SAP Basis Interview Questions

55 - Which R/3 System transaction is used to view the system log?
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A. SP01
B. SM21
C. SM37
D. SPAD

56 - Which of the following statements is true for when the processing of an Update task is interrupted?
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A. The complete R/3 System halts until the problem situation is resolved
B. Interruption of V1 or V2 update tasks will cause a rollback of the already executed database changes, a log entry is made in the VBLOG, and no further V1 or V2 updates will be made until the problem is resolved. An error message is sent to the user.
C. Interruption of V1 tasks will cause a rollback of the already executed database changes, a log entry is made in the VBLOG, and no further V1 or V2 updates will be made until the problem is resolved. An error message is sent to the user.
D. Interruption of V2 tasks will cause a rollback of the already executed database changes, a log entry is made in the VBLOG, and no further V1 or V2 updates will be made until the problem is resolved. An error message is sent to the user.
E. Interruption of V2 tasks will cause a rollback of the already executed database changes, a log entry is made in the VBLOG, and other V1 and V2 updates may continue to be made. An error message is sent to the user.

57 - How does setting the parameter rdisp/TRACE to trace level 2 change the R/3 SYSLOG?
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A. The rdisp/TRACE output is not listed in the SYSLOG and so has no effect.
B. The SYSLOG contains errors, warnings and informational messages depending on the trace level.
C. Database error logging is enabled but the R/3 SYSLOG is not affected.
D. Depending on the Trace level, SYSLOG messages become more or less detailed.

58 - What happens when the SYSLOG file becomes full?
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A. The system halts and sends an error message.
B. The SYSLOG switches and logging continues.
C. The SYSLOG file is overwritten restarting with block 0.
D. No more error messages will be logged.

59 - How should an update-intensive table be buffered?
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A. 100%
B. generic
C. partial
D. not at all

60 - What can be concluded from the values shown in areas 1 and 2 of this SAP System Process Overview?
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A. Although the workload is equally distributed, there is a performance bottleneck because of the excessive R/3 System paging and rolling.
B. We are encountering an I/O bottleneck. The system needs excessive CPU resources to perform I/O operations.
C. The system is using all the available resources, however there is no serious performance problem.

61 - The CPU metrics, %user, %system, and %idle, are global CPU metrics. The %user expresses the percentage of user processes in user mode, the %system expresses the percentage of processes in kernel mode (system calls), and %idle expresses the percentage of non-CPU activity.

A high %system CPU utilization value as shown in this transaction ST06 screen always expresses system resource problems.

Which of the following is a symptom of high %system CPU utilization?
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A. Memory management
B. I/O management
C. Heavy IPC system call rate, process creation, heavy network traffic

62 - Based upon the information in the indicated area of this Operating System Performance Monitor screen (ST06), what does the Load Average value express?
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A. It is a metric that depends on the percentage of the CPU, I/O and LAN resources being utilized.
B. The 1, 5, and 15 minute averages of the count of processes in the run queue of the operating system.
C. The load average value shows the 1, 5, 15 minute averages of the system swapping activity.
D. The load average value shows the 1, 5, 15 minute averages of the operating system uptime.

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