Preface

15

Who This Book Is For

15

How This Book Is Organized

16

Acknowledgments

19

Conclusion

20

Introduction: The Path to Certification

21

Target Audience

22

SAP Activate Certification: C_ACTIVATE12

24

Ways to Learn

27

Tips for Taking the Certification Exam

29

Realign Your Perspective

29

Before the Exam

29

During the Exam

32

Sample Plan

34

Tips and Tricks

36

Additional Learning Resources

36

Roadmap Viewer

37

SAP Jam

38

SAP Blogs and Articles

38

SAP Training and Adoption Materials

38

SAP Best Practices Explorer

39

SAP Help Portal

39

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Customer Community

41

SAP Fiori Apps Reference Library

42

openSAP

43

SAP Cloud Appliance Library

44

SAP Sample Questions

45

Summary

46

1 SAP Activate Overview

47

Objectives of This Portion of the Test

48

Key Concepts Refresher

49

What Is SAP Activate?

49

Three Pillars of SAP Activate

52

Key Characteristics

58

Structure

71

Governance, Roles, and Responsibilities

77

SAP Activate versus ASAP

78

Important Terminology

79

Practice Questions

79

Practice Question Answers and Explanations

86

Takeaway

90

Summary

90

2 SAP Activate Elements

91

Objectives of This Portion of the Test

92

Key Concepts Refresher

93

Contents

93

Tools

103

Methodology

110

Important Terminology

110

Practice Questions

111

Practice Question Answers and Explanations

116

Takeaway

119

Summary

119

3 Agile Project Planning

121

Objectives of This Portion of the Test

123

Key Concepts Refresher

123

Agile and Scrum

123

Scrum Terminologies

126

Scrum Team

131

Scrum Ceremonies

133

Scrum Artifacts

137

SAP Activate and Scrum

137

Roles and Responsibilities

139

Agile Project Organization

143

Agile Project Prepare Phase

146

Creating Product Backlogs

147

Important Terminology

154

Practice Questions

156

Practice Question Answers and Explanations

161

Takeaway

164

Summary

164

4 Agile Delivery Approach

165

Objectives of This Portion of the Test

167

Key Concepts Refresher

167

Release Planning

167

Multiple Releases

175

Sprint Cycle

176

Testing and Deployment

177

Scaling Agile

182

Important Terminology

183

Practice Questions

183

Practice Question Answers and Explanations

190

Takeaway

193

Summary

194

5 Workstreams Overview

195

Objectives of This Portion of the Test

196

Key Concepts Refresher

197

Project Management

197

Solution Adoption

205

Customer Team Enablement

211

Application Design and Configuration

215

Testing

230

Technical Architecture and Infrastructure

235

Extensibility

243

Data Management

249

Integration

253

Analytics

258

Operations and Support

262

Security

268

Important Terminology

270

Practice Questions

271

Practice Question Answers and Explanations

277

Takeaway

279

Summary

279

6 New Implementation SAP S/4HANA Transition Path

281

Objectives of This Portion of the Test

283

Key Concepts Refresher

283

Navigating the Roadmap Viewer

284

Three Transition Paths

285

Key Deliverables

287

Landscape

292

Discover Phase

293

Prepare Phase

296

Explore Phase

301

Realize Phase

307

Deploy Phase

314

Run Phase

317

Important Terminology

318

Practice Questions

319

Practice Question Answers and Explanations

322

Takeaway

324

Summary

324

7 New Implementation SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Essentials Edition Transition Path

325

Objectives of This Portion of the Test

327

Key Concepts Refresher

327

Cloud Deployments

327

Overview

331

Discover Phase

334

Prepare Phase

336

Explore Phase

343

Realize Phase

350

Deploy Phase

356

Run Phase

359

Important Terminology

362

Practice Questions

363

Practice Question Answers and Explanations

367

Takeaway

370

Summary

370

8 New Implementation SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Extended Edition Transition Path

371

Objectives of This Portion of the Test

372

Key Concepts Refresher

373

Overview

373

Discover Phase

380

Prepare Phase

383

Explore Phase

388

Realize Phase

392

Deploy Phase

399

Run Phase

401

Important Terminology

404

Practice Questions

405

Practice Question Answers and Explanations

410

Takeaway

412

Summary

412

9 System Conversion Transition Path

413

Objectives of This Portion of the Test

414

Key Concepts Refresher

415

Navigating the Roadmap Viewer

415

Key Considerations

416

Prerequisites

417

What Is System Conversion?

418

Discover Phase

421

Prepare Phase

423

Explore Phase

428

Realize Phase

434

Deploy Phase

440

Run Phase

445

Important Terminology

447

Practice Questions

447

Practice Question Answers and Explanations

450

Takeaway

451

Summary

451

10 Selective Data Transition Path

453

Objectives of This Portion of the Test

454

Key Concepts Refresher

455

Navigating the Roadmap Viewer

455

What Is Selective Data Transition?

456

Discover Phase

463

Prepare Phase

465

Explore Phase

467

Realize Phase

468

Deploy Phase

470

Run Phase

472

Shell Copy Example

473

Important Terminology

474

Practice Questions

475

Practice Question Answers and Explanations

478

Takeaway

479

Summary

479

Appendices

481

A Practice Test 1

483

B Practice Test 2

499

C Practice Test Answers

515

D The Author

517