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Independent, reasoning-first practice for the SAP® C_SAC SAP Analytics Cloud Data Analyst certification, built for the 2026 Scenario-Based Assessment format.
Who it's for: Aspiring and practicing data analysts — plus consultants and business users moving into an analytics role — who want a recognized associate credential proving they can navigate SAP Analytics Cloud, model data, build and present stories, and run manual and advanced planning as a contributing member of an implementation project team.
The SAP® C_SAC certification confirms that you hold the fundamental, hands-on knowledge expected of a data analyst working in SAP Analytics Cloud, rather than a purely theoretical familiarity with the tool. It spans the full analytics workflow — navigating the platform and managing files and metrics, establishing data sources and connections, building models, designing and presenting stories with charts, tables, and geo maps, and manipulating data through sorting, filtering, calculations, and blending. It also reaches into planning: manual data entry, versions and dimensions, data validation and locking, and advanced capabilities such as data actions, allocations, currency conversion, rolling forecasts, and value driver trees. Because the exam is delivered as a Scenario-Based Assessment made up of a single activity, it rewards applied problem-solving in a realistic context over isolated recall, and it targets the analyst profile at an entry-level, project-participation depth suitable for someone joining a team under mentoring.
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The blueprint areas to focus your preparation on.
Finding your way around the platform — navigation, file management, and working with metrics — and understanding where SAP Analytics Cloud sits alongside SAP Business Data Cloud, so you can differentiate the system's features and components before building anything.
Explaining and establishing data sources and connections, creating insights with the Data Analyzer, choosing between modeling options, exploring model data sources, and building a basic model that the rest of the analytics and planning work depends on.
Designing and building stories from scratch and from templates, configuring tables, charts, geo maps, and other widgets, applying conditional formatting and preferences, and scripting advanced stories to turn raw data into clear, impactful visualizations.
Interacting with data inside a story by sorting, filtering, and calculating, blending across sources, adding data point comments, and applying performance best practices so the analysis stays responsive and answers the business question.
Performing manual planning tasks — creating and managing versions, designing dimensions and members, basic and advanced manual entry, mass and fluid data entry, inverse formulas, multiple hierarchies, and the validation and locking controls that keep planning data trustworthy.
Leveraging advanced planning capabilities such as data actions to copy and transform data, advanced formula actions, multi actions, allocations, currency conversion, rolling forecasts, predictive forecasting, and simulation with value driver trees and SAP Analytics Cloud Compass.
Using built-in augmented analytics to surface insights automatically, and collaborating through discussions, comments, and the SAP Analytics Cloud calendar to coordinate analysis and planning processes across a team.
The SAP learning-journey courses this certification draws on.
Exploring SAP Analytics Cloud
The beginner foundation course — builds the core skills and background knowledge needed to work effectively in SAP Analytics Cloud, covering navigation, data sources and connections, basic modeling, simple and advanced stories, an introduction to planning, augmented analytics, and collaboration.
Designing Stories in SAP Analytics Cloud
An intermediate course focused on story design — selecting data sources, building stories from scratch and from templates, configuring tables, charts, geo maps, and widgets, applying conditional formatting, and sorting, filtering, calculating, and presenting data for impactful visualizations.
Performing Manual Planning with SAP Analytics Cloud
Develops the manual planning skills the exam expects — versions and dimension members, basic and advanced manual entry, mass and fluid data entry, inverse formulas and multiple hierarchies, data validation and locking, auditing, and seamless planning with SAP Datasphere.
Leveraging Advanced Features in SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning
An advanced course building on core planning skills — data actions and their performance, copying data within and between models, advanced formula and multi actions, allocations, currency conversion, rolling forecasts, predictive forecasting, value driver trees, and calendar-driven planning processes.
Reading is step one — the 2026 System-Based Assessment rewards hands-on fluency. Train with original, performance-style scenarios and skill drills built for this exam.
