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What is the full form of the word B.A.S.I.S.?

Business Application Systems Integrated Solutions.

• Administration In SAP - Sapgui, Unix, SAP ITS, Router, Client Copy, IDoc and IDES 

• SAP Fiori Licensing

• Flexible S4HANA System for Customers

 
• SAP HANA Installation

 
• Administration in SAP HANA
• Administrating Skills Set

• Typical Life of a Basis Professional

• SAP BC Certification - Is It Worth Getting Certified
• SAP Basis Certification Sample Questions and Answers

• Useful SAP System Administration Transactions
• Changing the Title of SAP Transaction
• Search for SAP Basis Transaction codes
• Important Idoc Transaction Codes
• Explain What Exactly SM50 Transaction Is
• SOX Critical Transaction
• APO Basis Transaction Code

• Interview Questions for SAP Basis
• SAP Administration Questions Answers
• Basis FAQ
• Basis Administration Questions Answers
• Different Types of Work Processes
• Structure Of Application Server
• Introduction To SAP R3 Architecture

• What are SAP Notes
• Apply OSS Notes On My SAP R/3 System
• Manually Applying OSS note on SAP Standard Program
• Upgrading SAP Kernel, Hotpatches and Database Startup
• Patch Management In SAP Basis
• Download SAP Patch Administration
• Applying SP4 to Windows 2000 Server
• Details Description Of SPAU & SPDD
• How to know the kernel version of a SAP R3 system?
• Transaction code to pre-compile all system program
• Reporting a Problem to SAP
• Apply Support Packs To My SAP SYSTEM
• How To Revert SNote After Appying It Successfully
• SNOTE To Implement SAP Notes
• Log On To SAPNet Directly Without Using OSS1

• Steps For Creating SAP User
• Different methods to Lock or unlock SAP users
• Changing the default password for sap* user
• Mass Maintenance of Users Profiles
• Program To Mass Reset Users Password
• How to delete expired roles?
• View and Delete All Single and Composite Role
• What are user groups and how can we use them?
• Hide the User Menu
• Function and Role of User Types and DDIC User
• TCode to Compare 2 Roles, to Find Out Duplicate
• Parameters Definition and Details
• Disallow User From Changing Passwords Through SU01
• Default Setting on List when Exporting out of SAP
• Issue Regarding SAPJSF User
• Find List of Users Logged in to SAP System
• Configure the SSO (Single sign on) for Portal
• Adding Roles To 100 Users At A Time
• Number of Failed Password Logon Attempts
• When SAP User Was Locked Due To Incorrect Logon
• ST03N - Extract Report Execution Count by User

Locking

• Importance Of SM12 Lock Entries
• SM12 Lock Entries How To Safely Repeat Update
• Lock Entries Frequently Asked Questions
• Overflowing Of SM21 Lock Table

• Meaning behind those unconditional tp command mode
• Transport guide Tips for Different SAP Objects
• Transport Request within same Server Different Clients
• Upgrade SAP or Installation of SAP R/3 and ECC
• Transport of ABAP Query
• SAP Message : TP_CANNOT_CONNECT_SYSTEM
• Guide to upgrade 3.1 to 4.6 with HW upgrade at same time
• Restrict The Transport Access In Production
• Remove the import all request (big truck) button from STMS
• STMS Configuration and Transport Route Configuration
• Find transports imported into system by search criteria
• Find SAP Transport Request Number Even If You Forgot
• Find Transport Request Release to Production
• Comparing SAP Objects
• Comparing two clients
• Language Error when logging in after Upgrade to 40B
• Information on how the OPS$ Users Work
• How To Do the TMS Configuration?
• Post Installation Steps For ECC 5.0
• Where To Find Deleted Transport Request Logs
• The Impact Of Renaming a System
• How Do We Transport Standard Text
• Information About Transport Requests

Statistics

• Statistics of Application Modules
• Statistical Logs for all the R/3 System
• Finding the SAP Statistics for transactions and programs
• Inactive Users Logs
• Incorrect login logs
• How to Find How Much Allocated Memory
• What the Max Memory a good Program Should Request

• Archiving and Reorganization are totally different issues
• Archiving a Material Master Record
• Deletion of Vendor Consignment Records
• Reasons For Archiving Financial Accounting Data
• Determining Free Space of Each Table before Archiving
• Multiple Choice Questions Answers On Data Archiving

SAP HANA 2.0 Administration (SAP PRESS)

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System Audit

• The Step required to Audit at the User Level
• Audit of multiple logons
• Security and Authorization Concepts
• Audit Report of Any Client
• Regarding The Used of USMM Tcode
• Security Audit Logs - Intentionally Blocked User
• Establishing Company Security Policy
• Review Audit Security And Control Of Core Modules
• General SAP Audit Checklist
• Security And Control Over The Unix Operating System
• Review The Basis Module Security
• Review The Security And Control Over The Oracle DBMS
• Review The Security And Control Over The NT Operating System
• Review The Change Management Process
• Improving SAP Security

• SAP Load Balancing/Work Processes Troubleshoot
• SAP System Performance Issues
• Tuning Summary In Transaction ST02
• Troubleshooting SAP Performance Issues
• Knowing About Runtime Buffer
• Determine The Optimum DIA WP Number

• Responsibilities Of SAP Basis Consultant
• SAP Administrator Daily Activities
• Tcodes used for Daily System Monitoring
• Monitor and Administrate 4 SAP Systems
• Things To Check When SAP System Down
• Brief Description About SAP Basis Implementation
• What Are The work responsibility for a BASIS person
• Administrator House Keeping Jobs List
• Common Abap Dumps And Their Meaning
• Pre-Refresh Activities Checklist
• Stopping The OS Level Service
• Getting Technical Information At The OS Level
• Administrator Problems And Solutions
• Process Management SM50 SM66
• Administration Of Work Processes Using SM50

• SM13 - How To Check Update Termination Data

• Message Class - Amending the System Messages

• What Is The Use of Solution Manager

• Output Devices As Email Instead Of Print
• Test send of doc. from R/3 via fax,  paging or Internet mail
• Creating a SAP mail distribution lists
• Configuring eMail in Case of Alert
• e-Mail The Back Ground Jobs
• SU01 Email Address Table and Field

• Whether a System is Unicode or non-Unicode

• Bandwidth req. of ISP connect to SAP server through VPN
• Which network IP addr.and host name a user has logged on
• No System name and transaction code in SM04

• Suspend/UnSuspend Released Jobs
• What Is The Job Name EU_REORG Meant
• Scheduling a New Job in SAP
• Deleting Old SM35 Batch Input Sessions

• Security Table Names
• Reorganization of Single Object
• How to Increase the Tablespace free space?
• How to activate the IMG Change Log?
• Edit, create, delete or adjust your database table
• Finding any of the SAP tables that have been changed
• Transport Tables between Clients
• Copying table entries from client 000
• SAP Transaction Table
• Tablespace sizes in large databases
• SAP SQL Tuning Aid with Oracle RDBMS Statistics
• Block Users From Accessing Table
• Types Of Buffering In SAP
• Explain Table Buffering
• Transport Request Relevant Tables
• Swap Space Bottleneck During SAP Operation
• The Different Replication Scenarios

• SAP Output Type Print and Email Same Time
• Output Type Repeat Processing
• Mass Lock All Printers with SPAD
• Print to an USB printer from SAP
• Parallel printing to all the SAP device printers
• How can I print A3 format in SAP
• Delete multiple spool request
• Auto Convert Spool Output To PDF File
• Printing over LAN and WAN
• Sending faxes from SAP
• Basic Understanding Regarding to Spool
• List Of Output Device Type Table
• Change Output Device Settings At Runtime
• SAP Output Type Trouble Shooting
• Print SAP Documents Using Linux
• Which Job Generated Which Spool
• ALV List Populating Data Statistics In Output
• NACH To Find The Modules Output Device
• Where Used List For Output Devices
• Spool Administration
• SAP Printer Change History
• Print Using Berkeley Protocol SAP
• Spool Monitoring Using SP01 SP02

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