My Experience on HANA Certification

I have cleared HANA certificate on 25th of Aug'12, Want to summarize my experience on HANA certificate..

• I have not taken any training, I just read the following documents
  • HANA Concepts (1^st 3 Chapters - IBM RED Book http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp4814.pdf)
  • Data Replication to HANA -  https://websmp103.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/011000358700000604552011
    • SLT -
      • https://www.experiencesaphana.com/servlet/JiveServlet/previewBody/1811-102-4-3231/SAP_LT_Replication_Server_for_SAP_HANA_SPS04_Overview.pdf
      • http://help.sap.com/hana/hana_slt_config_en.pdf
    • BODS (Overview)- Starts on 20-Minute Ends Around 60 Minutes - https://sapnaevent.adobeconnect.com/_a966384291/p6ip36ucgw9/?launcher=false&fcsContent=true&pbMode=normal
    • DXC – (Have not received Any Q’s but better to go through) - https://websmp206.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/011000358700000421852012E
  • Modeling - http://help.sap.com/hana/hana1_model_en.pdf
    • SP04 Features - SAP HANA Modeler - https://www.experiencesaphana.com/docs/DOC-1798
  • Security - http://help.sap.com/hana/hana1_sec_en.pdf
  • SQL Script - http://help.sap.com/hana/hana_dev_sqlscript_en.pdf
  • LCM (Important - Transporting mechanism) - http://help.sap.com/hana/hana_db_lcm_en.pdf
  • Backup and Recovery - http://help.sap.com/hana/hana1_imdb_backup_en.pdf
  • Reporting
    • IDT - Go through the link http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-8461 on following sub topics
      • Getting Started
      • Connecting to SAP HANA
    • Webi – Go through the http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-7819 on Getting Started (1st ¾ links fine)
    • BOE – Go through the http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-8675  on Key concepts and Managing Information Spaces
    • If you want can go through Dashboard / CR Getting Started
      • http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-7946
      • http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-8013
  • New SP document like http://help.sap.com/hana/hana_sps4_whatsnew_en.pdf later this year SP5 might release
  • Keep following 
    • SDN HANA discussion forums and expert answers - http://scn.sap.com/community/hana-in-memory/content
    • Technology resources under  https://www.experiencesaphana.com/community/resources
  • While reading keep eye on HANA Studio system how they are and practice will help, once you are done with these documents on last week before you go certification if you have you can go-through summarized versions(TZHANA || TZ300) of above topics
    • TZHANA (HA100)
    • TZ300 (HA300)
  • While reading every point is important but the steps they explain like go there right click and click on new bla… bla… are NOT important instead do practice rather than reading the steps of creation
  • As you are aware every SAP document 1^st chapter will be repeating(of HANA concepts) so you can skip if it is the same
  • I know the list looks big but it really help and gives you confident to clear exam and any sort of issues in your future projects on HANA.

I hope this information might help for your certification preparation. Good Luck.