Experience is something which is very easy to get even if you dont do any thing . Dan Stanford once said "Experience is what you get when you dont get what you want."
Experience & Learning are two different things that go side by side. You can have 10 years of experience, but the chances are that you might have not learned any thing in your experience or in other words you may have 3 years of experience & you wud have learned a lot. Few months back we had a session from our companies top bosses. One of them said in the open session that if you working for 5 years & doing the same things every year then you will have 1 year of experience 5 times. Thats the bottom line of what i want to say. Its not how much the time you put in your work rather its about how you utilize your time, how much you gain from the time you have spent on your job. Working hard & working smart are two different things. Working late everyday after the regular timings, working on weekends will make you hard worker but not an efficient one. If your job demnds extra hours of work and extra effort then its perfectly fine to stretch yourself sometimes & complete it, but making it a habbit wont take you to the top.
Total experience should not be the only cretira to judge a person. It should be his/her learning ability, efficiency along with the hardwork. but unfortunately filtering criteria starts with the number of years of your experience.
In a nutshell, its always your option to do things hard way or the smart way. choose carefully...
Saturday, December 12, 2009
How to clear TE2E040
Hi Friends...
Well I was a bit occupied these days because of E2E Run SAP certification & few operations management exams (OM in the next post).
The certification went smoothly & luckily i was the only one to clear it (may be because i was on bench for last couple of months & had nothing else to do other than surfing, chatting etc etc ... and of course studying ... i hope my managers are not reading this post ;) .What I have found out is that, you dont need to be a hard core technical consultant to clear a "Associate level Run SAP certification". I am a functional consultant by my skill set (but sadly nobody recognizes it) and somehow got this opportunity as few of my managers thought that it would be too risky to keep a resource free for such a long time (Free mind is a dangerous place & i can prove you that). Frankly speaking, there is too much of evil to do when u really want to kill time ... anyways cut the crap ...
Here are the few tips that i think you may need to clear this certification without too much of the peparation :
1. Get the Standard Course material from SAP (TE2E04 or E2E040 , both are same but TE2Eo4 covers one case study which is very helpful in making fundamentals clear)
http://www1.sap.com/services/education/certification/certificationtest.epx?context=%5b%5bC_TE2E04_08%7cG%5d%5d%7c
There is only one book and the best part is, SAP never asks any question out of the book . 50% direct & 50% based on ur understanding of business skills & fundamentals.
2. Remember, Number of questions wud be exactly in the same % distribution as given by SAP on their website (refer above link). Maximum from Assessment & scoping . Here is the ballpark figure :-
Around 14 - 15 from Assessment and Scoping; 3 - 4 from design Phase and 10 - 11 from standards till Technical Operations.
3. Concentrate more on Run SAP methodology. (Download Roadmap from SAP support portal)
You can "ACCESS" online access or "DOWNLOAD" from following link
https://websmp108.sap-ag.de/supportstandards
4. Read Full Assessment & scoping from Run SAP Roadmap & dont leave any single point from the TE2E04 course (and i mean every damn single point)
5. Try to cover case study once . it really helps in making fundamentals strong
6. Understand the concepts from the standard course material and DO NOT REFER any thing else other than those that are mentioned in the course material.
7. The minimum required percentage to clear is 57% .
Here are the quick wins:
1. One question from Organizaion chart.
2. One question from Alignment of Run SAP with ASAP project. Alignment part is very very important. Try to cover all the phases of Run SAP & ASAP.
Here are the tricky parts :
# As it is a Computer based Test, every question will have either a "radio button" or a "check box". Radio button is a kind of "Poke Yoke" i.e. u can be sure that only one option is right (even if you think more than 1 is right system wont let you do that ) ... piece of cake isn't it ... the second type is check box. Now in this type, its not necessasry that more than one option is correct. U need to be very very sure for such kind of questions. There can be one option correct or can be more than one options correct. Try to use elimination method when you are not sure about the answers or if you think the question is out your Intellectual limits.
# In all of the other SAP certification exams, they give you a hint with every question, which tells you how many of the options are correct in a multiple type objective question. If you dont see such hints in exam, Dont Freak Out ! thats how they have designed this paper . They give you 1 hr to complete 30 questions & one course book to refer but they set the same difficulty level at par to any other certification. so be prepared for this one too... in the end "IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU WIN BY INCH OR A MILE" winning is winning :)
reply to the post if you want to know in details .... :) BON Learning
Well I was a bit occupied these days because of E2E Run SAP certification & few operations management exams (OM in the next post).
The certification went smoothly & luckily i was the only one to clear it (may be because i was on bench for last couple of months & had nothing else to do other than surfing, chatting etc etc ... and of course studying ... i hope my managers are not reading this post ;) .What I have found out is that, you dont need to be a hard core technical consultant to clear a "Associate level Run SAP certification". I am a functional consultant by my skill set (but sadly nobody recognizes it) and somehow got this opportunity as few of my managers thought that it would be too risky to keep a resource free for such a long time (Free mind is a dangerous place & i can prove you that). Frankly speaking, there is too much of evil to do when u really want to kill time ... anyways cut the crap ...
Here are the few tips that i think you may need to clear this certification without too much of the peparation :
1. Get the Standard Course material from SAP (TE2E04 or E2E040 , both are same but TE2Eo4 covers one case study which is very helpful in making fundamentals clear)
http://www1.sap.com/services/education/certification/certificationtest.epx?context=%5b%5bC_TE2E04_08%7cG%5d%5d%7c
There is only one book and the best part is, SAP never asks any question out of the book . 50% direct & 50% based on ur understanding of business skills & fundamentals.
2. Remember, Number of questions wud be exactly in the same % distribution as given by SAP on their website (refer above link). Maximum from Assessment & scoping . Here is the ballpark figure :-
Around 14 - 15 from Assessment and Scoping; 3 - 4 from design Phase and 10 - 11 from standards till Technical Operations.
3. Concentrate more on Run SAP methodology. (Download Roadmap from SAP support portal)
You can "ACCESS" online access or "DOWNLOAD" from following link
https://websmp108.sap-ag.de/supportstandards
4. Read Full Assessment & scoping from Run SAP Roadmap & dont leave any single point from the TE2E04 course (and i mean every damn single point)
5. Try to cover case study once . it really helps in making fundamentals strong
6. Understand the concepts from the standard course material and DO NOT REFER any thing else other than those that are mentioned in the course material.
7. The minimum required percentage to clear is 57% .
Here are the quick wins:
1. One question from Organizaion chart.
2. One question from Alignment of Run SAP with ASAP project. Alignment part is very very important. Try to cover all the phases of Run SAP & ASAP.
Here are the tricky parts :
# As it is a Computer based Test, every question will have either a "radio button" or a "check box". Radio button is a kind of "Poke Yoke" i.e. u can be sure that only one option is right (even if you think more than 1 is right system wont let you do that ) ... piece of cake isn't it ... the second type is check box. Now in this type, its not necessasry that more than one option is correct. U need to be very very sure for such kind of questions. There can be one option correct or can be more than one options correct. Try to use elimination method when you are not sure about the answers or if you think the question is out your Intellectual limits.
# In all of the other SAP certification exams, they give you a hint with every question, which tells you how many of the options are correct in a multiple type objective question. If you dont see such hints in exam, Dont Freak Out ! thats how they have designed this paper . They give you 1 hr to complete 30 questions & one course book to refer but they set the same difficulty level at par to any other certification. so be prepared for this one too... in the end "IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU WIN BY INCH OR A MILE" winning is winning :)
reply to the post if you want to know in details .... :) BON Learning
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Food for thought
Well collecting Quotes and One liners is a little hobby of mine so in this blog I am compiling few of those I found really good through the course of time. Some of them are the quotes said but real people and some are from the movies I have watched and got stuck in my mind forever. Some of them are motivational and some are funny .
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Motivational & Inspiring:
After failing twice Sir Edmund Hillary challenged Mt. Everest "I will come again, as a mountain you can not grow but as a human I can"
You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have - Anonymus
Its like wrestling a gorilla. You dont quit when you're tired. you quit when gorilla is tired. - Robert Strauss
The race isnt over, beacause I have not won yet. - Anonymus
I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not. - Kurt Cobain
Before you point your finger, make sure your hands are clean - Bob Marley
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Motivational & Inspiring:
After failing twice Sir Edmund Hillary challenged Mt. Everest "I will come again, as a mountain you can not grow but as a human I can"
You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have - Anonymus
Its like wrestling a gorilla. You dont quit when you're tired. you quit when gorilla is tired. - Robert Strauss
The race isnt over, beacause I have not won yet. - Anonymus
I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not. - Kurt Cobain
Before you point your finger, make sure your hands are clean - Bob Marley
Everything I am not made me Everything I am - Kanye West
Movies :
Cops or Criminals, when you are facing a loaded gun what’s the difference – "The Departed"
You win like a man you lose like a man – "21" (Movie)
Don’t let anyone, ever make you feel like you don’t deserve what you want - "10 things I hate about you"
Monday, August 10, 2009
Inches make champions
This may seem like just a “Three-Word-Phrase” but the message what it conveys is hard to understand ... little things make big things happen
Now…. these little inches make all the differences. The Difference between a million dollor horse and a hundred dollor horse could be an INCH only. But we generally tend to ignore the importance of these little steps. The true champions are never made in a single day. They never did anything big at once but actually they took little steps to reach their targets. Let me give an example of Muhammad Ali. When Ali won Heavyweight Campionship for the first time, the radio reports rang out "Last night Muhammad Ali became the greatest champion of all the time." Now dont get me wrong. I am not saying he wasn't a great champion. but it was not the last night . You see he did not become heavyweight champion on that night. He was "CROWNED" heavyweight champion on that particular night. He became champion months and months and months ago ! he became champion when he got out of his bed early at 4 am and did 100s of miles of roadwork , he became champion when he pounded the punching bag , he became champion spending day after day in the gym . just to get better every next time . It was actually years of paying attention to the "little things" that finally paid off that particular night.
Everybody wants to be a champion, but your breaking point decides what you are and what you cannot be. You cant achieve everything in a single shot but you can definitely take step by step approach to reach to the place you dreamed of.
Well, I am hitting gym these days and there is a guy Mathew, my gym trainer. He has won many championships and awards in his life. He is now moving to Qatar or may be Afghanistan next month to train US Army and Marine Corps. I really admire this guy as he is the one who pushes me every time I work out, till my last rep of the set. He has a motto – “Push the limits” and it worked out in his profession very well.
One should not do things just for the sake of doing them . try to do them in the best possible way, try to do them in the better way u did before try to break the limits and believe me the only key to success is hard work, perseverence and patience .
By and large, success and failure are two big doors that swing on small hinges. So it’s you who set the limits and only you who dare to cross them.
Set your goals – push the limits – Cross the Inches.
Now…. these little inches make all the differences. The Difference between a million dollor horse and a hundred dollor horse could be an INCH only. But we generally tend to ignore the importance of these little steps. The true champions are never made in a single day. They never did anything big at once but actually they took little steps to reach their targets. Let me give an example of Muhammad Ali. When Ali won Heavyweight Campionship for the first time, the radio reports rang out "Last night Muhammad Ali became the greatest champion of all the time." Now dont get me wrong. I am not saying he wasn't a great champion. but it was not the last night . You see he did not become heavyweight champion on that night. He was "CROWNED" heavyweight champion on that particular night. He became champion months and months and months ago ! he became champion when he got out of his bed early at 4 am and did 100s of miles of roadwork , he became champion when he pounded the punching bag , he became champion spending day after day in the gym . just to get better every next time . It was actually years of paying attention to the "little things" that finally paid off that particular night.
Everybody wants to be a champion, but your breaking point decides what you are and what you cannot be. You cant achieve everything in a single shot but you can definitely take step by step approach to reach to the place you dreamed of.
Well, I am hitting gym these days and there is a guy Mathew, my gym trainer. He has won many championships and awards in his life. He is now moving to Qatar or may be Afghanistan next month to train US Army and Marine Corps. I really admire this guy as he is the one who pushes me every time I work out, till my last rep of the set. He has a motto – “Push the limits” and it worked out in his profession very well.
One should not do things just for the sake of doing them . try to do them in the best possible way, try to do them in the better way u did before try to break the limits and believe me the only key to success is hard work, perseverence and patience .
By and large, success and failure are two big doors that swing on small hinges. So it’s you who set the limits and only you who dare to cross them.
Set your goals – push the limits – Cross the Inches.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
The end of the beginning !
Hi World …..
They say "Beginning is the most important part of anything" and for a lazy person like me it holds perfectly right. Well I was thinking of writing a blog for quite some time but never came up with anything very interesting to start with. Nevermind, here I am, to end this phase of “Beginning” with my first blog. I don’t know how long this “hobby” would last but I feel its going to be fun (If not for readers than at least for me)
Cheer !!!
They say "Beginning is the most important part of anything" and for a lazy person like me it holds perfectly right. Well I was thinking of writing a blog for quite some time but never came up with anything very interesting to start with. Nevermind, here I am, to end this phase of “Beginning” with my first blog. I don’t know how long this “hobby” would last but I feel its going to be fun (If not for readers than at least for me)
Cheer !!!
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