Collection of important SAP ABAP Interview Questions
1. When a program is created and need to be transported to production does selection texts always go with it? if not how do you make sure?
2. What is the client concept in SAP? What is the meaning of client independent?
3. Are programs client dependent?
4. Name a few system global variables you can use in ABAP programs?
5. What are internal tables? How do you get the number of lines in an internal table? How to use a specific number occurs statement?
6. How do you take care of performance issues in your ABAP programs?
7. What are datasets?
8. How to find the return code of a stmt in ABAP programs?
9. What are interface/conversion programs in SAP?
10. Have you used SAP supplied programs to load master data?
11. What are the techniques involved in using SAP supplied programs? Do you prefer to write your own programs to load master data? Why?
12. What are logical databases? What are the advantages/disadvantages of logical databases?
13. What specific statements do you using when writing a drill down report?
14. What are different tools to report data in SAP? What all have you used?
15. What are the advantages and disadvantages of ABAP query tool?
16. What are the functional areas? User groups? And how does ABAP query work in relation to these?
17. Is a logical database a requirement/must to write an ABAP query?
18. What is the structure of a BDC sessions.
19. What are Change header/detail tables? Have you used them?
20. What do you do when the system crashes in the middle of a BDC batch session?
21. What do you do with errors in BDC batch sessions?
22. How do you set up background jobs in SAP? What are the steps? What are the events driven batch jobs?
23. Is it possible to run host command from SAP environment? How do you run?
24. What kind of financial periods exist in SAP? What is the relevant table for that?
25. Does SAP handle multiple currencies? Multiple languages?
26. What is a currency factoring technique?
27. How do you document ABAP programs? Do you use program documentation menu option?
28. What is SAPScripts and layout set?
29. What are the ABAP commands that link to a layout set?
30. What is output determination?
31. What are Idocs?
32. What is screen painter? Menu painter? Gui status?
33. What is screen flow logic? What are the sections in it? Explain PAI and PBO.
34. Overall how do you write transaction programs in SAP?
35. Does SAP have a GUI screen painter or not? If yes what operating systems is it available on? What is the other type of screen painter called?
36. What are step loops? How do you program page down page up in step loops?
37. Is ABAP a GUI language?
38. Normally how many and what files get created when a transaction program is written?
What is the XXXXXTOP program?
39. What are the include programs?
40. Can you call a subroutine of one program from another program?
41. What are user exits? What is involved in writing them? What precautions are needed?
42. What are RFC’s? How do you write RFC’s on SAP side?
43. What are the general naming conventions of ABAP programs?
44. How do you find if a logical database exists for your program requirements?
45. How do you find the tables to report from when the user just tells you the transaction he uses? And all the underlying data is from SAP structures?
46. How do you find the menu path for a given transaction in SAP?
47. What are the different modules of SAP?
48. What is IMG in SAP?
49. How do you get help in ABAP?
50. What are different ABAP editors? What are the differences?
51. What are the different elements in layout sets?
52. Can you use if then else, perform etc statements in sap script?
53. What type of variables normally used in sap script to output data?
54. How do you number pages in SAPScripts layout outputs?
55. What takes most time in SAP script programming?
56. How do you use tab sets in layout sets?
57. How do you backup SAPScripts layout sets? Can you download and upload? How?
58. What are presentation and application servers in SAP?
59. In an ABAP program how do you access data that exists on a presentation server v/s on an application server?
60. What are different data types in ABAP?
61. What is difference between BDC and Call Transaction?
62. Setting up a BDC program where you find information?
63. What has to be done to the packed fields before submitting to a BDC session?
1. When a program is created and need to be transported to production does selection texts always go with it? if not how do you make sure?
2. What is the client concept in SAP? What is the meaning of client independent?
3. Are programs client dependent?
4. Name a few system global variables you can use in ABAP programs?
5. What are internal tables? How do you get the number of lines in an internal table? How to use a specific number occurs statement?
6. How do you take care of performance issues in your ABAP programs?
7. What are datasets?
8. How to find the return code of a stmt in ABAP programs?
9. What are interface/conversion programs in SAP?
10. Have you used SAP supplied programs to load master data?
11. What are the techniques involved in using SAP supplied programs? Do you prefer to write your own programs to load master data? Why?
12. What are logical databases? What are the advantages/disadvantages of logical databases?
13. What specific statements do you using when writing a drill down report?
14. What are different tools to report data in SAP? What all have you used?
15. What are the advantages and disadvantages of ABAP query tool?
16. What are the functional areas? User groups? And how does ABAP query work in relation to these?
17. Is a logical database a requirement/must to write an ABAP query?
18. What is the structure of a BDC sessions.
19. What are Change header/detail tables? Have you used them?
20. What do you do when the system crashes in the middle of a BDC batch session?
21. What do you do with errors in BDC batch sessions?
22. How do you set up background jobs in SAP? What are the steps? What are the events driven batch jobs?
23. Is it possible to run host command from SAP environment? How do you run?
24. What kind of financial periods exist in SAP? What is the relevant table for that?
25. Does SAP handle multiple currencies? Multiple languages?
26. What is a currency factoring technique?
27. How do you document ABAP programs? Do you use program documentation menu option?
28. What is SAPScripts and layout set?
29. What are the ABAP commands that link to a layout set?
30. What is output determination?
31. What are Idocs?
32. What is screen painter? Menu painter? Gui status?
33. What is screen flow logic? What are the sections in it? Explain PAI and PBO.
34. Overall how do you write transaction programs in SAP?
35. Does SAP have a GUI screen painter or not? If yes what operating systems is it available on? What is the other type of screen painter called?
36. What are step loops? How do you program page down page up in step loops?
37. Is ABAP a GUI language?
38. Normally how many and what files get created when a transaction program is written?
What is the XXXXXTOP program?
39. What are the include programs?
40. Can you call a subroutine of one program from another program?
41. What are user exits? What is involved in writing them? What precautions are needed?
42. What are RFC’s? How do you write RFC’s on SAP side?
43. What are the general naming conventions of ABAP programs?
44. How do you find if a logical database exists for your program requirements?
45. How do you find the tables to report from when the user just tells you the transaction he uses? And all the underlying data is from SAP structures?
46. How do you find the menu path for a given transaction in SAP?
47. What are the different modules of SAP?
48. What is IMG in SAP?
49. How do you get help in ABAP?
50. What are different ABAP editors? What are the differences?
51. What are the different elements in layout sets?
52. Can you use if then else, perform etc statements in sap script?
53. What type of variables normally used in sap script to output data?
54. How do you number pages in SAPScripts layout outputs?
55. What takes most time in SAP script programming?
56. How do you use tab sets in layout sets?
57. How do you backup SAPScripts layout sets? Can you download and upload? How?
58. What are presentation and application servers in SAP?
59. In an ABAP program how do you access data that exists on a presentation server v/s on an application server?
60. What are different data types in ABAP?
61. What is difference between BDC and Call Transaction?
62. Setting up a BDC program where you find information?
63. What has to be done to the packed fields before submitting to a BDC session?
