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Who it's for: Aspiring and early-career application consultants — and data, architecture, or administration professionals moving into a governance role — who want a recognized associate credential proving they can participate in an SAP Master Data Governance implementation as a mentored project-team member, applying core knowledge of how governed master data is created, maintained, and distributed across the enterprise.
The SAP® C_MDG certification checks whether you understand and can apply the core capabilities of SAP Master Data Governance, not merely describe them. It spans why trusted, consistent master data matters to an organization and how MDG supports the controlled creation, maintenance, and distribution of that data across the enterprise. The scope covers deployment options — central governance on SAP S/4HANA, the cloud edition, SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, and federated MDG — along with domain-specific governance for material, business partner, supplier, customer, and finance data, plus consolidation, mass processing, data-quality management, and process analytics. Because it is delivered as a Scenario-Based Assessment, the exam rewards reasoning through a realistic situation and choosing the right governance approach rather than recalling isolated facts. It is written for the consultant profile at an entry-level, mentored project-participation depth.
The blueprint areas to focus your preparation on.
Understanding why trusted, consistent master data matters, the key capabilities of SAP Master Data Governance, and how to match a business need to the right deployment — central governance on SAP S/4HANA, the cloud edition, SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, or federated MDG.
Working with the central governance of master data on SAP S/4HANA — the supported data domains and their extensibility options, deployment landscapes, and the foundations that controlled creation and change of master data build on.
Applying SAP Master Data Governance functions specific to material master data, including the governance workflow behind material records and the integration scenarios that connect them to the wider landscape.
Understanding the integrated object model behind the business partner and the MDG functions for business partner, supplier, and customer master data, along with the integration scenarios that keep these records consistent.
Handling governance for financial master data through finance change requests and managing the hierarchies that organize master data, so finance-relevant records stay controlled and consistent.
Distinguishing consolidation, mass processing, mass changes, and multiple-object and hierarchy processing — knowing when each is the right tool and how they share common features within Master Data Governance.
Managing master data quality through rules, evaluations, scores, dimensions, rule mining, and derivation, alongside process analytics such as service-level agreements and reports, and the cloud-ready mode capabilities including process visualization and data replication.
The SAP learning-journey courses this certification draws on.
Exploring the SAP Master Data Governance Deployments
An introductory course that helps you evaluate common business situations and recommend the appropriate SAP Master Data Governance deployment for each — covering the importance and key capabilities of MDG, central governance on SAP S/4HANA, the cloud deployment editions, and federated Master Data Governance.
SAP Master Data Governance on SAP S/4HANA
A deeper course that builds the business knowledge needed to keep master data trustworthy with SAP Master Data Governance — spanning the material, business partner, supplier, customer, and finance domains, hierarchy management, mass changes and consolidation, process analytics, data-quality management, and cloud-ready mode.
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.
