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Identifying the Major Steps of an SAP S/4HANA Conversion

Listing the Major Steps of an SAP S/4HANA Conversion

Analyzing the Architecture of an SAP System

Understanding the Concept of an Upgrade and an SAP S/4HANA Conversion

Considering Complexity Drivers and Maintenance Aspects

Describing the Concept of an SAP S/4HANA Conversion

Exploring the SAP S/4HANA Conversion

Introducing the SAP S/4HANA Conversion

Describing SAP Solution Manager and Maintenance Planner

Planning a Software Change

Using the Maintenance Planner for an SAP S/4HANA Conversion

Performing the Simplification Item Checks

Performing the Custom Code Analysis

Performing Cross-Application Preparations

Preparing the Move to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition

Performing Manual Preparation Activities for an SAP S/4HANA Conversion

Performing Steps from SAP Notes

Performing Steps from the Software Update Manager Guides

Performing Manual Preparation Activities for Software Update Manager

Understanding the Concept of the Software Update Manager

Using the Software Update Manager

Using Tools Supporting the Software Update Manager

Describing the Concept of the Software Update Manager

Configuring the Software Update Manager

Performing the Software Update Manager – Prepare Part

Processing the Software Update Manager

Starting the Remaining Data Conversion (Silent Data Migration) (SDM)

Performing the Software Update Manager – Processing Part

Performing Manual Follow-Up Activities for the Software Update Manager

Performing Manual Follow-On Activities for an SAP S/4HANA Conversion

Understanding the Concept of Modification Adjustment

Performing the SPDD Modification Adjustment

Performing the SPAU Modification Adjustment

Performing the Modification Adjustments

Starting with Troubleshooting

Describing Troubleshooting

Exploring the Database Migration Option (DMO)

Understanding the Database Migration Option (DMO)

Describing Downtime

Analyzing the Downtime of the Software Update Manager Procedure

Describing Near-Zero Downtime Maintenance (nZDM) Capabilities of the Software Update Manager

Describing Downtime-Optimized Conversion

Optimizing the Downtime

Converting a Three-System Landscape

Describing Selective Data Transition

Describing the Roadmap Viewer

Converting an SAP System Landscape

Understanding the Concept of Business Functions

Transporting Business Functions

Understanding Business Function Restrictions

Activating Business Functions

Understanding the Concept of Unicode

Describing a Unicode Conversion

Understanding a Unicode Conversion

Summarizing Exercises and Solutions

Exercises and Solutions

SAP S/4HANA Conversion and SAP System Upgrade

Learn about the major enhancements for certification SAP S/4HANA Conversion and SAP System Upgrade to prepare for the assessment to stay certified.

This certification verifies that you possess the required level of skills to perform a technical SAP S/4HANA conversion and an SAP system upgrade.&nbsp; It proves that you have an overall understanding and the in-depth technical skills required to successfully complete a system upgrade and conversion. Candidates that pass this certification can implement these skills practically in SAP projects.

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SAP S/4HANA Conversion and SAP System Upgrade

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Listing the Major Steps of an SAP S/4HANA Conversion

Describing the Concept of an SAP S/4HANA Conversion

Introducing the SAP S/4HANA Conversion

Using the Maintenance Planner for an SAP S/4HANA Conversion

Performing Manual Preparation Activities for an SAP S/4HANA Conversion

Performing Manual Preparation Activities for Software Update Manager

Describing the Concept of the Software Update Manager

Performing the Software Update Manager – Prepare Part

Performing the Software Update Manager – Processing Part

Performing Manual Follow-Up Activities for the Software Update Manager

Performing Manual Follow-On Activities for an SAP S/4HANA Conversion

Performing the Modification Adjustments

Describing Troubleshooting

Understanding the Database Migration Option (DMO)

Optimizing the Downtime

Converting an SAP System Landscape

Activating Business Functions

Understanding a Unicode Conversion

Exercises and Solutions

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