Introduction to SAP ABAP

SAP(Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing) is a software type called

Enterprise Resource Planning(ERP) that is used by large companies for managing their
daily affairs. ABAP in SAP is used for developing RICEFW(Reports, Interfaces, Extensions,
Forms, and Workflows) objects. Advanced Business Application Programming is a full
form of ABAP in SAP. SAP ABAP is a 4th generation application-specific programming
language used for creating an application for the SAP R/3 system. Those applications
will run in SAP that has been written with the help of ABAP/4.

It is currently put along with Java as the programming language for SAP NetWeaver
Application Server(part of the SAP NetWeaver platform) for developing business
applications.

Scope of SAP ABAP

SAP is widely used by plenty of organizations & one of the major reasons behind the
popularity of SAP is that it was specially developed for distributed applications. SAP
ABAP gives extended versatility to the SAP applications such that varied database
systems can be contiguous as per user demands.

The scope of the SAP ABAP career is vast. ABAP can give a prominent career boost for a
programmer recognizing their commitment levels. Once you become a member of the
SAP community, you can begin your career as a trainee, followed by a junior counsellor,
then a specialist, afterwards a senior specialist, and then finally a lead consultant.

An ABAP consultant’s profession is never going to fade as the business process keeps
changing, the technologies also keep getting renewed from time to time which enforces
the person to tune into the variations and learn new forthcoming technologies. The
career of SAP ABAP consultant is intellectually challenging, along with that it is
professionally & financially satisfying.

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SAP ABAP Interview Questions for Freshers

1. What is SAP ABAP?
 SAP(Systems, Applications, and Products in data processing) is an ERP(Enterprise Resource Planning)
type of software that is used to manage the daily affairs of a large company. Advanced Business
Application Programming or ABAP is the fourth-generation programming language and is used to allow
the mass-processing of data in SAP business applications. It is possible to build enterprise applications
for a larger business and financial institution with the help of the SAP ABAP platform. So, SAP ABAP will
protect from organizational data breaches and security threats to information leakage.

SAP ABAP is suitable for integrated applications that a company will use to collect, manage, store, and
interpret data from various functional areas. It will act as a single data source and share data within all
the units of an organization. It helps the customers for running their business with greater accuracy.

2. What is meant by data dictionary in ABAP?

 ABAP data dictionary represents metadata(i.e. data about data) that is present inside the SAP database in
addition to the metadata maintained by the database. Data dictionary allows the necessary description
of all the data without redundancies that are used in the system. New or updated information will be
provided automatically for all the system components. This ensures data security, data consistency, and
data integrity.
 It is used to describe the logical structures of certain objects that can be used in the development of the
ABAP/4 application and it can also display the underlying relational database in tables.
 The data dictionary is useful in creating and managing data definitions as well as in creating Tables,
Domains, Views, Data Elements, and Types. Also, it supports a few standard functions for editing screen
fields like assigning input help to the field of a screen.
3. Differentiate between transparent and pool tables.

Transparent Table Pool Table

It has one to one relation with the database It has many to one relationship with the
table database table
It contains only a single table It contains a large number of small tables
Stores master data Stores customizing data or system data
Transparent Table Pool Table
A secondary index can be created A secondary index cannot be created
Can be accessed using Open and Native SQL Can be accessed only using Open SQL
The database table will have the same name, The database table will have a different
the same number of fields, and the same field name, different number of fields, and
names different field names
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4. What is Web Dynpro for ABAP?

Web Dynpro(WD) is an SAP standard user interface technology for ABAP and is used for developing the
web-based application in SAP using the development concepts and techniques of SAP. It provides a
front-end web user interface for connection with backend SAP R/3 systems to access data and also for
reporting. It has a graphical development environment along with a runtime environment that has
specific development tools that are combined in the ABAP Workbench.

5. What are smart forms in SAP?

SAP Smart Forms is a tool used for printing and sending documents. It is useful in the development of
forms, e-mails, PDF files, and documents for the Internet. This tool offers an interface for building and
maintaining the layout and logic of a form. SAP delivers a form selection for business processes such as
those used in Sales and Distribution(SD), Customer Relationship Management(CRM), Human
Resources(HR), and Financial Accounting(FI).

This tool permits you for form modification with the help of simple graphical tools rather than using any
programming tool. It implies that a user without any programming knowledge will be able to easily
configure these smart forms with data for a business process.