Hi Jessica,
Its free, so there's nothing to stop you from trying. But I dont think it would not suffice your needs for setting up a system from scratch. You can just connect to the HANACLOUD server from the free trial studio.
But you may create a new user and start assigning privileges and learn a lot about Analytic privileges etc. Also you have a lot of admin privileges under the SYSTEM user that you would normally not have in any other system. So why wait 
Benedict