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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Technical Question

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Technical Question on PeopleSoft Enterprise

SQR Questions

1. Explain what is on-break in SQR with options and their use?

2. What is the load look up concept in SQR

3. How do you pass parameters among procedures, what is the alternative

to do that?

4. How do you control page breaks?

5. How do you influence report output to landscape or portrait

6. How you debug SQRs

7. Explain Complier directives in SQR

8. How many flat files can be opened through SQRs and what is thelimitations in reading or write those files?

9. What is a difference between Ask & Input command?

10. How do we work onEffective dated rows on SQR?

11. How to Refer Globalvariable in a local procedure through SQR?

12. How do you declare a localprocedure and global procedures in SQR?

13. What is the differencebetween Begin-Select & Begin-SQL?

14. Can multiple columns beretrieved in Load-Lookup command in SQR?

15. How do you control thenumber of iterations or fetch records firing SQL statement in SQR?

16. What is a differencebetween EDIT & Format in SQR?

17. How do you Execute SQRusing Process Scheduler?

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18. Are SQR commands andvariables case sensitive?

19. Do SQR programs require adot(.) sqr extension? Do SQR runtime files require a dot (.) sqt extension?

20. How can I read invariablelength delimited fields from a sequential file? An example format wouldlook like this: field1|field2|field3|...

21. How can I insert a nullvalue into a numeric field in the database?

22. What does the SQRvariable “#sql-count” holds

23. How do you reset the pagenumber printed on a PAGE?

24. For multiple reports is it

compulsory to use command “declare layout”? Or can we create multiplereports without “declare layout”?

25. what is the use of sqcsSetup 01 and setup 02, Can we use “Declare-layout” and setup01 orsetup02 within the same SQR Program

26. How do you Optimize SQR?

27. Within an SQR Programwhy do we place some SQC’s up and some of them at bottom?

Application Engine

1. What are the advantages of application engine over SQR?2. How many types of Application Engine programs we have and what are

those?

3. What is the Maximum limit of call section actions in Application Engine tocall other sections?

4. What is the use of Daemon Application Engine Program

5. How many types of actions we have in Application Engine. What arethose?

6. Explain the following terms

What is Application State Record?



What is the use of state record?

How to create the state record.

Is there any mandatory fields in state record if so

What are those fields?

7. Which are the mutual excusive actions in AE, why?

8. How to perform the set-processing and row-by-row processing inApplication Engine

9. What is the use of process instance Application Engine and where we areusing this?

10. How to restart the application engine programs? Which table is usedto restart application engine process?

11. Explain few meta-sql statements in AE. What is the %bind, %select,%datein and %dateout?

12. How to Perform the Inbound and Outbound operations through AE.

13. Can we create a separte runcontrol record for AE? How?

14. Through how many ways we can run the AE program.

15. How to Debug the AE program.

16. How to run the AE program through People Tools ApplicationEngineAE Request.

17. How to use the Temporary Tables in AE and what is the advantage of using temporary tables?

18. What is the difference between %select and %selectinit in AE

19. What is the order of execution of actions in a step?

20. How will u write “do-when action” in AE and what is its use?

Component Interface

1. What is the structure of the CI?

2. What are the advantages of CI and is it a synchronous or Asynch process?

3. What are the methods in CI?

4. Will the think time functions will work in CI? 5. What are the standard properties of CI?

6. How can you add permission lists to CI?

7. Where the CI will run (client or in server)?

8. Is it possible to send mail via CI? If yes which function is used for :( sendmail fn: or trigger business event)?



9. Can we use winmessage in CI if not what is the alternative function youare using for? Msgget fn

10. Types of Keys in CI 11. What is User defined

properties and standard properties.

12. Where can you test yourCI?

HRMS foundation Questions

1. Briefly explain the Hiring process in PeopleSoft?

2. How to check whether a person is an employee or a non-employee?

3. Briefly explain the Benefits process in PeopleSoft?

4. What is single sign-on

5. What is the difference between Payroll and Payroll interface?

6. Explain the concept of Business Unit and SetID

7. Explain the concept of driving your organization through PeopleSoft

Position Management.

8. What is the use of Employee Record field

9. How many levels of Security does PeopleSoft provide?

PeopleSoft SQR Interview Questions,SQR Interview Questions asked in MNCs given below

What are the Important SQC are need to be attached?

How do you do Performance tuning of SQR?

Did you worked with functions, procedures in SQR?

Can we call two Procedures in On-Break? If yes Then How?



How can you send emails using SQR

What are the compulsory SQC's that should be used in SQR Program?

How do you generate two output files from one SQR.

What is hierarchy in Arrays in SQR?

What is the difference in using inner join and outer joins?

Did you worked with functions, procedures in SQR?

Can we include SETENV.SQC at the end of the SQR program? If "NO" then why?

How do you include SQCs in middle of the program? Is it possible ?

We wish to print the EMPLID in the BARCODE Format. What are the commands we have to be usedin SQR?

What are the compulsary SQC's that should be used in SQR Program?

What is Calculated,Dependent and Conditional Marter Inspection Characteristic?

Explain Normalization in oracle?

What is difference between Load Look up and Array

What is search Record?

What is the program flow of SQR?

What are the validation is done in SQR program before loading in to the database?

How to create SQC?

How to connect other application in component interface?

What is the main difference between SQR and APP ENGINE?

How do you decide between appeng/Ci and SQR while conversion?

What is Outer join, inner join in sql?

Explain the difference between Translate & Prompt tables. What are the occasions when to use

Translate values instead of Prompt table? What is the advantage of one over the other?



What is the difference between BI,CI and IB?

Tell me your experience with CI?

IBM Realtime Interview Questions on Peoplesoft

1. Advantages of People Code?

2. Why SQR is used and advantages of SQR?

3. How are you running your HRMS systems either by JOBCODE or by POSITION_NBR?

4. What is the challenging and complicated People code you have written?

Why do you think it is complicated?

5. What is the challenging and complicated SQR you have written why do you think it is

complicated?

6. Steps involved in Data Conversion?

Extract data from the legacy system

Reconcile the extracted data

Identify the tables to be leaded with the new system

Data Mapping

Identify the tools (SQR or Import Manager or SQL Loader etc)

Write programs to perform conversion

Test the programs using test data

Check the data outline

Reconcile concerted data.

7. Why SQR is used?

Data conversion

Reports

Interface programs.

8. SQR Runtime flags?

9. Import SQC files?

10. How do you link SQR reports to process scheduler?

Create/modify/add run control table if you have any new fields

Create/modify/add run control panel if you have any program inputs

Create a menu definition (Note Menu group name: XYZ)



Give operator security

Create Process scheduler definition

Use-Process definition – process definition add

Give report name and report type

Give menu group name (XYZ)

11. How do you create operator classes / users?

12. What are variable types in SQR?

& Data base reference fields – Read only

$ Character (Same for Date)

# Numeric

{ } Variable in ASK or # define

[$ variable] Dynamic variable referencing

13. How do you format in PRINT (9,X, B, etc)?

14. How many types of display views are there in Data Designer?

15. What is a record definition?

16. What are the types of record definitions?

SQL Tables

SQL views

Dynamic views

Derived / Work Records

Sub Records

Query views

17. What is an Application Processor?

18. Types of People code?

Search

Field

RowSave

Workflow

19. Field Edit Vs Field change?

20. Save edit Vs save pre change Vs save post change?



21. Scroll select Vs scroll select new?

22. SQL EXEC Vs Scroll select?

23. Scroll select Vs Row Scroll select?

24. Row scroll select Vs Row scroll select new?

25. Table loading Sequence (installation)?

Company table

Installation

Location

Department

Salary Plan

Salary step

Job codePay group

Benefit Programs

26. What are FUNCLIB* records?

1. Explain about the work you have one on People soft?

2. How do you use select data in People code (A) Fetch value (Record, recordname, field

name, taeget_row ) OR Fetch value (record, record name, field name, current row number

(123)?

3. What is a scroll select?

4. Limitations of SQLEXEC?

5. Work record Vs Derived Record?

6. What is the complicated code you have written in People code and why do you think it is

complicated?

7. What is the complicated code you have written in SQR and why do you think it iscomplicated?

8. How do you Debug (Application Reviewer)?

9. Levels in Panel Designer?

10. How do you link crystal reports?



11. Ordinary record Vs Work record?

12. What is a record in PS?

13. Record Vs Table?

14. How many types of records are there in PS?

15. PS database management?

16. Arrays in SQR?

17. How do you arrange fields in SCROLL area?

18. How do you sort the data in SQR in being select (Using ORDER BY clause)?

19. Where do you write People code?

20. How do you modify table/record?

21. Limitations of Scroll select?

22. Nested select in SQR?

23. Inner join / outer join?

24. Show / display in sqr?

25. Ask / Input in sqr?

26. How do you audit in PS (In Menu designer)?

27. How do you rename panel / field / record and what are the consequences / effects?

28. What is ENCODE in oracle?

29. Explain about Operator and Object security and differentiate operator security is at

min level Object security for object level?

30. Add / Update display / Update display all / correction with respect to EFFDT?

31. EFFDT Vs EFFSEQ?

32. Translate table Vs Prompt table?



33. Your strong and weak points?

34. What is your role in the project?

35. What are the modifications or customizations you have done in PS?

36. Project team size and your role?

37. What are the modifications or customizations you have done in existing SQR?

38. Batch process in HRMS?

39. Audit tables?

40. Import manager Vs SQR?

41. What are the important tables that you use in Personal Administration?

42. What are the important tables that you use in Benefits?

43. What are the important tables that you use in Pay roll?

44. Explain about your experience?

45. What are new developments you have done in PS?

46. What are the new reports you developed in SQR (Interface, Conversion, Formatted)?

47. Advantages of People Tools?

48. Advantages of People Code?

49. Why SQR is used and advantages of SQR?

50. How are you running your HRMS systems either by JOBCODE or by

POSITION_NBR?

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