Vantage Certified Associate Exam 2.3

There is NO expiration for this certification.

No Advanced SQL Engine hands-on experience is expected.

Successful completion of this exam will earn you a Vantage Certified Associate 2.3 certification with a digital badge.

This exam does not have any prerequisites.

This exam allows 75 minutes for answering exam questions whether you are testing in a Pearson Vue test center or with a remote proctor.

The cost of the Teradata Associate 2.3 Exam is $149.

Candidates should have an understanding of relational concepts, the characteristics of a relational database and dimensional model, as well as an understanding of the use cases for deploying relational and dimensional models.

Candidates should be able to identify the high-level concepts and major components of the data warehouse architectures, deployment options, implementation types, the data flow of data warehouses and the reasons for deploying a data warehouse architectures as well as the scalability options on Cloud and the integration options with Cloud service providers.

Candidates should understand the flow of data from source to consumption, identify the features and benefits, and the purpose of the logical components of the Advanced SQL Engine, the features and benefits and the definitions of objects in the Advanced SQL Engine, be able to identify space classification and how space is used, be able to identify the components of a table definition and the purpose of workload management.

Candidates should be able to identify use cases of Primary, Secondary, and Join indexes, the impact the Primary Index has on data distribution, the differences between Primary Index and Primary Key, the types, levels and functionality of locking and the purpose and components of the access layer.

Candidates should be able to identify user privacy and security mechanisms available to the SQL Engine, features for managing user privileges, and functions and types of authentication.

Candidates must be able to identify the common data integration techniques and their uses, the features and functions of the administering and monitoring tools and the common access tools available within the Teradata client tools and their uses. This includes Teradata Studio Express and BTEQ.

There are two, free, web-based training courses available here:

The Teradata Certification team has created sample questions to help you prepare for the exam. Access the Associate 2.3 Exam Sample Questions here.

Available through Teradata Developers Exchange to help you prepare with hands on application.