HANATEC certificationhas in it's curricula the "HA100 - SAP HANA Introduction" and the "HA200 - SAP HANA Installation & Operations" training courses.
These courses are, in my opinion well structured and with enought exercises to get the exact understanding on the presented subjects. Perhaps the View concepts and creation in HA100 is to much stressed out than expected for the technical or BASIS consultant.
After a couple of weeks I was faced with the need to go thru all the course stuff again and I was searching for a HANA system to support my study and to do some or all the exercises .
The answer is in the HA100 course SPS7 though not anymore in SPS10. Creating a HANA Cloud free subscription for the "SAP HANA Developer Edition" it's enought for evaluations and exploration covering the HA100 material at least.
Get access to a HANA system
To get a free account we can do it from http://developers.sap.com/hana and there sign up (only step 2 on next picture) to get started with a free SAP HANA developer edition in the cloud.
We should be aware these web pages are changing and continually evolving so one can find out diferent look on the pages.
After filling all the information to sign up we get the confirmation via e-mail:
From the confimation e-mail we get the URL to access our just created Hana cloud, where s000#######will be the S-user:
https://account.hanatrial.ondemand.com/cockpit#/acc/s000######trial/services
Get some tutorial
The data model available in the evaluation system is not the same as the one used in HA100 training course. The following document posted by Stoyan Manchev is as a very good alternative even if it doesn't go so deeper on the exercises about creating views .
8 Easy Steps to Develop an XS application on the SAP HANA Cloud Platform
When following steps 1 to 4 we begin preparing the environment and then connecting HANA studio do the Hana cloud and creating a view. Don't need to go thru step 5 and nexts since they are not related with our certification.
To run the step 2 we need a HANA Studio. We can download it to install from https://tools.hana.ondemand.com/#hanatools; I've done it with the Luna edition.
Take your time. It will take a while to get everything fitted together in order to create the views.
Updating HANA Studio to connect to a cloud system
To connect to a cloud system using HANA Studio we need to install additional tools:
https://help.hana.ondemand.com/help/frameset.htm?b0e351ada628458cb8906f55bcac4755.html
And as result we get a new option to Add cloud system:
Test your knowledge
After going thru these steps we'll master the HANA100 and to test our knowledge before going to SAP to make the examen we can do a small assessment which we get choosing "Discovery Preview: SAP HANA Introduction" on https://performancemanager.successfactors.eu
This is a 12 hours e-learning free course based on HA100 with a web assessment included.
Limitations
Unfortunatelly this HANA Developpment Edition for wich we can have a freee access on the cloud is useless to cover almost all if not all the subjects of HA200 Because it has limitations in the adiministration parts. We are not able to define users, roles or even display any administration view.