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SAP ABAP Certification Review: SAP ABAP Interview Questions, Answers, And Explanations

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First, and frankly the most important thing to understand about interview questions books is that they help you save time. These books help you understand what deserves your attention and further reading, and what does not. These books help you understand what you need to learn, and what you can safely ignore. As an SAP consultant you can spend several hours each week, if not every day, learning about SAP. It is a major part of being an SAP person (especially a good one), and anything that you can do to reduce the amount of time you spend simply learning is very valuable to you. When you're spending time reading and not billing at a client, it can cost you about $100 each hour. That's expensive reading time! And so why would you even think twice about the cost of a $50 book if you think it will help you learn something valuable that you can apply at your job.

Second, the SAP market is evolving. It is evolving in ways that demand SAP people understand more about the product we are working with - It's not uncommon to see requests for an "MM and SD" functional consultant these days. Also, in my consulting practice, I am focusing on SRM - but each day I am called upon to talk about MM, PP, PS, and other areas in SAP. I think that clients are less and less willing to hear, "Well that's a FICO issue - or that's an MM issue."

Finally, I use these books myself. Each time I'm asked a question that stumps me, and this happens all of the time (despite what my clients may think), I turn to my own books as a reference. A couple of weeks ago someone asked me a question about a work order in PM. As an SRM consultant, I had little exposure to work orders. So I grabbed my PM Interview Questions book, looked up work orders in the index, and the EXACT question someone asked me was answered in the PM book. So the SAP Interview Questions, Answers, and Explanations series of books help save SAP people time because they show you what is important to learn, and I believe they help greatly in cross training - and so that's what these books are all about. They will save you time, and give you more knowledge about the SAP product. And the only group of people that don't want that to happen are consultants who want to keep their skills a secret!

I think it's going to be a good direction to a new beginner.

But it's too expesive and too slim. I thought it might be plenty of questions and answers before I bought it.

When I received this book from Amazon.com, it occured to me that I had better try an actual exam with $55 instead of buying it.

i found this to be a good list of questions to prepare for interviewing candidates

I'm currently in the process of reviewing resumes and interviewing 30 ABAP consultants. I need to come up with 20 or so questions for the interview and this book is what I was looking for -- something to help me develop interview questions for SAP ABAP programmers. My guess is that you could use this as a reference as well - TCode listings and table listings are very nice to have around.

questions were an excellent help. gave me good study focus

It's interesting, but the information is not enought for the price. I expect a deep explanation for those questions maybe some samples.

$55 for this little thing? Yes, I read the page count before I bought it, but c'mon, the font is huge, and there is one question per page.

You could read the entire book sitting on the commode with time to spare. A complete ripoff. I am returning it. Shame on you, Barry Fewer.

glad to have this book around for my next interview - also i to team lead work and will use this to formulate my next list of interview questions.

This book focuses on the on details that you need to know for SAP ABAP and technical interview and certification. True, this is not "ABAP Objects" by SAP Press - so if you are looking for a textbook or volumes of information then this is not the book for you. If you're looking for a concise guide to the most important aspects of SAP ABAP, then this is your book.

Many consultants are against these sorts of books since it raises the bar for interviews -- but the cat is out of the bag, and if you want to remain competitive in this global marketplace you need to be armed with knowledge. The above reviewer is obviously bogus (Gary Coleman?) and has a personal vendetta against the publisher since he didn't publish this book first. This book is one of a kind and is written by the best author in the industry.

This book is expensive for what it offers. Should have been proof read for spelling errors. Even the Index in the back will occasionally list the wrong page number. It seems to have been rushed to market without thought.