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Sysadmin Questions –

1. Explain the difference between concurrent manager and transaction manager.

2. What are digital certificates and how do they support authentication in Oracle
Applications 11i?

3. Is it possible to restrict the number of concurrent logins for a particular user in

Oracle 11i to just one? Answer - Allowing concurrent logins for a user
is a security concern and has been restricted. See Bug 1513025 and
2128669 for details.

4. What is the process for removing existing users?

5. How can I change the password of database user for Oracle Applications?

6. How can I change the Applications password?

7. How do you set up security based on geographical location? Hint – conc.

Manager workshifts, "Client Timezone" and "Server Timezone" profile
options etc.

8. How can you monitor the number of current sign-on users including Self-
Service, Discoverer and ADI application?

9. Mention three ways of controlling timeout settings in Oracle E-Business Suite?

One is profile, another is Apache/Jserv session timeout, the third is
database session timeout.

10. What are data groups?

11. What is product install group and describe its signifance.

12. What is SRS and how do you use it?

13. A running concurrent request can be put on hold.

14. Yes
15. No

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Explain the difference between request group and request set.

1. What are conflict domains? Where do you use it? To prevent two
programs from concurrently accessing or updating the same data, you
have to know where in terms of data, they are incompatible. A Conflict
Domain identifies the data that creates the incompatibility.

2. In the profile options, which is the highest hierarchy level?

3. Application level
4. Responsibility level
5. User level
6. Site level

1. Expand SRW. SQL Report Writer

2. Write the name of two concurrent programs that are used for gathering CBO
statistics. Gather schema statistics, gather table statistics

3. What are the two types of flexfields available in Oracle Applications? Key
and descriptive flexfields

4. Can descriptive flexfields be shared between modules?

5. Yes
6. No

1. What are table validated value sets? How is it implemented? If an application

table already contains all the allowable values, you can define a table-
validated value set to retrieve them from the table. You can specify
selection criteria in the form of an SQL WHERE clause if you need to
restrict the values for some reason.

2. Can I have multiple descriptive flexfields on one table? Yes, as long as the
descriptive flexfield use separate columns.

3. What are the three types of flexfield qualifiers? Cost center segment,
Balancing segment and account segment.

4. What is the significance of defining shorthand aliases in key flexfields? To

speed data entry

5. Can the Cross-Validation Rules Violation Report disable Account Code

Combinations? Yes. The Cross-Validation Rule Violation Report

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allows users to disable existing combinations that violate a cross
validation rule.

6. Is data entry possible on parent values for a flexfield segment? No

7. Where are Oracle Applications help files stored?

8. APPL_TOP
9. ORACLE_HOME
10. Database

1. What electronic mail systems can I use in conjunction with Oracle Workflow
Notifications? UNIX Sendmail, or MAPI-compliant mail system

2. How do you find out the module versions in a Binary file?

$ cd product_top\bin
$ find\I "$Header" fndlibr

3. How to run Oracle Applications network test?

4. What is the 'Internal Monitor' manager? This manager is used to implement

Distributed Concurrent Processing. It monitors whether the ICM is still
running, and if the ICM crashes, it will restart it on another node.

5. In which table are the records of applied patches maintained in Applications

11i? AD_APPLIED_PATCHES

6. How can you check if the applications have multi-org enabled? Run the
following sql: - select multi_org_flag from fnd_product_groups;

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