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It is recommended that candidates have 2-3 years of Advanced SQL Engine experience.

Successful completion of this exam will earn you a Vantage Advanced Developer Certification with a digital badge once all other certification requirements are met.

Passing the Associate and Developer Exams are prerequisites for testing when the Advanced Developer exam. All requirements must be met for a certification to be awarded.

The cost of the Teradata Advanced Developer Exam is $299. Please visit home.pearsonvue.com/teradata for details. Bulk discount vouchers for 10 or more exams can be purchased through Pearson Vue.

There is NO expiration for this certification.

This exam allows 2 hours and 20 minutes for answering exam questions.

Teradata's solution development process and considerations including types and purposes of indexes, partitioning strategies, logical and physical database design, roles, profiles, and privileges, and statistics.

Teradata's transaction processing and lock management including types of locking and lock levels, implications of using different transaction modes, differences between transaction, request, and statement, and impact of session characteristics on requests. 

Access layer and data delivery strategies.

Data integration strategies including MLOADX, optimal load strategies, and data integration into temporal and columnar tables.

Solution optimization including the tuning process including improving an existing application, designing and populating effective performance testing environments, MAPS, and identifying performance tuning considerations.

Advanced SQL concepts including syntax, usage, and characteristics of macros, stored procedures, permanent tables, table level attributes, CREATE TABLE AS, Referential Integrity, indexes, views, triggers,  temporary tables, regular expressions, functions, usage and characteristics of column level attributes, data types, constraints, joins, subqueries, syntax usage and characteristics of ALTER TABLE, SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, and MERGE statements.

• The Teradata Certification partners with the Teradata University to provide Teradata courseware and curriculum that relates to each exam.
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• Please note that these courses are recommended and not required. Taking or passing a course does not guarantee passing of any Teradata Certification exam.
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• Additional training may need to be taken in order to cover all of the objectives on the exam. You can view course descriptions and schedules, and enroll online.

• The Teradata Certification team has created sample questions to help you prepare for the exam. Access the Advanced Developer Sample Questions here.    

• The provided links to these courses are for Guest users. If you are already registered in Teradata University, login to your account and search on any of the Course numbers.
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• WBT 54390 Teradata Advanced SQL
• WBT 53054 Teradata Data Stream Architecture (DSA)
• WBT 56458 Teradata Query Grid 2.0 Technical Overview
• WBT 56792 Introduction to ANSI Temporal Tables
• WBT 48502 Teradata Indexes - How They Work and When to Use Them
  WBT 55069 Teradata Application Utilities
  WBT 53912 Implementing Temporal on Teradata

Log on to the Teradata network and the Teradata Sharepoint site for recommended training.

57040 Teradata Database Administration: Vantage Advanced SQL Engine

• 36916 Vantage: Optimizing Advanced SQL Engine through Workload Management
• 9038 Teradata Factory: Vantage Advanced SQL Engine
• Webcast 56851 Teradata Viewpoint and Data Lab Introduction and Update (16.00 and 16.10)
• B035-1094-162K JI, SI , Compression
  B035-1142-162K Statistics
  B035-1142-162K Chapter 7, Transaction Processing
  B035-1147-162K Teradata Database SQL Engine External Routine Programming
  B035-1145-162K Teradata Database SQL Functions, Operators, Expressions and Predicates
  B035-1094-162K Columnar
  B035-1142-162K Dynamic Explains Analyses, Query Rewrite
• B035-1093-162K Chapter 20 Map