ABAP Interview Questions (business objects technical faqs)
=>Is a logical database a requirement / must to write an ABAP/4 query ?

=>What are Change header/detail tables ? Have you used them ?

=>What do you do when the system crashes in the middle of a BDC session ?

=>What do you do with errors in BDC batch sessions ?

=>How do you set up background jobs in SAP ? What are the steps ? What are the event driven batch jobs ?

=>Is it possible to run host command from SAP environment ? How do you run it ?

=>What kind of financial periods exist in SAP ? What is the relevant tab for that ?

=>Does SAP handle multiple currencies ? Multiple languages ?

=>What is a currency factoring technique ?

=>How do you document ABAP/4 programs ? Do you use program documentation menu option ?

=>What is SAP script and layout set ?

=>What are the ABAP/4 commands that link to a layout set ?

=>What is output determination ?

=>What are IDOCs ?

=>What are screen painter, menu painter, gui status ...etc.?

=>What is screen flow logic ? What are the sections in it ? Explain PAI .

=>Overall how do you write transaction programs in SAP ?

=>Does SAP have a GUI screen painter or not ? If yes, what operating system system is it available on ? What is the other type of screen painter called ?

=>What are step loops ? How do you program pagedown, pageup in step loops ?

=>Is ABAP a GUI language ?

=>Normally, how many and what files get created when a transaction program is written ? What is the XXXXXTOP program ?

=>What are the include programs ?

=>Can you call a subroutine of one program from another program ?

=>What are user exits ? What is involved in writing them ?

=>What are RFCs ? How do you write RFCs on SAP side ?

=>What are the general naming conventions of ABAP programs ?

=>How do you find if a logical database exists for your program request ?

=>How do you find the tables to report from when the user just tells the transaction he uses ? And all the underlying data is from SAP structure ?

=>How do you find the menu path for a given transaction in SAP ?

=>What are the different modules of SAP ?

=>How do you get help in ABAP ?

=>What are different ABAP/4 editors ? What are the differences between them ?

=>What are the different elements in layout sets ?

=>Can you use if then else, perform ...etc statements in SAP Scripts ?

=>What types of variables are normally used in SAP Script to output data ?

=>How do you number pages in SAP Script layout outputs ?

=>What takes most time in SAP Script programming ?

=>How do you use tab sets in layout sets ?

=>How do you backup SAP Script layout sets ? Can you download the backup ? How ?

=>What are the presentation and application servers in SAP ?

=>In an ABAP/4 program how do you access data that exists on database server VS on an application server ?

=>What are the different data types in ABAP/4 ?

=>What is difference between session method and Call Transaction method ?

=>Setting up a BDC program where you find information, is possible ?

=>How many ways to define a break-point ?

=>What is the difference between watch point / break point ?

=>What has to be done to the packed fields before submission session ?

=>What is the structure of a BDC sessions ?

=>What are the fields in a BDC_Tab Table ?

=>What do you define in the domain and data elements ?

=>What is the difference between a pool table and a transparent table ? How they are stored at the database level ?

=>What is the difference between COLLECT / SUM ?

=>What is cardinality ?