SAP BW Questions - 30 Questions

1. Which of the following objects are connected by update rules?

This question has more than one answer.
a. Communication structures
b. Extract structure
c. InfoCube
d. InfoStructure
e. Transfer structure
f. None of the above
ANSWER: a,c

2. How can the business content be extended?

This question has more than one answer.
a. SAP BW provides function exits
b. Extend the standard extraction structures
c. Function exit must be programmed to enrich data
d. New fields must be assigned
e. None of the above
ANSWER: a,b,c,d
3. Which of the following is correct about Profile Generator?
This question has only one answer.
a. It is a tool to automatically generate Authorization Profile
b. It is a tool existing in OLTP systems only
c. Complete the Administrator work with extra tasks to set up authorization
d. A tool that can be used by end users to modify their authorizations
e. None of the above
ANSWER: a
4. Which of the following applications in SAP support delta update?
This question has more than one answer.
a. CO/PA (time stamp)
b. MM
c. LIS (based on separate delta tables)
d. FI/SL
e. None of the above
ANSWER: a,c
5. Which of the following describes a Result Set query?
This question has only one answer.
a. A nested query where the results of a first query are used as entry values fo
r a second
query
b. A query using flat tables (ODS object or InfoObject)
c. A prequery
d. There is no such thing in SAP BW
e. None of the above
ANSWER: a
6. Which of the following can be extended in SAP BW?
This question has more than one answer.
a. Transaction data

b. Master data
c. Texts
d. Metadata
e. All of the above
ANSWER: a,b,c
7. What do the SAP BW content extractors provide?
This question has only one answer.
a. Generic extractors
b. Custom extractors
c. There is no such thing in SAP BW content
d. Data sources that can be activated for all applications
e. None of the above
ANSWER: d
8. Which of the following is usually the largest table in the star schema?
This question has only one answer.
a. None they are all equal
b. The fact table
c. The first dimension table
d. The metadata table
e. The SID table
ANSWER: b
9. For which of the following objects can authorization be created?
This question has more than one answer.
a. Characteristic values
b. Hierarchy leaves
c. Hierarchy levels
d. Hierarchy modes
e. None of the above
ANSWER: a,b,c,d
10. Where are customer-specific documents stored?
This question has only one answer.
a. DNS
b. BDS
c. ITS
d. AWB
e. None of the above
ANSWER: b
11. What does an extract structure represent?
This question has only one answer.
a. Data from the target system
b. Data from the source system
c. Transport process
d. Communication process
e. None of the above
ANSWER: b
12. What method is used in CO/PA (SAP R/3 side) to manage delta updating?
This question has only one answer.

a. Several new tables are created to manage the delta upload

b. A V3 delta management setup table is created
c. A person manually monitors the data as they come to SAP BW
d. Based on the time stamp that is attached to each line item
e. None of the above
ANSWER: b
13. Where can data be filtered in BEx Analyzer?
This question has only one answer.
a. By the end user in a report
b. During query execution
c. In the query builder
d. When checking users authorizations
e. None of the above
ANSWER: c
14. Using PSA as a loading process, which of the following methodologies can be
used?
This question has only one answer.
a. To PSA, then to the data target
b. To PSA only
c. To data target only
d. To PSA and data target in parallel
e. All of the above
ANSWER: e
15. Which of the following is correct about Request ID (RNSID)?
This question has more than one answer.
a. It represents the chronological update history
b. A unique key is created by the system
c. Administrator can use RNSIDs to identify certain upload sequences in case of
wrong data
d. Only requests that have green traffic lights will update the related InfoCube
e. Once an InfoCube is compressed, the SAP BW Administrator loses the capability
of
deleting a single request
ANSWER: a,b,c
16. What is a MultiCube query?
This question has only one answer.
a. A query using flat tables (ODS object or InfoObject)
b. A nested query where the results of a first query are used as entry values fo
r a second
query
c. It is a query divided using the relevant Basic Cubes into several queries tha
t can be
processed in parallel
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
ANSWER: c
17. Which of the following objects contains transactional data?
This question has only one answer.
a. Query
b. InfoSources

c. InfoCube
d. Report
e. Templates
f. None of the above
ANSWER: c
18. Which of the following objects keeps the aggregate and InfoCube in sync?
This question has only one answer.
a. DIM pointer
b. Read pointer
c. SID pointers
d. Surrogate pointer
e. None of the above
f. All of the above
ANSWER: b
19. What is the scheduler?
This question has more than one answer.
a. A tool that manages data requests to the source system
b. A tool that provides a view of data loading activities and their status
c. A tool that automates the data transfer using InfoPackages and InfoPackages
groups
d. A tool to display all SAP BW elements (source system, DataSources, transfer r
ules,
InfoSource, update rules, and InfoCubes) from the source system up
e. None of the above
ANSWER: a,c
20. Which of the following data extractions is possible with SAP BW?
This question has only one answer.
a. Provider
b. SAP R/3
c. Flat file
d. SAP R/2
e. All of the above
f. None of the above
ANSWER: d
21. Which of the following statements are true regarding authorization in BW?
This question has more than one answer.
a. Each authorization refers to one InfoCube
b. Authorization is data concerning the user that remain unchanged over a reason
ably
long period of time
c. Each authorization refers to an authorization object
d. Each authorization defines one or more values for each field that is containe
d in the
authorization object
e. None of the above
ANSWER: c,d

22. Which of the following elements refers to objects that deliver data in a Web
report?
This question has only one answer.

a. Data deliverers
b. Data providers
c. Data suppliers
d. Web providers
e. Web suppliers
ANSWER: b
23. Which of the following characterize a Remote Cube?
This question has more than one answer.
a. All of the characteristics are in one dimension
b. It is attached to an InfoSource
c. It has a physical table
d. It stores OLAP data
e. You can see updated data immediately from the source system
ANSWER: a,b
24. Which of the following is a supply of workbooks in SAP BW arranged according
to
topic areas?
This question has only one answer.
a. An InfoSource
b. A channel
c. An InfoArea
d. An InfoCatalog
e. An InfoObject
ANSWER: b
25. Which of the following are correct concerning SAP BW InfoSources?
This question has more than one answer.
a. An InfoSource is comprised of InfoObjects
b. Each time an InfoSource is generated a new extract structure is created on th
e
OLTP system
c. Only key figures are contained in the Info Source
d. The InfoSource allows the system to transfer data to the communication
structure
e. The InfoSource helps prepare data to be stored in InfoCubes
ANSWER: a,d,e
26. What tables do ODS objects consist of?
This question has more than one answer.
a. Active table
b. Extended table
c. Change log table
d. Modified and new table
e. None of the above
ANSWER: a,c,d
27. How can the business content be activated in SAP BW?
This question has more than one answer.
a. No need to activate it is automatically activated on installation of SAP BW
b. The business content for one SAP module can be activated in one step
c. Single business content objects can be activated
d. After the activation a complete scenario can be used
e. None of the above
ANSWER: b,c,d

28. What step do CO/PA, LO extraction, and LIS extraction methods have in common
when
setting up delta management of uploads?
This question has only one answer.
a. On the scheduler you activate a full upload
b. On the scheduler you initialize the delta upload
c. Setup of delta tables
d. The delta is managed in the service API
e. The InfoStructure tables are used
f. VBDATA and ARFCSDATA tables
ANSWER: b
29. In which of the following objects can data transformation take place?
This question has more than one answer.
a. Extract structures
b. ODS
c. Transfer routines
d. Transfer rules
e. Update rules
f. None of the above
ANSWER: a,c,d,e
30. When translating the ERM to MDM/star schema, which of the following guidelin
es
apply?
This question has more than one answer.
a. N:M relationships are broken into smaller 1:N relationships
b. The central intersection entity becomes the fact table
c. The ERM is divided over BSIP rollout schedule
d. The foreign-primary key relationship becomes the dimensions
e. Dimensions are summarized into aggregates
ANSWER: a,b
31. Which of the following are InfoCube types in SAP BW?
This question has more than one answer.
a. Aggregate
b. B Basic
c. R Remote
d. T Temp
e. V Virtual
f. All of the above
ANSWER: a,b,c

32. What is the recommended way to increase the speed of loading?

This question has only one answer.
a. Increase the size of number range buffer
b. Delete secondary indexes
c. Load master data before transaction data
d. Create multiple jobs to run in parallel
e. All of the above
ANSWER: e
33. What extractor types are available in SAP BW 2.0?

This question has more than one answer.

a. Application specific
b. Object specific
c. Cross application
d. InfoCube specific
e. None of the above
ANSWER: a,c
34. On top of which of the following objects can an InfoSet query be built?
This question has more than one answer.
a. Tables
b. Logical database
c. Views
d. Transaction data
e. ABAP programs
ANSWER: a,b,c,e
35. What is the maximum number of key figures in an InfoCube?
This question has only one answer.
a. 13
b. 85
c. 322
d. 233
e. None of the above
ANSWER: d
36. In order to report on data without any key figure (e.g., employee names), wh
ich of the
following would one introduce?
This question has only one answer.
a. An ABAP program to count the master data table entries
b. An artificial key figure (counter) filled with a 1 for each employee
c. Reports that count with Visual Basic functions the number of records
d. A categorical dimension
e. None of the above
ANSWER: b
37. What is a reporting object?
This question has only one answer.
a. A folder used to store related InfoObjects
b. A generic term for business evaluation objects
c. A record layout of InfoObjects
d. An authorization object with an additional relationship to InfoCubes
e. None of the above
ANSWER: d
38. How does SAP BW support geocoding?
This question has more than one answer.
a. SAP BW does not support geocoding
b. Choose geo-info objects to be geocoded
c. Generate geocoordinates with external tool
d. Upload geocoordinates via SAP BW InfoSource
e. None of the above
ANSWER: b,c,d

39. Where are data stored during the execution of a query?

This question has only one answer.
a. An aggregate cube
b. A cache (temp) cube in the application server
c. A virtual cube
d. A view cube
e. None of the above
ANSWER: b
40. What are the characteristics of the ODS?
This question has only one answer.
a. Data available for reporting
b. Denormalized data structure
c. Merge data from different InfoSources
d. Potential to create external files
e. Technical and data changes
f. Transaction data only
g. All of the above
ANSWER: g