Exam 510-020: Sybase Certified Adaptive Server Administrator Associate

The exam is based on the Adaptive Server Enterprise 12.5 GA version which happens to be the first release for ASE (Adaptive Server Enterprise). The exam itself has 14 sections. Each section along with the percentage of questions asked per section are indicated below:

Section 1 - ASE Overview - 4 questions - 7%
Section 2 - ASE New Features - 3 questions - 5%
Section 3 - Configuration, Upgrade, and Installation - 2 questions - 4%
Section 4 - Resource Allocation - 4 questions - 7%
Section 5 - Database and Logs - 7 questions - 13%
Section 6 - Backup and Recovery - 6 questions - 11%
Section 7 - Extensible New Limits - 4 questions - 7%
Section 8 - Cache Management - 4 questions - 7%
Section 9 - Security - 5 questions - 9%
Section 10 - Transaction Management - 4 questions - 7%
Section 11 - Dynamic Reconfiguration - 4 questions - 7%
Section 12 - Parallel Performance Optimization - 3 questions - 5%
Section 13 - Locking and Concurrency - 3 questions - 5%
Section 14 - Object Resource Management - 3 questions - 5%

The 510-020 exam consists of 56 questions and takes about 90 minutes to complete. You need a score of 66% to pass.