What I have done so far

To get me started, I was fortunate to attend an internal training course in May. This was the fundamentals of SAP and covered the following.

• A Brief History
• SAP Standard CORE Modules
• SAP ECC Overview
• Basis Concepts
• Operating system
• Database
• R/3 system
• Hardware
• Installing SAP
• System Architecture
• System Architecture – Landscapes / Tier Concepts
• Starting and Stopping SAP
• System Environment – Instance environment
• The SAPGUI Interface
• User Administration Clients / Users
• Clients Concepts
• Spool Administration
• Transport System
• Operation Modes
• Background Processing
• System Monitoring
• Backup & Recovery
• Workload Analysis
• Periodic Maintenance checks
• System error analysis
• Applying Support Packs SAP / OS level
• Essential Transactions
  

It was good, it gave me a true insight as to how huge SAP really is and the above was just an overview.


Next step was to find a test system to practise the above. We have internal test systems but wanted to set this up myself. This I will detail in another post once I have set it up.

I have also bought a book which I would recommend. It is SAP Netweaver AS ABAP System Administration. I have read the 1st and a bit of the 2nd chapters and would recommend it.
http://www.amazon.com/SAP-NetWeaver-ABAP-System-Administration/dp/1592291740