Introduction to SAP 25 Questions with Verified Answers
SAP acronym meaning - CORRECT ANSWER Systems, Applications, and Products in Data
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SAP ERP benefits - CORRECT ANSWER -enables a company to support and optimize its business processes
-ties together disparate business functions such as finance, logistics, and human resources.
-helps the organization run smoothly
-scalable and flexible
Client in SAP - CORRECT ANSWER hardware/software environment that can make a request for services for a central repository of resources.
Server in SAP - CORRECT ANSWER hardware/software combination that can provide services to a group of clients in a controlled environment
Three tier structure of SAP - CORRECT ANSWER 1. User interface: graphical user interface or web interface
2. Application Server: one or more, help distribute work load
3. Database Server: One single data repository
Integration layers of SAP NetWeaver - CORRECT ANSWER -people integration
-information integration
-process integration
-application platform
organizational data - CORRECT ANSWER Defines the enterprise structure by means of legal or respectively business usage
mater data - CORRECT ANSWER long term data that represents data sets mostly
transaction data - CORRECT ANSWER -process related data that is short lived and dedicated to certain master data
-master data of a vendor can be assigned to transaction data that concern the sales volume development
documents - CORRECT ANSWER -data sets that are generated if a business transaction was executed
-is a record of the business transaction
-includes all relevant predefined information from the master data and organizational entities
document flow - CORRECT ANSWER Displays all of the documents associated with the steps that have been completed for a single customer inquiry or order
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) system - CORRECT ANSWER Software that provides a comprehensive, centralized, integrated source of information used to manage all major business processes.
(database programs with inputs, storage, manipulation and output.
ERP Vendors - CORRECT ANSWER 1. SAP, Germans (system, analysis, products in data processing.
2. Oracle/PeopleSoft J.D Edwards
3. Mircosoft Dynamics (for smaller companies)
SAP - CORRECT ANSWER SAP SE: founded in Walldorf Germany 1972. world's largest business software company. world's third largest independent software provider.
SAP Portfolio Strength - CORRECT ANSWER world wide usage, design to satisfy the information needs for all business sizes
designed to satisfy the information needs of all industries.
SAP ERP - CORRECT ANSWER enables companies to support and optimize its business processes, ties together disparate business functions (finance, logistics, and HR), helps org run smoothly, real time environment, scalable and flexible.
SAP Architecture - CORRECT ANSWER 1. User interface: graphical user interface or web interface
2. Application server: one or more, help distribute workload
3. Database server: one single data repository
SAP Vs MS Office - CORRECT ANSWER Nothing is saved on your PC for SAP. Everything is saved on a server
SAP vs Windows - CORRECT ANSWER SAP has very few delete options. Don't save if things are not correct.
SAP NetWeaver - CORRECT ANSWER people, information, process integrations and application platforms
SAP ERP core applications - CORRECT ANSWER 1. Logistics (sales and distribution,etc)
2. Finance (financial, managerial accounting, etc)
3. Human Capital Management
Master Data - CORRECT ANSWER long term data that represents mostly data sets
transaction data - CORRECT ANSWER process related data that is short lived and dedicated to certain master data.
documents - CORRECT ANSWER data that are generated if a business transaction was executed.
record of business transaction
include info from master data and organizational entities
document flow - CORRECT ANSWER he document flow as well as the order status allow the setting of the status at any point in time (sap revises the statues every time a change in a document takes place. [Show Less]