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• There was one about “Search help”. I know that I can attach Search help to a table and a field in the table. One of the answers was 'foreign key table'. For some reason they referred to “Search Help”as the “New”Search help ??.

•They did use some really weird terms. The one that really sticks out is 'Batch Input Folder' they never ever said file...it was always folder. All of us just assumed they meant file. It was weird. Here is a response from a German friend on this issue. 'Batch Input Folder' means 'Batch Input Session'. In German they call it 'Batch Input Mappe' and FOLDER is the translation of 'MAPPE'

•There was a question about 'OSS' when we learned just about every other term for it during class. Other than that, I really felt that the test was not 'tricky' just comprehensive and included 2-3 concepts in a small one-sentence question.

•There was a nasty little question about altering SAP tables without 'modifying' them and the choices (among others) were 'customer includes' and 'CI includes'

•In terms of the Open*SQL there was one left-outer join question. The Data dictionary section was easy.

•One of the update questions was related to the differences between V1 and V2..

•It was a fair test

•Under the philosophy of 'pick the low-hanging fruit first', I would suggest:

• Do it in two passes. Pick the low-hanging fruit on the first pass and the higher fruit on the second.
• Answer all the questions on the first pass. Speed rather than accuracy is important. If you don't know the answer, make a wild guess and flag it for review - with multiple choice there is a fair chance that even a wild guess will be right. (This is just a matter of playing the odds.)
• Watch the time. Don't linger too long on any one question. Pick as much fruit as possible.
• Don't get obsessed with debating the whichness of the whereof, but pay attention. Many of the questions are semantic puzzles. It took me 1.5 hours to do the first pass (which is probably fast) and I never got done the second, so strategy is important. If you start at the beginning and ponder every question to death, you'll never get finished and you'll leave a lot of easily picked fruit on the tree.
  

•The exam covered more on ABAP Query than I would have expected.

•Authorisations questions? There were at least two 'what is true about authorization' questions (one authorization, one authorization object). The multiple choice answers included the number of fields in an object, and authorization relationships with users.