SAP Software Knowledge: My SAP PM Certification Experience

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

My SAP PM Certification Experience

Please note that questions can be very different to what I had in Australia.

In my exam, we did not need to remember menu paths however there were a number questions on config settings...but to pass, they do need a deep understanding of PM functionality and how it all fits together. It will also help a lot if they have a good understanding of how a maintenance business works and been working in maintenance for a few years.

We had questions and up to 4-5 sub questions for each question (not all of them though). The exam has a time limit of 3 hours and the fee is non refundable if you fail..

From what I know, there are many different exam questions in the question bank. I really don't remember specific questions, just the type of questions. My advice is;

1. Attend all the SAP courses. SAP said there is nothing in the exam that is not in the courses.

2. Practice as often as you can in a DEV client, configuring things and seeing how they work, running transactions etc.

3. Practice with a friend, try and find difficult questions to ask each other and work out together how things work. Make a competition of it.

4. Open the PM menu path then open every transaction in it, read the help for each transaction ... even if you think you know it.

5. Understand the relationship between sap objects, such as costs and orders, overheads and costs, qualifications and orders, permits and tech objects etc.

6. Read the questions very, very, VERY carefully. They can be a little ambiguous (by design, to see if you know your subject).

7. One type of question they use is, 3 very similiar statements, but only one is right. Read carefully and think about it.

8. Try not to get too nervous and uptight before the exam. I did a little bit and it took a while to realise I actually knew the answers and it wasn't as hard as I first thought.

9. If you know SAP PM very well and read the questions carefully, you will find it fairly easy.

10. Have a look on Amazon books, there are a range of books supposedly giving sample questions for SAP certification exams, there may be one for PM by now.

As a note, When they give the exam, everyone gets a different exam and it is done electronically. It stops on the stroke of 3 hours, no extensions.