SAP ABAP questions and answers

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SAP ABAP questions and answers

• What is an ABAP?
• What is an ABAP data dictionary?
• What are domains and data element?
• What is foreign key relationship?
• Describe data classes.
• What are indexes?
• Difference between transparent tables and pooled tables.
• What is an ABAP/4 Query?
• What is BDC programming?
• What are the functional modules used in sequence in BDC?
• What are internal tables?
• What is ITS?
• What is DynPro?
• What are screen painter and menu painter?
• What are the components of SAP scripts?
• What is ALV programming in ABAP? When is this grid used in ABAP?
• What are the events in ABAP/4 language?
• What is CTS and what do you know about it?
• What are logical databases? What are the advantages/ dis-advantages of logical databases?
• What is a batch input session?
• How to upload data using CATT ?
• What is Smart Forms?
• How can I make a differentiation between dependent and independent data?
• What is the difference between macro and subroutine?
• What is the differrences between structure and table in data dictionary in ABAP?
• What is the difference between collect and sum?
• How we format the data beofore before write statment in report ?
• What is the difference between Table and Template?
• When do we use End-of-selection?
• In evevts start-of-selection is default event. When we have to use this event explicitly? Why?
• What is the differences between ABAP and OOABAP. In which situation we use OOABAP?
• What is table buffer? Which type of tables used this buffer?
• What is the use of pretty printer ? Exactly where can we link the functional module to abap coding.
• What is the difference between SAP memory and ABAP memory?
• What is the difference between Type and Like?
• What is Tcode SE16. For what is it used. Explain briefly?
• What are different ABAP/4 editors? What are the differences?
• What is difference between dialog program and a report?
• How do you connect to the remote server if you are working from the office for the client in remote place.
• Explain about roll area , Dispatcher, ABAP-Processor.
• Which one is not an exit comand ? (Exit, cencle, stop, back)
• What is Field sysmbol ?
• What is lock object ?
• Why BAPI need then BDC ?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of using views in ABAP porgramming ?
• How data is stored in cluster table?
• Have you used performance tuning? What major steps will you use for these?
• How to create client independent tables?
• What type of user exits have you written?
• How can you debugg a script form?
• How do we debug sapscript?
• What are the different types of data dictionary objects?
• What is the step by step process to create a table in data dictionary?
• Can a transparent table exist in data dictionary but not in the data base physically?
• What are the domains and data elements?
• What is a collect statement? How is it different from append?
• On ABAP: Did you set up a workflow? Are you familiar with all steps for setting up a workflow?
• In the ‘select’ statement what is “group by”?
• How can I copy a standard table to make my own z_table?
• From Excel to ABAP - Is batch mode possible ?
• Q: Is there any standard SAP report which gives a count of the number of times a program is executed ?
• Q: When we create a customer the information is updated in structure RF02D and the some tables like KNA1 are updated. How can we find the tables for master data transactions?
• Q: How can we use CAD with SAP ?
• Q: How can I access SAP through Internet?
• Q: How can we transport the standard text?
• Q: How to find what transactions a particular user was running for a given period in the past (Eg: from 1st of a month )
• Q: We want protect/lock a field so that only selected people can change the value while others can only read. How to set the authorizations?
• Q: How to lock an user defined transaction for some time during which no user can access the same?
• Q: Our ABAP program is working properly in Foreground. Can I schedule it for background processing on the weekend?
• Q: How can we send a mail to the user intimating him that his report/BDC is completed in background?
• We get the total number of pages as expected by using 'SAPSCRIPT-FORMPAGES' in a duplex layout....
• Q: Can I Print a logo on an Invoice?
• We want to move a SAP table to an Access table using TABLE_EXPORT_TO_MSACCESS_RFC Importing parameters are ...
• Q: We want an RFC do the following transactions - MB1A, MB1C,>MB01 (goods receipt/issue).
• Q: In a Dev instance, we want to transport a modification to a layout set from one client to another. What is the best way?
• Q: We need to keep track of the transports that need to flow through to other systems (ie, DEV, TST, TRN, PRD etc). Is there a way do this?
• How can we want to add this additional field from a different table?
• We need to download an internal table to the Presentation Server(local workstation) ....
• We are calling transaction VL01 in batch input to create deliveries using a program for delivery due list ...
• Q: What are some sample Direct input data transfer programs?