SAP HANA Savepoints and TDI Quiz

Topic 1: SAP HANA Database

• To back up the complete database system, the system database administrator can back up the system database and all tenant databases individually.
• To disable tenant database functionalities, the system database administrator can use the Manage Database Configuration app and the Manage Restricted Features app.
• The SAP HANA database lifecycle manager (HDBLCM) can be used to uninstall the SAP HANA database system and its components, and to update the SAP HANA database system and its components.

Topic 1: SAP HANA Database (continued)

• When performing a database backup, aborted transactions are rolled back.
• Savepoints are triggered by performing a database backup and by a database soft shutdown.
• For an SAP HANA tailored datacenter integration (TDI) approach, an additional disk space factor of 1.2 is required during delta merge operations.
• The supported file systems for the data and log volumes of the SAP HANA 2.0 database system are GPFS and XFS.
• When running an SAP HANA database in log mode "normal", the database automatically executes a regular log backup when the time threshold is exceeded and when the log segment is full.
• In situations where a failed recovery of a complete data backup can be resumed, it can be done for an aborted recovery of a log backup and an aborted recovery of the configuration files.

Topic 2: AS Java-based SAP System

• When installing a Primary Application Server and a Central Services instance for an AS Java-based SAP system, a minimum of one Java server node is required.
• Aborted transactions are rolled back, and open transactions are recovered.

Topic 2: AS ABAP-based SAP System

• When updating an AS ABAP-based SAP system with the role "Quality Assurance System", row tables are loaded into memory, and column tables are loaded.
• When configuring the Transport Management System (TMS) as part of the installation of an AS ABAP-based SAP system, the description of the AS ABAP-based SAP system, the name of the Transport Domain, and the name of the Transport Group can be supplied.

Topic 4: SAP System

• For an SAP S/4HANA Server system consisting of an ABAP Central Services instance, a Primary Application Server instance, and two Additional Application Server instances, five system profile files are evaluated during a complete system start.
• The Software Provisioning Manager (SWPM) can install the Central Services instance on the application server host and perform other actions.
• The command line tool to start or stop SAP systems and SAP instances is SAPControl.
• The purpose of a security policy in an AS ABAP-based SAP system is to define security-relevant system profile parameters.
• Operation modes can be used to change the quantity of dialog work process, background work process, and update work process types.
• When restarting an Additional Application Server instance, the default profile and instance profile of the Additional Application Server are evaluated.

Topic 4: SAP System (continued)

• To enable access to the SAP Easy Access menu for users in the app finder, the correct target mappings, shipped via catalog /UI2/CLASSICAL_GUI_MENU, and the correct settings in the SAP Fiori launchpad configuration can be applied.

Topic 5: SAP S/4HANA System

• In an SAP S/4HANA system, a target system alias, FIORI, is maintained for source system alias S4FIN, and the connection relevant for the extraction of back-end catalogs with alias S4FIN is FIORI_RFC.

Topic 6: SAP System

• Instances that have processes that establish a connection to the database of the SAP system are the Central Services instance and the Primary Application Server instance.
• SAP's RFC protocol is based on CPI-C and TCP/IP.
• The lock table in an AS ABAP-based SAP system is stored in the main memory.
• The processes that can run optionally as part of the Central Services instance of an AS ABAP-based SAP system are the Message Server, SAP Web Dispatcher, and RFC Gateway.