C_TS470_2412 Practice Exam Questions and Answers

TheClean Core Dashboardis a tool provided by SAP to help customers monitor and maintain a clean core strategy in their SAP S/4HANA systems. A clean core approach ensures that the ERP system remains up-to-date, cloud-compliant, and free of unnecessary modifications, facilitating smooth upgrades and innovation adoption. This dashboard provides insights into system customizations, extensions, and compliance with clean core principles. Let’s evaluate each option based on official SAP documentation and functionality as of March 2025:

A.  

Customers can use the dashboard in the dev, test, and production tenants: The Clean Core Dashboard is primarily designed to monitor the clean core compliance ofproductiveSAP S/4HANA systems, as its purpose is to provide actionable insights into the live environment where business processes are executed. While development (dev) and test tenants are critical for building and validating extensions, the dashboard’s focus is on the production tenant to ensure operational stability and upgrade readiness. SAP documentation specifies that it targets productive systems (e.g., SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition production tenants), and there’s no explicit mention of it being available across all tenant types (dev, test, production) in a unified manner. Thus, this option is not a confirmed feature.

B.  

It can be accessed by using SAP for Me: This is a key feature of the Clean Core Dashboard.SAP for Meis SAP’s customer portal, providing a centralized interface for accessing various tools, services, and insights related to SAP solutions. The Clean Core Dashboard is integrated into SAP for Me, offering customers a user-friendly way to view tiles and reports on their system’s clean core status (e.g., custom code usage, API compliance, and extension metrics). This accessibility aligns with SAP’s strategy to consolidate customer-facing tools in a single portal, making it a verified feature.

C.  

Customers can grant access to the dashboard to partners: This is another confirmed feature. SAP allows customers to share access to the Clean Core Dashboard with implementation partners or service providers via SAP for Me’s authorization management. This capability supports collaboration, enabling partners to assist in analyzing and optimizing the system for clean core compliance (e.g., during RISE with SAP engagements). The dashboard’s design facilitates transparency and joint efforts between customers and partners, making this a standard feature in the private cloud context.

D.  

It can be used in all SAP S/4HANA Cloud editions: This is not entirely accurate. The Clean Core Dashboard is specifically tailored forSAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Editionand, to some extent, SAP S/4HANA on-premise systems, where customizations and extensions are more prevalent and need monitoring. InSAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, the system is inherently clean by design (no source code modifications are allowed, only extensions via SAP BTP or in-app tools), reducing the need for such a dashboard. While clean core principles apply across all editions, the dashboard’s functionality is most relevant to Private Edition and on-premise deployments, where customers have greater control over customizations. SAP documentation highlights its use in Private Edition contexts (e.g., RISE with SAP), not universally across all editions.

The correct answers, B and C, reflect the dashboard’s accessibility via SAP for Me and its collaborative feature with partners, as outlined in SAP’s clean core strategy resources. These features enhance its utility in maintaining a modern, flexible, and cloud-compliant ERP system, particularly in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition.

Extract from SAP Documentation: "The Clean Core Dashboard, accessible via SAP for Me, provides transparency on system customizations and allows customers to collaborate with partners to ensure clean core compliance in productive SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition systems." (SAP Community,10 Steps to Clean Core for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition for Customers, 2024).

Arecurring inspectionin SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, Service uses a maintenance plan to schedule periodic checks. The correct steps areAandB. Let’s explore this in detail.

Recurring Inspection Overview:

This process involves scheduling inspections via a maintenance plan, generating service orders, and completing them to update the plan.

A completion marks a service order and its corresponding planned date in the maintenance plan as finished (A):When a service order (the call object) is completed (e.g., status "Technically Completed"), the system updates the maintenance plan, marking the corresponding planned date as finished. This shifts the scheduling to the next cycle (e.g., via transaction IP10).

A service order is automatically generated by scheduling the maintenance plan for the inspection (B):Scheduling the maintenance plan (e.g., via IP10 or a background job) generates a service order based on the plan’s cycle and call horizon. This order contains theinspection tasks.

Why Not the Others?

C:Accepting a quotation creates a contract or order, not a maintenance plan, which is a separate planning object.

D:Activating a maintenance plan sets it up but doesn’t generate orders; scheduling does that.

Detailed Flow:

Maintenance plan created with inspection cycle (e.g., every 6 months).

Scheduling (IP10) generates a service order when the call date is reached.

Order completed → Plan updated, next call scheduled.

"Recurring inspections involve scheduling a maintenance plan to automatically generate service orders, with completion updating the plan’s planned dates."

A responsible work center in SAP S/4HANA Service defines where work is performed and is assigned to operational objects:

Maintenance order operation: In the Service with Advanced Execution scenario (scope item 63Q), a work center is assigned to operations within a maintenance order linked to a service order, specifying the execution location.

Service order item: In standard service order processing (scope item 3D2), a work center isassigned to a service item to indicate where the service task is executed (e.g., in-house or field).

Maintenance item: This refers to maintenance plan items, which do not directly accept work center assignments; work centers are linked via orders.

Functional location master record: Work centers are not assigned to functional locations; they are linked to equipment or orders instead.This is configured in the work center master data and order Customizing."Assign a responsible work center to maintenance order operations or service order items to define execution responsibility." (SAP Help Portal, Work Center Configuration).

In SAP S/4HANA Service contracts (scope item 3MO), the object list for a contract item specifies covered objects:

Equipment: Individual equipment (e.g., serialized assets) can be assigned to track service coverage.

Product: Materials or service products covered under the contract are listed.

Functional location: Locations where services are performed can be included in the object list.

Equipment bill of material: BOMs are referenced separately, not directly in the object list.

Document: Documents are managed via Document Management System (DMS), not as contract objects.This is configured in the service contract item details."Assign equipment, products, and functional locations to the object list of a service contract item." (SAP Help Portal, Service Contract Management).