Exam Prep — SAP Certified: Data Analyst — SAP Analytics Cloud (C_SAC)
As of 2026-10-15
C_SAC_2601 is SAP's Data Analyst certification for SAP Analytics Cloud: a scenario-based assessment of 2 hours with a 60 % pass score, delivered as a role-play with AI guidance or as a single unedited English video (learning.sap.com, read 15 October 2026). You talk through four topics in a fixed order: SAC basics and content management, story design with data modeling and integration, planning, and performance and troubleshooting. SAP publishes 30 % for each topic, a total of 120 %; the Academy quotes this as published. You need a Learning Hub subscription with certification attempts and an SAP Universal ID with a secondary e-mail. Prepare with the learning journey Becoming a Certified Data Analyst in SAP Analytics Cloud, rehearse unscripted answers, and use the four-step frame use case, capability, why, risk.
What you will learn
- State the verified facts for C_SAC_2601 as published on learning.sap.com (scenario-based, 2 hours, 60 % pass score) and the video requirements, including the attestation sentence.
- Quote the four official topics with their published weights (30 % each, totalling 120 %) without correcting them, and cover all four in order.
- Deliver a structured 5 to 10 minute spoken answer per topic using the frame use case, capability, why, risk.
- Follow a six-week plan across the learning journey Becoming a Certified Data Analyst in SAP Analytics Cloud and the Academy modules, and name honestly what the Academy does not cover.
The SAP Certified - Data Analyst - SAP Analytics Cloud credential is not a multiple-choice test and not a system exercise. It is a scenario-based assessment in which you talk: you explain, compare and justify, in your own words, how SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) works, and an AI-assisted process or a reviewer scores what you say. That changes how you prepare. You do not memorise answer keys; you build a set of short, structured explanations you can deliver without a script. This module gives you the facts as published, the four official topics, a topic-by-topic study plan mapped to the Academy, a format drill, a six-week plan and an honest list of what the Academy does not yet cover.
The exam as SAP publishes it (read 15 October 2026)
Everything in this section comes from the certification page on learning.sap.com and its underlying exam record, extracted on 15 October 2026. SAP changes pages without notice, so re-read the page when you book.
Prerequisites
- Review core concepts first: C017, C018, C019
- Modules M018 (stories), M019 (planning), M022 (data integration), M026 (live connections) completed or skimmed
- Access to an SAP Analytics Cloud tenant (trial, customer or partner system) for the hands-on preparation
Outcomes
- Explain the C_SAC_2601 format, access model and video rules accurately, without question dumps or invented weightings.
- Compare live and acquired models, and analytic and planning models, in two minutes each.
- Walk through the planning cycle with one purpose and one risk per advanced feature.
- Diagnose a slow story and propose fixes in a structured way, citing SAP guidance instead of remembered limits.
Full module available to members. The full module adds: the decision framework · the end-to-end scenario walkthrough · the KPI scorecard · the anti-patterns · the knowledge check · the diagrams.