Level 2
Intermediate
SAP BASIS Administration — Level 2: Intermediate
Go beyond daily operations: transport management, client administration, authorisations, performance analysis, HANA basics and system updates.
View courseSAP BASISBeginnerLevel 1 of 3
SAP BASIS Administration — Level 1: Basic
Start your SAP BASIS career: understand SAP architecture, navigate the system and handle daily monitoring, users, jobs and transports with confidence.
Overview
About this course
This is the starting point of the SAP BASIS learning path. It’s designed for people who are new to SAP administration and want a clear, practical foundation — not just theory.
Every session combines a short explanation with hands-on practice on a real SAP training system, so by the end you can confidently perform the daily tasks expected of a junior BASIS administrator.
Who it’s for
- IT professionals moving into SAP
- Graduates and career changers targeting SAP BASIS roles
- SAP functional consultants who want technical foundations
Outcomes
What you’ll be able to do
- Explain SAP system architecture — instances, work processes and clients
- Navigate SAP GUI and use the core BASIS transactions
- Create and maintain users and assign basic roles
- Monitor system health: work processes, logs, dumps and jobs
- Manage background jobs and spool requests
- Perform a complete daily health check on your own
Curriculum
8 modules, step by step
Every module mixes a short explanation with guided, hands-on practice.
- 01
SAP landscape & architecture
- What SAP BASIS does
- Three-tier architecture, instances and work processes
- DEV → QAS → PRD landscapes and clients
- 02
Navigating the system
- SAP GUI, transactions and menus
- System status and key tables
- Where to find help: SAP Notes and documentation
- 03
Starting & stopping SAP
- Start/stop sequence
- Essential Linux commands for BASIS
- Checking processes and logs at OS level
- 04
User administration
- Creating and maintaining users (SU01)
- Mass user changes (SU10)
- Introduction to roles and authorisations
- 05
Monitoring basics
- Work processes (SM50, SM66)
- System log (SM21) and short dumps (ST22)
- Lock entries (SM12) and update errors (SM13)
- 06
Background jobs & spool
- Scheduling and monitoring jobs (SM36, SM37)
- Spool administration (SP01, SPAD)
- 07
Transport basics
- What transports are and why they matter
- Importing transports with STMS
- 08
Your daily health check
- Building a repeatable checklist
- Practice on a live training system
Tools you’ll use
- SAP GUI
- SAP S/4HANA
- Linux
- SAP Notes
Next Step