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CAP 401
 Part A

Ques:-1.)Provide scenario where the multiple state records are

used in an application engine .

Ans:- Application Engine is a PeopleTool designed to help you develop

background (batch) SQL processing programs. Application Engine offers
an alternative to writing COBOL or SQR programs. It is not used for
reporting.

Multiple State Record are used to store related variables in to one state
record instead of keeping all variables in to one single state record.It is a
good practice to have related variables in one state record.
Example:
SF_AP_INTFC app engine in Peoplesoft Student Financial Module
with Multiple state record
1. SF_AP_OPTNS_AET (Default State Record)
2. SF_EMPVAR_AET
3. SF_ORGVAR_AET
4. SF_VCHRVAR_AET
5. SF_PRCSVARS_AET
6. SF_RFNDDATA_AET

Ques:-2.)What is activity type? What is cost centre. What is Gap

analysis explain with real time scenario.

Ans:- ACTIVITY TYPE:-

Activity type classifies the specific activities that
are
provided by one or more cost centers with in a company.
Eg: cutting, polishing, painting, packing etc. It is evident from the word
itself that Activity performed.
So Activity type is the activity performed by one
cost
center for another
e.g Consultants Performed the activity of Training for a
cost center on some hourly rate .
COST CENTRE:-It is a smaller segment of activity or area of reponsibility
for which cost can be accumulated. Cost centers are divisions that add to
the cost of the organization, but only indirectly add to the profit of the
company. in a cost center,activities are done for the betterment and
devlopement of company's sale,product,customer satisfaction and all such
cost are combined in cost center. A resopnsibility centre which takes only
input in terms of
Cash inflow but doesn't provide any output in terms of Cash outflow is
known as cost centre. Cost centres help organisations indirectly in
improving revenues and profits like- R&D department can help in
producing good products and increase the sale. As every responsibility
centre works individually, cost centre is not concern with decisions of
other
resoponsibility centres like investment, sale, pricing,profit etc.
Examples: It include Research and Development, Marketing and
Customer service.

GAP ANYLYSIS:-
GAP Analysis is finding out the Deficiency or gap between
ideal system or standard system and existing or current system. The goal
of gap analysis is to identify the gap between the optimized allocation and
integration of the inputs, and the current level of allocation. This helps
provide the company with insight into areas which could be improved. The
gap analysis process involves determining, documenting and approving
the variance between business requirements and current capabilities. Gap
analysis naturally flows from benchmarking and other assessments. This
comparison becomes the gap analysis. Such analysis can be performed at
the strategic or operational level of an organization.

Gap analysis is a formal study of what a business is doing currently and

where it wants to go in the future. It can be conducted, in different
perspectives, as follows:

1. Organization (e.g., human resources)

2. Business direction
3. Business processes
4. Information technology
Ques:-3.)Give some case study where an company official relates
the PP with FICO, Also give some methods to integrate them.

Ans:- Polypropylene (PP), also known as polypropene, is

a thermoplastic polymer, made by the chemical industry and used in a
wide variety of applications, including packaging, textiles (e.g. ropes,
thermal underwear and carpets), stationery, plastic parts and reusable
containers of various types, laboratory equipment, loudspeakers,
automotive components, and polymer banknotes. An addition
polymer made from the monomer propylene, it is rugged and unusually
resistant to many chemical solvents, bases and acids.
And a FICO score is a credit score derived from the credit
model developed by Fair Isaac Corporation. The FICO score is the best-
known credit score in the United States, and a version of the FICO score
calculated by all three of the major credit bureaus from reported
information. A higher FICO score indicates better credit, and a FICO score
below 600 is considered poor. The most important factor in determining a
FICO score is past payment punctuality.

Part B

Ques:-4.)Elaborate the concept of application platforms of new

business segments?

Ans:- Business Application Platform Increases Operational

Responsiveness:

Competitiveness in the global

marketplace demands operational responsiveness at every level.
Businesses must respond quickly to meet customer demand, improve
speed to market, react swiftly to changing market conditions and
constantly seek gains in productivity and profitability. One way to meet
this need is to develop and use services designed for service-oriented
architecture (SOA) and for deployment in the cloud. This is true both for
companies developing their own applications and ISVs and business
service providers (BSPs). The right business application platform today
provides SaaS enablement. This can speed the delivery of applications
and services to all areas of the organization and integrate and extend
core business process to anyone, anywhere while reducing IT costs. The
result is improved effectiveness and productivity throughout the
enterprise. For a superior business application platform, enterprises
around the world have turned to Progress Software.
Progress OpenEdge — a Superior Business Application Platform:

The leading business application platform, is designed to assist software

developers to become more operationally responsive to market and
customer needs now and in the future. With OpenEdge, service and
application development is agile and cost-effective, and the ensuing
applications are reliable, easy to maintain, and cost-effective. As a result,
companies are able to capitalize on new opportunities by getting
competitive applications to market more quickly. In addition, OpenEdge is
also a leading SaaS platform for ISVs and Business Service Providers to
simplify SaaS application, development and delivery for the cloud,
resulting in greater operational responsiveness. What’s more, a study
performed by an outside research organization commissioned by Progress
found the estimated cost of transforming an application on the Progress
platform and bringing it to market was 40% less expensive than an
alternative platform.

The OpenEdge Application Platform Delivers Competitive Business

Advantage:

• OpenEdge is the leading business application platform for building,

deploying, and managing a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering
because it provides:
• Superior development productivity with the fastest path for
developing reliable, high-performance SaaS business applications
for a 73% reduction in total cost of ownership.

• One of the world's leading embedded databases to ensure the high

availability and scalability demanded by SaaS business applications.

• User interface flexibility and scalability—Progress-based SaaS

applications can be delivered by Web browsers, mobile devices,
thin-client technologies, and other interface options, such as Java,
.NET, and Web services.

• Robust, cost-effective application and data management and

administrative tools—40% less expensive.

• Multi-site integration of processes across SaaS deployments by

exploiting the Progress® Sonic® ESB, the industry’s first enterprise
service bus.
• The end-to-end visibility needed for business transaction assurance
Ques:-5.)Total productive maintenance has 5 goals ,which of them
is not the goal of TPM?

Ans:- Total productive maintenance has 5 goals:

1)Focus preventative maintenance when failure is most likely to occur.
2)Improve equipment effectiveness.
3)Achieve autonomous maintenance.
4)Train all staff in relevant maintenance.

Goals of TPM
TPM has the following five goals :
• Improving equipment effectiveness .
• Improving maintenance efficiency and effectiveness.
• Early equipment management and maintenance prevention.
• Training to improve the skills of all people involved.
• Involving operators (occupants) in routine maintenance.
Focus preventative maintenance when failure is
most likely to occur,which is not the goal of TPM.

Qus6:Discuss some of the productive methods to improve the

reliability of an operations .
ANS: Software product quality depend upon:

 Product quality
 conformance to requirements or program specification; related
to Reliability
 Scalability
 Correctness
 Completeness
 Absence of bugs
 Fault-tolerance
 Extensibility
 Maintainability
 Software reliability is an important facet of software quality. It is
defined as "the probability of failure-free operation of a computer
program in a specified environment for a specified time".One of
reliability's distinguishing characteristics is that it is objective,
measurable, and can be estimated, whereas much of software
quality is subjective criteria. This distinction is especially important
in the discipline of Software Quality Assurance. These measured
criteria are typically called software metrics.
The goal of reliability
 The need for a means to objectively determine software reliability
comes from the desire to apply the techniques of contemporary
engineering fields to the development of software. That desire is a
result of the common observation, by both lay-persons and
specialists, that computer software does not work the way it ought
to. In other words, software is seen to exhibit undesirable behaviour,
up to and including outright failure, with consequences for the data
which is processed, the machinery on which the software runs, and
by extension the people and materials which those machines might
negatively affect. The more critical the application of the software to
economic and production processes, or to life-sustaining systems,
the more important is the need to assess the software's reliability.