Exam Prep — SAP Certified: Data Engineer — SAP HANA (C_HAMOD)
As of 2026-10-15
C_HAMOD_2601, Data Engineer - SAP HANA, is a system-based practical test: 180 minutes, 60 % cut score, English only (learning.sap.com record, read 15 October 2026). SAP publishes two topics and no sub-topics: Data Access 50 % and Calculation Views 50 %. If the weights map to points, a perfect score on one topic alone cannot reach 60 %, so both halves need preparation. The record does not name the tool, the task list or the course content of HAMODD, so this module gives a drill plan built on the HANA Cloud documentation, labels its assumptions, and adds a four-week plan with two timed mock runs. Candidates fail on exact names, unsaved or undeployed objects and unchecked results more often than on modelling skill.
What you will learn
- State the verified exam facts for C_HAMOD_2601 as recorded on learning.sap.com on 15 October 2026 (system-based practical test, 180 minutes, 60 % cut score, English only) and say what the record does not publish.
- Use the only two published topics, Data Access 50 % and Calculation Views 50 %, to build a balanced preparation, knowing that neither topic alone can reach the cut score if weights map to points.
- Build and test a chain from remote or CSV data to a table, a view, a grant and a consumer query, and a set of calculation views with parameters, variables and restricted columns, each checked against a plain SQL query.
- Run a timed 180-minute mock with exact names, saved and deployed objects, and a closing review of every task.
Module overview
The Data Engineer - SAP HANA certification is a practical test: you sit in front of a live system and build things, and nobody asks you to recognise the right option in a list. SAP's catalogue record, read on 15 October 2026, describes it as a system-based assessment of 180 minutes with a 60 % cut score, offered in English only, under exam code C_HAMOD_2601. The only course code attached to it is HAMODD, and no learning journey is listed. That is a thin official surface, so this module states what the record proves, marks what it does not say, and builds a drill plan around the two published topics. Where a point below is my planning assumption rather than SAP's statement, it is labelled as such.
Prerequisites
- Solid SQL: joins, aggregation, window functions, common table expressions
- Review core concepts first: C319, C040, C004
- Review modules M069 (HANA to HANA Cloud migration), M130 (SQL performance for SAP analytics) and M079 (performance tuning with HANA)
- Access to a SAP HANA Cloud trial or tenant, and to the practice system if your subscription provides it
Outcomes
- Explain the C_HAMOD format, the two topics and their weights accurately, without invented syllabi or pass statistics.
- Deliver a load-to-consumer chain and three calculation views from a blank page, each validated by a SQL cross-check.
- Complete two timed 180-minute mock runs with at least 25 minutes to spare.
- Separate this exam's scope from the vector, graph and predictive features covered in M137, M138, M330 and M338.
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 code blocks · the knowledge check · the diagrams.