SAP BO Admin Interview Questions - 1

Question: 1

What is a database connection?

A connection is a set of parameters that provides access to an RDBMS.

These parameters include system information such as the data account, user identification, and the path to the database.

Designer provides three types of connections: secured, shared, and personal.

Question: 2

What are the types of connections we use when connecting to the database?

There are three types of connections namely: - Secured, Shared and Personal.

A secured connection is used to centralize and control access to sensitive or critical data. It is the safest type of connection for protecting access to data.

A shared connection is used to access common resources such as universes or documents. Several users can thus use it.

A personal connection is specific to one user and can be used only from the computer on which it was created.

Question: 3

What are the types of users in Business Objects?

General Supervisor

Supervisor

Designer

Supervisor-Designer

End User

Versatile User

Question: 4

What are repository domains?

A Business Objects repository is a set of data structures stored on a database. A repository makes it possible to share the resources necessary for client/server architecture. To ensure security and manage user resources, a repository comprises three types of domains:

A security domain, which contain the definition of the other domains as well as the definition of users.

Universe domains, which are meta-models of related databases, containing a description of the data to be accessed.

Document domains, which contain the structures for storing shared documents and for executing tasks according to a time stamped definition.

Question: 5

What are the responsibilities of a supervisor?

Create the Business Objects repository.

Define users and user groups, as well as assign profiles to them. User profiles include user identification (user name and password), the products and modules they can work with, the universes they can access, and the documents that they can share.

Control user access to Business Objects products, and manage the exchange and distribution of the universe and documents of all the users.