SAP Interview Questions & Answers

1. What is 'SAP'?

SAP stands for Systems Applications and Products in Data Processing.It was Founded in
1972 by Wellenreuther, Hopp, Hector, Plattner and Tschira. Founded in 1972, SAP with its
central station in Walldorf, Germanyis the worldwide market pioneer in community
oriented, inter enterprise business solutions (i.e., business programming). SAP is name of
the German organisation too its ERP product.According to its 2016 corporate actuality sheet,
SAP serves more than 335,000 clients in 190 nations, of which 80% are small- and-medium
sized estimated organisations (SMB). The last truth is a later takeoff from the company's past
concentrate on vast associations.
SAP ERP Solutions

2. Tell Me More about (The History of) SAP?

SAP was begun in 1972 by five former IBM workers in Mannheim, Germany.SAP is name of
the German Company too its ERP product.The first name for SAP, Systeme, Anwendungen,
Produkte, is German for "Systems, Applications and Products." The first thought for SAP was
to furnish clients with the capacity to associate with a typical corporate database for a far
reaching scope of utilisation in genuine time.

In 1973, SAP released R/1, a financial accounting system.In 1979, SAP released R/2, a
centralised computer framework that gave real-time data processing across accounting,
manufacturing, supply chain and human resources.In 1992, SAP released R/3, which spoke
to a change from mainframe computing to the client-server model, and from a two-tier to a
three-tier architecture, in which presentation, applications and data were housed separately.

In 1999, SAP launched mySAP, which denoted another procedure for the company of
concentrating on combining e-commerce software with the applications in R/3.In 2004, the
organisation propelled SAP NetWeaver, and it detailed that more than 1,000 clients gained
the application advancement stage that year.In 2006, the organisation asserted strong
income from SAP Business All-in-One and SAP Business One, its SAP ERP frameworks
for SMBs. In 2009, SAP Business Suite 7 got to be distinctly accessible to clients
worldwide.In 2011, the organisation propelled SAP HANA, an in-memory database
platform.SAP has offered HANA as an deployment choice for Business Suite, and, in 2015,
discharged S/4HANA, an aspiring revamp of Business Suite enhanced for the HANA stage.

3.What are the different SAP products ?

SAP R/3 - It succeds SAP R/2 and is market leader in ERP. R/3 stands for three tier
architecture i.e. Presentation , Logic and Data tier. It has many modules like SD , FI , HR etc
which encompass almost all enterprise departments.
mySAP - It is a suite of SAP products which apart from SAP R/3 also includes SRM , PLM,
CRM, SCM

4. What is an ERP ?

ERP stands for Enterprise Resource Planning Software and is an incorporated computer
based framework used to deal with an organisation's assets successfully. It guarantees
smooth data among different divisions in an enterprise or an organisation and oversees
workflows.Initially, ERP was focused for assembling industry for the most part to plan and
overseeing centre systematic generation and money related market. As the development and
benefits of ERP bundle ERP programming is intended for essential procedure of an
organisation from assembling to small shops with an objective of incorporating data over the
organisation.

5. What are the different types of ERP ?

SAP, BAAN, JD Edwards, Oracle Financials, Siebel, PeopleSoft. Among all the ERPs most
of the companies implemented or trying to implement SAP because of number of
advantages aver other ERP packages.

6. What are the Solutions Currently Available from SAP?

Currently, SAP Solutions include the following:

1. SAP ERP
2. SAP
3. SAP Business Suite
4. SAP R/3 and R/3 Enterprise
5. SAP for Industries
6. SAP xApps
7. SAP Solution Manager
For detail information refer above diagram of SAP ERP Solutions.

7. What is SAP IDES?

International Demonstration and Education System. A sample application provided for faster
learning and implementation.SAP IDES is a sort of SAP system that aides the users about
SAP executions as it has as of now been configured. IDES has been produced for countless
applications like APO IDES, CRM IDES, and BW IDES.

8. Why do you more often choose to implement SAP?

There are number of technical reasons quantities of organisations are wanting to implement
SAP. It's very configurable, exceptionally secure data handling, min data redundancy, max
data consistency, you can exploit financial matters of offers like obtaining, tight coordination
cross capacity.

9. Why SAP Implementation And Integration important for Large Organisations?

SAP business solutions increase business online potentialities and lead towards growth in
terms of success. SAP process works quickly and easily to facilitate with the as-semblance
of hard-to-integrate solutions or customised rigid apps.The technical world is constantly
advancing to make the competition of survival tougher with every passing day for small scale
and new companies. As a result, witnessing the coming up new exclusively efficient
techniques and opportunities to develop, enhance, target, and utilise such extremities.
Varieties of apps, software's, and many more technologies have come up to help your
business run smoothly, sufficiently, freely and easily. SAP Project System implementation is
a systematic process that defines the working and implementation SAP ERP software in an
organization in an organization.Projects are the inseparable part of management of
organization. It is an internal process done to accomplish some specific task necessary for
survival and growth

SAP R/3 Architecture

10. What is SAP R/3?

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.SAP
architecture is partitioned into three layers or servers. There is the presentation layer, the
application layer and the database layer.Each of them is in charge of a specific procedures
and adds to the great working of the whole framework. They all keep running on various
servers not at all like the two layer architecture, where the presentation layer and the
application one were on a similar server and the database layer was overseen
independently.
11. Which are the different layers in R/3 system?

Different layers in R/3 system includes

1. Presentation Layer
2. Database layer
3. Application layer

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

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.

13. What are the Components of the SAP ERP Solution?

1. SAP ERP Central Component (ECC 6.0)

2. SAP SEM (Strategic Enterprise Management) (SEM 6.0)
3. SAP cProject Suite (Project and Portfolio Management 4.0)
4. SAP SRM for ERP (SRM 5.0)
5. SAP Catalog Content Management (CCM 2.0 for ERP 2004)
6. SAP Internet Sales for ERP
14. What Industry Solutions (IS) are Available from SAP?

There are 22 Industry Solutions available from SAP. They are:

1. SAP for Aerospace and Defense
2. SAP for Automotive
3. SAP for Banking
4. SAP for Consumer Products
5. SAP Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable
6. SAP for Defense and Security
7. SAP for Engineering, Construction and Operations
8. SAP for Financial Service Providers
9. SAP for Healthcare
10. SAP for Higher Education and Research
11. SAP for High Tech
12. SAP for Insurance
13. SAP for Media
14. SAP for Mill Products
15. SAP for Mining
16. SAP for Oil and Gas
17. SAP for Professional Services
18. SAP for Public Sectors
19. SAP for Retail
20. SAP for Telecommunications
21. SAP for Utilities
22. SAP for Wholesale Distribution

SAP Modules
15. List the Different Modules in SAP.

1. Simple Finance
2. Simple Logistics
3. C4C(Cloud for Customers)
4. FI (Financial Accounting)
5. CO(Controlling)
6. EC(Enterprise Controlling)
7. TR(Treasury)
8. IM (Investment Management)
9. HR (Human Resource)
10. SD (Sales and Distribution)
11. MM (Materials Management)
12. PM (Plant Maintenance)
13. PP (Production Planning)
14. QM - Quality Management
15. BW (Business Warehousing)

There are many industry specific solutions that SAP provides apart from the list of modules
above which is ever growing