SAP Fiori is a user experience platform and collection of applications built using SAPUI5. It provides over 300 role-based applications across business functions like finance, HR, and manufacturing. SAPUI5 is a JavaScript framework that allows for building web applications using MVC patterns, and SAP Fiori applications are created using SAPUI5. The SAP Fiori Launchpad serves as a central entry point for accessing all SAP Fiori applications through customizable tiles. Configuration and customization of SAP Fiori applications and the launchpad can be done through transaction codes and backend systems.

1. Top 20 interview question and answers for SAP Fiori
1. What do you know about SAP Fiori?
SAP Fiori is a great user experience (UX) and a collection of SAP software and
applications which are used on some business functions like financial apps, work
approvals, and other self-service apps. These applications are created by using the
SAPUI5 framework which is a collection of libraries. SAP Fiori displays a
completely new user experience (UX) for the applications.
It also provides more than 300 role-based applications like finance, HR,
Manufacturing etc.
2. What are the different configuration steps in SAP Fiori?
There are two parts involved in the configuration SAP Fiori:
i) Transaction Apps and Fact sheets
ii) Configuration of Analytical Apps
The complete infrastructure of SAP Fiori apps must be installed before configuring
anything. Once the installation is completed, activities can be configured on front-
end and back-end servers.
3. What is the Difference between SAP UI5 and SAP FIORI?
SAP Fiori is a User Interface with a collection of apps that are created using the
predefined JavaScript library of SAPUI5 which are provided by SAP. UI5 is basically

2. a framework which is based on MVC pattern. This framework helps in the building
a web application easily.
4. What is FIORI Launchpad and explain it?
SAP Fiori launchpad is a one stop shell to access all the 500+ Fiori applications and
serves as a homepage or entry point for all the applications. The launchedpad can
be completely customized according to the need and shows a tile based UI.
5. Can a FIORI application be customized?
Yes, Fiori application can fully customized according to our need. It consists of
some ‘enhancement points’ which give users access to modify Fiori application.
6. How data flow happens in SAP Fiori Launchpad? Explain the steps.
Here is the sequence of steps involved in the data flow of Launchpad:
1. LPD_CUST
2. Launchpad Designer – Add a catalog, add a group
3. Target mapping – semantic object, action
4. Static/Dynamic Launcher
5. PFCG – Catalog, group

3. 7. What are the different OData services that are required for SAP Fiori
Launchpad?
In order to establish mapping between technical OData name and the
corresponding back-end service, enabling OData services in Net Weaver gateway
is a must. Here are the steps that are needed to active for SAP Fiori Launchpad
and Launchpad designer.
1. /UI2/PAGE_BUILDER_CONF
2. /UI2/PAGE_BUILDER_PERS
3. /UI2/PAGE_BUILDER_CUST
4. /UI2/INTEROP
5. /UI2/TRANSPORT
8. What are the different options in SAP Fiori Launchpad design?
There are two options in SAP Fiori Launchpad design.
i). Configuration Layer – It possess all the content which is delivered to customers
including translation.
ii). Customization Layer – Using customization layer, customers can adjust
content in the system for all users. CUST layer is used here for testing and some
other purposes. Content is transportable by the customers. Once customization is
done content is separated from the configuration layer.

4. 9. Why SAP Fiori?
SAP Fiori 2.0 has a greater number of advantages since it is an evolution of UX for
SAP S/4 HANA. It offers wide number of business benefits, such as:
 Increased productivity
 Helps users in taking suggested and quick actions.
 Timely notifications
 Suggests the next thing to be done to the users.
 User satisfaction can be increased greatly.
10. State all app launched tile types in SAP Fiori?
There are three different tile types.
Static – The content which is already present is shown here. Content can be text
or icon.
Dynamic – Here the numbers which can be read dynamically are shown.
News Tile – Depending on the configuration of the tile, it helps us surf through
different news messages.
11. What is the use of OData protocol?
In order to exchange data on web, OData protocol is used which was coined and
originally developed by Microsoft. Atom Syndication and Atom Publishing
standards are the ones on which OData is based on.

5. The Atom publishing format fails in providing self-describing messages since it
doesn’t specify how Data should be encoded with in a feed.
OData provides definition for −
 Simple types
 Complex Types
 Custom behavior
 Association as well as Navigation path between entries.
 OData also adds an alternative representation of data in the format of
JSON.
12. What is Component?
Component or Component.js is an index containing all our application details like
routing details, main view, view names, application types, etc.
13. What is SAPUI5 Bootstrapping?
Bootstrapping here means loading and initializing SAPUI5 in a HTML page. “sap-ui-
core.js” is most important library loaded in SAPUI5 bootstrap.
14. What are the different types of views that are available in SAPUI5?
Following are the predefined three types of view available in SAPUI5:
 JSON view
 JavaScript View(JS View)

6.  HTML View
15. What are Fiori Design Principles?
While designing SAP Fiori apps, these are the 5 design principles we need to keep
in mind.
1. Simple
2. Delightful
3. Role-Based
4. Responsive
5. Coherent
16. Can you identify a Workflow template in SAP Fiori and if so how?
Yes, we can identify the Workflow templates which are prefixed with “WS”.
17. What is the use of SAP Solution Manager and Application Lifecycle
Management?
SAP Solution Manager plays the important decisive role in the Application
Lifecycle Management (ALM) and is a standard platform for ALM. To ensure a
comprehensive approach, SAP Solution Manger integrates the other tools also.
18. How to customize of UI Technologies in SAP Fiori?
We can customize using transaction code /UI2/CUST

7. 19.How to utilize a Fiori Client application with a supported VPN solution?
We can make use of Pulse secure without any installation in Fiori Client. Pulse
secure is a supported VPN solution.
Precondition to use this:
 Use iOS platform
 Use Pulse Secure server
 Create a custom Fiori Client
 Use SAP Mobile Platform (SMP) 3.0 OData Runtime
20. Can the user enable automatic login for Fiori Client?
No, automatic login by the user is not possible for Fiori Client, since it is
considered as an insecure solution. But, it can be done by using only one similar
way either through Android or iOS, and also only one user can be enabled at a
time.