1. What are infotypes?
Infotype is a logical grouping of related fields of employee information. For example, Employee addresses (Permanent, Temporary, Home, Emergency etc...) form one Infotype.
2. What are personnel actions? What is the transaction for executing personnel actions?
Any activity carried out on an employee (personnel) such as - hiring, promotion, change of pay, termination etc... is called a Personnel Action. In SAP, each actions is performed as a combination of edits to several individual infotypes. The transaction for executing Personnel Actions is PA40.
3. What are the important info types for a hiring action?
The following infotypes are part of the hiring action and will be edited in the same sequence when the hiring action is performed:
4. What is IMG? What is its importance? What are the functions you can execute using IMG?
IMG is short for "Implementation Guide". It is used for customizing SAP R/3. The SAP Implementation guide lists all the required steps for configuration, customization and implementation of various SAP modules like HR, FI, CO, MM, SD etc... in a simple to understand tree structure. This can be accessed by the transaction "SPRO".
5. What is customizing? What does customizing support?
Customizing means modifying the functionality of the system provided by SAP to meet the needs of the company implementing it.
6. How do you create a Project IMG? What are project views?
On SAP Easy Access Menu, Go to Tools -> Customizing -> IMG -> Project Administration. Click on 'Create' and give necessary details.
7. What are the IMG attributes?
8. What is an enterprise structure? enterprise structure is the back bone of HUMAN RESOURSE MANAGEMENT. Enterprise Structure is an structure depcting the organizations units i.e personnel areas, personnel subareas, employees . In Enterprise structure we define company, comapny code, personnel area , personnel subarea
9. What is a personnel structure? The Enterprise Structure and Personnel structure are used exclusively in system rules for the processing of pay roll, time benefits and changing organisation structure
10. What is the highest level of the enterprise structure? Company Code
|Personnel Area
|Personnel Sub Area
11. What is company code? Is it defined in HR? If not where is it defined? company code is defined in financial management of enterprise structure. It is a 4 character alpha numeric code to be defined in order to be unique and indentifiable.
12. What are personnel areas and its functions?
"A personnel area is an organizational entity representing an area within an enterprise defined by specific aspects of personnel administration, time management and payroll."
13. What are personnel sub areas and its functions?
personnel sub areas are sub divisions of personner area. The strategies for desiging of personnel subareas is to represent a catogorization of the position units inthe organization. It also helps to define the type of employees or persons to be hired
14. How is an employee in the HR Master data linked to a company to which he belongs?
An employee is an Pers ares and Pers Sub area. These are assigned to a Company code and country grouping.
15. Can a personnel area be assigned to many company codes?
A pers area / pers sub area combination can be assigned to one company and one country grouping. Thus a pers are may be linked to one or more company codes. Country code determines currency for the employee. Company code determines the organisational structure that the employee belongs to. It provides the links to FI/CO and for functions/processes like payroll posting, costing. When you assign a person to a pers area/sub area, you also need to assign to a position in an Org unit. To do this the MP000100 goes to the FI module to check if FI is implemented.
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183Infotype is a logical grouping of related fields of employee information. For example, Employee addresses (Permanent, Temporary, Home, Emergency etc...) form one Infotype.
2. What are personnel actions? What is the transaction for executing personnel actions?
Any activity carried out on an employee (personnel) such as - hiring, promotion, change of pay, termination etc... is called a Personnel Action. In SAP, each actions is performed as a combination of edits to several individual infotypes. The transaction for executing Personnel Actions is PA40.
3. What are the important info types for a hiring action?
The following infotypes are part of the hiring action and will be edited in the same sequence when the hiring action is performed:
- 0000 - Actions (to capture employee movement info in the organization)
- 0001 - Organizational Assignment (to capture employee positioning in the organization)
- 0002 - Personal Data
- 0006 - Address
- 0007 - Planned Working Time (Store planned working hours for the employee.)
- 0008 - Basic Salary
- 0009 - Bank Details
- 0014 - Recurring Payment
- 0015 - Additional payment
- 0016 - Contract Elements
- 2006 - Absence Quotas
4. What is IMG? What is its importance? What are the functions you can execute using IMG?
IMG is short for "Implementation Guide". It is used for customizing SAP R/3. The SAP Implementation guide lists all the required steps for configuration, customization and implementation of various SAP modules like HR, FI, CO, MM, SD etc... in a simple to understand tree structure. This can be accessed by the transaction "SPRO".
5. What is customizing? What does customizing support?
Customizing means modifying the functionality of the system provided by SAP to meet the needs of the company implementing it.
6. How do you create a Project IMG? What are project views?
On SAP Easy Access Menu, Go to Tools -> Customizing -> IMG -> Project Administration. Click on 'Create' and give necessary details.
7. What are the IMG attributes?
8. What is an enterprise structure? enterprise structure is the back bone of HUMAN RESOURSE MANAGEMENT. Enterprise Structure is an structure depcting the organizations units i.e personnel areas, personnel subareas, employees . In Enterprise structure we define company, comapny code, personnel area , personnel subarea
9. What is a personnel structure? The Enterprise Structure and Personnel structure are used exclusively in system rules for the processing of pay roll, time benefits and changing organisation structure
10. What is the highest level of the enterprise structure? Company Code
|Personnel Area
|Personnel Sub Area
11. What is company code? Is it defined in HR? If not where is it defined? company code is defined in financial management of enterprise structure. It is a 4 character alpha numeric code to be defined in order to be unique and indentifiable.
12. What are personnel areas and its functions?
"A personnel area is an organizational entity representing an area within an enterprise defined by specific aspects of personnel administration, time management and payroll."
13. What are personnel sub areas and its functions?
personnel sub areas are sub divisions of personner area. The strategies for desiging of personnel subareas is to represent a catogorization of the position units inthe organization. It also helps to define the type of employees or persons to be hired
14. How is an employee in the HR Master data linked to a company to which he belongs?
An employee is an Pers ares and Pers Sub area. These are assigned to a Company code and country grouping.
15. Can a personnel area be assigned to many company codes?
A pers area / pers sub area combination can be assigned to one company and one country grouping. Thus a pers are may be linked to one or more company codes. Country code determines currency for the employee. Company code determines the organisational structure that the employee belongs to. It provides the links to FI/CO and for functions/processes like payroll posting, costing. When you assign a person to a pers area/sub area, you also need to assign to a position in an Org unit. To do this the MP000100 goes to the FI module to check if FI is implemented.
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16. What are the indicators defined by personnel sub areas?
17. How do you categorize the employee groups?
Employee groups are just ways of categorizing employees such as 'Active', 'Retired', 'Intern', 'Inactive', 'Temporary', etc. however a company may define it.
18. What are employee subgroups and what are the indicators set up using employee subgroups?
Employee subgroups are used to break down the Employee Groups such as someone who is in the 'Active' group could be considered several different types of employees within the organization. The subgroups can be defined how a company sees fit be it different types of 'Hourly' and 'Salary' groups or defined by administrative position or task.
19. Employee groups are two character and employee subgroup are two character representations in the IMG. Do you support this statement? Employee group is one character ie 1 active , Employee sub group is division of employee group two characterstics i.e 02- salaried employee....
No, Employee Groups are single alphanumeric characters while Subgroups are two character.
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17. How do you categorize the employee groups?
Employee groups are just ways of categorizing employees such as 'Active', 'Retired', 'Intern', 'Inactive', 'Temporary', etc. however a company may define it.
18. What are employee subgroups and what are the indicators set up using employee subgroups?
Employee subgroups are used to break down the Employee Groups such as someone who is in the 'Active' group could be considered several different types of employees within the organization. The subgroups can be defined how a company sees fit be it different types of 'Hourly' and 'Salary' groups or defined by administrative position or task.
19. Employee groups are two character and employee subgroup are two character representations in the IMG. Do you support this statement? Employee group is one character ie 1 active , Employee sub group is division of employee group two characterstics i.e 02- salaried employee....
No, Employee Groups are single alphanumeric characters while Subgroups are two character.
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20. In the HR Master data where are planned working times for an employee seen?
In transaction 'PA30', Planned working time (infotype 0007) can be found under the contract data tab.
21. Do I need to give country assignment to personnel sub areas in customizing? If true support the statement and if not what’s true?
False. See answer to Q 15 above.
22. What are the various objects in an organizational plan?. How does any company use an organizational plan?
An organizational plan is a heirarchal overview of the organization and is comprised of Org Units (O), Positions (S), Jobs (C), Persons (P), Cost Centers (K), Tasks, and Users.
23. Describe the following
Tasks - a specific function or activity that can belong to another
Job - Description of activity performed by the employee
Position - occupied by an employee inthe company , it is company specific
Organizational unit - describes various units of the company it depends on tasks and functions
Cost Center - cost center can be related to ouganisation unit and position.
24. Which of the above objects belong to HR?
All of them are utilized in HR.
25. How do you integrate OM and PA? If integration is active what happens when a position is entered in IT 0000.? What else does the system default? Can these values be changed? What is this called?
26. Are cost center assignments hierarchical? Where do you assign these in OM?
27. What are attributes of objects? Is vacancy a common attribute for all objects?
28. What are the other additional organizational assignments?
29. Name the three administrators? How do you default these in IT0001?
30. What is organizational key? How many bytes/characters does it constitute? How can it be defined? What is it mainly used for?
31. What are employee attributes and how are they classified?
32. What are features? What is the transaction for features?
Features are objects in the system that determine a specific value by querying different enterprise personnel or data structure fields. The value is known as a "return code" or "result". This value is used to determine default values and to control certain system processes. Features enhance system flexibility. Transaction: PE03. Example: Feature ABKRS provides a default value for the payroll area. This is based on the data found in an employee’s Org Assignment.
33. What are the features to default and in which info type
Work Schedule Rule - SCHKZ
Pay Scale Data - LGMST: proposes the valid wage and salary types for an employee, which are taken from the Basic Pay
Wage Type Model.
Administrator groups - PINCH
34. Number Range Intervals
NUMAP is the feature in order to identify the Applicant Number Ranges
NUMKR is the feature in order to identify the Infotype 0000 (Actions) while Hiring an employee
35. What is ABKRS? feature for default pay roll ares
ABKRS : Default Value for Payroll Area Task : This feature enables you to obtain the default value for the payroll area. Use : Infotype 0001, Organizational Assignment Procedure : The return value of the feature is a payroll area from table T549A, Payroll Areas. This can be overwritten and is reassigned and displayed in a warning message when changes are made to the organizational assignment.
36. What are the two ways of maintaining features? Transaction Code PE03
37. What is the info type to store personal data for an employee?
Ans : 0002
38. Where are the default values for working hours per period taken from in IT 0008?
39. Why is employee subgroup grouping for pcr significant for payroll?
40. What does collective agreement provision determine? How do you depict different payments in the system?
41. What does employee subgroup grouping for CAP allow you to assign?
42. What is payscale type and payscale area? Payscale type - industry eg: Metal/Chemical Industry Payscale Area - Geographic Region
43. You assign payscale types and areas to
Company code
Payroll area
Employee subgroup
Personnel subarea
44. What are wage types? How wage types are broadly classified? Wage types are classified as Model Wage types starts with M Customed wage types start with number Technical Wage types always starts with /
45. How do you set up wage types? PU30 - copy wage type from model wage type T511- Wage type characteristics
46. What are slash wage types? Technical wage types
47. Why are wage type groups used? Give some examples of wage type groups.
48. What is transaction pu95?
49. Where in the IMG do i ensure that the wage types are associated with the enterprise and personnel structure.?
50. Where are all wage types stored?
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In transaction 'PA30', Planned working time (infotype 0007) can be found under the contract data tab.
21. Do I need to give country assignment to personnel sub areas in customizing? If true support the statement and if not what’s true?
False. See answer to Q 15 above.
22. What are the various objects in an organizational plan?. How does any company use an organizational plan?
An organizational plan is a heirarchal overview of the organization and is comprised of Org Units (O), Positions (S), Jobs (C), Persons (P), Cost Centers (K), Tasks, and Users.
23. Describe the following
Tasks - a specific function or activity that can belong to another
Job - Description of activity performed by the employee
Position - occupied by an employee inthe company , it is company specific
Organizational unit - describes various units of the company it depends on tasks and functions
Cost Center - cost center can be related to ouganisation unit and position.
24. Which of the above objects belong to HR?
All of them are utilized in HR.
25. How do you integrate OM and PA? If integration is active what happens when a position is entered in IT 0000.? What else does the system default? Can these values be changed? What is this called?
26. Are cost center assignments hierarchical? Where do you assign these in OM?
27. What are attributes of objects? Is vacancy a common attribute for all objects?
28. What are the other additional organizational assignments?
29. Name the three administrators? How do you default these in IT0001?
30. What is organizational key? How many bytes/characters does it constitute? How can it be defined? What is it mainly used for?
31. What are employee attributes and how are they classified?
32. What are features? What is the transaction for features?
Features are objects in the system that determine a specific value by querying different enterprise personnel or data structure fields. The value is known as a "return code" or "result". This value is used to determine default values and to control certain system processes. Features enhance system flexibility. Transaction: PE03. Example: Feature ABKRS provides a default value for the payroll area. This is based on the data found in an employee’s Org Assignment.
33. What are the features to default and in which info type
Work Schedule Rule - SCHKZ
Pay Scale Data - LGMST: proposes the valid wage and salary types for an employee, which are taken from the Basic Pay
Wage Type Model.
Administrator groups - PINCH
34. Number Range Intervals
NUMAP is the feature in order to identify the Applicant Number Ranges
NUMKR is the feature in order to identify the Infotype 0000 (Actions) while Hiring an employee
35. What is ABKRS? feature for default pay roll ares
ABKRS : Default Value for Payroll Area Task : This feature enables you to obtain the default value for the payroll area. Use : Infotype 0001, Organizational Assignment Procedure : The return value of the feature is a payroll area from table T549A, Payroll Areas. This can be overwritten and is reassigned and displayed in a warning message when changes are made to the organizational assignment.
36. What are the two ways of maintaining features? Transaction Code PE03
37. What is the info type to store personal data for an employee?
Ans : 0002
38. Where are the default values for working hours per period taken from in IT 0008?
39. Why is employee subgroup grouping for pcr significant for payroll?
40. What does collective agreement provision determine? How do you depict different payments in the system?
41. What does employee subgroup grouping for CAP allow you to assign?
42. What is payscale type and payscale area? Payscale type - industry eg: Metal/Chemical Industry Payscale Area - Geographic Region
43. You assign payscale types and areas to
Company code
Payroll area
Employee subgroup
Personnel subarea
44. What are wage types? How wage types are broadly classified? Wage types are classified as Model Wage types starts with M Customed wage types start with number Technical Wage types always starts with /
45. How do you set up wage types? PU30 - copy wage type from model wage type T511- Wage type characteristics
46. What are slash wage types? Technical wage types
47. Why are wage type groups used? Give some examples of wage type groups.
48. What is transaction pu95?
49. Where in the IMG do i ensure that the wage types are associated with the enterprise and personnel structure.?
50. Where are all wage types stored?
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51. Are all wage types permissible for all info types ? If Yes or NO support statement?
52. What are the wage type characteristics that can be defined?
53. How do you valuate wage types? Where do you configure this in the IMG?
54. What are module name and module variant?
55. Explain significance of TARIF , SUMME and PRZNT in regards to indirect valuation?
56. Briefly explain the two different ways to perform pay increase?
57. In dynamic pay increase what are variants A, G, D, E, T , C and R?
58. What are the info type attributes?
59. What are system controls?
60. What is DYNPRO ? What are the main elements of a screen?
61. What naming conventions are the info types subject to?
62. Where are the info types relevant to retroactive accounting for payroll and time management defined?
63. What are the significance of field triggers in retroactive accounting?
64. What do you need to do in the IMG to specify certain info types for certain countries only?
65. Where can you store a passport photo of an employee? Where do you do the settings in the IMG?
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52. What are the wage type characteristics that can be defined?
53. How do you valuate wage types? Where do you configure this in the IMG?
54. What are module name and module variant?
55. Explain significance of TARIF , SUMME and PRZNT in regards to indirect valuation?
56. Briefly explain the two different ways to perform pay increase?
57. In dynamic pay increase what are variants A, G, D, E, T , C and R?
58. What are the info type attributes?
59. What are system controls?
60. What is DYNPRO ? What are the main elements of a screen?
61. What naming conventions are the info types subject to?
62. Where are the info types relevant to retroactive accounting for payroll and time management defined?
63. What are the significance of field triggers in retroactive accounting?
64. What do you need to do in the IMG to specify certain info types for certain countries only?
65. Where can you store a passport photo of an employee? Where do you do the settings in the IMG?
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66. What is TCLAS = A and TCLAS = B?
67. Where can you change the attributes of individual screens?
68. What are infotype menus or info menus? Are they user group dependable?
69. What setting do i need to make for a SAP user to see that he has the relevant infotype menus?
70. Where do I assign the IG (infogroup) to the personnel action type? Are infogroups user group dependable?
71. What is IGMOD?
IGMOD is a feature. The SAP description of the feature is
IGMOD Infogroup Modifier
Object
Feature
Task
Grouping combinations of control features in an event using a modifier.
Use
o Table - Infotype groups - T588D
o Infotype - Events - (I0000)
Procedure
In table T5299, the nameup is, in turn, defined in table T588D in
conjunction with the control features: company code, personnel area,
employee group, employee subgroup.
The return code of the feature is a modifier which reads table T588A.
72. For a country reassignment action what setting do i need to do in the IMG?
73. What are additional actions? What are the ways in which i can activate additional actions for an employee? Where are additional actions stored? Can we see the infotype record where additional actions are stored directly?
74. What is the significance of status indicator in personnel actions?
75. What are MSN20, MSN21 and MSN32 in relation to personnel actions?
76. Where do you define the action reason in the IMG?
77. What is user group dependency of the action menu?
78. With a leaving action what is the employment status changed to?
79. What are dynamic actions? What can they trigger?
80. What is PAMA? What is M0001?
81. What are general authorizations?
82. What are structural authorizations?
83. How are authorizations defined? An authorization object can define maximum 15 fields that occur in an authorization? True or False?
84. What is an authorization profile? How are users authorizations determined?
85. What is a role? How the access to transactions, reports and web based applications included in a role defined?
86. Roles can be found under generic name SAP_HR*? True or False?
87. What is a profile generator?
88. How do you create users?
89. What are the ways of setting up general authorization checks?
90. What are the two types of double verification principle ? Explain with example?
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67. Where can you change the attributes of individual screens?
68. What are infotype menus or info menus? Are they user group dependable?
69. What setting do i need to make for a SAP user to see that he has the relevant infotype menus?
70. Where do I assign the IG (infogroup) to the personnel action type? Are infogroups user group dependable?
71. What is IGMOD?
IGMOD is a feature. The SAP description of the feature is
IGMOD Infogroup Modifier
Object
Feature
Task
Grouping combinations of control features in an event using a modifier.
Use
o Table - Infotype groups - T588D
o Infotype - Events - (I0000)
Procedure
In table T5299, the nameup is, in turn, defined in table T588D in
conjunction with the control features: company code, personnel area,
employee group, employee subgroup.
The return code of the feature is a modifier which reads table T588A.
72. For a country reassignment action what setting do i need to do in the IMG?
73. What are additional actions? What are the ways in which i can activate additional actions for an employee? Where are additional actions stored? Can we see the infotype record where additional actions are stored directly?
74. What is the significance of status indicator in personnel actions?
75. What are MSN20, MSN21 and MSN32 in relation to personnel actions?
76. Where do you define the action reason in the IMG?
77. What is user group dependency of the action menu?
78. With a leaving action what is the employment status changed to?
79. What are dynamic actions? What can they trigger?
80. What is PAMA? What is M0001?
81. What are general authorizations?
82. What are structural authorizations?
83. How are authorizations defined? An authorization object can define maximum 15 fields that occur in an authorization? True or False?
84. What is an authorization profile? How are users authorizations determined?
85. What is a role? How the access to transactions, reports and web based applications included in a role defined?
86. Roles can be found under generic name SAP_HR*? True or False?
87. What is a profile generator?
88. How do you create users?
89. What are the ways of setting up general authorization checks?
90. What are the two types of double verification principle ? Explain with example?
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91. Authorization main switches are stored in Table T74SO or T76SO or T77SO? To permit extended authorization check along with master data check what settings need to be done?
92. Describe in brief the period of responsibility with reference to a user giving examples?
93. What are P_ORGIN and P_ORGXX?
94. What are evaluation paths?
95. To implement structural authorizations you need to have existing the PA module? True or False?
96. What do C, S, P and O stand for?
97. What do mean by the terms
Status vector
Display depth
Period
Function Module
98. Describe in brief giving examples how period of responsibility is determined for the general authorization check in a structural authorization check?
99. What are PD profiles and SD profiles? What do they do?
100. What do you mean by planned times? Where are these stored for an employee?
101. What do you mean by actual times? Where are these stored for an employee?
102. What do you mean by deviations? Where are these stored for an employee?
103. What do you mean by negative time and positive time? Where do you use time evaluation?
104. What is RPTQTA00? What does it do? What is RPTIME00?
105. What is time management status 7? What is it used for?
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92. Describe in brief the period of responsibility with reference to a user giving examples?
93. What are P_ORGIN and P_ORGXX?
94. What are evaluation paths?
95. To implement structural authorizations you need to have existing the PA module? True or False?
96. What do C, S, P and O stand for?
97. What do mean by the terms
Status vector
Display depth
Period
Function Module
98. Describe in brief giving examples how period of responsibility is determined for the general authorization check in a structural authorization check?
99. What are PD profiles and SD profiles? What do they do?
100. What do you mean by planned times? Where are these stored for an employee?
101. What do you mean by actual times? Where are these stored for an employee?
102. What do you mean by deviations? Where are these stored for an employee?
103. What do you mean by negative time and positive time? Where do you use time evaluation?
104. What is RPTQTA00? What does it do? What is RPTIME00?
105. What is time management status 7? What is it used for?
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Hello Akhilesh,
I have completed my B.Tech (I.T.) and looking forward to joining MBA(HR) by july 2010,from some reputed institution.
Please suggest me what additional should i do to have an edge over the others at the time of campus placements....
I mean, what additional certification courses/diploma etc., i can do before or during my MBA(HR) Programme.
Please mention the name of the institutions as well that provide these
certification courses/diploma etc. so that i can start as early as possible.
Please do suggest something.....
Regards
Sujata
From India, Delhi
I have completed my B.Tech (I.T.) and looking forward to joining MBA(HR) by july 2010,from some reputed institution.
Please suggest me what additional should i do to have an edge over the others at the time of campus placements....
I mean, what additional certification courses/diploma etc., i can do before or during my MBA(HR) Programme.
Please mention the name of the institutions as well that provide these
certification courses/diploma etc. so that i can start as early as possible.
Please do suggest something.....
Regards
Sujata
From India, Delhi
Hello,
I have completed my B.Tech (I.T.) and looking forward to joining MBA(HR) by july 2010,from some reputed institution.
Please suggest me what additional should i do to have an edge over the others at the time of campus placements....
I mean, what additional certification courses/diploma etc., i can do before or during my MBA(HR) Programme.
Please mention the name of the institutions as well that provide these
certification courses/diploma etc. so that i can start as early as possible.
Please do suggest something...
my email id -
Regards
Sujata
From India, Delhi
I have completed my B.Tech (I.T.) and looking forward to joining MBA(HR) by july 2010,from some reputed institution.
Please suggest me what additional should i do to have an edge over the others at the time of campus placements....
I mean, what additional certification courses/diploma etc., i can do before or during my MBA(HR) Programme.
Please mention the name of the institutions as well that provide these
certification courses/diploma etc. so that i can start as early as possible.
Please do suggest something...
my email id -
Regards
Sujata
From India, Delhi
yes why not.. lets start answering it. all SAP professionals and trainees please answer it.
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From India, Indore
Sujata,
U want to get certifications and degrees mere for Campus plcaement. Good. even before joining you are well aware of these things.
Please concentrate on aquiring knowledge. and what certifications and degrees u need is depends on your choice if u do not like SAP whatever good it is of no use for u.
Please choose after acessing your interest.
From India, Indore
U want to get certifications and degrees mere for Campus plcaement. Good. even before joining you are well aware of these things.
Please concentrate on aquiring knowledge. and what certifications and degrees u need is depends on your choice if u do not like SAP whatever good it is of no use for u.
Please choose after acessing your interest.
From India, Indore
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