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prabhith prabhakaran
My HANA Certification (C_HANAIMP_1) Experience
Posted by prabhith prabhakaran in SAP HANA Developer Center on Dec 16, 2013 6:27
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Hi All,
I have cleared the SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP HANA 1.0 examinatio
n last week.
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 fo
llowing link:
(http://training.sap.com/v2/certification/c_hanaimp_1-sap-certified-applicationassociate---sap-hana-10-g/)
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It s for Application consultants.
Exam Code: C_HANAIMP_1 (80 questions, 180 minute)
Certificate awarded: SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP HANA 1.0
Topics: Business content, Data Modelling, Data Provisioning, Optimization, Repor
ting, Security and Authorization
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 certifica
tion without attending any SAP course/training, you need to fulfill the followin
g criteria. I have done the exam in India and I m not sure if the following will c
hange in other countries.
You need minimum 1 year of HANA implementation experience or 2 years of Support
experience with minimum of 6 months experience in the module and version in whic
h you wish to take up certification.
The last 1 year should be with your present employer.
Your present employer should be a CUSTOMER or PARTNER of SAP.
If you fulfill the above criteria,you can contact SAP and they will ask you to s
end your updated project profile as per the format given by them for technical e
valuation. On establishing your eligibility, they will guide you through the pro
cess of registration.
Please send your profile once you are ready to appear for the certification as t
he certification approval mail is valid only for 2 months. After getting the app
roval mail, you will have to take the certification within 2 months of time fail
ing which the payment will be returned. You are requested to complete your cert
ification within the given time-frame.
Try not to spend more time on individual questions, instead quickly keep answeri
ng the questions that you know from the available 80.
Once you have done with the first round, check the numbers in the paper that you
have not striked off, go back to that again, read it more carefully and continu
e the same process 2
3 times. Now you will have to take a judicious decision by
answering the questions which is less doubtful.
If you continue with the above steps, after 2.5 hours, you will find very few qu
estions yet to be answered, now dedicate the last 30 minutes exclusively for ans
wering that questions.
Also, as said before, some questions will have more than one correct answer. Ens
ure that you have marked all the correct answers. Don t fully depend on the Green
Background in the assist option as the background colour will become green even
if you mark 1 answer for a question which is supposed to have 3 right answers.
Read the question twice or thrice, there will be few tricky questions asked, whe
re you will be tempted to choose the wrong answers. Beware of such questions.
Keep yourself calm and concentrate on the questions.
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After 2 hours 55 minutes, a pop up will come indicating that you have just 5 min
utes for completion.
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It s time now and you will have to submit your answers. You can use the SUBMIT but
ton for this.
NOTE: This SUBMIT button will be there from the first question itself. Ensure th
at you don t click that by mistake in between the test.
I have not seen such a costly SUBMIT button in my life.
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If you don t submit even after 3 hours, session will automatically disconnect.
You will now see your result: Passed or Failed.
With God s Grace, I passed my exam.
Please be informed that 66% or above will be considered as Pass and SAP certific
ate would reach to your address in 4-6 weeks.
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You will also see the individual % of marks in each session and the overall tota
l.
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 i
n those docs twice or thrice. Questions can come up from anywhere.
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 consti
tutes a copyright law violation.
c) It's good to go through SDN HANA space as well. That will help you to underst
and 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 b
e slightly tweaked.
These are the top 50 links which I would recommend it to you:
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Sunil Kumar Koneru
Sunil Kumar Koneru Dec 16, 2013 6:36 AM
Hi Prabhith,
Thanks for sharing the info..
Regards
Sunil
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Ganesh Bothe
Ganesh Bothe Dec 16, 2013 6:42 AM
Hi,
Very Good Blog...Thanks for sharing..It will helful to many.
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seshu p
seshu p Dec 16, 2013 6:48 AM
Congrats and Thanks for sharing your Experience.
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Manna Das
Manna Das Dec 16, 2013 11:32 AM
Thanks for sharing your roller coaster ride experience with us .
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prabhith prabhakaran
prabhith prabhakaran Dec 16, 2013 12:33 PM
Thanks guys for ur feed back...:)
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Sushant Tiwarekar
Sushant Tiwarekar Dec 16, 2013 6:31 PM
Thanks for sharing.
Regards,
Sushant
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NAGA SATISH
NAGA SATISH Dec 16, 2013 11:34 PM
Hi Prabhakaran,
Congratulations first, thanks for sharing your experience & nice painting as wel
l.
I have a question // As you said Three types of questions 1, 2, 3
i) Do you have idea No of questions from 1, 2, 3. out of 80 questions.
ii) will you please give an example for type 3 question.
Best regards,
Naga.
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ROHIT TEWATIA
ROHIT TEWATIA Dec 17, 2013 8:53 AM
Congrats Prabhith. And thanks for sharing the valuable Docs & the experience.
Regards,
Rohit.
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prabhith prabhakaran
prabhith prabhakaran Dec 17, 2013 9:40 AM
Hi,
Thanks a lot for your comments.
@Naga_Babu: I dont remember the exact number of questions that can be categorize
d into type 1 and type 2, but type 1 questions were more.
There was only 1 question of type3:
Question: Select the best option from Column B(5 choice within a drop down box)
that suits to the entry in column A.
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Expected Answer against Sachin Tendulkar --> Cricket
Lionel Messi --> Football.
Hope its clear!
Regards,
Prabhith
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Ramanjaneyulu Korrapati
Ramanjaneyulu Korrapati Dec 17, 2013 12:28 PM
Congrats to being HANA Certified consultant.
Its more useful.Thanks for sharing your valuable information for us.
Thanks
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mahesh v
mahesh v Dec 18, 2013 7:43 AM
Congrats Prabith,
Thanks a lot for the detailed blog on certification, this blog will help a lot o
f aspirants in SAP certification. May be the picture you drawn helped you in pas
sing the certification. so get patent for the picture and start side business...
thanks,
mahesh
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anitha bochala
anitha bochala Dec 18, 2013 11:26 PM
Prabith,
Congratulations!!
Thank you very much for the detailed blog!!! Its really amazing that you could r
emember and blog to the minutest detail !!!
When I looked at the sample questionnaire for HANA certification, every thing se
Kumaraguru Mani
Kumaraguru Mani Dec 19, 2013 1:17 PM
Hi Prabit
Congratulations!!
The information that you have provided here is very useful. I have a question, I
would request you to help me
I have been working as PLM consultant for past 6 years and now I want to change
my career in SAP HANA and planning to do the certification in HANA, But, I came
to know from your forums that we need a 1 year experiance in HANA or other SAP p
roduct as prerequisites for taking this exam, which would help to get the approv
al from SAP, now my question is since I have experience in PLM technical consult
ant, is this possible for me to take the HANA certification. I don't have any SA
P experience.
Regards
Kumaraguru.M
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prabhith prabhakaran
prabhith prabhakaran Dec 19, 2013 6:33 PM (in response to Kumaraguru Mani)
@Kumaraguru_Mani,
As per my understanding, if you are appearing for the certification without atte
nding any SAP course/training, you need to fulfill the following criteria.
You need minimum 1 year of HANA implementation experience or 2 years of Support
experience with minimum of 6 months experience in the module and version in whic
h you wish to take up certification.
If you are appearing from your company side,I am not sure about the process..
It would be great if you can sent a mail to education.india@sap.com
If you want, we can discuss it offline aswell.
Regards,
Prabhith
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Kumaraguru Mani
Kumaraguru Mani Dec 20, 2013 12:24 PM (in response to prabhith prabhakaran)
Hi Prabhith,
Thanks for your response. Yes, We can discuss offline.Can you give me your conta
ct # so that I can call you and discuss.
My Contact # 9841790146.
Regards
Kumaraguru. M
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sravandeep potula
sravandeep potula Aug 26, 2014 5:07 AM (in response to prabhith prabhakaran)
Hi Prabhith,
Could we have a offline discussion on this, as I do need some more clarification
regarding the certification.