Hello Everyone, Glad to inform you that I cleared the HANA 1.0 Application Consultant Certification yesterday. Thanks to you all for the timely support and the great quality training from Param. I thought the exam was pretty tough (even though I felt I prepared really well, I scored only 76%). It goes without saying that practice on the system for several days is a must to clear this. Thanks again to all of you for providing the materials and the systems! Some feedback for Param: Firstly, please accept compliments for the superlative training experience you have provided.Your pace was easy to follow, the content was presented very clearly and was obviously well supported by your vast experience and the materials provided. Kudos! About the exam now...The questions and the options are very confusing (this is not news, right? ) Some questions that stumped me were: 1. Performance Optimization, especially combined with performance on BOBJ tools. The exam had several questions to the tune of "If a Bobj report is running slow, what could be wrong, where can you check the traces, what can you do to optimize, where would you apply filters/joins..". While I knew basics of this, the options had me super confused. Touching upon these details during sessions would be great. 2. BODS: There was detailed questions about data transformation in BODS (query, script..) and creating ABAP data flows. I knew what these are, but just this was not enough to confidently answer. I guessed a lot in the BOBJ area. They showed a screenshot of a report and wanted to know what tool generated it. It was a bar chart with some tabs..didn't look like explorer or dashboard...I could not tell if it was WebI or Crystal... Should have spent more time on BOBJ in the system.... Read More
Hello Everyone, Glad to inform you that I cleared the HANA 1.0 Application Consultant Certification yesterday. Thanks to you all for the timely support and the great quality training from Param. I thought the exam was pretty tough (even though I felt I prepared really well, I scored only 76%). It goes without saying that practice on the system for several days is a must to clear this. Thanks again to all of you for providing the materials and the systems! Some feedback for Param: Firstly, please accept compliments for the superlative training experience you have provided.Your pace was easy to follow, the content was presented very clearly and was obviously well supported by your vast experience and the materials provided. Kudos! About the exam now…The questions and the options are very confusing (this is not news, right? ) Some questions that stumped me were: 1. Performance Optimization, especially combined with performance on BOBJ tools. The exam had several questions to the tune of “If a Bobj report is running slow, what could be wrong, where can you check the traces, what can you do to optimize, where would you apply filters/joins..”. While I knew basics of this, the options had me super confused. Touching upon these details during sessions would be great. 2. BODS: There was detailed questions about data transformation in BODS (query, script..) and creating ABAP data flows. I knew what these are, but just this was not enough to confidently answer. I guessed a lot in the BOBJ area. They showed a screenshot of a report and wanted to know what tool generated it. It was a bar chart with some tabs..didn’t look like explorer or dashboard…I could not tell if it was WebI or Crystal… Should have spent more time on BOBJ in the system. 3. BW on HANA: A question was about where would you configure datasource objects? Steps for BW on HANA migration. We discussed the 2 steps in class (upgrade to NW7.3 and migrate DB to HANA)..there asked for 3 correct options. the third one turned out to be run the report RS_BW_POST_MIGRATION ..this was guesswork which was fortunately correct. I am sure there is a big migration checklist and they could put anything in there as an option. There were many other confusing questions in modeling (2 joins for 1 attribute view on the same field and such) …But the conclusion remains that – they expected very detailed knowledge of some advanced topics, even though TZHANA/HA100/HA 300 just barely touches them. If you would just indicate this in the sessions, people can plan their preparation accordingly to include a lot of self study because reading course materials and practice is not enough. I did a lot of additional reading on SCN and various blogs, help.sap.com, open.sap.com, saphana.com, all PPTs….which helped answer some questions. I felt lost on the BOBJ side, there is so much that it is hard to sift through manuals for every tool there is (this of course does not apply to others who are familiar with this topic). I hope this insight is useful for future sessions / exam attempts. Best Regards Jayasri