Interview Questions on Peoplesoft for IBM

Peoplesoft Technical Interview Questions - Peoplecode Interview Questions

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

Row

Save

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 code

Pay group

Benefit Programs

26. What are FUNCLIB* records?