JER Interview Questions (And Answers)BW Interview Questions © bwinterviewquestions.com - No part of this book can be reproduced in any form without Al written authorization.Copyright .. Introduetion.. BW Administration and Design Basic Concepts........ Non Cumulative Key Figures Update rule example to return a Table... Authorizations... BW Archival and retrieve Process Chains... Open Hub ‘Tuning RSRV. : Upgrade from 2.x to 3.x Steps (opseeee BW Statistics. Aggregates... BW Reporting (BeX and Web Reporting). Business Explorer Basic Concepts... Calculated key figures. Boolean Operators Structures and cells Before and after aggregation. Key figure properties . Hierarchies in Reports... User Exits for Bex Reporting. BeX User Exit Example... Variables, Variables, Variables, Variables .. Query properties..ne Document utility Query Administration Conditions and Exceptions... Reporting agents WAD Web Application Designer Extraction Basic Concepts Class System Generic Data source. 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CO-PA Retraction.. (© bwinterviewquestions.com - No part of this book can be reproduced in any form without fell written authorization.Enhancing data extraction. User exit example for Master data..... User Exit example for Transaction Dat DB Connect.. Currency Translation in BW. BW FUNCTIONAL. ASAP methodology Business Content and roles Master data. OCUSTOMER Display attributes . Navigational Attributes for CUSTOMER OMATERIAL Display Attributes ......... Material Navigational Attributes Info Cubes ‘MM Cube OPUR_CO1 — Purchasing Data ‘MM Cube number 2, OPUR_C02 Vendor Evaluation. sesconane Info Cube OSD_CO1 (Customer) Example for SD cube. SD Cube, 0SD_CO3, Sales Overview Finance Cube OFIAP_CO3, AP Line Item Finance Cube OFIAP_CO2, AP Transaction Data.. Finance Cube OFIAR_CO3, AR Line Item .. Finance Cube OFIAR_C02, AR Transaction data.. HR Cube, OPA_CO1, Headcount and Personnel Actions HR Cube, Benefits, OPABN_CO1. CO-PA Cube example OCOPA_C03 (Quick start). HR Cubes Tables in R/3. SD Tables. 6 bwintervienquestons.com ~ No par ofthis book can be reproduced in any form without written authorization.Copyright © bwinterviewquestions.con No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without the written approval of bwinterviewquestions-com Microsoft®, WINDOWS®, NT®, EXCEL®, Word®, PowerPoint® are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. ORACLE® is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation. SAP, SAP Logo, R/2, R/3, mySAP, mySAP.com and other SAP products and services mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP (© bwinterviewquestions.com - No part of this book can be reproduced in any form without a written authorization,Introduction Thave spent many years with SAP BW; I have taught many classes, consulted with Fortune companies; many of my students are working as SAP BW Consultants worldwide. During my career, I have interviewed many candidates for consulting and permanent positions. I want to share this experience with others. This book is for any candidates going for BW interviews and employers who interview BW candidates. I wish every one success. I would also happy to get comments and feedback on this book. I would be updating this book for any future new versions of BW. Please send your comments and feedback to feedback@bwinterviewquestions.com © bwinterviewquestions.com - No part of this book can be reproduced in any form without fall written authorization.BW Administration and Design Basic Concepts 1 2 ‘What are the differences between a OLAP and OLTP applications OLAP OLTP a, Summarized data Detailed b. Read only Read write c. Not Optimized Optimized for data applications d. Lotof historical data Not much old data ‘What is a star schema? A fact table at the center and surrounded (linked) by dimension tables What is a slowly changing dimension? ‘A dimension containing a characteristics which changes over a time; for example take employee job title; this changes over a period of time with different job titles ‘What are the advantages of Extended star schema of BW vs. the star schema a. use of generated keys (numeric) for faster access b. extemal hierarchy cc. multi language support 4. master data common to all cubes e. slowly changing dimensions supported f. aggregates in its own tables for faster access ‘What is the namespace for BW? All SAP objects start with 0 and customer is A-Z; all tables begin with /BIO for SAP and /BIC for customers; All generated objects start with 1-8 (like export data source); prefix 9A is used in APO. What is an info object? Business object like customer, product, etc; they are divided into characteristics and key figures; characteristics are evaluation objects like customer and key figures are measurable objects like sales quantity, etc; characteristics also include special objects like unit and time. ‘What are the data types supported by characteristics? NUMC, CHAR (up to 60), DATS and TIMS ‘What is an external hierarchy” Presentation hierarchies are stored in its own tables (hierarchy tables) for characteristic values © bwinterviewquestons com No part ofthis book can be reproduced in any form without Mal written authorization.10. ML. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. a7. What are time dependent text / attribute of characteristics? If the text (for example a name of the product /person over time) or if the attribute changes over time (for example job title) then these must be marked as time dependent, Can you create your own time characteristics? No What are the types of attributes? Display only and navigational; display only attributes are only for display and no analysis can be done; navigational attributes behave like regular characteristics; for example assume that we have a customer characteristics with country as a navigational attribute; you can analyze the data using ‘customer and country. What is Alpha conversion? ‘Alpha conversion is used to store data consistently by storing any numeric values with prefixing with Os; for example if you defined material as 6 Nume then number 1 is stored as 000001 but displayed as 1; this removes inconsistencies between 01 vs. 001. ‘What is the alpha check execution program? This is used to check consistency for BW 2.x before upgrading the system to 3.x; the transaction is RSMDCNVEXIT What is the attributes only flag? If the flag is set, no master data is stored; this is only used as attribute for other characteristics; for example comments on a AR document. What is compounding? This defines the superior info object which must be combined to define an object; for example when you define cost center then controlling area is the ‘compounding (superior) object. ‘What is the Bex options for characteristics like F4 help for query definition and execution? This defines how the data is displayed in query definition screen or when query is executed; options are from the data displayed, from master data table (all data) and from dimension data; for example let us assume that you have 100 products in all, 10 products in a cube; in bex you display the query for 2 products; the following options for product will display different data a. selective data only — will display 2 products b. dimension data - will display 10 products ¢. from master data - will display all 100 products What are the data types allowed for key figures? Amount, number, integer, date and time. © bbwintervienquestons.com = No part ofthis book can be reproduced in any form without Ml written authorization.