By admin | August 25, 2009

SAS Certified Base Programmer 123 Questions (1)

In the following SAS program, the input data files are sorted by the NAMES variable: libnametemp ‘SAS-data-library’; data temp.sales; merge temp.sales work.receipt; by names; run; Which one of the following results occurs when this program is submitted? A. The program executes successfully and a temporary SAS data set is created. B. The program executes successfully […]

By admin | August 24, 2009

SAS Certified Adv Programmer 50 Questions (50)

Which one of the following is used to create an index for a SAS data set? a. INDEX function b. INDEX= data set option c. CREATE INDEX statement in the INDEX procedure d. CREATE INDEX statement in the DATASETS procedure

By admin | August 24, 2009

SAS Certified Adv Programmer 50 Questions (49)

Which one of the following SAS programs is the most efficient in producing and removing an index from a SAS data set? a. proc datasets lib=sasuser; modify houses; index create style; index delete location; quit; b. proc datasets lib=sasuser; modify houses; index delete location; index create style; quit; c. proc datasets lib=sasuser; modify houses; delete […]

By admin | August 24, 2009

SAS Certified Adv Programmer 50 Questions (48)

The following SAS program is submitted: data new(sortedby=date); infile rawdata; input date mmddyy10. employeeID $ salary; run; Which one of the following is the purpose of the SORTEDBY= data set option? a. to specify how the data set is currently sorted b. to sort the data values in Date order in the SAS data set […]

By admin | August 24, 2009

SAS Certified Adv Programmer 50 Questions (47)

The SAS data set Sasdata.Sales has a simple index for the variable Date and a variable named Revenue with no index. In which one of the following SAS programs is the Date index considered for use? a. proc print data=sasdata.sales; by date; run; b. proc print data=sasdata.sales; where month(date)=3; run; c. data march; set sasdata.sales; […]