Learn, Practice, and Improve with SAP C_STC_2405 Practice Test Questions

Explanation:

In SAP Cloud ALM, the "Requirements-to-Deploy" process is orchestrated through the Features app. Deployment specifically refers to the action of pushing transports (ABAP or Cloud TMS) into target systems (like Quality Assurance or Production).

B. Project Admin:
This role has broad administrative privileges across the implementation project. They have the authority to manage all aspects of a feature, including the technical deployment of transports. This ensures that someone with overall project oversight can unblock deployment tasks if needed.

D. Deployment Manager:
This is a specialized role specifically designed for the "Deploy" phase. They are responsible for orchestrating the release, performing transport checks, and triggering the actual deployment button to move changes to the production system.

Why others are incorrect:

Change Manager (A):
While a Change Manager oversees the workflow (approvals), in the standard SAP Cloud ALM role mapping, they typically focus on status transitions (e.g., approving for production) rather than the technical execution of the deployment itself, unless combined with another role.

Project Lead (C): A Project Lead focuses on the methodology, timeline, and team assignments. While they can create and edit features, the technical deployment action is reserved for the Admin and Deployment Manager roles.

Explanation:

SAP Cloud ALM ensures clean core compliance by embedding a governed change and deployment workflow. Its Change Management capability is natively integrated with SAP Cloud Transport Management (CTM). This integration automates and tracks the movement of extension artifacts (e.g., from SAP BTP, SAP Build, or ABAP Environment) through development, test, and production landscapes via a managed transport route. It prevents direct modifications to the core SAP solution by enforcing that all customizations follow a version-controlled, auditable pipeline—key to the clean core principle.

Why Other Options Are Incorrect:

A. Business Service Management via SAP for Me:
This provides operational monitoring and support ticket management for cloud services but does not offer tools to govern or deploy extensions. It is for observability, not compliance enforcement.

C. Business Process Monitoring integrated with SAP Signavio:
This enables process performance monitoring and comparison against reference models. While valuable for optimization, it is a monitoring/analysis feature, not a deployment governance mechanism.

Reference:
See SAP Help Portal: “Change and Deployment Management in SAP Cloud ALM” and “Managing Development Projects,” which detail the integrated transport pipeline with SAP Cloud Transport Management for clean core adherence.

Explanation:

SAP Cloud ALM provides out-of-the-box integration with Component-based Test Automation (CBTA), a native SAP solution for creating and executing automated tests within SAP environments. This integration allows users to directly define, manage, and trigger automated test cases—built using CBTA—from within Cloud ALM's Test Management module. Test results and execution logs are then fed back into Cloud ALM, providing end-to-end traceability from requirements to test evidence, all within a single ALM platform.

Why Other Options Are Incorrect:

A. Selenium:
While a widely used open‑source automation tool, Selenium is not integrated out‑of‑the‑box with SAP Cloud ALM. Connecting Selenium requires custom configuration or third‑party adapters.

B. Test automation tool for SAP S/4HANA Cloud:
This is a vague description; the specific out‑of‑the‑box integrated tool is CBTA. Generic references to “test automation tool” are imprecise and could refer to non‑integrated solutions.

Reference:
SAP Help Portal: “Test Management with SAP Cloud ALM” explicitly lists Component‑based Test Automation as a pre‑integrated solution for test automation.

Explanation:

Within SAP Cloud ALM, SAP Activate delivers pre-defined roadmap tasks as part of its ready-to-use implementation content. These tasks are organized by phases (Discover, Prepare, Explore, Realize, Deploy, Run) and are aligned with Activate methodology best practices. When you create a project based on an Activate methodology template in Cloud ALM, these roadmap tasks are automatically populated, providing a structured, guided implementation plan.

Why Other Options Are Incorrect:

A. Project task:
While "project tasks" is a general term for work items in Cloud ALM, SAP Activate does not pre-deliver generic "project tasks." Instead, it delivers specific, methodology-aligned roadmap tasks.
C. User story:
User stories are a form of requirement or backlog item, typically created by project teams during the Explore or Realize phases. They are not pre-delivered content from SAP Activate; they are created collaboratively to define specific business needs.

Reference:
SAP Help Portal: "Using SAP Activate Methodology in SAP Cloud ALM" confirms that pre-defined roadmap tasks are available from the Activate methodology for implementation projects.

Explanation:

Once users are provisioned in SAP Cloud Identity Services (IAS) or SAP BTP subaccounts, they must be assigned specific roles and authorizations within SAP Cloud ALM itself. This is done exclusively in the User Management application. Here, administrators can import the onboarded users from the connected identity provider, assign them to specific projects, and grant the appropriate Cloud ALM roles (e.g., Project Lead, Deployment Manager, Change Manager).

Why Other Options Are Incorrect:

A. Projects and Setup App:
This application is used for creating and managing projects, project teams, and project-level settings—not for system-wide user administration or role assignment.

C. Landscape Management App:
This is used to configure and manage the target systems (SAP and non-SAP) monitored or managed by Cloud ALM, not for user administration.

D. SAP BTP cockpit:
The BTP cockpit is used to manage BTP subaccounts, services, and global user base (via IAS). It handles initial user access to the BTP platform but does not manage application-specific roles within SAP Cloud ALM.

Reference:
SAP Help Portal: “User Management in SAP Cloud ALM” states that user authorizations are assigned in the User Management application after users are available from the identity provider.

Explanation:

In SAP Cloud ALM for implementation, the entity that directly corresponds to an SAP Activate entity is the Roadmap task. When a project is created using an SAP Activate methodology template, the system automatically populates it with a structured set of pre-defined roadmap tasks. These tasks align with the six phases of SAP Activate (Discover, Prepare, Explore, Realize, Deploy, Run). Each roadmap task is an SAP-delivered activity that guides teams through best practices, deliverables, and accelerators for a successful implementation.

Why Other Options Are Incorrect:

A. User story:
A user story is a requirement or backlog item defined by the project team. It is not an SAP Activate entity but an agile artifact used during the Explore and Realize phases.

C. Project task:
This is a generic activity created within a Cloud ALM project. While roadmap tasks can generate project tasks for execution, "project task" itself is not a specific SAP Activate entity.

D. Defect:
A defect is an issue or bug logged during testing. It is part of the test management process and is not a pre-defined Activate deliverable or entity.

Reference:
SAP Help Portal: “Using SAP Activate Methodology in SAP Cloud ALM” explicitly describes how the methodology content from SAP Activate is available as roadmap tasks in the implementation project.

Explanation:

SAP Cloud ALM's Process Management capability is designed for the governance, planning, and monitoring of business processes throughout their lifecycle. It specifically includes:

B. Manage Scope:
Used to define and structure the relevant end-to-end processes and sub-processes that are in scope for the implementation or transformation project.

C. Process Collaboration Hub:
A central workspace where process experts and project teams can collaborate on process content, link documentation, and discuss process changes.

E. Process Hierarchy:
The visual representation of the end-to-end process structure, typically based on a reference process model (e.g., from SAP Signavio), which serves as the foundation for process governance and monitoring.

Why Other Options Are Incorrect:

A. Process Authoring:
This refers to the actual modeling and design of processes, which is the function of SAP Signavio Process Manager, not a native capability within SAP Cloud ALM's Process Management module. Cloud ALM consumes and governs processes that are authored elsewhere.

D. Process Mining:
This is a capability of SAP Signavio Process Intelligence (or standalone SAP Process Mining tools) used for discovering and analyzing as-is processes from system logs. It is a separate solution that can provide insights to Cloud ALM but is not a component of Cloud ALM Process Management itself.

Reference:
SAP Help Portal: "Process Management in SAP Cloud ALM" details that its core functions include Process Scope, Process Collaboration Hub, and Process Hierarchy, while noting that process modeling and mining are performed in integrated SAP Signavio applications.