Question 1

What are the 4 key phases of business development?

Accepted Answer

The 4 key phases of business development are: Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing

Question 2

What do you think about the challenges faced by a Business Analyst ?

Accepted Answer

Change management is the biggest challenge in each and every industry After requirements stage when development is started client will come-up with some new changes or enhancements Cross departmental or cross team management – like conflict management between teams Also individuals This requires soft skills and smartness Communication problems – In real time this can happen You might be good in speaking and understanding the English language BUT sometimes it happens like Different people across the globe speak different style of English In USA itself Mexico people speak English differently Romans speak different English So at initial level to understand the accent can be a challenge but after some time you will become perfect

Question 3

Which of the following is NOT true about enterprise systems?

Accepted Answer

Enterprise systems (ES) are large-scale application software packages that support business processes, information flows, reporting, and data analytics in complex organizations. Here option A) The software is expressly built to allow companies to mimic their unique business practices is not TRUE about enterprise systems.

Question 4

How many steps are in the system development life cycle?

Accepted Answer

The process of System development life cycle goes through a series of stages in step wise fashion that almost every developing company follows. Known as the 'software development life cycle,' these six steps include: 1. Planning 2. Analysis 3. Design 4. Development & implementation 5.Testing & deployment and 6. Maintenance.

Question 5

Examples of networking in business.

Accepted Answer

Networking is a socioeconomic business activity by which businesspeople and entrepreneurs meet to form business relationships and to recognize, create, or act upon business opportunities, share information and seek potential partners for ventures. Examples of Business networks are :: 1. Casual contact networks 2. Strong contact networks 3. Community service clubs 4. Professional associations 5. Online/social media networks.

Question 6

A low trough is indicative of

Accepted Answer

A low trough is indicative of "a growing recession" since a trough indicates a general change in the business cycle, which can have varying degrees of importance. A recession could be an important decline in economic activity that goes on for quite many months.

Question 7

A trough in the business cycle occurs when

Accepted Answer

economy is transitioning from a period of decline to a period of expansion

Question 8

What is SAP?

Accepted Answer

SAP is the name of the company founded in 1972 under the German name (Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing) is the leading ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software package

Question 9

What is ERP?

Accepted Answer

ERP is a package with the techniques and concepts for the integrated management of business as a whole, for effective use of management resources, to improve the efficiency of an enterprise Initially, ERP was targeted for manufacturing industry mainly for planning and managing core business like production and financial market As the growth and merits of ERP package ERP software is designed for basic process of a company from manufacturing to small shops with a target of integrating information across the company

Question 10

Why do you usually choose to implement SAP?

Accepted Answer

There are number of technical reasons numbers of companies are planning to implement SAP It’s highly configurable, highly secure data handling, min data redundancy, max data consistency, you can capitalize on economics of sales like purchasing, tight integration-cross function

Question 11

What is SAP R/3?

Accepted Answer

A third generation set of highly integrated software modules that performs common business function based on multinational leading practice Takes care of any enterprise however diverse in operation, spread over the world In R/3 system all the three servers like presentation, application server and database server are located at different system

Question 12

What are presentation, application and database servers in SAP R/3?

Accepted Answer

The application layer of an R/3 System is made up of the application servers and the message server Application programs in an R/3 System are run on application servers The application servers communicate with the presentation components, the database, and also with each other, using the message server All the data are stored in a centralized server This server is called database server

Question 13

What are datasets?

Accepted Answer

The sequential files (processed on application server) are called datasets They are used for file handling in SAP

Question 14

What is Bex (Business Explorer) ?

Accepted Answer

Bex stands for Business Explorer Bex enables end user to locate reports, view reports, analyze information and can execute queries The queries in workbook can be saved to there respective roles in the Bex browser Bex has the following components: Bex Browser, Bex analyzer, Bex Map, Bex Web

Question 15

What is AWB?. What is its purpose?

Accepted Answer

AWB stands for Administrator WorkBench AWB is a tool for controlling, monitoring and maintaining all the processes connected with data staging and processing in the business information whearhousing

Question 16

Describe how SAP handles Memory Management?

Accepted Answer

ST02 / ST03 In general via table buffers, you could go into the whole Work Process, roll in, roll out, heap (private) memory, etc However just as a Unix or DBA admin would know, is you look this up when needed for the exact specifics

Question 17

What is Extractor?

Accepted Answer

Extractors is a data retrieval mechanisms in the SAP source system Which can fill the extract structure of a data source with the data from the SAP source system datasets The extractor may be able to supply data to more fields than exist in the extract structure

Question 18

What are the problems in processing batch input sessions and How is batch input process different from processing online ?

Accepted Answer

PROBLEMS: i) If the user forgets to opt for keep session then the session will be automatically removed from the session queue(log remains) However if session is processed we may delete it manually ii)if session processing fails data will not be transferred to SAP database table

Question 19

What is the step by step process to create a table in data dictionary ?

Accepted Answer

step 1: creating domains(data type, field length, range) step 2: creating data elements(properties and type for a table field) step 3: creating tables(SE11)

Question 20

What is the alternative to batch input session?

Accepted Answer

Call transaction

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