201 Interview Questions -> Books -> 201 Interview Questions - SAP Business Information Warehouse

Released on March 24th, 2006 

156 pages, Paperback

 

About the Book

The book lists over 300 questions on the various BW topics including reporting, admin, extraction and functionality. See below for the complete table of contents. Each question is categorized in to one of 3 categories, namely Beginner, Intermediate or Expert. Each question has a precise answer, and where possible, a real life example is also provided. At the beginning of the book we list the top questions to ask a prospect. i.e. If you have only a short time to prepare then just take these questions to ask the prospect, as they cover the entire spectrum of BW.

In addition, the book provides the username and password to more bonus material located on Genie Press (http://www.geniepress.com/201bw) covering check sheets, BW tables, and more...

Who should read this book?

If you are a consultant, you can use this book to refine your BW skills so that you may ace your next job / contract interview.
If you are an employer / recruiter looking to hire a consultant in the BW space then use this book to ask technical questions about a subject you may know nothing about. Why not do your own technical interview???

About the Author - Raj Mani Thiyagarajan

Raj is a SAP Certified BW consultant with many years of SAP BW consulting and teaching experiences. He also has many years of experience in interviewing applicable BW candidates from around the world. His BW related articles have appeared in leading BW and SAP magazines. Raj holds a BSc. in electrical engineering and is currently a partner in a leading ERP consulting company.

ISBN

0-9777251-0-3

Cover

Table of Contents (Download TOC here)

FOREWORD ........................................................................ 10

INTRODUCTION ................................................................... 11

KEY QUESTIONS ................................................................. 13

Basic............................................................................................ 14

Intermediate ................................................................................. 16

Expert .......................................................................................... 21

 

CHAPTER 1: BW Administration and Design ......................25

Basic Concepts ............................................................................. 26

BW Settings in SPRO ..................................................................... 44

Non Cumulative Key Figures ............................................................ 47

Authorizations .............................................................................. 50

BW Archival and retrieve ................................................................ 55

Process Chains .............................................................................. 57

Open Hub ..................................................................................... 62

Tuning ......................................................................................... 64

RSRV ............................................................................................ 67

ODS ............................................................................................ 69

BW Statistics ................................................................................ 72

Aggregates .................................................................................... 74

 

CHAPTER 2: BW Reporting (BEx and Web Reporting) ........ 79

Business Explorer ......................................................................... 80

Calculated key figures ................................................................... 82

Boolean Operators ........................................................................ 84

Structures and cells ...................................................................... 85

Before and after aggregation .......................................................... 86

Key figure properties ..................................................................... 88

Hierarchies in Reports ................................................................... 90

User Exits for Bex Reporting ........................................................... 92

Variables ..................................................................................... 95

Query properties .......................................................................... 100

Document utility .......................................................................... 103

Query Administration .................................................................... 104

Conditions and Exceptions ............................................................ 105

Reporting Agent ........................................................................... 108

Web Application Designer ............................................................... 112

 

CHAPTER 3: Extraction .................................................... 121

Basic Concepts ............................................................................ 122

Class System .............................................................................. 129

Generic Data source ..................................................................... 130

LIS Extraction............................................................................... 131

LO Extraction .............................................................................. 134

CO-PA Extraction ..........................................................................137

CO-PA Retraction ......................................................................... 140

Enhancing data extraction ............................................................. 142

DB Connect ................................................................................. 145

Currency Translation in BW ........................................................... 147

 

CHAPTER 4: BW Functional ............................................. 149

ASAP methodology ....................................................................... 150

Business Content and roles ............................................................ 151

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