If you're working on the MySQL Certification Exam but are needing some other resources to help you study, you might check out this new article from DevShed.

Studying for the MySQL Certification exam? This article, the first of two parts, covers roughly 10 percent of the material that will appear on the exam, including general database and table properties, storage engines and table types, and more. It is excerpted from chapter four of the book MySQL Certification Guide written by Paul Dubois et. al. (Sams, 2004, ISBN: 0672326329)

For the most part, this first article covers a lot of introductory stuff, including: table and database properties, CREATE and DROP syntax, using primary keys, string and number formats, and column types.