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SAP Certified Application Associate: C_HANAIMP_13 – by the SAP HANA Academy
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Introduction
Interested in a career as SAP HANA application consultant?
In this blog, I will provide the information you need to help you prepare for the SAP Certified Application Associate – SAP HANA 2.0 certification exam, C_HANAIMP_13.
Should you also want to get certified as SAP HANA technology consultant, see
About the Certification
Currently, there are two versions of the SAP HANA technology associate certification:
- C_HANAIMP_13 – SAP Certified Application Associate – SAP HANA 2.0
- C_HANAIMP_12 – SAP Certified Application Associate – SAP HANA (Edition 2016 – SPS 12)
Both have 80 questions with an almost identical cut score (60% vs 59%), so you need to answer 48 questions correctly.
The certification version number used to follow the SAP HANA SPS release, e.g. IMP_12 = SPS 12, but as SPS 13 entered the market as SAP HANA 2.0, this is no longer the case.
As a rule, SAP certifications are valid for a limited time period, see the FAQ.
For a list of valid certifications, see https://training.sap.com/shop/certification/validity.
You can check the validity of your exam in the SAP Credentials Manager.
At the time of writing, the certification programs for SPS 10 and earlier have expired.
Sample Questions
SAP Education provides a number of sample questions for each exam (10 for C_HANAIMP_13) with answers to help you assess your readiness for the exam. However, there is no explanation why certain answers are correct and others incorrect.
For this reason, I have posted a separate blog where I explain the answers to the questions with some exam training suggestions and references:
Topic Areas
There have been some minor changes in the relative weight of the topic areas. The percentages 8%-12% correspond to 6-10 questions, so < 8% is less than 6 and > 12% is more than 10.
The topic area Virtual Data models in SAP HANA has lost some weight for the exam, whereas Information Views has put on some.
Topic Areas: IMP_13 (left) and IMP_12 (right)
Resources
SAP Education
For the exam, the same SAP Training training resources are listed, based on the SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 01 release:
- HA100 – SAP HANA Introduction (2 days)
- HA300 – SAP HANA Modeling (5 days)
Training participation is not a requirement. However, because of the direct relation of the exam with the training, participation is certainly recommended. If you can only attend one training, make it HA300.
SAP Documentation
Additional resources as preparation for the exam are publicly available (at no charge) on the SAP HANA Platform section on the SAP Help Portal.
The exam covers both native development using the initial/original/classic/XS method, and the “new” (as of SPS 11) XS Advanced method so you will need to familiarize yourself to some extent with both.
- SAP HANA Developer Information Map – get your bearings
Native development
- SAP HANA Developer Guide for XS Advanced Model
- SAP HANA Developer Guide for SAP HANA Web-Based Development Workbench (classic)
- SAP HANA Developer Guide for SAP HANA Studio (classic)
Modeling
- SAP HANA Modeling Guide for XS Advanced Model
- SAP HANA Modeling Guide for SAP HANA Web Workbench (classic)
- SAP HANA Modeling Guide (classic)
SAP Development Tutorials
There is a wider variety of developer tutorials available to help you get started or go for a deep-dive.
A good place to start is with the documentation:
- SAP HANA Developer Quick Start Guide (Tutorials)
Another entry point is the tutorials on the SAP Developer site, but make sure to keep your focus on the exam material as this site also includes ABAP, SAPUI5, mobile development, and so on:
openSAP
Also, keep an eye open for the (free) openSAP training. There is one dedicated to native software development for SAP HANA presented by the chief product experts from SAP HANA product Management, Thomas Jung and Rich Heilman :
SAP Press
Another great resource to prepare for the C_HANAIMP_13 exam is the SAP HANA 2.0 Certification Guide.
SAP Press is a brand of Rheinwerk Publishing (previously Galileo Press) and is not associated with SAP.
If you cannot attend the official HA100 and HA300 training because of budget, travel, or other reasons, and fear (not without reason) to get lost in the documentation and other online material, this guide may prove to be a worthwhile investment. In it, you will find both the material that you need to know (content), as the tools (questions) to test your progress. Highly recommended.
SAP HANA Express
To study for SAP HANA certification is now available to everybody with the free SAP HANA, express edition.
For more information about the express edition and/or to download, go to:
For the SAP HANA Academy playlist, see
Note that you can also – very easily and affordably – host express in the cloud, see
- Getting Started with SAP HANA Express on the Google Cloud Platform – by the SAP HANA Academy
- Getting Started with Google Cloud Platform – by the SAP HANA Academy
- Server + Applications: SAP HANA, express edition and XSA – by the SAP HANA Academy
For information about how to install the client, SAP HANA studio, and SHINE, see
- SAP HANA 2.0 Studio Installation and Update – by the SAP HANA Academy
- SAP HANA 2.0 Client Installation and Update – by the SAP HANA Academy
- Installing SAP HANA SHINE – by the SAP HANA Academy
SAP HANA XS (classic / advanced)
If you are new to the XS topic, you might want to take a look at Lucia Subatin’s blog series
- XS Advanced for (not so) dummies
- XS Advanced for (not so) dummies – pt 2: Multi Target Applications
- XS Advanced for (not so) dummies – pt 3: Microservices
- XS Advanced for (not so) dummies: Routing
… and test your knowledge with
For the SAP HANA Academy playlist, see
SAP HANA Academy
To help you prepare for the exam, there are several playlists with dozens of tutorial videos on the SAP HANA Academy channel on YouTube. Additionally, you might find our blogs useful as well in your preparation
Blogs
- SAP HANA 2.0 editions (2018) – by the SAP HANA Academy
- XS Exam Quiz – by the SAP HANA Academy
- Getting Started with SAP HANA Express on the Google Cloud Platform – by the SAP HANA Academy
- Getting Started with Google Cloud Platform – by the SAP HANA Academy
- Server + Applications: SAP HANA, express edition and XSA – by the SAP HANA Academy
- Hands-on video tutorials for SAP HANA Graph
- Enhancements to Graph Processing in SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 01
- Working with the predictive analysis library in HANA 2.0 SPS02
- Working with R integration in HANA 2.0 SPS02
- SAP HANA 2.0 Studio Installation and Update – by the SAP HANA Academy
- SAP HANA 2.0 Client Installation and Update – by the SAP HANA Academy
- Installing SAP HANA SHINE – by the SAP HANA Academy
Playlists
- Modeling and Design with SAP HANA
- SAP HANA Express
- Search, Text Analysis, and Text Mining
- SAP HANA Streaming Analytics
- SAP HANA Data Warehousing Foundation
- SAP HANA XS Advanced Model
- SAP HANA Graph
- SAP HANA Spatial
- Predictive Analytics – What’s New HANA 2.0 SPS02
- Predictive Analysis Library
- Application Function Modeler for Predictive
- R Integration for SAP HANA
- SQL Functions
- HANA SQL
References
SAP Education
- C_HANAIMP_13 – SAP Certified Application Associate – SAP HANA 2.0
- HA100 – SAP HANA Introduction
- HA300 – SAP HANA Modeling (5 days)
SAP Press
SAP Blogs
- SAP HANA Text Capabilities
- SAP HANA Text Analysis
- SAP HANA Full Text Index
- SAP HANA Text Mining
- SAP HANA Text Mining Functions – Part1
- SAP HANA Text Mining Functions – Part2
- SAP HANA Spatial Resources
- XS Advanced for (not so) dummies
- XS Advanced for (not so) dummies – pt 2: Multi Target Applications
- XS Advanced for (not so) dummies – pt 3: Microservices
- XS Advanced for (not so) dummies: Routing
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