General Examination Strategies

The following are some good tips, tricks, and strategies to help you during an exam:

• If you have the SAP training manuals, pay attention to pages with lots of bullet points; that means there are normally lots of options, and these are likely good sources for questions.
• For the associate-level certification exams, in this book, read the entire chapters and answer all the questions. If you do not get the answers right, or do not understand the question, re-read that section. This is the equivalent of reading the SAP training materials twice.
• Make sure you get a good night’s rest before the exam.
• Make sure that you’ve answered all the questions and that you've selected the correct number of answer options. If the question says that three answers are correct, then make sure that you’ve marked three—not four or two.
• Occasionally, you will find answer options that are opposites—for example, X is true, and X is NOT true. In that case, make sure you select one of the pair.
• In our experience with SAP HANA certification exams, the answers from one question do not always provide answers to another question. SAP Education is careful to make sure that this doesn’t happen in its exams.
• Watch out for certain trigger words. Alarm bells should go off when you see words like only, must, and always.
• Look out for impossible combinations. For example, if a question is about measures, then the answer cannot be something to do with dimension (attribute) views, because you cannot find measures for such views.
• Some words can be different in different countries. For example, some people talk about a right-click menu, but in other places in the world this same feature is known as a context menu. This is the menu that pops up in a specific context, and you access this menu by right-clicking.