SAP Certified - SAP S/4HANA Conversion and SAP System Upgrade

Who it's for: Technical consultants, Basis administrators, and system specialists — and experienced SAP professionals moving into an S/4HANA transition role — who want a recognized specialist credential proving they can plan and carry out a technical SAP S/4HANA conversion and a full system upgrade end to end, from readiness analysis and tooling through data migration, custom-code adaptation, and post-change validation.

The SAP® E_S4CON certification confirms that a technical consultant can carry an existing SAP landscape onto SAP S/4HANA and manage a full release upgrade from an administrator's standpoint. Rather than testing terminology alone, it examines whether you can plan and run the transition end to end — assessing the source system, driving the maintenance and update tooling, migrating data, adapting custom developments that no longer fit the changed data model, monitoring the system through each phase, and validating the result afterward. Because it is delivered as a Scenario-Based Assessment built around a single realistic activity, the credential rewards applied technical execution over recall, and it also addresses cloud-oriented deployment considerations alongside the classic on-stack conversion path.

1. 1Study the conversion as one connected flow — readiness analysis, maintenance planner, the Software Update Manager phases, data migration, and validation — so you can trace how an early decision affects every later phase.
2. 2Drill custom-code adaptation deliberately: analyze existing developments against the simplified S/4HANA data model and practise remediating the code that no longer fits, since this is a frequent and high-value scenario focus.
3. 3Treat data migration as its own study block — rehearse the migration steps and post-migration checks so you can confirm that business data lands correctly in the new S/4HANA structures.
4. 4Practise system monitoring and validation hands-on: watch each conversion or upgrade phase for errors and confirm technical health afterward, because catching a problem early prevents cascading failures under task conditions.
5. 5Rehearse the release-upgrade path alongside the conversion path, and factor in cloud-oriented deployment choices, so you can adapt your approach to whichever target landscape the scenario describes.