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Preface
13
Objective of This Book
13
Benefits of Certification
14
Target Audience
16
Structure of This Book
17
Acknowledgments
18
Introduction
19
SAP Certified Development Associate – SAP Integration Suite Exam
19
Exam Objective
21
Exam Structure
22
Exam Scoring
23
Installing Examination Software
24
Test Preparation Resources
28
How to Use This Certification Guide
28
SAP Integration Suite Resources
29
SAP Training Course CLD900
30
SAP Learning Hub and SAP Learning Journeys
31
OpenSAP Courses
32
Test-Taking Strategies
33
1 Fundamentals
37
1.1 Objectives of This Portion of the Test
39
1.2 SAP Business Technology Platform
39
1.2.1 Capabilities
40
1.2.2 Technical Service Planes
41
1.2.3 Programming Models and Environments
43
1.2.4 Commercial Models
45
1.2.5 SAP Discovery Center
47
1.2.6 SAP Business Technology Platform Free Trial Account Offerings
50
1.3 SAP Integration Suite
51
1.3.1 Four Core Capabilities
52
1.3.2 Three-Layer Architecture
52
1.3.3 Setting Up Your Environment: Practice Exercise
54
1.3.4 Role Collections
59
1.3.5 Migration Assessment
62
1.4 Important Terminology
63
1.5 Practice Questions
64
1.6 Practice Answers and Explanations
70
1.7 Key Takeaways
73
1.8 Summary
74
2 API Provisioning
75
2.1 Objectives of This Portion of the Test
76
2.2 Features and Capabilities
77
2.3 How API Management Fits into SAP Integration Suite
81
2.4 SAP Business Accelerator Hub Enterprise
82
2.4.1 Overview
82
2.4.2 Creating an SAP Business Accelerator Hub Enterprise Page
84
2.5 API Proxies
89
2.5.1 Overview and Features
89
2.5.2 Creating an API Proxy
90
2.5.3 Creating a Product
92
2.6 Policies
94
2.7 Consumption Analytics
98
2.8 Testing APIs
99
2.9 Important Terminology
102
2.10 Practice Questions
104
2.11 Practice Answers and Explanations
109
2.12 Key Takeaways
112
2.13 Summary
113
3 Consuming and Processing APIs Using Cloud Integration
115
3.1 Objectives of This Portion of the Test
117
3.2 Cloud Integration Features
117
3.3 How Cloud Integration Fits into SAP Integration Suite
119
3.4 Navigating the Web User Interface
121
3.4.1 Discover
121
3.4.2 Design
122
3.4.3 Monitor
123
3.4.4 Settings
124
3.5 Integration Packages
126
3.6 Integration Artifacts
130
3.6.1 Integration Flows
130
3.6.2 Value Mappings
131
3.6.3 SOAP Application Programming Interfaces
132
3.6.4 REST Application Programming Interfaces
134
3.6.5 OData Application Programming Interfaces
135
3.6.6 Integration Adapter
136
3.6.7 Script Collection
137
3.6.8 Message Mapping
138
3.7 Integration Flows
139
3.7.1 Integration Flow Components
139
3.7.2 Creating an Integration Flow
151
3.7.3 Using Adapters
152
3.7.4 Message Context
153
3.7.5 Message Conversion
155
3.7.6 Using Data Stores
157
3.7.7 Handling Exceptions
158
3.7.8 Deploying the Integration Flow
158
3.7.9 Managing Deployed Integration Content
159
3.7.10 Enabling Trace Logs for an Integration Flow
161
3.7.11 Testing Connectivity
162
3.8 Creating an Integration Flow Purchase Order
165
3.9 Finding and Exploring the Purchase Order API within the SAP Business Accelerator Hub
167
3.10 Consuming the Purchase Order API from SAP Business Accelerator Hub
169
3.11 Building a Second Integration Flow for Purchase Order Notification
173
3.12 Building a Script Collection Artifact
177
3.13 Important Terminology
180
3.14 Practice Questions
181
3.15 Practice Answers and Explanations
186
3.16 Key Takeaways
189
3.17 Summary
190
4 Open Connectors
191
4.1 Objectives of This Portion of the Test
194
4.2 Features
194
4.3 How Open Connectors Fit into SAP Integration Suite
196
4.4 Working with Open Connectors
198
4.4.1 Logging On to Open Connectors
198
4.4.2 Creating a Twitter Instance
199
4.4.3 Creating an API Provider with Open Connectors
202
4.4.4 Creating an Application Programming Interface from the API Provider
204
4.4.5 Adding Policies to an Application Programming Interface
206
4.4.6 Creating a Product to Bundle with the Application Programming Interface
207
4.4.7 Creating an Application
209
4.4.8 Testing an Application Programming Interface
211
4.5 Important Terminology
212
4.6 Practice Questions
214
4.7 Practice Answers and Explanations
219
4.8 Key Takeaways
222
4.9 Summary
223
5 Integration Advisor
225
5.1 Objectives of This Portion of the Test
227
5.2 Features
227
5.3 How the Integration Advisor Fits into SAP Integration Suite
229
5.3.1 Browsing the Library of Type Systems
231
5.3.2 Creating Source and Target Message Implementation Guides
233
5.3.3 Using Mapping Guidelines
234
5.3.4 Getting the Proposal Service
236
5.4 Message Implementation Guides
238
5.4.1 Filtering Message Implementation Guides
238
5.4.2 Creating Message Implementation Guides
240
5.5 Mapping Guidelines
261
5.5.1 Filtering Mapping Guidelines
261
5.5.2 Creating and Editing Mapping Guidelines
263
5.6 Mapping Proposals
266
5.7 Generating and Consuming Integration Advisor Artifacts
268
5.7.1 Creating Artifacts
268
5.7.2 Consuming Mappings
269
5.8 Important Terminology
274
5.9 Practice Questions
275
5.10 Practice Answers and Explanations
280
5.11 Key Takeaways
283
5.12 Summary
284
6 Trading Partner Management
285
6.1 Objectives of This Portion of the Test
287
6.2 Features
287
6.3 How Trading Partner Management Fits into SAP Integration Suite
289
6.4 Navigating Business-to-Business Scenarios in the Web User Interface
291
6.5 Designing Scenarios
292
6.5.1 Company Profiles
292
6.5.2 Trading Partners
298
6.5.3 Agreement Templates
307
6.5.4 Agreements
310
6.6 Monitoring Scenarios
316
6.7 Important Terminology
317
6.8 Practice Questions
319
6.9 Practice Answers and Explanations
324
6.10 Key Takeaways
326
6.11 Summary
327
7 Practice Exams
329
7.1 Exam 1
330
7.1.1 Exam 1 Practice Questions
330
7.1.2 Exam 1 Practice Answers and Explanations
347
7.2 Exam 2
357
7.2.1 Exam 2 Practice Questions
357
7.2.2 Exam 2 Practice Answers and Explanations
373
7.3 Exam 3
383
7.3.1 Exam 3 Practice Questions
384
7.3.2 Exam 3 Practice Answers and Explanations
401
The Author
411
Index
413