Hi All,
In this post I just want to share my experience passing the SAP certification exam C_FSUTIL_60 SAP Certified Associate - Utilities with SAP ERP 6.0.
As most of the SAP certification exams, this one consists of 80 questions from the following area (number of questions are aproximative as are cited from memory):
Configure basic functions - 9 questions
Create master data - 9 questions
Validate integration - 8 questions
FI-CA Post Items - 9 questions
FI-CA Manage payments - 8 questions
Customer Service - 9 questions
Device Management- manage devices - 5 questions
Device Management-Process meter reading - 9 questions
Billing and Invoicing - 14 questions
There are questions with 1 answer and questions with multiple answers (the number of correct answers is specified). Questions with one answer have usually 4 answers to choose from and the ones with multiple answers have 5 answers to choose from.
The passing score is 53%, meaning you need to answer correctly to 43 questions.
My weak area is FICA but I scored 88% for FICA- Post Items but only 37% for FICA-Manage payments.
The certification can be done online. I took the exam at an authorized PearsonVue center, more details here:www.pearsonvue.com. The cost is 500 USD or 300 EUR.
Some sample questions:
1) About installation facts - one factor operand has value 1 at the installation facts starting from 1 sept 2012, value 2 at the rate category facts level starting from 1st June 2012 and value 3 at rate facts starting from 1st July.
Q: What value is taking into account by billing engine for billing period 1.06.2012 to 30.06.2012
2) EASIBI transaction is execute successively but the are no posting to FICA. When can this happen? (2 answers are correct)
a) the print document is outsorted
b) the meter reading is implausible
c) the processing option was set to billing
3) Other question was about EL31 - Monitoring meter readings: for which master data you can see meter reading result with the following options:
a) Contract account
b) Contract
c) Premise
d) Tehnical installation
4) There was another question regarding register relation ships. The question had a picture where 3 devices where linked (dev 2 to dev 1 and dev 3 to dev 1) and there was the description of how this construct is behaving (the dev2 consumption is deducted from dev1 consumption) and the question was what kind of relationship is defined betweek the dev1 and dev2 and it had a few options, one of them was the serial switching.
There were some tricky questions I don't remember :), specially in the FI-CA :).
Other sample questions are here:
https://training.sap.com/uploads/C_FSUTIL_60_sample_items.pdf
If anyone else has passed the certification exam, please feel free to share you experience in this post.