SAP Cloud ALM Training (Application Lifecycle Management)
SAP Cloud ALM training teaches you to run implementation projects and production operations on SAP Cloud ALM, the successor path to Solution Manager for cloud-centric landscapes.
- 30 hours
- Intermediate
- Live online
- C_STC_2601
What is SAP Cloud ALM Training (Application Lifecycle Management)?
SAP Cloud ALM training teaches you to run implementation projects and production operations on SAP Cloud ALM, the successor path to Solution Manager for cloud-centric landscapes. You cover project setup and roadmap scoping with SAP Activate, requirements and user story management, task and deliverable tracking, test plan design and test execution, deployment and feature traceability, and the operations side including health monitoring, integration and exception monitoring, job and business process monitoring, and alert handling.
What you get
- Explain where Cloud ALM fits against Solution Manager
- Set up a project with an SAP Activate roadmap and scope
- Manage requirements, user stories and tasks with traceability
- Design and execute test plans and manage defects
Who this course is for
New to the field
- Project managers and PMO staff on SAP programmes
- Test managers and quality leads
- Application support and operations teams
Working professionals
- Consultants standardising delivery method
- Teams moving off Solution Manager
- Anyone targeting the Cloud ALM certification
Prerequisites
- SAP project or support experience.
- Useful whether you come from a functional, technical or project management background.
What you will be able to do
- Explain where Cloud ALM fits against Solution Manager
- Set up a project with an SAP Activate roadmap and scope
- Manage requirements, user stories and tasks with traceability
- Design and execute test plans and manage defects
- Coordinate deployments across cloud and on premise systems
- Configure health, integration and job monitoring
- Set up business process monitoring with meaningful KPIs
Salary range
- India
- 8-26 LPA
- United States
- 105k-150k
Market ranges for SAP Cloud ALM Consultant, not a guarantee. Actual pay depends on experience, location and employer.
Curriculum
Cloud ALM foundations
Understand what it replaces and what it does not.
- Cloud ALM versus Solution Manager
- Cloud ALM for implementation and for operations
- Provisioning and tenant setup
- Landscape and system registration
- Users, roles and authorisations
- Integration with SAP for Me and the support backbone
- Licensing and entitlement basics
- Deciding scope: implementation, operations or both
Project setup and SAP Activate scoping
Start a project the way SAP expects.
- Creating a project and selecting a roadmap
- SAP Activate phases in Cloud ALM
- Scope items and best practice content
- Process hierarchy and solution scope
- Fit-to-standard workshop support
- Deliverables and milestones
- Team setup and role assignment
- Reporting on project status
Requirements and task management
Track what needs building and who is doing it.
- Requirements capture and structure
- User stories and acceptance criteria
- Backlog grooming in Cloud ALM
- Task creation and assignment
- Dependencies and blocking
- Traceability from requirement to deployment
- Timeboxes and sprint style delivery
- Reporting progress credibly
Test management
Plan and run testing without spreadsheets.
- Test preparation and test case design
- Test plans and test cycles
- Manual test execution and defect capture
- Test automation integration overview
- Defect management and retest
- Traceability from requirement to test
- Regression scope decisions
- Test reporting and sign-off evidence
Deployment and change coordination
Move change through the landscape with visibility.
- Feature and deployment concepts
- Transport coordination for on premise systems
- Deployment plans and cutover tracking
- Coordination across cloud and on premise
- Release calendar and freeze periods
- Rollback considerations
- Documentation of what shipped when
- Handover to operations
Operations: monitoring and alerting
Watch production properly.
- Health monitoring setup
- Integration and exception monitoring
- Job and automation monitoring
- Real user monitoring overview
- Alert configuration and notification
- Alert triage and ownership
- Connecting alerts to incident processes
- Avoiding alert fatigue
Business process monitoring and improvement
Monitor the business, not just the servers.
- Business process monitoring concepts
- Defining KPIs and thresholds
- Process observability across systems
- Detecting stuck documents and backlogs
- Root cause analysis workflow
- Continuous improvement loop
- Reporting to business stakeholders
- Building an operations runbook
Projects you will build
Project setup and scoping
Create an implementation project with a roadmap, scope processes, define deliverables and produce a credible status report.
Test cycle execution
Build test cases from requirements, run a test cycle, raise and manage defects, and produce sign-off evidence with full traceability.
Operations monitoring build
Configure health and integration monitoring plus a business process monitor with thresholds, then triage a simulated alert to root cause.
Tools you will use
- Cloud ALM projects
- Roadmaps, scope, deliverables and tasks for implementation work.
- Requirements and user stories
- The backlog layer that connects business need to delivered change.
- Test management
- Test cases, plans, cycles and defects with traceability.
- Deployment and features
- Coordinating what moves to production and recording it.
- Monitoring apps
- Health, integration, exception and job monitoring for production.
- Business process monitoring
- KPI based observability across connected systems.
Certification
- Exam
- SAP Certified Solution Transformation Consultant with SAP Cloud ALM
- Code
- C_STC_2601
- Level
- Associate
- Exam fee
- US$560 (single exam)
What learners say
Test management with real traceability replaced three spreadsheets for us. The test cycle project mirrors exactly what we now do.
The comparison with Solution Manager is honest about what Cloud ALM does not yet do, which helped us plan a phased move.
Business process monitoring changed how we work. We find stuck documents before the business calls us now.
Fees and training modes
Choose how you want to learn. No-cost EMI is available on the live and 1-to-1 modes.
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Interactive live batches, weekday or weekend, with the full cohort and lifetime recordings.
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1-to-1 Training
₹49,000
Fixed for every course, no-cost EMI
Private one-on-one coaching at a pace and schedule you set.
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Self-paced Training
₹9,000
One-time fee, lowest-cost option
Learn on your own time with recorded sessions and the same materials.
Refunds and cancellations are covered in our refund policy.
What a day looks like
- Status and blockers
- Keeping tasks and requirements honest, which is most of the value of the tool.
- Test coordination
- Chasing testers, triaging defects and protecting the sign-off timeline.
- Alert triage
- Working the alert list, deciding what is noise and what is an incident.
- Deployment windows
- Coordinating releases across cloud services and on premise transports.
- Process monitoring
- Investigating a backlog of stuck documents before the business notices.
Training a team?
We run this course as private corporate training, tailored to your systems and scheduled around your team. Tell us your group size and what you need to cover.
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