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Get your own SAP practice system, the legal way.

You learn SAP fastest by doing it. SAP offers official trial systems you can sign up for in your own name. This guide shows which one fits your module, how to set it up, and what to practise once you are in.

ERPClimb does not provide, host or sell SAP systems. Each option below is an official SAP trial for your own learning, under SAP's terms. Check SAP's current terms and costs before you start.

Three official options

SAP BTP trial account

Best for: ABAP Cloud, RAP, CDS, Fiori and BTP services

Free
Cost
Free
You need
A browser and a free SAP account. For ABAP, Eclipse with ABAP Development Tools on your computer.
Limits
Time-limited and shared. The ABAP environment is a cloud system, so classic SAP GUI transactions (VA01, ME21N and so on) are not available.
  1. 1Create a free SAP account (SAP Universal ID) if you do not have one.
  2. 2Open the SAP BTP trial page and start your free trial; choose the region SAP suggests.
  3. 3In the BTP cockpit, follow SAP's tutorial to create an ABAP environment trial instance.
  4. 4Install Eclipse with ABAP Development Tools (ADT) and connect it to your trial system.
  5. 5Do the ABAP exercises below that are marked for BTP.
Open SAP BTP free trial

ABAP Cloud Developer Trial (on your own computer)

Best for: ABAP, CDS, RAP and classic ABAP on SAP HANA

Free
Cost
Free, for education and demo use only
You need
A powerful computer: Docker, at least 16 GB of memory for Docker and about 150 to 170 GB of free disk. SAP recommends 32 GB of RAM in total.
Limits
No business configuration or sample sales, purchasing or finance processes. The licence must be renewed periodically, as described on the Docker Hub page. Support is through the SAP Community only.
  1. 1Install Docker Desktop (on Windows it runs on WSL 2).
  2. 2Give Docker at least 4 CPUs, 16 GB of memory and 170 GB of disk in its settings.
  3. 3Pull the image named sapse/abap-cloud-developer-trial from Docker Hub, using the tag for the latest release.
  4. 4Start the container exactly as the Docker Hub page shows (it requires the host name vhcala4hci). The first start takes a long time.
  5. 5Connect from Eclipse with ADT or from SAP GUI, and apply the free developer licence as described on the same page.
Open ABAP Cloud Developer Trial on Docker Hub

SAP S/4HANA Fully-Activated Appliance (30-day trial)

Best for: Functional practice: SD, MM, FI and CO, and more, with sample data

30 days · cloud fees
Cost
SAP's licence is free for the first 30 days. You pay the cloud provider (AWS, Azure or Google Cloud) for the time the system runs, roughly 3 to 4 USD per hour plus a small storage fee. Check the current terms before you start.
You need
A cloud provider account with a payment card, and an SAP account.
Limits
The trial is for 30 days; after that SAP requires paid licences. You must stop or terminate the system yourself, or cloud charges continue.
  1. 1Create an account with AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, and set a budget alert before anything else.
  2. 2Open the SAP S/4HANA 30-day trial page and follow SAP's quick start guide to create the appliance in SAP Cloud Appliance Library.
  3. 3Choose the smallest supported option SAP offers for your region; creation takes one to two hours.
  4. 4Log in with the users listed in SAP's demo guide and use the sample customers, vendors and materials it describes.
  5. 5Stop the system in SAP Cloud Appliance Library whenever you finish a session. Terminate it when the 30 days end.
Open SAP S/4HANA 30-day trial

Exercises for your module

Each exercise uses standard transactions and the sample data that comes with the system. Write down the document numbers you create: they are what you talk about in an interview.

  1. Exercise 1S/4HANA trial

    Create a standard sales order

    Create a sales order for a sample customer and read what the system determined for you.

    Use: VA01 · VA03

    1. Start VA01 with order type OR and the sales area from the demo guide.
    2. Enter a sample customer as sold-to party, a sample material and a quantity.
    3. Press Enter and look at the item: delivery date, price and availability.
    4. Save and note the order number. Open it again in VA03.

    You should see: A saved sales order with a price, a confirmed schedule line and a delivery date.

    Interview question: What does the system determine automatically when you create a sales order?Practise answering
  2. Exercise 2S/4HANA trial

    Deliver the order and post goods issue

    Create the outbound delivery and see what goods issue posts in inventory and finance.

    Use: VL01N · VL02N · VA03

    1. In VL01N, create a delivery for your sales order with the shipping point from the demo guide.
    2. Enter the picked quantity on the item if picking is required.
    3. Choose Post Goods Issue.
    4. In VA03, open the order's document flow and display the material document and the accounting document.

    You should see: A material document with movement type 601 and an accounting document that debits cost of goods sold and credits inventory.

    Interview question: What happens in the system when you post goods issue for an outbound delivery?Practise answering
  3. Exercise 3S/4HANA trial

    Bill the delivery and check the accounting entry

    Create the customer invoice and confirm it reached finance.

    Use: VF01 · VF03

    1. In VF01, enter your delivery number and execute.
    2. Save and note the billing document number.
    3. In VF03, choose Accounting to display the accounting document.

    You should see: A billing document and an accounting document that debits the customer and credits revenue, with tax where it applies.

    Interview question: A billing document was saved but no accounting document exists. Where do you look?Practise answering
  4. Exercise 4S/4HANA trial

    Read the pricing analysis

    See which condition records the system found and why.

    Use: VA03

    1. Open your sales order in VA03 and select the item.
    2. Go to the item's Conditions tab.
    3. Choose Analysis and expand the price condition (PPR0 in S/4HANA).
    4. Read which access found the record and which accesses were tried before it.

    You should see: The pricing procedure steps, the condition types used and the access sequence that found each record.

    Interview question: A price is wrong on a sales order. How do you find out where it came from?Practise answering
  5. Exercise 5S/4HANA trial

    Look at a customer as a business partner

    Understand how customers are maintained through business partners in S/4HANA.

    Use: BP

    1. Open transaction BP and display one of the sample customers.
    2. Switch between the roles FLCU00 (FI customer) and FLCU01 (customer).
    3. Find the company code data and the sales area data in each role.

    You should see: One business partner holding both the finance and the sales views of the customer.

    Interview question: What changed for customer master data when moving from ECC to S/4HANA?Practise answering