SAP BASIS — Lesson 1: SAP Architecture, Installation Planning, Sizing, Operating Systems, and Landscape Design

Learning Objectives

• Interpret the SAP structures, master data, settings, roles, and dependencies relevant to this lesson.
• Perform the lesson workflow and create a reviewable SAP landscape and installation plan.
• Evaluate the situation where system sizing assumptions do not match workload growth and choose proportionate corrective action.

Detailed Topics

• SAP Architecture applied to the course scenario, system behavior, and expected evidence.
• Installation Planning applied to the course scenario, system behavior, and expected evidence.
• Sizing applied to the course scenario, system behavior, and expected evidence.
• Operating Systems applied to the course scenario, system behavior, and expected evidence.
• and Landscape Design applied to the course scenario, system behavior, and expected evidence.

Instructor Demonstration

The instructor traces an end-to-end case involving an SAP operations team supporting development, quality, and production systems across a managed landscape. The demonstration explains system navigation, configuration dependencies, transaction results, and the evidence recorded in SAP landscape and installation plan. It also tests the exception where system sizing assumptions do not match workload growth.

Hands-On Exercise

Complete a controlled exercise for SAP Architecture, Installation Planning, Sizing, Operating Systems, and Landscape Design. Confirm the business or technical objective, perform the required SAP steps, capture results, investigate the stated exception, and preserve the final outcome in SAP landscape and installation plan.

1. Confirm scope, prerequisites, master data, roles, configuration dependencies, and expected results.
2. Execute the process while recording transactions, settings, observations, and system messages.
3. Test normal behavior, the stated exception, and one integration or authorization dependency.
4. Document corrections, owners, verification steps, review triggers, and operational handover notes.

Scenario Analysis

• Identify the SAP object, rule, setting, or process step with the strongest influence on the result.
• Compare two defensible responses and explain their business, technical, control, and evidence trade-offs.
• Determine how the SAP landscape and installation plan should be approved, retained, retested, and updated.

Troubleshooting Guidance

Begin where expected SAP behavior first differs from the observed result. Check organizational assignments, master data, configuration sequence, authorization, integration, and transaction evidence separately. Treat “system sizing assumptions do not match workload growth” as a hypothesis until the relevant settings, logs, documents, and process outcomes confirm the cause.

Validation Checklist

• Required SAP structures, master data, roles, settings, and dependencies are present.
• The SAP landscape and installation plan connects the final conclusion to reviewable system evidence.
• Normal processing, the stated exception, integration behavior, and follow-up were tested.
• Corrections, ownership, retest criteria, documentation, and operational handover are complete.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can perform SAP Architecture, Installation Planning, Sizing, Operating Systems, and Landscape Design, explain the system behavior, and defend the result through SAP landscape and installation plan.