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Get Certified: C_TADM55a_75 | SAP Certified Technology Associate – System Administration (SAP HANA) with SAP NetWeaver 7.5
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The C_TADM55a_75 certification expires December 31, 2021. For the latest version of this exam (and certification), see Does this mean the certification is no longer valid? No it does not, see |
In this blog, you will find some personal suggestions about how to get certified as SAP Certified Technology Associate – System Administration (SAP HANA) with SAP NetWeaver 7.5.
The exam for SAP HANA 2.0 (55a) was released in 2019. The exam for SAP HANA 1.0 (55) was released in 2017 For the posts about the SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 05 exams, see
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Once you passed the exam, you will receive a digital badge from Acclaim:
- SAP Certified Technology Associate – System Administration (SAP HANA) with SAP NetWeaver 7.5 (C_TADM55A_75)
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Note that the latest SAP S/4HANA release no longer runs on SAP NetWeaver but on the ABAP Platform, which is not available as stand-alone product. Also note that the latest SAP S/4HANA release only supports SAP HANA as a database. SAP Netweaver 7.5 is supported until end of 2024 (see the product availability matrix and notes for the details). SAP highly recommends that you have passed C_TADM55_75 or C_TADM55A_75 exam prior to taking exam SAP Certified Technology Specialist – SAP S/4HANA Conversion and SAP System Upgrade (E_S4HCON2019). |
About the Exam
Information about the exam is published on the SAP Training website. This is also where you can book the exam (or get a certification hub subscription).
TADM is the code for SAP NetWeaver Technical Administration. The C_ stands for associate level type exam. There are different exams for different databases (50-56) but more have now expired.
- C_TADM55a_75 = SAP HANA 2.0
- C_TADM54_75 = SAP ASE
- C_TADM70_21 = OS/DB migration
Expired are
- C_TADM55_75 = SAP HANA 1.0
- C_TADM50_75 = SAP MaxDB
- C_TADM51_75 = Oracle
- C_TADM56_75 = IBM DB2
The difference between the exams mainly concerns the topic area database administration (see below). This blog only covers the SAP HANA exams.
The last two digits reflect the SAP NetWeaver release. Earlier versions (70, 731, 74, 75) have expired. The delta exam (D_TADM55_75) is no longer available.
- 75 = SAP NetWeaver 7.5
You can check the validity of the certification at training.sap.com/certification/validity.
Apart from C level exams (123), SAP also provides P for Professional certifications (currently 5) and E for Expert certifications (currently 9), including
- P_TSEC10_75 – SAP Certified Technology Professional – System Security Architect
- E_HANAAW_14 – SAP Certified Development Specialist – ABAP for SAP HANA 2.0
For the certification FAQs, see
Topic Areas
Information about the topic areas covered is listed on the exam information page.
Note the small print: SAP reserves the right to update the exam content (topics, items, weighting) at any time. Make sure to check the page before applying.
Major Topics >12%
- Database Administration
- Installation and Patching SAP Systems
- SAP Fiori (Fundamentals and Administration)
- Transport Management
- System Administration AS ABAP
Minor Topics <8%
- SAP System concepts
- System Administration (AS Java)
- Browser-based UI (Administrative Tasks)
- User Administration
How to Prepare
On the exam information page, SAP provides two recommendations
- SAP recommends that learners compile a personal learning plan using the Learning Journey, which contains all assets that are recommended to prepare for a certification. This includes courses in a classroom format or e-learnings available via an SAP Learning Hub subscription, SAP Live Access exercises and active collaboration in SAP Learning Rooms.
- SAP recommends combining education courses and hands-on experience to prepare for your certification exam as questions will test your ability to apply the knowledge you have gained in training.
The C_TADM certification is entirely based on SAP training courses and although not formally listed as a requirement, it will be challenging to pass the exam without taking any classes (be it in classroom or e-learning format). If classroom training brings you bad memories, consider a SAP Learning Hub subscription. There is a trial edition available for you to try it out.
SAP Training
The topic areas are covered in the following courses (consultant academy trainings).
- TADM10 Technical Implementation and Operation I for SAP S/4HANA and SAP Business Suite – 10 days
- TADM12 Technical Implementation and Operation II for SAP S/4HANA and SAP Business Suite – 10 days
- TADM55 SAP HANA 2.0 SPS03 Installation & Administration (= HA200) – 5 days
Alternatively, you can follow the track from the learning journey but this takes a considerable detour: 36 days instead of 25!
- SAPTEC – 4 days
- ADM100 – 5 days
- ADM103 – 3 days
- UX100 – 3 days
- UX200 – 2 days
- ADM800 – 5 days
- ADM325 – 5 days
- ADM110 – 4 days
- TADM55 (HA200) – 5 days
The learning journey shows a visualisation of the courses to take. You can logon and mark your progress.
The tiles for each of the courses show the available formats: classroom and e-books. When subscribed to the learning hub, you also have access to an SAP HANA system for hands-on exercises (Live Access). The assessment contains the sample questions from the course.
Additional Resources
SAP Press
There is no certification guide for the C_TADM exam in its entirety. For the exam guide covering SAP HANA (TADM55 or HA200), see the blog post
SAP Help Portal
For the Database Administration topic area (TADM55 or HA200) most material is also covered in the installation and administration guides of the platform on the SAP Help Portal. Unfortunately, the administration guide alone counts well over 2,000 pages and contains a lot of information you do NOT need to know. The same is true for the documentation of SAP NetWeaver: too much, too many. Passing the exam on documentation study is not realistic but doing some extra study by reading relevant parts in the guides can be helpful.
SAP ONE Support Launchpad
In the training manuals and documentation, many. references are made to SAP notes and knowledge base articles (KBAs). Although the articles are not part of the study material, reading the notes is always a good idea to strengthen your understanding. You need a S- or P-user account to access the launchpad.
Also note of the many excellent FAQ articles. As with the documentation guides, this will cover more material than you will need to know but it does provide an excellent resource.
Sample Questions
On the exam page, there is a link to a PDF with 9 sample questions. Answers are provided (but no explanations).
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Thank you for the tips. I got my certification!
Bravo! Hats off.
Hello Denys,
I have expired HANATEC_11 certificate and because of one customer needs I passed C_TADM_55_75 in December 2019. Does it make a sense for me to pass a HANATEC_16, when I plan to administrate only HANA as a DB for SAP products? Why SAP don't offer delta certificate D_HANATEC anymore?
Hi Stefan,
Congrats on C_TADM_55_75.
Does it make sense to get certified (on x)? It depends.
Personally and in a general sense, I find certifications a good way to stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and also get the broader picture, touching upon topics I might otherwise have skipped. Setting a goal motivates and reaching it provides a sense of achievement (which you can share with your peers, etc.).
HANATEC is a requirement to perform (certified) on-premise installations but with the focus on cloud services these days this is less of a perk.
A lot has changed since SPS 11 but not beyond recognition. In terms of effort, it should be quite feasible for you to upgrade to HANATEC_16, or wait a bit until the next release (my guess this will be HANATEC_17). As recently was announced, SPS 05 will be supported for 5 years. This also applies to the certification. Not a bad investment, it would think.
Hope this helps,
Hi Denys,
My son is looking for C_TADM_55A_75 certification but I don't have course material for it.
TADM10 (AS ABAP 7.51),TADM12,UX200 (SAP S/4HANA 1809)
UX100 (SAP FIORI 2.0), TADM10 (SAP S/4HANA 1809)
If you can send me these or help my son from where he can prepare than it would be great.
Thanks in advance.
He don't have access to learning.sap.com
Hi Anil,
SAP employees are not allowed to distribute course material so best to contact SAP Training:
Note that there is also a free trial, which may or may not include the courses you are looking for.
Thanks Denys,
Do you have links of help.sap.com from where he can read these courses.
Hi Anil,
All the links are in the blog (see above).
On the SAP Help Portal we find the documentation and the Learning Journey for this certification:
Does that answer your question?
Thx
Thanks for all the resources/information Denys, really appreciate it as it helped me pass :)!
Awesome. Congratulations with your achievement and thanks for the feedback, Matt!
Hello Denys,
What's the difference with c_tadm_21 certification?
best regards,
JAM
Good question!
For the details, see