2 SAP HANA Training

Techniques You’ll Master

• Identify SAP Education training courses for SAP HANA
• Find related SAP courses
• Discover other sources of information and courses on the Internet
• Develop strategies for taking your SAP certification exam

In this chapter, we will provide an overview of options for available resources and training courses to prepare for your certification exam. We will look into SAP Education, which makes SAP HANA training courses available for each certification and provides related courses that can enhance your skills and understanding. We also will discuss various sources on the Internet that provide SAP HANA documentation, video tutorials, how to get hands-on expirience, and free online courses. Finally, we will review some techniques for taking the certification exam.

SAP Education Training Courses

You can attend SAP official training courses in a couple of different ways. These training course options provide flexibility for learning and access to relevant materials, so you can customize your studies to your lifestyle.

These different types of training courses include:

• Classroom training
  The first and most obvious option is classroom training, in which you attend SAP HANA courses in a classroom with a trainer for a few days. Classroom training courses provide a printed manual and a system through which you can practice and perform exercises. At the end of the week, you will walk away with a better understanding of what is described in that training material.

  Classroom training is a popular option that allows individuals to focus on learning in an environment in which they can ask questions, perform exercises, discuss information with other students, and get away from their offices and emails.

• Virtual classrooms
  You can also attend SAP courses via virtual classrooms. The virtual approach is similar to training in real-life classrooms, but you do not sit in a physical classroom with a trainer. Instead, your trainer teaches you via the Internet in a virtual classroom. You still have the ability to ask questions, chat online with other students, and perform exercises.
• E-learning
  You can participate in the same training courses via e-learning as well. In this case, you are provided with a training manual and an audio recording of course presentations. However, you don’t have an instructor to ask questions of, and there is no interaction with others who are learning the same topic. Given that this type of training normally happens after hours, it requires some discipline.
• SAP Learning Hub
  The last training course option is to use the SAP Learning Hub, a service you subscribe to yearly. Your subscription grants you access to the entire SAP portfolio of e-learning courses across every topic in the cloud, training materials, some vouchers for taking certification exams, learning rooms, hands-on training systems, and forums for asking questions. You can find further details about the SAP Learning Hub at https://training.sap.com/shop/learninghub and www.sap.com/training-education/learning-software-svc/learn/solutions/hub/index.html.

In the next two subsections, we’ll discuss SAP HANA training courses specific to the certification exams and additional courses related to SAP HANA that may prove useful in your learning.

Training Courses for SAP HANA Certifications

Table 2.1 lists the SAP HANA training courses for the latest C_HANAIMP certification exams, the length of each course, and each course’s prerequisites, if any.

Certification	SAP Training Course	Length	Prerequisites
C_HANAIMP151 (SPS 10 courses)	HA100, collection 10	2 days	N/A
	HA300, collection 10	5 days	HA100
D_HANAIMP_10	Delta materials provided	Self-determined	C_HANAIMP151
C_HANAIMP_11	HA100 collection 11	2 days	N/A
	HA300 collection 11	5 days	HA100

Table 2.1 SAP Training Courses for C_HANAIMP Certification Exams

The HA100 training course is the two-day introductory course that everyone must take, regardless of which direction you want to go with SAP HANA. HA100 provides a quick introduction to SAP HANA architecture, the different concepts of in-memory computing, modeling, data provisioning (how to get data into SAP HANA), and how to use SAP HANA information models in reports.

The HA300 training course goes into more detail on the SAP HANA modeling concepts and the security aspects of SAP HANA.

As of SPS 10, the HA300 training course has been expanded from three to five days and now includes related topics previously found only in the HA360 and HA900 courses. Now, you only need to take the HA100 and HA300 courses to prepare for the certification exam.

[+] Tip

All the answers to the associate-level SAP HANA certification exams are guaranteed to be (somewhere) in the official SAP training material.

Additional SAP HANA Training Courses

The following SAP training courses related to SAP HANA modeling can complement your skills and knowledge of SAP HANA:

• HA450
  This three-day course merges SAP HANA modeling with the native application development that you can perform from SAP HANA’s application server. It teaches you how you can take an SAP HANA information model, expose it as an OData or REST web service, and consume it in the JavaScript framework called SAPUI5.
• SAPX05
  This course complements the HA450 training course. It focuses on SAPUI5 development.
• HA215
  If you want to learn about SAP HANA performance tuning, the two-day HA215 course will complement the HA100 and HA300 courses.
• BW362
  If you come from a SAP BW background, BW362 is a related course that might help you. This course shows you how you can build information models with SAP BW on SAP HANA.
• HA400
  If you come from an ABAP background, you should think about attending the HA400 training course. It takes the knowledge that you gained in HA100 and HA300 and shows you how to apply that knowledge in your ABAP development environment. You’ll learn that the ways in which you access the SAP HANA information models and interface with the SAP HANA database are completely different than ways to perform similar tasks in all the other databases you’ve used through the years.

SAP Education offers a wide variety of courses to enhance your skills and further your career. However, it’s important to know what resources are available outside the classroom as well. In the next section, we will look at additional resources for continued learning.