Question #4: B
A change run doesn't update the 'E' table of the aggregates for the alignment of aggregates due to master data changes. The alignment is done by inserting rows with the necessary negative and positive key figure values in the 'F' table.
Question #5: B
In the table ROIDOCPRMS, MAXSIZE is the size in kilobytes which is used to calculate the number of records in each datapacket to be transferred to BW. If the calculated number of records exceeds MAXLINES, the packet size in terms of number of records will be made the same as the value of MAXLINES value.
Question #6: B, C
A Multiprovider can be built on basic InfoCubes, ODSs, info objects or Infosets. An Infoset can have only ODSs or info objects. Multiproviders use 'union' operation but Infosets use 'join'. Both the objects are logical definitions which don't store any data.
Question #7: A, C, D
Transaction RSRCACHE is for the Cache Monitor. The OLAP Cache will be active unless the 'cache inactive' flag is set. Persistent mode is to specify the action to be taken when the cache memory is exhausted.
Question #8: A, B
If the BEx Reporting flag is switched off than the SID won't have to be taken when activating the ODS. This improves performance. If the 'unique data records' flag is set, it is not possible to load records to the ODS for which the key combination already exists. Data targets can be updated only after the ODS activation takes place successfully.
Question #9: B
It is possible to activate an ODS which contains Delta and full loads from the same InfoSource if the full load is done with the repair flag set in the InfoPackage.
Question #10: A, C
All data can be set to be deleted from a basic cube during full loads and Delta loads. Data can be deleted depending on various conditions. Data can only be deleted from basic cubes, not the ODS.
Question #11: A, C
Multiprovider queries create processes to run on the individual info providers involved. These processes run parallel by default. The parent process provides a synchronization point to collect overall results from sub processes. Many times the parallel processing may be slower than sequential processing, if the data volume is high.
Question #12: A, D, E
The ALPHA conversion routine is assigned to the characteristic info objects when created. This needs to be deleted manually if not required. The conversion is applied to 'external to internal' formats and vice versa. For 'external to internal' formats, the values are right aligned and the spaces on left side is padded with zeros.
Question #13: A, B, D
Queries using navigational attributes will be slower since additional tables have to be joined with the Fact tables to get the desired results. If there are changes to the values of navigational attributes, the aggregates using these will have to be readjusted, which is done by a change run. Navigational attributes can be made to display only without removing the data from the cube.
Question #14: A
A referential integrity check is only possible for info sources with flexible updating
Question #15: E
The 'F' Fact table is partitioned on request and is created during data loads. The 'E' Fact table of the InfoCube is created with the number of partitions specified in the partitioning range. Once the data is loaded to the cube, partitioning based in the Time characteristic is not possible without removing the data. PSA table partitions can contain more than one request.

Logistics and Distribution R/3 Consultant Certifacation test Questions(some)

Question:
Which statements concerning goods issue are true?

Answer:
A Goods issue reduces requirements in materials planning
B Goods issue posts value changes to the stock account in inventory accounting
C Goods issue posts value changes to the stock account in asset accounting
D Goods issue posts value changes to the tax account
E Goods issue reduces warehouse stocks

Question:
Which of the following statements about billing are correct?

Answer:
A. Invoice dates for creating invoices at certain times are maintained in the calendar.
B. You cannot carry out pricing again during billing.
C. A transaction-specific requirement, such as "deliveries must be combined in a collective invoice" can
be set to control billing.
D. If there are several payers for one delivery, only one billing document is created for each player.

Question:
How is the schedule line determined?

Answer:
A. Item category and document type
B. Item category group and strategy group on the material master record
C. Item category and MRP type on the material master record
D. MRP Type and shipping point

Question:
When processing a billing due list, you have the following options:

Answer:
A. The invoicing run can be started as a simulation run.
B. For performance reasons, the invoicing run via billing due list processing can only be carried out in batch.
C. The invoice run can be carried out for delivery-related and order-related billing documents simultaneously.
D. Order-related billing documents and delivery-related billing documents must always be created separately.

Question:
How does the SAP system enable you to check the reason for documents not being combined in a billing document?

Answer:
A. Using the Spilt analysis function in the environment menu of the billing document.
B. Control of the document flow.
C. Control of the billing log.

Question:
How is the schedule line determined?

Answer:
A. Item category and document type.
B. Item category group and strategy group on the material master record.
C. Item category and MRP type on the material master record.
D. MRP Type and shipping point.

Certification Requirements Solution Consultant mySAP Supply Chain Management

Certification Requirements Solution Consultant mySAP Supply Chain Management
- Order Fulfillment ( SD )2002
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Software components: SAP R/3 4.6C Certification duration: 3 hours Number of certification questions: 80 multiple choice questions Required certifications for participation in this certification test:
Please note that you are not allowed to use any reference materials during the certification test (no access to online documentation or to any SAP system).
The certification test Solution Consultant mySAP Supply Chain Management - Order Fulfillmen 2002 verifies the knowledge in the area of the mySAP Supply Chain Management solution for the consultant profile Order Fulfilment. This certificate proves that the candidate has a basic understanding within this consultant profile, and can implement this knowledge practically in projects.
The certification test consists of questions from the areas specified below:

Topic Areas

1. Special Business Transactions (+)

Availability Checking Consignments Backorder Processing

2. Integration (+)

Organizational Structures SD/FI interface SD/MM interface

3. Reporting (+)

Overview

4. Billing (++)

Credit/Debit Memos Billing Plans Billing due List Billing Document types Account Determination

5. Pricing (++)

Rebate Processing Condition Technique General Pricing Processing and Configuration Condition Records Pricing Procedure

6. Master Data (++)

Customer Master Material Master Customer Material Information Record Customer and Product Hierarchies

7. Shipping (++)

Basic Delivery Processing Picking, Packing and Goods Issue Scheduling Routes and Route Determination

8. Sales Processing (+++)

Basic Sales Document Processing and Configuration Contracts Copying Control Partner and Output Control Item Categories and Schedule Line categories

9. ASAP (+)

Accelerated SAP-Overview

10. Experiences from Implementations (Case Study or Project)* (+)


Setting Up Company Structures (organizational units in mySAP.com) Integration and Dependencies
* = In topic area 10, you will be tested on cross-topic implementation and integration issues. Implementation and integration knowledge that refers to a specific area (such as Picking, Packing and Goods Issue) will be tested in the relevant topic (such as Shipping).
Weighting Key in the Test:
+ = 1 - 10% ++ = 11 - 20% +++ = over 20%

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- Describe the uses of the Business Intelligence (BW) component
- Describe the uses of the Enterprise Portal component
- Recognize the benefits for your company of using SAP NetWeaver

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About Dr.Bjarne Berg

Dr. Berg holds a Bachelor of Science from Appalachian State University (B.Sci.), an MBA from East Carolina University, a Doctorate in Information Systems from Argosy University (DBA) and is studying Information Technology at University of North Carolina (Ph.D). He has also completed masters level courses at University of North Carolina Charlotte and undergraduate courses at Florida Keys Comm College. He attended the Norwegian Army Military Academy (KSG) and served as an officer in the Norwegian Armed Forces. His dissortation was "An Empirical Examination of the Impact of Data Model Denormalization the Model Validation Results" Previosly, Dr. Berg has worked as a Sr. Manager at PriceWaterhouseCooper's global data warehouse group and as a Director of Business Intelligence at MyITGroup Ltd. In these positions he has managed multi-year data warehouse projects for clients such as Ericsson, Chevron-Texaco, International Thomson Publishing, International Paper. He has also consulted and managed smaller projects for OTP Bank (Hungary), SEB Banken (Sweden), Bank of Hawaii (Hawaii), NationsBank (USA), Equiva Services (USA), Research in Motion (Canada), Anheuser-Busch (USA), Asea-Brown Boveri (Sweden), and has been an project advisor to Brady Corp, Callaway golf, Novellus, Cadence, PG&E, Sedgwick county, Waste Management, & others.



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SAP BW and DB2 for z/OS V8

Best Practices - Top Ten SAP BW recommendations
Here are a base set of recommendations for SAP BW implementations on DB2 z/OS. Customers who follow these recommendations have demonstrated greater maintenance and query stability, resulting in better performance of the zSeries SAP BW installation.

1. Set proper DB2 ZPARMS.
For more information, refer to 7.1, “General z/OS settings and ZPARMS” on page 121 of the IBM Redbook Best Practices for SAP Business Information Warehouse on DB2 for z/OS V8, SG24-6489-00.
2. Ensure that the user selects the option to run RUNSTATS after data loads.
For more information, refer to 7.3, “Runstats” on page 131 of the IBM Redbook Best Practices for SAP Business Information Warehouse on DB2 for z/OS V8, SG24-6489-00.
A cost-based optimizer relies on current and correct statistics to ensure optimal SQL access path selection. In an SAP BW environment, statistics do not require re-collection unless the object's data content has altered based upon a load, SAP compression, rollup, or data archive. Therefore, only these activities require the updating of DB2 statistics.
With a load, new packets are loaded into the F fact table. Without knowledge of the newly loaded data, the optimizer may not choose an optimal access path for subsequent reporting queries, aggregate rollups, or SAP compressions that specify a search criteria for the individual packet number. For this reason, it is important to ensure RUNSTATS is triggered as part of the load .
There are two ways to run RUNSTATS:
a. Manually: RSA1 -> 'Manage' infocube -> tab strip 'performance' -> 'Create Statistics (Btch)'
b. Process chains: If you are already using process chains to load data, then add RUNSTATS NODE to the process chain. For a further optimized RUNSTATS capability
with process chains, see SAP Note 778437.
3. Keep current with SAP support packs.
Each new SAP support pack delivers fixes and performance enhancements based upon prior customer requirements, or on identified areas for improvement by joint DB2 and SAP development.
4. Utilize SAP compression (E fact table).
For more information, refer to “Overview” on page 35 of the IBM Redbook Best Practices for SAP Business Information Warehouse on DB2 for z/OS V8, SG24-6489-00.
When F fact table packets are consolidated into the E fact table via a process known as "SAP compression", then queries on the E fact table filter by meaningful dimension/master data characteristics rather than by the arbitrary packet number. This can result in better exploitation of available indexes on the E fact table, since the F fact table must carry an index led by packet number to improve compression and rollup performance, but not query performance. Given the volatility of the F fact table, RUNSTATS is required more frequently than on the E fact table. Therefore, keeping the F fact table a moderate size by compressing packets to E can improve overall RUNSTATS performance and the cost for the entire infocube.
SAP compression can reduce the impact of index drop and recreate during infocube data loads. SAP compression is a prerequisite for enabling partitioning on the E fact table.
Finally, the most important reason for SAP compression is for non-cumulative key figures whereby an additional row is inserted or updated in the E fact table that has the same combination of dimensions id but is infinite for time. Rather than requiring you to sum all delta values from the F fact table, the E fact table reference point can be accessed directly, thus improving query performance.
5. Partition the E fact table via SAP.
For more information, refer to 5.4.4, “Partitioned E-fact table” on page 53 of the IBM Redbook Best Practices for SAP Business Information Warehouse on DB2 for z/OS V8, SG24-6489-00.
The E fact table (result of SAP compression) can be partitioned via SAP, which provides a greater opportunity for improved query performance and elapsed time, and also a potential reduction in operational costs. Partitioning the E fact table increases the opportunity for DB2 parallelism, which can significantly reduce the query elapsed time. Similarly, queries with time-based filtering will be able to eliminate unnecessary partitions from being accessed, regardless of the filtering dimensions or indexes chosen for fact table access. These two benefits also result in greater access path stability for queries against the infocube.
An additional benefit for partitioning is the ability for partition-level operations such as COPY utility, REORG, or RUNSTATS to be invoked by the DBA. With time-based partitions, historical partitions do not require further REORG/RUNSTATS because their data will not change over time. An increase in E fact table size should not result in a significant increase in operational maintenance costs. For these reasons, we recommend that you partition the E fact table and use SAP compression.
6. Use DB2 compression.
DB2 hardware compression is one of the strengths that differentiates zSeries from other platforms. Compression rates of 70% and greater are possible for large SAP BW objects, such as fact tables, ODS and large Aggregates. The four main benefits of compression include:
a. Reduced disk space
b. Improved elapsed time for sequential processing (for example, queries, copy utility)
c. Improved bufferpool hit ratio (more rows per page)
d. Reduced log data volume where insert intensive processing
With the compression dictionary moving above the 2 GB bar in V8--which may result in virtual storage relief for DBM1--there is more motivation for customers to exploit the pronounced compression capabilities of zSeries.
7. Keep current with the SAP certified DB2 maintenance level.
As with SAP software, each maintenance release of DB2 provides additional fixes and enhancements based upon prior customer problems and requirements. To minimize exposure to known problems, it is recommended that you stay current with the SAP certified maintenance level and apply additional PTFs as identified in SAP notes 390016 and 81737. For more information, refer to 6.5, “PTF checker” on page 113 of the IBM Redbook Best Practices for SAP Business Information Warehouse on DB2 for z/OS V8, SG24-6489-00.
8. Utilize aggregates.
DB2 z/OS has a heritage founded on operational applications where high performance data updates can be as much a priority as data retrieval performance. Also, DB2 is unhindered by the update challenges of warehouse-specific index designs. Both issues point to the DB2 ability to provide very strong aggregate build performance, which is beneficial given the SAP recommendation that this is the main tool for improving query performance in an SAP BW environment.
It is common for SAP customers to use the off-peak window, the quietest period, which should be exploited fully to build as many aggregates as necessary to provide the required query response times for users. Customers with a CPU chargeback system may also benefit from pushing this work to off-peak hours, and thus incur off-peak CPU rates. And for customers supporting multiple time zones, the sophisticated IRD/WLM capabilities can be utilized to ensure that the off-hours aggregate builds for one time zone do not impact the online workload for another time zone.
9. Use the SAP transaction/programs to remove unused data.
Master data tables can be preloaded with SAP default data and loaded with data by a user that never gets utilized. This unused data can disrupt the cost-based optimizer's estimates of how many rows will be returned--or it can result in this data being unnecessarily retrieved for every query involving that table. Therefore, we recommend that you purge unwanted data by using the following methods:
Trancode RSRV for dimension data
The program to delete master data is RSDMD_DEL_BACKGROUND or the functional Module RSDMD_DEL_MASTER_DATA.
Program RSCDS_DEL_OLD_REQUESTS to remove obsolete rows from aggregate F tables (SAP note 609164).
10.Use the multi-provider approach carefully.
If the multiprovider is made up of infocubes with the same data model, but the cubes cannot use structure-specific infoobject properties (for example, the cubes are made up of disjoint sets of data, where the partitioning characteristic has a range of values in each cube), then BW must query each cube in order to retrieve the result. However, using "homogenous multi provider" is useful if the underlying cubes have a constant value defined for a partitioning characteristic, and queries restrict on that characteristic. Thus, only cubes that contain relevant data are accessed (SAP note 629541). Therefore, we recommend that you use the multi-provider approach wisely to ensure the optimizer can adequately determine which cubes to access. The result will be improved query performance.

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Special Notices
This material has not been submitted to any formal IBM test and is published AS IS. It has not been the subject of rigorous review. IBM assumes no responsibility for its accuracy or completeness. The use of this information or the implementation of any of these techniques is a client responsibility and depends upon the client's ability to evaluate and integrate them into the client's operational environment.

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Podcast: SAP jobs present and future, with David Foote

By Jon Franke, News Editor
13 Feb 2007 | SearchSAP.com

The market for SAP jobs is hot, with some SAP skills paying premiums over the general IT market. In this podcast with David Foote, president of Foote Partners LLC, find out which modules have a particularly rosy outlook and which ones aren't expected to fare as well. Foote also discusses how outsourcing could affect SAP professionals and gives a general market update and predictions for the upcoming year.

SAP job market trends with David Foote


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David Foote discusses what to expect in the SAP jobs market.

Program highlights


(0:40) Can you explain your research and how people can make use of it?

(2:35) Which modules are paying particularly well or poorly?

(4:20) What should SAP professionals be doing to improve their prospects?

(7:04) Can you talk about some particular IT trends that are affecting specialist jobs?

(8:55) How can SAP professionals take advantage of these trends, and what are some roles that will be in demand?

(10:56) How will SAP's SOA focus affect SAP professionals?

(13:29) How does the trend toward business and process modeling create opportunities for roles such as ABAP developers?

(14:40) How does SAP's midmarket push affect SAP professionals?

(17:21) Is outsourcing an issue that SAP professionals should be worried about?

(18:34) Any final thoughts to wrap up?

Sales pro wondering about a switch to SAP

Sales pro wondering about a switch to SAP
EXPERT RESPONSE FROM: Jon Reed


It's hard to walk away from strong sales skills. Top notch salespeople are hard to find. Instead of working in SAP, why not sell SAP? Or if not SAP, you could also consider selling complementary third-party software solutions that interface with SAP. There are hundreds out there, and many are doing quite well.
In fact, if you excel in SAP sales, you might even be able to transition into a "pre-sales" role which would combine your sales skills with some technical know-how as you guide customers through the software evaluation process.

But if you decide to pursue SAP implementation work instead, I'm not sure you would find your sales background especially relevant. It's true that the "sales" side of the Sales and Distribution module does touch on sales, but for the most part, the key areas of SD pertain to configuring sales orders and advanced pricing functionality. With your background in marketing and sales, you might find that SAP's CRM component draws more on your expertise.

But again, if you have a knack for sales, you might be better off moving into SAP software sales than trying to become an implementation consultant. The market for SD/MM consultants is good, largely driven by upgrade projects, but then again, someone had to sell those upgrade projects too, and maybe that someone could be you.

SAP BW Certification Material (Versions 3.0b & 3.5) I

Title: BW310 - Data Warehousing

Pages: 497
Size: 44.9 MB

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Title: BW305 - Reporting and Analysis

Pages:591
Size: 45.1 MB

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LO650 - Cross Functional Customizing in SD

LO650 - Cross Functional Customizing in SD
Size: 3.81 MB

Target Audience

Project team members responsible for customizing SD functions

Prerequisites
Essential:
LO150
Recommended:
At least one of the following Level 3 courses:
LO605
LO610
LO615

Course Goals

- Customize and use SD functions that extend across components or transactions, such as determining output and text and designing lists.
- Gain high-level understanding of advanced concepts in Customizing.

Course Content



Copying control

Output determination

Text determination

List functions

Account groups

Overview of modifying printed documents in SD

Overview of user exits

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SAP Resumes, Interviewing Tips

Learning how to best present yourself when looking for jobs is crucial. Articulate effectively your ability and skills on resume and at the interview:

• The cover letter is as important as the resume itself. Alex Rudolff has instructions in The Art of the Cover Letter


• 10 Tips for Crafting Eye-catching Cover Letters


• How to Write a Masterpiece of a Resume {Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have. -Bo Bennett }


• Also read How To Prepare Your Curriculum vitae


• Resume writing is an art: 25 Words that can hurt your resume


• A Guide on how to prepare for an interview Marketing Yourself


• Kiplinger has a list of What Not to Say at a Job Interview.


• Some of the Interview Bloopers you should avoid.


• The University of Wisconsin has a 12 page PDF on Interviewing Techniques


• Ace Your Job Interview with these 88 Surefire Tips and tricks


• How to answer 64 toughest interview questions


• How to Impress an Agency ?


• 6 Common Interview Questions


• Career Journal has a large collection of articles.


• Power Words for your resume


• Reference Letters - How to Get Them, Where to Store Them


• When should you turn down a job offer?


• Career Hub - Insider’s Guide to Job Search (EBook)

SD Study Material II

TSCM62_1 - Order Fulfillment II (Part 1)

R/3 System
Release 4.6C
2002, Q4


Size: 5.81 MB

PREREQUISITES:

TSCM60 - Order Fulfillment I

COURSE CONTENTS:


Overview
Shipping

Course Overview
Overview of the Delivery Process
Organizational Units in Shipping
Controlling the Elements of the Outbound Delivery
Goods Receipt Process
Goods Issue Process
Special functions
Packing
Handling units within Delivery Process
Goods Issue
Conslusion
Pricing
Course Overview
Pricing Fundamentals
Condition Technique in Processing
Pricing Configuration
Working with Condition Records
Special Functions
Special condition Types
Taxes
Agreements
Rebates
Summary
Billing
Course Overview
Introduction to billing
Billing Overview
Controlling the billing process
Special billing types
Dataflow in Billing
Creating Billing documents
Types of settlements
Special business Transactions
Account Determination
SD/FI Interface
Conclusion
Cross-functional customizing in SD
Course Overview
Organizational Structures in SD
Copying Control
Text Control
Output
Processing Output
Lists
Adapting the Interface
Summary
ASAP
ASAP Overview
Implementation roadmap

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TSCM62_2 - Order Fulfillment II (Part 2)

R/3 System
Release 4.6C
2002, Q4

Size: 8.18 MB

PREREQUISITES:

TSCM60 - Order Fulfillment I

COURSE CONTENTS:


Overview
Shipping
Course Overview
Overview of the Delivery Process
Organizational Units in Shipping
Controlling the Elements of the Outbound Delivery
Goods Receipt Process
Goods Issue Process
Special functions
Packing
Handling units within Delivery Process
Goods Issue
Conslusion
Pricing
Course Overview
Pricing Fundamentals
Condition Technique in Processing
Pricing Configuration
Working with Condition Records
Special Functions
Special condition Types
Taxes
Agreements
Rebates
Summary
Billing
Course Overview
Introduction to billing
Billing Overview
Controlling the billing process
Special billing types
Dataflow in Billing
Creating Billing documents
Types of settlements
Special business Transactions
Account Determination
SD/FI Interface
Conclusion
Cross-functional customizing in SD
Course Overview
Organizational Structures in SD
Copying Control
Text Control
Output
Processing Output
Lists
Adapting the Interface
Summary
ASAP
ASAP Overview
Implementation roadmap

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