SAP R3 Interview Questions and Answers
Question - 91 : - Describe the concept of “Business Content” in SAP Business Information Warehouse?
Answer - 91 : - Business Content is a pre-configured set of the role and task-relevant information models based on consistent Metadata in the SAP Business Information Warehouse. Business Content provides selected roles within a company with the information they need to carry out their tasks. These information models essentially contain roles, workbooks, queries, InfoSources, InfoCubes, key figures, characteristics, update rules and extractors for SAP R/3, Business Applications, and other selected applications.
Question - 92 : - Mention the two types of services that are used to deal with communication
Answer - 92 : -
You can use two types of services
- Gateway Service: This service allows communication between R/3 and external applications using CPI-C protocol.
- Message Service: To exchange short internal messages, this service is used by the application servers
Answer - 93 : - "Reason Codes" are tags that can be assigned to describe under/overpayments during the allocation of incoming customer payments. They should not be mixed up with "void reason codes" used when outgoing cheques are produced.
Question - 94 : - Mention the benefits of reporting with BW over R/3.
Answer - 94 : - Business Warehouse uses a data warehouse and OLAP concepts for analyzing and storing data While the R/3 was intended for transaction processing. You can get the same analysis out of R/3, but it would be easier from a BW.
Question - 95 : - What is SOX (Sarbanes Oxley)?
Answer - 95 : -
Sarbanes-Oxley is a US law passed in 2002 to strengthen corporate governance and restore investor confidence. Act was sponsored by US Senator Paul Sarbanes and US Representative Michael Oxley.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act is legislation enacted in response to the high-profile Enron and WorldCom financial scandals to protect shareholders and the general public from accounting errors and fraudulent practices in the enterprise. Sarbanes-Oxley defines which records are to be stored and for how long. The legislation not only affects the financial side of corporations, but also affects the IT departments whose job it is to store a corporation’s electronic records. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act states that all business records, including electronic records and electronic messages, must be saved for “not less than five years”. The consequences for non-compliance are fines, imprisonment, or both. IT departments are increasingly faced with the challenge of creating and maintaining a corporate records archive in a cost-effective fashion that satisfies the requirements put forth by the legislation.
Organizations should be able to guarantee the integrity of some of their operations like PTP or OTC which can have quiet a significant impact on the way the financial statements are projected if not controlled.
Organizations today are thereby moving in direction of automating their softwares for SOX compliance. A key factor towards achieving SOX compliance is to seperate the duties amongst individuals to such an extent that no one person has the authorization to fulfill a complete cycle say procurement or sales.
Question - 96 : - How to create a query in SAP R/3 system?
Answer - 96 : -
The query can be created and executed using the t-code SQVI:
- Execute the t-code SQVI.
- Enter the name of query to be created and click on create button.
- Enter the Title and comments for query and select the data source such as table or table join.
- Select the preferred view as Basis Mode or Layout Mode and click on continue button.
- Above step will take us to the new screen, add the respective table on which we need to create a query.
- If Data source is selected as table join, select the respective tables as needed and joining fields.
- Save and come to main screen. Here, you need to select the fields to be displayed in output and their sequence.
The query can be created and executed using the t-code SQVI.
Question - 97 : - What is the use of ST01? What are the return codes of t-code ST01
Answer - 97 : -
Transaction code ST01 is used to trace the user authorizations. This can be useful if we need to check which all the authorizations have been checked in background when any t-code is being executed by the business user.
Below are the return codes of ST01 :
- 0 – Authorization check passed
- 1 – No Authorization
- 2 – Too many parameters for authorization check
- 3 – Object not contained in user buffer
- 4 – No profile contained in user buffer
- 6 – Authorization check incorrect
- 7,8,9 – Invalid user buffer
Question - 98 : - What are the authorization groups and how to create them?
Answer - 98 : -
Authorization groups are the units comprising of tables for common functional area. Generally, each table is assigned to a authorization group due to this reason we need to mention the value of authorization group while restricting the access to table in authorization object S_TABU_DIS.
The authorization group can be created by using the t-code SE54. The assignment of tables to authorization group can be checked by using table TDDAT.
Question - 99 : - What is the use of authorization object S_TABU_LIN?
Answer - 99 : -
This authorization object is used to provide the access to tables on row level.
Question - 100 : - What is the use of SU25 t-code?
Answer - 100 : -
The t-code SU25 is used to copy the data from tables USOBT and USOBX to tables USOBT_C and USOBX_C. Generally, this t-code needs to be executed after the installation of system upgrade so that the values in customer tables are updated accordingly.