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Question 1.

Use transaction SM51 to answer the following questions.

a. Which instance are you working in?
Ans: Instance = 00

b. Which work process types are configured on your SAP Web

Application Server?
Ans: DIA, ENQ, UPD, BGD, SPO, UP2

Question 2.

a. Find out what parameter rdisp/wp_no_dia means.

What is its default value? (Hint: use RZ11)

Ans: Parameter rdisp/wp_no_dia gives details about number of

dialog work processes.
Default Value = 2

Question 3.

a. Check whether the Internet Communication Manager of your SAP

instance has been started. The Internet Communication Manager is
started by means of parameter rdisp/start_icman. (Hint: Use
RSPFPAR)

Ans: Default value is true which means it has started.

b. Which protocols have been configured for your Internet

Communication Manager? (Hint: Use SMICM)

Ans: SMTP & HTTP protocols have been configured for Internet
Communication Manager.

Question 4.

Answer the following question using transaction SM50.

a. How many dialog work processes are there on the instance that
you are logged on to?

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Ans: 9 Dialog Work Processes are there on the instance that we
are logged on to.

b. Choose Refresh several times in the process overview. Are your

queries always processed by the same work process?

Ans: By choosing Refresh several times in the process overview,

our queries are processed by different work processes.

Question 5.

a. Call transaction SU01 or user maintenance, enter your own user

name, and access your user data in change mode. Open another
session and attempt to access the same data in display mode
and in change mode. Does it work? Why?

Ans: We can see the user in Display Mode But can't access it is
Change Mode.
It shows the following error:-

"Maintenance of user USR07 locked by user USR05"

It is so because only one user can use Maintenance mode at
a time.

b. Check which tables have locks set using the list of lock entries
(SM12).

Ans: Table Name: USR05

c. Delete the session that is in change mode for your user data
using the user overview SM04. Do the lock entries still exist?

Ans: Lock Entries doesn't exist now after ending the session.

Question 6.

a. Display the update records to be processed in your SAP system

client.
(Hint: Call transaction SM13 and, on the initial screen, select all the
updates to be executed today in your client. Choose Execute (F8). A

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list of all records still to be updated for the time period selected is
displayed. If one record (or more) has the status ‘error’, then select
it. On the next screen, select the corresponding update module.
This displays a new screen, on which you select ABAP short dump
(button with list icon).
Ans: Successfully displayed.

Question 7.

Answer the following questions in brief.

1. Which SAP processes are started when the SAP system or an

instance is started?
Ans: (i) SAPOSCOL
(ii) Message Server
(iii) Gateway Server

2. Log information for the dispatcher is stored in the file dev_disp.

You can control the granularity of the logged information using
the profile parameter rdisp/TRACE. There are 4 trace
levels; error messages and warnings
are displayed, by default, at level 1

3. You can display the users logged on to the SAP system with
transactions SM04 (for each instance) and AL08 (system-
wide). You can obtain an overview of the scheduled background
jobs with transaction _SM37. You can use transaction SM02 to
send a system message to the users that are logged on.

4. What are the advantages of a three-tier client / server

configuration as compared to a single-tier or two-tier
configuration?
Ans: Advantages of a three-tier client/server configuration as
compared to a single-tier or two-tier configuration:
1) Simpler scalability
2) Load balancing possible

5. Which process at the application server level receives the user

request?

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Ans: Dispatcher process receives the user request at the
application server level.

6. Which work process type can you find on an SAP Web Application
Server?
Ans: a)Dialog work process
b) Update work process
c) Background work process
d)Enqueue work process
e) Spool work process

7. What is meant by the term central instance?

Ans: The instance together with the database, that forms a
runnable SAP system is known as the central instance.

8. What tasks does the task handler carry out?

Ans: The task handler coordinates processes and manages
resources within a work process.

9. Is the assignment of users to dialog work processes fixed?

Ans: No, the assignment of users to dialog work processes is not
fixed.

10. What does the SAP Web Application Server database interface
enables you to do?
Ans: Database Interface is a component of a work process that
connects it to the database. The database interface translates
ABAP Open SQL into database-specific SQL, thereby enabling
communication with the database.

11. Database transactions are based on the ACID principle. So are

SAP transactions. Why does the database transaction concept
nevertheless not cover all the needs of the SAP system?
Ans: An SAP transaction can bundle several database transactions.
It is only as a result of all of these bundled database transactions
that the data is consistent in business terms

12. Where is the lock table?

Ans: The lock table is a table in the main memory of the enqueue
server.

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13. Why are asynchronous updates used for dialog transactions?

Ans: The updating system is a technology which allows SAP
transactions to off-load time-intensive database changes.

14. During asynchronous updates, which process records the data

to be changed in VB* tables?
Ans: The dialog process records the data to be changed in the VB*
tables, while
the update work process handles the final update of the target.

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