Hi All,
I have cleared the SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP HANA 1.0 examination last week. :smile:
Through this blog, I would like to take you all through the experience I had and would like to share some information pertaining to the certification.
Those who have limited knowledge on this certification, please go through the following link:
(http://training.sap.com/v2/certification/c_hanaimp_1-sap-certified-application-associate---sap-hana-...)
I have done this certification with my personal interest, I did not undergo any sort of training but prepared completely by myself. To appear for this certification without attending any SAP course/training, you need to fulfill the following criteria. I have done the exam in India and I’m not sure if the following will change in other countries.
If you fulfill the above criteria,you can contact SAP and they will ask you to send your updated project profile as per the format given by them for technical evaluation. On establishing your eligibility, they will guide you through the process of registration.
ℹ Please send your profile once you are ready to appear for the certification as the certification approval mail is valid only for 2 months. After getting the approval mail, you will have to take the certification within 2 months of time failing which the payment will be returned. You are requested to complete your certification within the given time-frame.
Evaluation of profile will take minimum 3 - 7 working days.
Please visit the webpage https://training.sap.com/ for available certification details.
Please note no assistance with regard to study material/questionnaire is provided for direct certification. Study material is offered only with training and not as a standalone component.
Certification fee for Associate level is subject to change as per SAP policy in a timely manner.
ℹ Important Note:
ℹ NOTE:
1) Email confirmation from the HR of your organization with details (like years of experience in the company and the tools that you have used) to be sent across to education.india@sap.com. SAP will provide you with a template of the mail. This is a new prerequisite and they are very strict on this without which they will not allow you to appear for the exam.
2) There would be some delays from SAP in replying to your mails. But don’t panic. They will guide you at appropriate times instead of sending reply for each and every mail of yours.
3) They will share with you the available dates and venues. You need to pick the convenient date and reply them back. Do those carefully as the following policies exist:
ℹ Please note the cancellation / rescheduling policy:
(a) No charge shall be made where notice of cancellation / rescheduling / change of location is received by SAP at least 10 working days prior to the date of the Certification;
(b) 50% of the certification fee will be charged where notice of the cancellation / rescheduling / change of location, is received by SAP between 10 and 5 working days prior to the date of Certification;
(c) 100% Certification fee will be the cancellation fee charged where either no notice of cancellation / rescheduling / change of location, is received or the same is received less than 5 working days prior to the date of Certification
The Actual Test day story:
ℹ Mandatory Documents required to enter the test centre are:
I attended the certification on 5th December at a SAP Authorised Prometric Centre in Chennai, India. The test was supposed to start at 8 AM in the morning but due to some technical issues, it was delayed by 15 minutes. To be frank, I was very much tensed, some thoughts were haunting me :???: :
Anyway, somehow I managed to get rid of that 15 minutes. We were around 14 people who had come for different certifications. All were given individual systems and instructions were dictated by Proctor (invigilator from SAP)
Some of the Instructions were terrifying: If you fail, you need to pay the amount (without any discounts) for attending the re-certification exam. These proctors should avoid giving these types of instructions before the exam. Isn't it? :shock:
After entering all the credentials given by him, yes the long awaited screen has come, where the FIRST question was visible.
Now something about that exam:
ℹ Exam contains 80 questions and total time is 180 minutes. I would say 3 hours is very much needed for this certification.
Questions can be divided into 3 parts:
1) Multiple choice questions, where there is only one answer(Radio Button type)
2) Multiple choice questions, where there are more 1 answer (Check box type) (You will find the number of correct answers beside the question like 2 ,3 etc.)
3) A new type of question like below:(only one question like this).It contains 4 lines like :
A -- You will have a drop down against it with 5 options. You need to pick the correct one that suits A
B -- You will have a drop down against it with 5 options. You need to pick the correct one that suits B
C -- You will have a drop down against it with 5 options. You need to pick the correct one that suits C
D -- You will have a drop down against it with 5 options. You need to pick the correct one that suits D
ℹ Some personal tips from my side:
After 2 hours 55 minutes, a pop up will come indicating that you have just 5 minutes for completion.
It’s time now and you will have to submit your answers. You can use the SUBMIT button for this.
NOTE: This SUBMIT button will be there from the first question itself. Ensure that you don’t click that by mistake in between the test.
:razz: I have not seen such a costly SUBMIT button in my life. :razz:
If you don’t submit even after 3 hours, session will automatically disconnect.
You will now see your result: Passed :smile: or Failed :cry: .
With God’s Grace, I passed my exam :lol: .
Please be informed that 66% or above will be considered as Pass and SAP certificate would reach to your address in 4-6 weeks.
You will also see the individual % of marks in each session and the overall total.
Basically SAP divides your marks into following sessions:
Business Content
Reporting
Provisioning
Modelling
Security
Optimization.
Now how to prepare:
HANA 100(411 Pages) and HANA 300 (628 Pages) are the most important SAP training materials. Like everybody, I would also say to go through each and every line in those docs twice or thrice. Questions can come up from anywhere.
ℹ Note:
a) TZHANA is an old version which has now been replaced with HANA 100.
b) Distributing the SAP learning materials for SAP courses is illegal and constitutes a copyright law violation.
c) It's good to go through SDN HANA space as well. That will help you to understand the practical issues which consultants are facing in the commercial projects. Also if possible please go through the HANA developer guide.
d) BW knowledge is always good.
e) Apart from the core HANA topics, there will be some questions related to BODS, BO and SQL as well.BODS questions would be straight forward.BO and SQL would be slightly tweaked.
These are the top 50 links which I would recommend it to you:
1) SP04 Features - SAP HANA Modeler - https://www.experiencesaphana.com/docs/DOC-1798
2) DXC - https://websmp206.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/011000358700000421852012E
3) HANA Certification -- http://scn.sap.com/community/hana-in-memory/blog/2012/08/27/my-experience-on-hana-certification
4) Use HANA DSO in modeller -- http://www.saphana.com/community/blogs/blog/2012/09/27/modeler-unplugged-episode-11--importing-bw-mo...
5) Upgrade and migration BW on HANA -- http://www.saphana.com/community/blogs/blog/2013/05/03/upgrade-and-migration--bw-on-hana
6) HANA Cook Book -- https://cookbook.experiencesaphana.com/bw/operating-bw-on-hana/hana-database-administration/user-acc...
7) HANA Academy very good link -- http://saphanaacademy.blogspot.in/
😎 Concepts in HANA -- http://scn.sap.com/community/hana-in-memory/blog?start=45
9) Concepts in HANA -- http://scn.sap.com/community/developer-center/hana/blog?start=30
10) Data Types in HANA -- http://help.sap.com/hana/html/_csql_data_types.html
11) Changes after Migration -- http://www.saphana.com/docs/DOC-3723
12) Open SAP -- https://open.sap.com/course/hana1
13) BW on HANA and very Large Tables -- http://www.saphana.com/community/blogs/blog/2013/04/15/bw-on-hana-and-very-large-tables
14) HANA Help.SAP.Com -- http://help.sap.com/saphelp_hanaplatform/helpdata/en/20/cbb10c75191014b47ba845bfe499fe/content.htm?f...
15) HANA Discussions -- http://www.saphana.com/community/implement/content?filterID=contentstatus%5Bpublished%5D~category%5B...
16) HANA SQL Reference -- http://help.sap.com/hana/html/sql_import_from.html
17) HANA CE Functions -- http://inmemoryhana.blogspot.in/
18) HANA Interview Questions -- http://rajkumarsap.weebly.com/1/post/2012/10/sap-hana-interview-questions.html (Good One)
19) BW Powered by HANA -- http://www.saphana.com/docs/DOC-2129
20) HANA Developer Edition download -- https://hanadeveditionsapicl.hana.ondemand.com/hanadevedition/
21) Indexing Video -- http://www.saphana.com/docs/DOC-3169
22) HANA SQL -- http://help.sap.com/hana/html/sql_grant.html
23) HANA Modelling YouTube Video -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZvx2BemlvM&feature=youtu.be&goback=.gde_3683024_member_210180594
24) HANA Videos -- http://www.saphana.com/community/hana-academy
25) Common errors while using HANA Studio -- http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-47603
26) HANA Real World Example -- http://www.saphana.com/community/blogs/blog/2013/08/28/sap-hana-live-real-world-example
27) Help.Sap.Com for HANA -- http://help.sap.com/hana_platform#section7
28) HANA for Beginners --- http://www.saphana.com/community/blogs/blog/2012/09/07/sap-hana-for-beginners
29) HANA materials and interview questions -- http://sapbobwbi.blogspot.in/2013/09/sap-hana-interview-questions-2.html (Good One)
http://sapbobwbi.blogspot.in/2013/09/sap-hana-interview-questions-1.html (Good One)
30) Free Access to HANA sandbox -- http://sapignite.com/free-access-to-sap-hana-sandbox-for-your-first-hana-experience/
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32) HANA Material Links -- http://dailylearnbw.wordpress.com/2012/11/15/if-you-plan-to-write-hana-certification-exam-check-this...
33) HANA Developer centre -- http://scn.sap.com/community/developer-center/hana?rid=/webcontent/uuid/c022341c-5ed1-2e10-0b98-9b6a...
34) HANA Training Materials -- http://www.gobookeee.com/sap-hana-training-material/
35) HANA Certification Pathways -- http://www.hanageeks.com/2013/05/sap-hana-certification-pathways.html
36) Free HANA Tutorials -- http://www.freehanatutorials.com/
37) SCN Discussions -- http://scn.sap.com/thread/3194590
38) Succeed HANA Certification -- http://www.thesapjobs.com/sap-hana-certification/
39) SCN Discussions -- http://scn.sap.com/community/developer-center/hana/blog/2013/06/25/want-to-learn-sap-hanawhere-to-st...
40) HANA Questions -- http://sapdairy.blogspot.in/2013/05/sap-hana-certification-questions.html (Good One)
41) HANA Links -- http://scn.sap.com/community/hana-in-memory/blog/2012/08/27/my-experience-on-hana-certification
42) Certifications sample Questions -- http://www.sap-school.com/certificationquestionsHANA.html (Good One)
43) SCN Discussions -- http://scn.sap.com/thread/2131589
44) HANA services Library -- http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-46745
45) BW on HANA FAQ -- http://www.saphana.com/community/learn/solutions/net-weaver-bw/bwonhanafaq
46) Business Suite on HANA FAQ -- http://www.saphana.com/community/learn/solutions/sap-business-suite-on-hana/business-suite-on-hana-f...
47) BW 7.4 on HANA -- http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-35002
48) HANA Blogs -- http://www.saphana.com/community/blogs/blog/2012/06/20/does-sap-hana-replace-bw-hint-no--part-2
49) HANA Courses -- http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-39531
50) HANA Reference for Developers -- http://scn.sap.com/community/hana-in-memory/blog/2013/08/17/hana-reference-for-developers--links-and...
For those who want a real in depth understanding on the HANA concepts, I would suggest to go through the following PACKT PUBLISHING(www.packtpub.com) ebooks/books:
SAP HANA Cook Book
Software Development on the SAP HANA Platform
SAP HANA Starter
Note: Taking the HANA certification is always good but don't presume that it will take you directly to a HANA job.
Yes, with the 'CLOUD' also coming into picture, job opportunities will increase, for sure!
:razz: On a lighter note: As I told in the beginning of this blog, there was around 15 minutes delay before the exam. I was very much tensed and decided to draw a picture to relax myself. Finally I had completed a beautiful picture and am dedicating this to all the members here in SDN who are preparing for certification. :razz:
Seeing this, hope you all can make out how good artist I am.
Anyway Jokes apart, Prepare seriously for your exam. Do your part well and the rest God will take care.
Just think only one point: If many 100’s can pass the HANA exam, WHY CAN’T I. :cool:
All the best to those who are going to prepare for the exam!
Enjoy HANA! :cool:
Regards,
Prabhith
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