SAP Business Data Cloud certification
As of 2026-11-08
What this certification is, what SAP examines, what it changes on a day rate — read from SAP's own pages and our sources, with their date.
SAP Business Data Cloud has its own exams
SAP publishes two certifications dedicated to Business Data Cloud: C_BCBDC_2610 (SAP Certified — SAP Business Data Cloud (Datasphere data products inside)) and C_BDCDA_2610 (SAP Certified — Data Architect — SAP Business Data Cloud). SAP announced and released Business Data Cloud on 13 February 2025 (SAP News).
The data layer BDC packages is still SAP Datasphere, and SAP examines it inside these exams: SAP keeps no standalone Datasphere exam, and the BW/4HANA exam C_BW4H_2601 no longer covers it.
The exam, as our card names it
- C_BCBDC_2610 — SAP Certified — SAP Business Data Cloud (Datasphere data products inside)
LEVEL 1 — FOUNDATION (do these first) - C_BDCDA_2610 — SAP Certified — Data Architect — SAP Business Data Cloud
LEVEL 2 — SPECIALIST (12-24 months post-foundation)
Codes and titles are read from the "Certification Stack Strategy" card in the corpus, reviewed 2026-10-15, then resolved to the current edition in the exam register (learning.sap.com). No exam is named here unless it appears there: a certification code is an external reference, not a string to be matched.
Exam format, as SAP publishes it
- C_BCBDC_2610: scenario-based assessment, two hours, pass mark 60 %, video answers in English only (learning.sap.com, read on 8 November 2026). learning.sap.com
- C_BDCDA_2610: scenario-based assessment, two hours, pass mark 60 %, video answers in English only (learning.sap.com, read on 8 November 2026). learning.sap.com
Previous editions of the same exam: C_BCBDC_2605, C_BCBDC_2505. A preparation note written for an earlier edition is checked against the current topic list before use.
Previous editions of the same exam: C_BDCDA_2605. A preparation note written for an earlier edition is checked against the current topic list before use.
What order to take them in
- If your role is BDC-first → C_BCBDC_2610, then C_BDCDA_2610, then C_AIG_2604 (AI)
- If your role is SAC-first → C_SAC_2601 before C_BCBDC_2610
- If your role is BW heavy → C_BW4H_2601 + C_BCBDC_2610 in parallel
What it changes on a day rate
Our rate model adds €50/day for this certification (model as at 19 October 2026). That is a modelling assumption, not a premium observed in published postings. Day rates by country and stack.
Next
- Exam-prep module for C_BCBDC_2610
- Exam-prep module for C_BDCDA_2610
- The full path, exam by exam
- The matching role: market, countries, day rates
- The modules that prepare the ground
What is the C_BCBDC certification?
The C_BCBDC certification, currently C_BCBDC_2610 (it replaced C_BCBDC_2605, which had replaced C_BCBDC_2505), is SAP Certified — SAP Business Data Cloud: the entry-level exam for the product, a scenario-based assessment of two hours with a 60 % pass mark (learning.sap.com, read on 8 November 2026). The topics SAP published for the 2605 edition were BDC core (24 %), intelligent applications (23 %), data products built with SAP Datasphere (23 %), the open data ecosystem including SAP Databricks (15 %) and the transformation of SAP BW (15 %). It is where SAP now examines Datasphere.
What does the SAP BDC data architect certification involve?
The SAP BDC data architect certification is C_BDCDA, currently C_BDCDA_2610 (it replaced C_BDCDA_2605): SAP Certified — Data Architect — SAP Business Data Cloud, a scenario-based assessment of two hours with a 60 % pass mark (learning.sap.com, read on 8 November 2026). The four topics SAP published for the 2605 edition weighed 25 % each: data architecture paradigms, business-aligned architecture and governance, architecting AI value with integrated frameworks, and the SAP Business Data Fabric for enterprise AI. It is the architect-level exam, best taken after the associate exam C_BCBDC_2610.
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