Sybase ASE SQL Developer Professional Exam (Version 15.

0) - Providing technical
support:
This exam is offered by the subsidiary company of SAP named Sybase. It is a comp
any providing enterprise software and all the related services to the customer a
nd has an expertise in the relational database management systems and mobile app
lication development. Sybase has come up with this certification of ASE SQL deve
lopment and got a very good initial response from the customers. Since the paren
t company is SAP therefore one can easily be sure of the quality of subject matt
er along with the technical expertise it carries. Sybase has offered number of c
ertifications before, which were very well received in the market. The sole purp
ose of these certifications is to provide detailed information related to the op
eration, management, integration and implementation of Sybase own software.
Important exam pointers to note:
The exam code for this exam is 510-026. This exam would not be based on any theo
retical format, multiple choice formats would be followed and total number of qu
estions and answers would be 60. Total exam duration would be an hour and a half
(90 minutes). Unlike other certifications exam, Sybase provide with an option t
o mark a question as To review . This will enable the candidate to revisit that mar
ked question after completing whole exam. Candidate need to answer 70% of questi
ons correctly to meet the passing criteria. This 70 percent means that out of 60
questions 42 need to be correct.
Contents tested:
Exam 510-026 requires a candidate to develop an understanding of the topics whic
h include, the new features of ASE version 15.0, performance of ASE and basics o
f tuning, physical and related logical design, ANSI SQL- DDL and DML, methods of
accessing query, optimization of query, Triggers and stored procedures, related
SQL statements, integrity and constraints of data, locking and management of tr
ansaction, statistics for optimizing and sub-queries, joins and related unions.
Preparing exam 510-026:
Candidate can have a good insight about all the related questions and answers by
working with Adaptive Server Enterprise 15.0. Working for 6 months would be an
ideal time. Apart from this few courses are also suggested on official website w
hich are available in PDF format. Exam questions can also be prepared from the s
tudy material provided by third party vendors in form of training kits, sample q
uestions, practice exams and practice tests. All these are available in either w
ord or PDF format. Sample test questions and test material are also available on
different websites like Brain dumps. Brain dumps is also a good website to refer
in order to get hold of study material and training kits. Solving sample questio
ns in Practice tests and practice exams is also a good way to prepare this exam.
There are number of fake and obsolete test material providers on internet, ther
efore candidate must check the contents before buying any such sample test quest
ions or exam questions.

Conclusion:
All the professionals who are directly or indirectly related with servers (opera
ted on SQL ) are the core target audience for this certification and they must r
eally look forward to have this in their credentials. Because Sybase and SAP bot
h are very prominent names in the certification market and having a certificatio
n from these would certainly add a great value in the resume of a professional.