C_HANAIMP_13 Certification Experience

I got certified in c_hanaimp_13. This involves preparation from 
books ha300 and ha100.

Following is the breakup of my score

1	optimization of model	100%
2	Management and administration of models	38%
3	Security in SAP HANA	100%
4	Modeling functions	80%
5	Consumption	20%
6	Architecture, deployment and use cases	88%
7	Information views	73%
8	Data provisioning	100%
9	Virtual data model	80%
10	SQL & SQL Script	88%
11	Advanced Data processing	100%

Topic 1: I already work in this area and is easy to relate both 
theoretically and practically.

Topic 2: Modeling in SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA. Basically 
questions were scenario based, hence I scored less despite having 
read a lot.

I am also waiting to see my client changing from hana studio to 
Web IDE for SAP HANA since SAP is heavily recommending it.

Topic 3: Analytic privilege is interesting  with practicals possible
in Hana studio.

Topic 4: I am practically doing most of the things at work except 
Level hierarchy and Parent-child hierarchy. Took me a some time 
to understand those concepts. Finally successful practical execution
 with excel as front end  tool helped.

Topic 5: Need to admit that preparation was not enough and the 
topic was not very interesting since it required learning about each 
and every front end tools and their features. Probably I thought
it is best to focus on topics which I am already comfortable in.

Topic 6: Easy and interesting to read and understand the concepts.

Topic 7: I work a lot in this area but there are lot of scenarios which 
I never face during work. Read a lot and tried at the same time. 
Very interesting

Topic 8: Out of interest, I was able to do some practical exercises
on SLT, Data services, SDA many months ago. But one can still 
score 100% from the book alone.

Topic 9: Was able to get a look and feel from a learning remote 
system. However that remote system did not have an option to 
experiment on SAP HANA Live browser and SAP HANA Live 
extension tool. Was depending on videos to understand the
concept.

Topic 10: I was learning additionally from HA150 to understand
in detail. Very interesting especially since we can play around 
fully in SQL Console

Topic 11: For text search, text analysis and text mining I was able
to watch few youtube videos and practice on HANA studio and it
becomes very interesting once you complete the exercise.

For the remaining topics like Geospatial, Predictive Models and 
Graph, the practical application is huge, hence the new version 
c_hanaimp_14 covers this in more detail in a separate book ha301.
It was easy theory based questions for me from the book

Finally in SAP Learning room for modeling in SAP HANA,
Mark green(Instructor) has created lot of videos with explanations. 
For topics on which I couldn't try any practicals, I was going through 
the videos again and again.

c_hanaimp_14 may be heavily based on SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA,
hence I decided to focus on c_hanaimp_13 for now.