In this blog, you will find some personal suggestions about how to get certified as SAP Certified Technology Associate - SAP S/4HANA System Administration.
This exam is available as of June 2021.
For the Fiori system administration exam, see
For the previous version of the certification (and exam), see
For the posts about the SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 05 exams, see
For the posts about the ABAP specialisation exam, see
About braindumps and cheat sheets, see
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About the Exam
Associate Level
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 Technical Administration. The C_ stands for the associate (consultant) level type exam.
Validity
Previous editions of this certification still valid and available are
The editions for other databases and previous SAP NetWeaver versions have expired.
You can check the validity of the certifications at
training.sap.com/certification/validity.
For the certification FAQs, see
SAP Certification Hub
To take the exam visit SAP Training and select
Access the Certification Hub.
Topic Areas
Exam Page
Information about the topic areas covered is listed on the exam information page together with the corresponding SAP training courses, either the Academy track or the individual courses (see below).
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What's New
Compared with the previous edition, the topics areas are similar except that the "minor" topics System
Administration (AS Java) and
User Administration (AS ABAP and/or AS Java) now have been merged into a "major" topic area:
System Administration (AS ABAP; AS Java Basics; User Management Basics).
The topic area
Browser-based UI is now labeled
Technology Components for HTTP-based Communication but still covers the same material: Configure ICM and install and configure SAP Web Dispatcher.
The software release has been updated to
SAP S/4HANA 1909 (from SAP NetWeaver 7.5).
For the details about how SAP NetWeaver evolved into the ABAP Platform (not covered in the exam), see
How to Prepare
SAP Training and SAP Learning Hub
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).
The topic areas are covered in the following courses (consultant academy trainings).
Alternatively, you can follow the track from the learning journey but this takes will take you a couple days more as ADM800 covers AS Java in more detail than the technical academy courses.
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.
Included with the training is access to a test environment with exercises.
The learning journey shows a visualisation of the courses to take. You can logon and mark your progress.
Note that there is a lot of overlap between SAPTEC, recommended as prerequisites for some courses, and ADM100.
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.
TADM55 corresponds to the HA200 training. If you already participated in this training or passed the
C_HANATEC exam, no need to join this course again
Additional Resources
SAP Press
There is no
SAP Certification Success Guide for the C_TADM exam (yet) for the exam as a whole. However, the Database Administration topic area (course
TADM55 / HA200) is covered in
For the exam, see the blog post
For more detailed coverage, beyond the scope of the exam, see
There are also some older books about SAP NetWeaver administration still in print and available covering earlier software releasesf.
Related but for a different persona and exam, are the certification success guides
SAP Help Portal
Although most material covered in the training courses is also documented "somewhere" in many of the product guides on the SAP Help Portal, trying to pass the exam on documentation study alone is not very realistic. However, doing some extra study by searching for some key terminology and relevant parts in the guides might be helpful.
SAP Notes and Knowledge Base
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-user account to access the launchpad.
Sample Questions
On the exam page, there is a link to a
trial exam with 15 sample questions which closely resembles the real exam experience.
If it is obvious what the answer should be for all questions, you are ready to take the exam. If you have no clue, you might want to study some more.
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