L&T -1

1. Tell me about yourself

2. How to configure STMS from scratch for Dev, Qut, Prd systems physical server?
3. What we do in SP12?
Administration of Temporary Sequential Data
4. What does SP01 & SP02 contains?
5. What is the name of jobs for Spool administration? And what they do?
RSPOR1041
6. How to configure STMS on new 3 system landscape (physical)?
7. Why do we need 1 SAP & Customize Layer or route?
8. What is control file in DB? What it contains? Where it is resides in SAP?
9. What is OS06? What is ST02? What are the Buffers? What does it do?
10. How to add datafile to the database or tablespace?
11. How to do Kernel upgrade with CI & 2 DI? What are dependent file &
independent files?
12. How does DI copies from CI? Where it looks?
13. How to do DB refresh?
14. What are the profiles? What they do? What is the sequence to start the SAP?
What each profile contains?
15. What are statuses of WP in SM50? What is the meaning of state Private & On
Hold
16. What is RSA? What this Transaction code does?
17. What you do for Tuning?
18. What is BRTool? How to use it?
19. What is Unicode & Nonunicode?
20.

CG -1 Naresh from CG Mumbai

1. Tell me about Current Roles and Responsibility of yours?
2. What is the architecture of NetWeaver? What is the procedure for SAP Netweaver
CI & DI in Cluster environment?
It is an extensive, strategic integration and application platform that allows you to reduce the Total Cost of
Ownership (TCO) of your SAP landscape.

People Integration SAP Enterprise Portal

Information Integration SAP Business Information Warehouse

Process Integration SAP XI

Application Platform J2EE, ABAP, DB and OS

3. Tell me something about the Performance management?

Performance management can be done in 2 ways:
Database level If there are long running jobs or long running query we can
take a trace of that and analyze if that is using the proper indexes and it is
using the correct execution plan. If not then we can ask developers to
include the Indexed columns in there query to increase the performance or
else if an additional index can be created which will act as a performance
booster.
SAP Level We need to check ST02 and here we will check for hit ratio and
Swaps. As per the standards Hit ratio should be greater then 95%. If it is less
then 90% then we need to check. But it is not thumb rule that if the hit ratio
is <90% then there are performance related issues. It can be possible that it
is just for a single day. Similarly, for Swaps if swaps are happening for the
system then it can be good or bad. Good in terms of that if Swaps are
happening but in very less number this means that we have done the proper
sizing and our resources are utilized properly. But if the Swaps crossed 6
digit then we have to check performance tuning of the system.
4. What is your experience about Backup and Recovery in SAP? What is the Backup
& Recovery strategy for your landscape?
Flash copy which happens twice a day. If system crashes then we need to apply
archive logs. For each archive there are 2 backups and archive is based on data and not on
time.
5.
DB14
6.
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8.

Where you check for Backup logs in SAP?

What are the different commands for Backup in SAP?

BRBACKUP brconnect DB13 init.sap
Tell me about Database management in Oracle and MS-SQL as per SAP
concerns?
9. Have you got chance to add datafile or extend the tablespace?
Alter tablespace <tablespace_name> datafile (datafile_name) resize
BRTOOL Space management and extend tablespace
10. Have you used DBCOCKPIT? (Need to check the growth and size of the
tablespace) DB02

ST04 Sharing Topology which is used for high availability. For e.g. I have some
application severs in XA and the backup is XB. Similarly I have some servers in XC and
the backup would be XD. This can be changed from Diagonistics Database
Connections Check active sharing topology and then
Thread Activity From this we can check for a running process whether at database side
thread is active or not. From here it will give you the Explain SQL Statement and under
which you can check like if it is using the correct access path, index used, etc. If we need
to create an additional index or change the existing index then we need to invalidate the
Old Sql Statement by clicking on Invalidate SQL Statement otherwise the program will
use the old SQL and the performance will remain as is.
RTDX Runstats This will update the statistics so that program will use the updated
statistics to enahnce the performance
Reorg This will free up the unutilized space
SAPCL (SAP Collector) this gives the updated details of the database. This need to be
configured through JCL. We need to follow some 6 steps which will create the settings
for SAP CL and it started working. From Alert Router we can stop and start the
SAPCL.
DB14 and DB03
11. Have you worked on Client copy and how you did that?
There are 3 ways of performing client copy:
Local client copy - SCCL
Remote client copy - SCC9
Client copy by export-import method SCC8, STMS and then post
processing done by SCC7
Transport
Description
<sid>KO<no>

cross-client data

<sid>KT<no>

client-specific data

<sid>KX<no>

texts and forms

12. What Pre-requisite and post activities you follow while Client Copy?
13. How to configure the TMS if you given new landscape?
DEV and virtual QAL and PRD systems
14. Do you know how to configure client wise STMS?
15. If I create 1 request in client 100 and want to import in client 200 of the same
system (DEV to DEV) then how will do it?
Try STMS.
Click on the "import overview"
Double click on your target system
Click "refresh"
Click on "import all request" or ctrl+F9
Specify the target client
Execute the transport
Done...
Ronald Ramos

But this will import all request.....thousands of them...

Mohd Zainizam
You can use Extended Transport Control.
Extended Transport Control is another way to set up the Transport Route so that the route
is system and CLIENT specific.
In other words, when you release a change request in DEV Client 0XX it will not only
automatically be added to the Import Queue for QAS but also 0X1, 0X2, of DEV.
To set this up requires the steps below:
1) Open the file TP_DOMAIN_DEV.PFL (located on your transport domain controller
such as the DEV box. The file will be in usrsaptrans/bin)
Edit with notepad for each parameter on each system:
DEV/CTC = 0
Change to =1
2) Next you need to create Target Group before creating the transport route.
Create a Target Group:
Access the initial screen of the graphical or the hierarchical editor in change mode.
STMS > Overview > Transport Routes (the default editor will appear, either Hierarchical
or Graphical, to change the default editor : STMS > Extras > Settings > Transport Routes.
You can also switch to one or the other from Goto > Graphical Editor.)
> Configuration > Display Change > (or change icon or F5)
Edit > Transport Target Groups > Create
In the dialog box, Create Target Group:
Enter a name for the target group /GR_QA/ (The name must begin and end with a
forward slash /)
...and a description Targets for Consolidation route
Choose "Insert line"
Enter the required target system/client combinations
Use a separate line for each client.
Example:
Target System
Target Client
Client Name
DEV
0X1
Sandbox
DEV
0X2
Testing

QAS
0XX
Quality Assurance System
The idea is that we want to include the clients that will get an addition to their import
queue when we release a change request from DEV.
Choose Transfer
Now you have to change the transport route to include the Target Group you created.
STMS > Overview > Transport Routes > F5 (change mode) Edit > Transport Routes >
Delete
Now create a Transport Route with Extented Transport Control:
STMS > Overview > Transport Routes > F5 (change mode) Edit > Transport Routes >
Create > Extended Transport Control icon at lower left of dialog box. > Consolidation
route, enter integration system and transport layer. In Target system/client enter the SID
of either an R/3 System and a client or an existing Target Group.
Each System must be specified by System and Client. The Target Group can be used for
the consolidation system.
Distribute and activate the changes as usual by choosing Configuration > Distribute and
activate
NOTE: After you set up Extended Transport Control there might be requests in an import
queue that will show a red status in the CTL column. This is because these change
requests need a client specified before they can be imported. These are old requests that
were already in the queue.
From Import Queue Screen Mark the change request
Choose Request > Target Client > Set
Enter the Target Client ID and choose Enter.
To change a target client before starting an import:
Import Queue Screen > mark Change request > target client > change > enter target client
id and choose enter.
16. If I create 1 request in client 100 and want to import in client 200 of the different
system (ex. DEV to QUT) system then how will do it?
17. How seriously you check you transport directories and file systems are full and
what cleanup actions you will take?
18. How you ever import/maintain/configure the language ex. French?
1> Execute Program : RSCPINST --> Enter FR simulate and check the inconsistencies
2> Added EF in parameter zcsa/installed_languages
3> SMLT - Gave supplementary language as English
4> SMLT - Import package --> gave path --> start on instance
Language is succesfully imported now...
19. What kind of support packs you applied recently?
20. Have you ever do reorganization/deletion/creation of index?se11-sap level se14database level

21. What is your knowledge about JAVA & architecture of it?

22. What are the differences between Config tool and Visual admin tool?
23. What are the different tabs in Config tool and Visual admin tool?
24. Have you done any migration?
25. What SAP Upgrade training you did? What were the issue are faced in that
training?
26. How convenient you are with the Solaris?
27. What are the basic commands in Unix you know?
28. Have you worked on SolMan and what you did?
29. What are the commands to add/remove satellite systems in Sol Man?
30. How to configure the EWA reports?
31. If you are given change then are you ready to work for 24x7 environments?

ADP 1
1. How did you get in SAP Basis?
2. What are the tasks you perform in SAP Basis?
3. What are the tasks you would like to perform in SAP Basis?
4. Have you seen DB02 Tcode in SAP? And what is it?
5. What is the purpose to SYSTEM tablespace? And what is the functionality of it?
6. What is the backup strategy you follow in your current project?
7. Did you get chance to Backup & Recovery?
8. For STMS there are clients and configured, if we add any more client then how to
add that client in STMS?
9. For applying patches to JAVA stack, which tool you used and what are the steps
you followed?
10. What is the difference between SDM & JSPM?