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Get Certified: C_HCDEV_01 | SAP Certified Development Associate – SAP HANA Cloud

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In this blog post you will find some suggestions about how to get certified as SAP Certified Development Associate – SAP HANA Cloud.

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Once you passed the exam, you will receive a digital badge from Credly (Acclaim).

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About the Exam 

The SAP Certified Development Associate – SAP HANA Cloud certification exam verifies that the candidate has the knowledge to develop native software applications running on the SAP Business Technology Platform using the SAP HANA Cloud database.

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).

HC is the code for SAP HANA Cloud, DEV for development. The C_ stands for the associate (consultant) level type exam.

Validity

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

The hub is hosted by Questionmark. Here you can book your exam, (re-)schedule, check your appointments, and launch the exam.

For the complete exam list, see

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Topic Areas

Exam Page

Information about the topic areas covered is listed on the exam information page together with the corresponding SAP training cours, HC450E for all but the basics, which are covered in HC100E.

However, an SAP Learning Hub subscription is not required as the content is also made available for free, time of writing, on the new SAP Learning portal (see below).

Note the small print: “SAP reserves the right to update the exam content (topics, items, weighting) at any time” make sure to check the exam page before applying.

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Sample Questions

On the exam page, there is a link to a trial exam with 7 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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How to Prepare

Take a Learning Journey on SAP Learning

Time of writing, the learning content is freely available on the new SAP Learning portal, presented as learning journey with 17 units taking 12 hours to complete.

The first four units cover the HC100e cours and overlap with the Administration and the Modeling journeys.

The units cover the same material as found in the course manual but in a format more suitable for self-study with short sections of text combined with videos and quizes.

Take a Training Course on SAP Training / SAP Learning Hub

For those with an SAP Learning Hub subscription, or with a budget to burn, you can also sign up for the e-learning course

This provides you with the oldskool format. You can download the manual as PDF for offline viewing.

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Additional Resources

SAP Help Portal

Although most material covered in the training courses is also documented “somewhere” in a guide on the SAP Help Portal, trying to pass the exam by studying the documentation is not the most effective approach.

However, as administrator, you are expected to be familiar with the documentation set so spending some on the Help Portal is time well spent.

SAP Developers

Some questions assume you are familiar with the user interface of the SAP HANA cockpit, the SAP HANA database explorer, and the SAP HANA Cloud Central web applications. Going through the tutorials on SAP Developers is highly recommended.

For the complete list, you can filter on SAP HANA Cloud which also includes tutorials for the modeling and development tracks.

SAP Community

Make sure to visit the topic area on the community for the latest blog posts, questions, video tutorials, etc. You can follow the topic area to be notified.

SAP HANA Academy | SAP Partner Innovation Lab

For the hands-on video tutorials from the SAP HANA Academy, see

SAP PRESS

There is no SAP Certification Success Guide for the C_HCDEV exam but there is e-book dedicated to SAP HANA Cloud which covers most topics but make sure to check the What’s New for QRC 1-4 2021 to complete the picture.

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      Author's profile photo Phil Cooley
      Phil Cooley

      Thanks very much Denys van Kempen for sharing this knowledge. I was not planning on getting certified in this area however with this blog post I am thinking it would be nice to get. Would definitely assist in architecting and building solutions going forward.

      Thanks!

      Phil Cooley

      Author's profile photo Jigang Zhang 张吉刚
      Jigang Zhang 张吉刚

      Denys van Kempen  Thanks for sharing this.

      There're so many new certs available now: P

      If only interesting in On-premise Version and already got Certified: C_HANADEV_17 and E_HANAAW_17, any suggestions on which should be the next target?

      Author's profile photo Denys van Kempen
      Denys van Kempen
      Blog Post Author

      Even if currently only interested in the platform on-premises, you still might want to consider taking a look at the wonderful world of cloud, SAP's strategic direction.

      The SAP HANA Cloud and SAP (BTP) Extension Suite development certifications are related

      Success!

      Author's profile photo Jigang Zhang 张吉刚
      Jigang Zhang 张吉刚

      Denys van Kempen

      Thanks! Happy 2022 : D

      New year new goal!