SAP Certified Associate - Integration Developer Study Guide

The SAP Business Technology Platform is based on several pillars. Which of these are pillars of SAP BTP?

AI, App Dev, Automation, Integration, Data and Analytics

Which of the following are SAP-declared intelligent, sustainable enterprise business processes?

1. Lead to Cash

2. Design to Operate

3. Source to Pay

4. Recruit to Retire

TRUE OR FALSE: The SAP Business Technology Platform is a software-as-a-service offering (SaaS).

False (SAP Business Technology Platform is a platform-as-a-service offering [PaaS] )

TRUE OR FALSE: It is possible to integrate on-premise scenarios into cloud scenarios of your choice.

True (Due to Hybrid scenarios, it is possible to integrate on-premise scenarios into cloud scenarios of your choice.)

TRUE OR FALSE: SAP partners with two well known hyperscalers

False (The well known hyperscalers are AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Alibaba Cloud. Of course, next to them, there are even more cloud providers that might have hyperscaler approached architectures. SAP partners with the four mentioned big hyperscalers to achieve the best offering for the customers and the highest availability.)

TRUE OR FALSE: Cloud computing can lower your costs by allowing you to use only the resources you need on demand.

True (You can unsubscribe or deactivate resources that you don't need anymore. In addition to that, it can be possible that you only get charged for what you used and not for what is running like a server in your own data center would. So yes: Depending on your situation, cloud computing can lower your computing costs.)

TRUE OR FALSE: The three key end-to-end scenarios of the SAP BTP are Integration, Data-to-Value, and Extensibility.

True (SAP Business Technology Platform consists of three main scenarios: Integration, Data-to-Value, Extensibility)

TRUE OR FALSE: SAP Ariba is a cloud-based solution that makes it easier to manage the entire purchasing process.

True (SAP Ariba does indeed help manage the purchasing process by providing visibility into spending and identifying new sources of savings)

TRUE OR FALSE: In the SAP Discovery Center you can find information of SAP BTP services

True (In the SAP Discovery Center you can find relevant information about services from the SAP BTP. On top of that you can also have a look at the missions - small learning pieces for SAP BTP topics)

TRUE OR FALSE: Destinations are key building blocks in SAP BTP and are used to define connections for outbound communication from your application to remote systems.

True (Destinations are key building blocks in SAP BTP and are used to define connections for outbound communication from your application to remote systems)

TRUE OR FALSE: You can transfer free-tier service plans to paid service plans with a technical migration

False (You can transfer free-tier service plans to paid service plans without a technical migration - you need to change the service plan to a paid one.)

Before using services in SAP BTP, what are the possible actions that may need to be completed? (2 CORRECT ANSWERS)

1. Create an instance

2. Subscribe to the service

TRUE OR FALSE: SAP BTP accounts can only get administrated with the SAP BTP cockpit

False (Besides the SAP BTP cockpit, you can use command line tools like btp cli or cf cli to administrate your SAP BTP accounts)

TRUE OR FALSE: You need to enable the Cloud Foundry runtime inside the subaccount before the first use

True (Before you can use the Cloud Foundry environment inside of spaces, you need to activate Cloud Foundry in the subaccount.)

What can you do with SAP Build Apps?

Create mobile apps with a visual editor. (With SAP Build Apps, you can build enterprise-grade mobile applications based on no-code composed with a visual editor.)

Which of the following roles can we typically identify regarding software development? (THREE CORRECT ANSWERS)

1. Professional Developer

2. Citizen Developer

3. Administrator

TRUE OR FALSE: Application Development with SAP BTP is a portfolio of solutions that help you simplify your development.

True (Application Development with SAP BTP can help you simplify the development of your application extensions or custom applications. It is optimized for SAP applications to extend the value of your existing SAP investments, but it is also open to extending third-party applications.)

Which tool is the new strategic IDE from SAP for Application Development?

SAP Business Application Studio (The SAP Business Application Studio is the choice for the future from SAP. It‘s a modern, flexible, and extensible development environment for building applications for the intelligent, sustainable enterprise.)

TRUE OR FALSE: No-code development is primarily intended for those who aren't comfortable with coding their own software.

True (No-code development is primarily intended to help employees that are process experts to automate tasks, build applications, or otherwise optimize their own business activities.)

TRUE OR FALSE: SAPUI5 is a framework to build native applications.

False (SAPUI5 is a modern and flexible framework to build web applications for your business needs. In addition, there are tools for planning SAPUI5 apps, testing, icons, and more.)

TRUE OR FALSE: You can use the open connector capabilities from the SAP Integration Suite to integrate non-SAP applications.

True (You can use the open connector capabilities from the SAP Integration Suite to integrate non-SAP applications.)

TRUE OR FALSE: With the open connectors of the SAP Integration Suite, you can integrate third party applications.

True (With the open connectors of the SAP Integration Suite, you can integrate third party applications.)

TRUE OR FALSE: API is an acronym for "Application Programming Interaction."

False (API is an acronym for "Application Programming Interface.")

TRUE OR FALSE: The SAP Business Accelerator Hub offers you a wide range of sandbox APIs for several SAP products like SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP, SAP SucessFactors, SAP Concur, and more.

True (The SAP Business Accelerator Hub offers you a wide range of sandbox APIs for several SAP products like SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP, SAP SucessFactors, SAP Concur, and more. These sandbox APIs can be used for integration and extension scenarios.)

What are benefits of APIs? (3 CORRECT ANSWERS)

1. Automation

2. Cost efficiency

3. Innovation

   (The benefits of APIs are an easier and faster integration, automation, and more profitability and cost efficiency with increased efficiency and innovation.)

TRUE OR FALSE: The acronym "CRUD" stands for COPY, READ, UPDATE, DELETE.

False (The acronym "CRUD" stands for CREATE, READ, UPDATE, DELETE.)

Why might customers choose to implement SAP HANA Cloud instead of SAP HANA on premise? (3 CORRECT ANSWERS)

1. Reduced administration effort on customer side.

2. Easy to scale.

3. Fast deployment

   (SAP HANA Cloud is managed by SAP and partners, so the administration effort on the customers side is minimal. SAP HANA Cloud is easy to scale because you can choose your own CPU and memory and can change this at anytime very easily. SAP HANA Cloud can be deployed quickly using a simple interface. Customers do not manage the lifecycle of SAP HANA Cloud, this is done only by SAP.)

Which of the following are capabilities from the SAP Analytics Cloud? (3 CORRECT ANSWERS)

1. Business Intelligence

2. Augmented Analytics

3. Enterprise Planning

TRUE OR FALSE: SAP BTP does not allow you to use other databases like SAP HANA Cloud.

False (Beside the use of the powerful SAP HANA in-memory database in the SAP Business Technology Platform, data capabilities can also be implemented using other services such as Object Store, Redis, hyperscaler option, or PostgreSQL Service.)

TRUE OR FALSE: SAP Datasphere unifies data and analytics in a public cloud solution that covers data warehousing, and analytics capabilities for a data-driven enterprise.

True (SAP Datasphere unifies data and analytics in a multi-cloud solution that includes data integration, database, data warehouse, and analytics capabilities for a data-driven enterprise. Built on the SAP HANA Cloud database, this software as a service (SaaS) empowers you to better understand your business data and make confident decisions based on real-time information.)

What is the concept behind Data-To-Value?

Collect and analyze data to gather value out of it. (The data-to-value portfolio within SAP Business Technology Platform provides the complete pathway for extracting business value from previously scattered and siloed (collected) data.)

TRUE OR FALSE: Calculation views are defined on top of tables to provide the data processing layer.

True (Calculation views do not store data but calculate results on-the-fly based on live data in source tables.)

TRUE OR FALSE: SAP is utilizing artificial intelligence in several products of the portfolio.

True (SAP utilizes artificial intelligence in several products of the portfolio like SAP S/4HANA, SAP Ariba, SAP SuccessFactors)

TRUE OR FALSE: When you want to utilize artificial intelligence in your business you can't work with the SAP BTP.

False (The SAP BTP offers a range of services and solutions for utilizing Artificial Intelligence and on top of that SAP covers the topic to create AI capabilities responsible and ethically correct.)

TRUE OR FALSE: You can use the SAP AI Business Services through their API's.

True (The SAP AI Business Services offering AI capabilities for several use cases which you consume through their API's to integrate them into your landscape and programming projects.)

TRUE OR FALSE: With the AI API you can implement AI runtimes in an unified way into your scenarios.

True (The AI API is not a product but a unified API definition that AI runtimes implement, such as SAP AI Core or open source AI runtimes, and to which consuming applications can connect to.)

With SAP AI Launchpad you can:

Centralize your AI lifecycle management in a single tool (SAP AI Launchpad is the central application to access and manage your AI use cases. You can connect to multiple runtimes via the unified AI API and streamline the AI lifecycle management of your use cases within SAP AI Launchpad.)

TRUE OR FALSE: SAP AI Core runs AI models cost-efficiently at scale while preserving privacy and compliance, and integrates natively with SAP applications.

True (SAP AI Core runs AI models cost-efficiently at scale while preserving privacy and compliance, and integrates natively with SAP applications.)

Which of the following tasks is the Identity Authentication service mainly responsible for? (2 CORRECT ANSWERS)

1. Authentication

2. Single Sign-On

Which of the following tasks is an App Router used to? (3 CORRECT ANSWERS)

1. Serve static content or files

2. Authenticate users

3. Dispatch request to back-end applications

TRUE OR FALSE: The XSUAA service stores user record data.

False (The XSUAA service does not store user records. The XSUAA service communicates with identity providers to work with or validate user data.)

TRUE OR FALSE: When a global account administrator creates a subaccount, they automatically become the administrator of the subaccount.

True (When a global account administrator creates a subaccount, they automatically become the administrator of the subaccount.)

TRUE OR FALSE: SAP ID Service is the default identity provider in SAP BTP.

True (SAP ID Service is the default identity provider in SAP BTP. It is a pre-configured, standard SAP public IdP (account.sap.com) that is shared by all customers. It has a pre-configured trust connection to all SAP BTP subaccounts.)

TRUE OR FALSE: Role Collections consist of multiple individual roles.

True (Role collections consist of individual roles that combine authorizations for resources and services on SAP BTP.)

TRUE OR FALSE: In SAP Product Footprint Management, you can import data from SAP S/4HANA.

True (SAP Product Footprint Management supports the integration with business systems (for example, SAP S/4HANA Cloud) to import your business data.)

TRUE OR FALSE: SAP’s strategy for the SAP Cloud for Sustainable Enterprises is to include sustainability capabilities in existing SAP products in addition to standalone solutions.

True (SAP’s goal is to support your sustainability needs with new software solutions or with including sustainability capabilities inside existing products.)

Which are part of SAP's Three Zero Strategy? (3 CORRECT ANSWERS)

1. Zero Emissions

2. Zero Waste

3. Zero Inequalities

With which methods can you integrate data into your SAP Responsible Design and Production? (3 CORRECT ANSWERS)

1. Connect SAP ERP or SAP Lifecycle Management

2. Use Microsoft Excel files with specific templates

3. Connect to third party systems (Non-SAP)

TRUE OR FALSE: The green line adds a sustainability dimension to the top and bottom line of enterprise.

True (The green line is adding a sustainability dimension to the enterprise.)

Which are the three main capabilities of the SAP Integration Suite? (3 CORRECT ANSWERS)

1. Extend Non-SAP Connectivity

2. Design, Develop, and Manage APIs

3. Design, Develop, and Operate Integration Scenarios

Which sentence describes best an event-driven architecture (EDA)?

EDA is a software pattern where apps publish/subscribe events via a broker, allowing decoupling and asynchronous communication. (The sentence "EDA is a software pattern where apps publish/subscribe events via a broker, allowing decoupling and asynchronous communication" describes best an event-driven architecture (EDA).)

Where can you configure the virtual host alias?

Settings ->Integrations ->Configure

TRUE OR FALSE: Metadata in XML is essential for providing context, structure, and control over XML documents.

True (Metadata in XML is essential for providing context, structure, and control over XML documents.)

Which of the following are some elements of the core as it relates to the clean core approach? (3 CORRECT ANSWERS)

1. Software Stack

2. Extensibility

3. Integrations

How does an event-driven architecture work? (2 CORRECT ANSWERS)

1. Pull

2. Push

Which are the most commonly used HTTP methods? (3 CORRECT ANSWERS)

1. GET

2. DELETE

3. POST

Which are the guiding constraints that define the REST architectural style? (3 CORRECT ANSWERS)

1. Stateless

2. Client-Server-Architecture

3. Cache-Ability

Which approach supports to overcome heterogeneity and complex solutions?

API first Approach

Which one of these is NOT a capability of an Integration Suite?

SAP Data Intelligence

What are the four principles on which SAP bases its strategy?

1. Predefined Integration

2. Open Integration

3. Holistic Integration

4. AI-driven Integration

Where do you apply the stored policy template?

Develop → Choose Proxy API → Policies

What metrics can be analyzed in the API Monitoring Overview tab? (3 CORRECT ANSWERS)

1. API Response Time

2. Request Processing Latency

3. Target Response Time

Where can you download standardized, reusable policy templates?

SAP Business Accelerator Hub

Where do you apply/store policy templates?

Develop → Policy Template tab

The API Management infrastructure consists of which components?

1. API Runtime

2. API Portal

3. API business hub enterprise

4. API Analytics

5. API Designer

Where and how can you edit your API Proxy?

Via API Designer

What must be enabled to work in debugging mode within the monitor?

The log level must be set on trace

Where can you monitor your integration flow?

Monitor → Overview → Manage Integration Content

How can a message processing be carried out?

Synchronously or asynchronously

Where can you discover predefined integration content?

SAP Business Accelerator Hub or in the Discovery tab in the Integration Suite

What role must you assign to yourself in order to send a message to your configured endpoint?

ESBMessaging.send

Where can you discover integration flow design guidelines? (2 CORRECT ANSWERS)

1. SAP Business Accelerator Hub

2. On the Discover → Integrations tab in the SAP Integration Suite

Which content can you fetch directly from the Enterprise Services (ES) Repository? (3 CORRECT ANSWERS)

1. Message mapping

2. Value mapping

3. Operation mapping

Why do we use integration patterns provided by SAP?

SAP provides a comprehensive collection of integration content that is easy for customers to implement quickly and maintain with minimal effort

Why is it important to include exception handling in an integration flow?

To communicate error details to the sender

What are the limitations of data storage when persisting data in the SAP Integration Suite?

32GB

Where can user credentials be configured for secure authentication?

Monitor → Integrations → Manage Security → Manage Security Material

Where do you design an integration flow?

Design → Integrations tab in the SAP Integration Suite

Which objects do you use to transform a message structure into a specific target structure? (2 CORRECT ANSWERS)

1. Message Mapping

2. XSLT Mapping

Which of the following are challenges for customers related to business change? (3 CORRECT ANSWERS)

1. Disruption of supply chains.

2. Changing customer preferences.

3. Regulatory compliance

Which of the following are challenges for customers related to technological innovation? (2 CORRECT ANSWERS)

1. Fostering Agility

2. Optimizing business processes

Which of the following are challenges for customers related to landscape complexity? (2 CORRECT ANSWERS)

1. Adapting business processes.

2. Responding to changing customer needs.

Which of the following does SAP recommend that customers choose from when deciding which SAP S/4HANA Cloud implementation approach to take? (3 CORRECT ANSWERS)

1. New implementation

2. System conversion

3. System landscape transformation

Which of the following are dimensions of clean core? (3 CORRECT ANSWERS)

1. Extensibility

2. Integrations

3. Operations

Which of the following are benefits of clean core for companies? (3 CORRECT ANSWERS)

1. Streamlined operations

2. Improved decision-making

3. Cost savings

Which of the following are benefits of clean core for IT? (3 CORRECT ANSWERS)

1. Software stack

2. Cloud native development

3. Business process flexibility

Which of the following are benefits of clean core for users? (3 CORRECT ANSWERS)

1. Performance

2. Cleansed data

3. System reliability

Which of the following are ways to get and keep extensions clean? (3 CORRECT ANSWERS)

1. Use the three-tier model.

2. Use released APIs only.

3. Precisely understand the requirements.

Which of the following are ways to get and keep operations clean? (2 CORRECT ANSWERS)

1. SAP Cloud Application Lifecycle Management

2. SAP Solution Manager

Which of the following are ways to get and keep business processes clean? (2 CORRECT ANSWERS)

1. Establish an organizational structure.

2. Set up a business process hierarchy.

Which of the following are ways to get and keep integrations clean? (3 CORRECT ANSWERS)

1. Base integrations on standard APIs.

2. Use SAP Integration Suite.

3. Use SAP Event Mesh.

Which of the following are tools that can be used during implementation projects to help achieve a clean core? (3 CORRECT ANSWERS)

1. SAP Data Migration Cockpit.

2. SAP Fiori Custom Code Migration App.

3. SAP Cloud Application Lifecycle Management.

Which of the following are definitions of "data" in the context of SAP S/4HANA Cloud? (3 CORRECT ANSWERS)

1. Configuration

2. Master

3. Transactional