SAS Chapter 7: Creating And Applying User-defined Formats
Practice for the SAS basic certification exam.
- 1.If you don't specify the LIBRARY= option, your formats are stored in Work.Formats, and they exist ...
- A.
Only for the current procedure.
- B.
Only for the current DATA step.
- C.
Only for the current SAS session
- D.
Permanently.
- 2.Which of the following statements will store your formats in a permanent catalog?
- A.
Libname library 'c:\sas\formats\lib'; proc format lib=library ...;
- B.
Libname library 'c\sas\formats\lib'; format lib=library ...;
- C.
Library='c:\sas\formats\lib'; proc format library ...;
- D.
Library='c:\sas\format\lib'; proc library ...;
- 3.When creating a format with the VALUE statement, the format's new name
- cannot end with a number
- cannot end with a period
- cannot be the name of a SAS format, and...
- A.
Cannot be the name of a data set variable.
- B.
Must be at least two characters long.
- C.
Must be at least eight characters long.
- D.
Must begin with a dollar sign ($) if used with a character variable.
- 4.Which of the following FORMAT procedures is written correctly?
- A.
Proc format lib=library value colorfmt; 1='Red' 2='Green' 3='Blue' run;
- B.
Proc format lib=library; value colorfmt 1='Red' 2='Green' 3='Blue'; run;
- C.
Proc format lib=library; value colorfmt; 1='Red' 2='Green' 3='Blue' run;
- D.
Proc format lib=library; value colorfmt 1='Red'; 2='Green'; 3='Blue'; run;
- 5.Which of these is false? Ranges in the VALUE statement can specify...
- A.
A single value such as 24 or 's'.
- B.
A range of numeric values, such as 0-1500.
- C.
A range of character values, such as 'A'-'M'.
- D.
A list of numeric and character values separated by commas, such as 90,'B','D',270.
- 6.How many characters can be used in a label?
- A.
40
- B.
96
- C.
200
- D.
256
- 7.Which keyword can be used to label missing numeric values as well as any values that are not specified in the range?
- A.
LOW
- B.
MISS
- C.
MISSING
- D.
OTHER
- 8.You can place the FORMAT statement in either a DATA step or a PROC step. What happens when you place it in a DATA step?
- A.
You temporarily associate the formats with variables.
- B.
You permanently associate the formats with variables.
- C.
You replace the original data with the format labels.
- D.
You make the formats available to other data sets.
- 9.The format JOBFMT was created in a FORMAT procedure. Which FORMAT statement will apply to the variable JobTitle in the program output?
- A.
Format jobtitle jobfmt;
- B.
Format jobtitle jobfmt.;
- C.
Format jobtitle=jobfmt;
- D.
Format jobtitle='jobfmt';
- 10.Which keyword, when added to the PROC FORMAT statement, will display all the formats in your catalog?
- A.
CATALOG
- B.
LISTFMT
- C.
FMTCAT
- D.
FMTLIB
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