By admin | September 23, 2009

SAS Certified Base Programmer 123 Questions (76)

The following SAS program is submitted:

data work.test;
    Author = 'Agatha Christie';
    First = substr(scan(author,1,' ,'),1,1);
run;

Which one of the following is the length of the variable FIRST in the output data set?

A. 1
B. 6
C. 15
D. 200

By admin | September 23, 2009

SAS Certified Base Programmer 123 Questions (75)

The following SAS program is submitted:

data work.test;
    Author = 'Christie, Agatha';
    First = substr(scan(author,2,' ,'),1,1);
run;

Which one of the following is the value of the variable FIRST in the output data set?

A. A
B. C
C. Agatha
D. ‘ ‘ (missing character value)

By admin | September 23, 2009

SAS Certified Base Programmer 123 Questions (74)

The following SAS program is submitted:

data work.test;
    Title = 'A Tale of two Cities, Charles j.Dickens';
    Word = scan(title,3,' ,');
run;

Which one of the following is the value of the variable WORD in the output data set?

A. T
B. of
C. Dickens
D. ‘ ‘ (missing character value)

By admin | September 22, 2009

SAS Certified Base Programmer 123 Questions (73)

The following SAS program is submitted:

data work.test;
    First = 'Ipswich, England';
    City_Country= substr(First,1,7)!!', '!!'England';
run;

Which one of the following is the length of the variable CITY_COUNTRY in the output data set?

A. 6
B. 7
C. 17
D. 25

By admin | September 22, 2009

SAS Certified Base Programmer 123 Questions (72)

The following SAS program is submitted:

data work.test;
    First = 'Ipswich, England';
    City = substr(First,1,7);
    City_Country= City!!'; '!!'England';
run;

Which one of the following is the value of the variable CITY_COUNTRY in the output data set?

A. Ipswich!!
B. Ipswich, England
C. Ipswich, ‘England’
D. Ipswich , England