SAP certification has been recognized and praised by the world. SAP certified personnel acquire SAP product knowledge and technology through rigorous study. They passed the rigorous, process-oriented examination, demonstrated their abilities and gained recognition in the industry.
The certification of SAP consultant is a proof that the holder of SAP certification has the necessary knowledge to successfully operate the SAP system.
Can improve your position in enterprise management.
Certification consultants will be able to directly visit SAP's service website, get more resources and provide customers with high-quality latest information.
SAP certification is the starting point of diamond life. Bok education has opened up employment channels for large enterprises in the United Nations, providing 3-6 months of enterprise internship for students who successfully complete the courses and meet the employment requirements, and opening up channels for future employment. For those who don't have the knowledge and skills related to SAP, but want to acquire the product knowledge of SAP through training and become consultants, this move is a shortcut. It is a shortcut to attend the course of SAP Consulting Institute.
SAP certification is the ladder to the golden collar. The average annual salary of SAP certified consultants in China is between RMB 200,000 and RMB 300,000, and it is on the rise. Among them, there are many SAP senior consultants with an annual salary of 500,000 to 6,543.8+0,000. In Europe and America, the average annual salary of such professionals is about twice that of other professionals with the same education. It can be predicted that the shortage of SAP talents and the high income status of SAP talents will not change in the next 10 year.
SAP certified consultants have good career prospects and personal development. Certified consultants can be engaged in SAP-related positions such as project manager, application module consultant (FI, MM, SD, PP, HR……), technical consultant, lecturer, pre-sales consultant and technical support. Can be used as internal implementation consultant and business consultation in the industry. If you have good English, you can go abroad for employment and development. Some freelance consultants from SAP travel around the world with their projects and experience different lives. It can be said that joining the SAP industry is an opportunity to change your career and life.
The certification examination for SAP consultants is different in different countries. Some countries, such as the United States, Canada, Hong Kong and Malaysia, can take the certification examination directly without taking the training course of SAP. However, most countries still require to attend the training course of SAP Consulting College first, and then take the exam on the last afternoon. Basically, the exam is divided into 120 questions, 80 questions and 40 questions, which are certification exam and delta certification exam respectively. The Delta Certification Examination has changed in content.
Certification exams (components) can be roughly divided into two types:
The first one is called the SAP Technical Consultant Examination. This is a certification examination, including technical departments, such as basic, safety, BW technology, or EP technology. The other is called development. Functional or solution consultant certification exam. It is the business function of the enterprise or the certification examination of each module in ERP, such as MM, PP, SD, FI, CO, CRM, CS, SM, QM, etc.
If you fail in the exam, you must take it again in 6-8 weeks, and you can't take it again immediately. The cost is about $500 each time, which varies from country to country. You must register for V first, and tell the examination institution what kind of certification you want to take, because there are many kinds of certification. Technical certification examination is divided into basic, BW and enterprise portal. The basic technology is divided into three parts: one is database, such as ORACLE, SAPDB, DB2, or SQL-Server, and the other is system, including OS/390, WINDOWS, AS/400 and UNIX. The third is the version. SAP is divided into different versions, such as 3. x，4。 X, 2002, 2003 and NW04.
For BASIS, the most important exam is BASIS technical consultant certification, and SAP NETWEAVER 04 is the latest course and certification. Including two parts, one is the integration of SAP WAS640 technology core and system, and the other is the optional database: Oracle 9.2, DB2 8 and SQL Server 2003.
Each certification has a certification ID. Take NETWEAVER 04 of Oracle Technology Certification Examination as an example, which is C_DADM5 1_04. The examination time is 3 hours, with a total of 120 questions. If you pass 70%, that is, 84 questions, you will pass the exam.
More than 95% of the exam content is required to be included in the training course of SAP. This course includes
TADM 10, that is, sap is one of the implementation and operation.
TADM 12, that is, sap is implemented and operated.
TADM5 1, that is, SAP is the DB operation of oracle. These three courses are the courses of consulting institutions, which are actually ADM 100, ADM 102, ADM 1 10, ADM 106 and ADM 505. The content of the exam will be told to you on the website. What are the key points and proportions? You can find them in service.sap.com/certification,, the service website of SAP.
For example, Netweaver 2004, the SAP technology certification exam, is divided into two parts:
The first part is the foundation, and the second part is the Oracle database. Basic 60 questions, Oracle Bone Inscriptions 40 questions. Both parts must pass (more than 70%) to get the certification.
If you have passed the Oracle exam and want to pass the DB2 exam, you can skip the previous 80 questions and only take 40 questions in the DB2 database.
What does the basic part of the exam contain?
The first one contains the infrastructure of SAP NetWeaver and ESA: about 10-25 questions. What is the latest architecture ESA of SAP? What does SAP's new solution offer? NetWeaver overview, etc.
The second part is the management of WAS: the content accounts for a large proportion, including about 20-30 questions, including how to start the SAP system, how to configure ABAP, how to set up, how to archive SAP data, how to do the basic management of users, how to schedule, how to apply patches, how to set up V printers, how to monitor a system and so on. The main contents focus on ADM 100 and ADM 100.
The third part is WAS management II: including system interface management and setting; Centralized management of user interface, namely CUA；; There is also the integration of SAP and Microsoft LDAP; ADM 102 and ADM940 provide SSO and new security management functions.
The third part is the management of JAVA: this part is the new NETWEAVER 04 certification and ADM200 course, including the basic concepts and management of JAVA; How to start and stop JAVA system; How to install and build JAVA system; How to manage users in JAVA system; How to patch on JAVA system; How to do TSM (change management control) in JAVA system; And how to monitor the JAVA system.
The fourth part of system installation is ADM 1 10 course; Including how to install the system; Plan to install the system; What is the installer? How to upgrade the kernel; What is UNICODE and how to convert it, that is, universal code and national standard code conversion; How to solve the trouble shooting?
The fifth part is software logistics,
How to set up TSM, how to do client copywriting, what is the development of ABAP, how to make the development process, how to transfer program changes from the development system to the quality assurance system, and even to the production system; How to build the whole system; How to use the functions provided by the new solution manager for system management?
Part VI: System load analysis. ), including how to analyze the performance of the monitoring system, how to adjust the management memory, how to change the parameters of the memory, how to adjust the parameters of the operating system, how to adjust the scale, and how to confirm and plan the hardware capabilities; How to plan a long-term system growth plan, how to analyze and find out some bad SQL statements, how to check the buffer of the table to achieve the purpose of system optimization, how to set up system status monitoring and so on. .
The above is the content of the basic examination, and the database needs to do the following five things:
1. Database Overview: What is the basic architecture of oracle, how to connect Oracle, how to manage Oracle, and what are the management tools: SAPDBA before version 620, BRtool after version 620, or the graphical interface of BRtool.
2. Backup and recovery of the system: what is the backup strategy, what tools to use, where to back up, whether to back up to tape or hard disk, how to schedule, how to recover, and how to carry out HA and DR 。
3. Monitoring the database: how to monitor the database, how to confirm that the efficiency of the database is the best, when to add hard disks, when to reorganize, etc.
4. Tablespace management and problem solving.
5.Oracle cache analysis. How to analyze a poor SQL statement, how to do search optimization, how to arrange the update of statistical data, and how to find out which codes have problems.
The above is an example of SAP NetWeaver 04 plus Oracle to illustrate how the authentication of SAP works and what it contains.
In short, it should be noted that there are many kinds of authentication. Before you decide on certification, you have to decide which one to take and set your goals. For example, if you apply for SAP Netweaver 04 for Oracle, you only prepare Oracle 8, but you actually take Oracle 9, which is different in some ways. Net Weaver also includes some JAVA management, which is the previous BASIS 4.x, 2000, 2002, 2000.
You will know if you have passed the exam after about 4-6 weeks. Time varies from country to country. All grades and results will be sent to the education center of SAP headquarters in Germany for certification. Therefore, many countries can know their achievements immediately, but they still have to wait four weeks to get the certification certificate with laser seal and signature of SAP Education Minister. Many consultants who pass the certification examination in the United States will also get plastic certification certificates the size of business cards, but generally there is no ID card but only the certification certificate of SAP internal certification examination.
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