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Question 1

Cloud computing

Answer 1

• public cloud: open public network, cheap multitenant, s/4 essentials edition
  private: network secured, extended edition
• hybrid cloud

IAS: provide servers, storage, etc, handle system maintenance
Paas: cloud dev platform on web browser
Saas: all provisioning and maintenance handled

Question 2

example of saas paas ias

Answer 2

(s/4 hana cloud, fieldglass, concur, ariba, successfactors)
cloud platform
HANA enterprise platform

Question 3

s/4 hana deployment options

Answer 3

cloud: highly standardized, sap manages upgrades and system ( in essentials or extended), essentials-fastest release cycles and low TCO, multitenant (share server)
extended-single tenant, more customizatiosn, semi-annual upgrades on sap cloud
anyPremise: fully governed by customer, customizations

Question 4

s/4 hana key pillars

Answer 4

• intelligent automation
• new business models
• digital age user experience
• end to end real time analytics

Question 5

Finance

Answer 5

• cost management and profitabliity analysis: allocate resoruces to accomodate mareket changes
• Accounting and financial close: general ledger accounting inventory, asset accounting
• treasury management
• financial operations using payables management system
• receivables management: billing customeres, dispputes
• subscription billing and revenue management
• governance, risk, and compliance: international trade, watch list

-universal journal: basis of accounting, singal chart of accounts
-company code: smallest unit of acounting for which complete set of accounts created
-ledger: leading has all comp codes, nonleading local, extension
chart of accounts: G/L accounts used by company codes standard YCOOA

Question 6

HR

Answer 6

successfactors: integrates basic data and contact details, compnay code and cost center, job title info and employment status

Question 7

sourcing and procurement

Answer 7

• supplier management: classification and segmentations, evaluation
• sourcing and contract managment
• central procurement
• operational procurement
• invocie management
• procurement analytics

Question 8

manufacturing

Answer 8

• production engineering
• production planning: material requriements planning, production scheduling
• extended production planning and scheduling
• production operations: control, execution, repetitive manufacturing, kanabn, outsorucing, JIT supply
• quality managment

Question 9

R&D Eng

Answer 9

• enterprise portfolio and project managmenet

- compliance, engineering, lifycycle managemnet, project control

Question 10

supply chain

Answer 10

• order promising
• advanced order promising
• inventory mngmt
• delivery and transport mngmt
• warehousing

Question 11

asset mngmt

Answer 11

environment health and saftey

-maintenae mngmt

Question 12

cloud sales

Answer 12

-order and contract mngmt- master data, price, contracts, billing, claims, analytics

Question 13

service

Answer 13

• service contract mngmt: long term service agreement with customers
• services order mngmt: short term agreement

Question 14

multitenant arch

Answer 14

each tenant has app servers and central services, share server and a database

Question 15

application arch

Answer 15

accessed by business users through fiori, s/4 hana abap on netweaver managed by sap runs on hana db

Question 16

security

Answer 16

company, offerings, data centers, operations, products should be secure
(company, operations, products)
-data centers have power supply, cooling , controlled access
-levels: 1. global security policy
2. global security standards
3. IT security directives
4. IT security procedures
5. Best practices
-customer -> TLS -> RP web dispatcher, SAML SSO auth -> hana

Question 17

data protection

Answer 17

-customer not SAP owns data, SAP is data processor

Question 18

quarterly release process

Answer 18

1. upgrade q system first weekend after RTC
2. 2 weeks later upgrade P system (3rd weekend after RTC date)
3. regression test between

RTC date: product management announces enhancements, publishedin learni ng hub and porta, customer notified 6 weeks prior to q system upgrade

• all q systems updgrades applied to public cloud offerings, cannot deactivate after activation, then must activate in p system for transports once systems are on same release
• new scope items requested to activate by customer on both q and p systems
• software patching biweekly
• RASD tool: understand impact of chagnes each quarterly release

Question 19

professional svcs

Answer 19

• controlling and accounting
• projects and engagements: pm planning
• resource management
• service centric billing

Question 20

end to end automation

Answer 20

• conversational AI
• predictive analytics
• ML

Question 21

what determines which apps in launchpad

Answer 21

• assigned business role

- user personalization

Question 22

order promising

Answer 22

-supply chain: makes commitment based on actual stock info to confirm which date and quantity requirement can be fulfilled on

Question 23

asset mngmt

Answer 23

• rcord and process incidents safety obs and near misses

- maintenance management: optimize scope of work for repairs

Question 24

sales quoatation

Answer 24

-initiated by RFQ, then sales order created

Question 25

sap enterprise support

Answer 25

collab, empowerment, innovation and value realization, mission critical support