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SAS Chapter 11: Creating And Using Macro Programs

Practice for the SAS advance certification exam.

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 430 | Last updated: Jun 28, 2013

Sample Question
Which of the following is false?

A %MACRO statement must always be paired with a %MEND statement.

A macro definition can include macro variable references, but it cannot include SAS language statements.

Only macro language statements are checked for syntax errors when the macro is compiled.

Compiled macros are stored in a temporary SAS catalog by default.

SAS Chapter 6 Understanding Data Step Processing

Practice for the basic SAS certification exam.

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 400 | Last updated: Mar 8, 2013

Sample Question
Which of the following is not created during the compilation phase?

The data set descriptor

The first observation

The program data vector

The _N_ and _ERROR_ automatic variables

SAS Chapter 16 Processing Variables With Arrays

Practice for the SAS base certification exam

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 337 | Last updated: Mar 9, 2013

Sample Question
Which statement is false regarding an ARRAY statement?

It is an executable statement

It can be used to create variables

It must contain either all numeric or all character elements

It must be used to define an array before the array name can be referenced.

SAS Chapter 9 Producing Descriptive Statistics

Practice for the SAS basic certification exam.

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 335 | Last updated: Mar 8, 2013

Sample Question
The default statistics produced by the MEANS procedure are n-count, mean, minimum, maximum, and ...

Median

Range

Standard deviation

Standard error of the mean

SAS Chapter 1 Basic Concepts

Practice preparing for the SAS certification test.

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 893 | Last updated: Mar 7, 2013

Sample Question
How many observations and variables does the data set below contain?

3 observations, 4 variables

3 observations, 3 variables

4 observations, 3 variables

Can't tell because some values are missing

Recent Quizzes

SAS Quiz(100% New And Real Time Questions)

SAS QUIZ(100% NEW AND REAL TIME QUESTIONS)

Questions: 20 | Attempts: 233 | Last updated: Aug 10, 2016

Sample Question
The following SAS program is submitted.%let city=delhi;%let no=9;%let mycity=no;%let country=mycity;%put &&&&&&&country;What is written to the SAS log?

Delhi

Apparent symbol is not resolved

Mycity

9

SAS Admin Trivia Quiz

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 112 | Last updated: Jan 14, 2019

Sample Question
I can get templates of the imports and exports for clients on the Deployment Toolkit?

True

False

SAS Chapter 22: Using Best Practices

In our ongoing SAS quiz series, we turn our attention to the different practices and which is the best to use in a given situation. What do you know about IF statements, PROC DATASETS, WHERE statements and more?

Questions: 5 | Attempts: 51 | Last updated: Oct 9, 2017

Sample Question
Placing the subsetting IF statement at the top rather than near the bottom of a DATA step results in a savings in CPU usage. What happens if the subset is large rather than small?

The savings in CPU usage increases as the subset grows larger because the I/O increases.

The savings in CPU usage decreases as the subset grows larger. However, placing the subsetting IF statement at the top of a DATA step always uses fewer resources than placing it at the bottom.

The savings in CPU usage remains constant as the subset grows larger. However, placing the subsetting IF statement near the bottom of a data set is preferable.

The savings in CPU usage decreases as the subset grows larger. However, placing the subsetting IF statement near the bottom of a data set increases the I/O.

SAS Chapter 21: Controlling Data Storage Space

Practice for the SAS advance certification exam

Questions: 5 | Attempts: 31 | Last updated: Jun 28, 2013

Sample Question
Which of the following statements about uncompressed SAS data files is true?

The descriptor portion is stored on whatever page has enough room for it.

New observations are always added in the first sufficient available space.

Deleted observation space is tracked.

New observations are always added at the end of the data set.

SAS Chapter 20: Controlling Memory Usage

Practice for the SAS advance certification exam.

Questions: 5 | Attempts: 68 | Last updated: Jun 28, 2013

Sample Question
Which of the following statements is true regarding the BUFNO= option?

The BUFNO= option specifies the size of each buffer that is used for reading or writing a SAS data set.

The BUFNO= option can improve execution time by limiting the number of input/output operations that are required.

Using the BUFNO= option results in permanent changes to the data set.

Using the BUFNO= option to increase the number of buffers results in decreased memory consumption.

SAS Chapter 18: Modifying SAS Data Sets And Tracking Changes

SAS Chapter 18: Modifying SAS Data Sets and Tracking Changes

Practice for the SAS advance certification exam

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 63 | Last updated: Jun 28, 2013

Sample Question
Which type of integrity constraint would you place on the variable StoreID to ensure that there are no missing values and that there are no duplicate values?

UNIQUE

CHECK

PRIMARY KEY

NOT NULL

SAS Chapter 17: Formatting Data

Practice for the advance SAS certification exam

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 128 | Last updated: Jun 28, 2013

Sample Question
Which SAS system option is used to identify format catalogs to SAS?

FMTERR

FMTLIB

NOFMTERR

FMTSEARCH=

SAS Chapter 15: Combining Data Horizontally

Practice for the SAS advance certification exam.

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 82 | Last updated: Jun 28, 2013

Sample Question
According to the data set descriptions below, which of the variables listed qualify as BY variables for a DATA step match-merge?

Code and IDnum

Manager and Supervisor

Manager and IDnum

There are no variables that are common to both of these data sets.

SAS Chapter 14: Combining Data Vertically

Practice for the SAS advance certification exam.

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 56 | Last updated: Jun 28, 2013

Sample Question
Which of the following statements associates the fileref OnSale with the raw data files London.dat, Paris.dat, and Zurich.dat? The files are stored in the C:\Routes\New directory in the Windows operating environment.

filename onsale (c:\routes\new\london.dat, c:\routes\new\paris.dat, c:\routes\new\zurich.dat);

filename onsale 'c:\routes\new\london.dat' 'c:\routes\new\paris.dat' 'c:\routes\new\zurich.dat';

filename onsale ('c:\routes\new\london.dat' 'c:\routes\new\paris.dat' 'c:\routes\new\zurich.dat');

filename onsale 'c:\routes\new\london.dat c:\routes\new\paris.dat c:\routes\new\zurich.dat';

SAS Chapter 13: Creating Samples And Indexes

SAS Chapter 13: Creating Samples and Indexes

Practice for the SAS advance certification exam.

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 79 | Last updated: Jun 28, 2013

Sample Question
The variable that is created by the POINT= option is assigned a value

Automatically during compilation of the DATA step.

Automatically during execution of the DATA step.

During compilation of the DATA step, by program statements.

During execution of the DATA step, by program statements.

SAS Chapter 12: Storing Macro Programs

Practice for the SAS advance certification exam.

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 183 | Last updated: Jun 28, 2013

Sample Question
The %INCLUDE statement

Can be used to insert the contents of an external file into a program.

Will cause a macro definition that is stored in an external file to be compiled when the contents of that file are inserted into a program and submitted.

Can be specified with the SOURCE2 option in order to write the contents of the external file that is inserted into a program to the SAS log.

All of the above

SAS Chapter 10: Processing Macro Variables At Execution Time

SAS Chapter 10: Processing Macro Variables at Execution Time

Practice for the SAS advance certification exam

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 147 | Last updated: Jun 28, 2013

Sample Question
Which of the following is false?

A %LET statement causes the macro processor to create a macro variable before the program is compiled.

To create a macro variable that is based on data calculated by the DATA step, you use the SYMPUT function.

Macro functions are always processed during the execution of the DATA step.

Macro variable references in a DATA step are always resolved prior to DATA step execution.

SAS Chapter 9: Introducing Macro Variables

Practice for the SAS advance certification exam

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 325 | Last updated: Jun 28, 2013

Sample Question
Which of the following statements is false?

A macro variable can be defined and referenced anywhere in a SAS program except within data lines.

Macro variables are always user-defined, and their values remain constant until they are changed by the user.

Macro variables are text strings that are independent of SAS data sets.

The values of macro variables can be up to 65,534 characters long.

Advance SAS Certification Quiz

Advance SAS certification quiz

Practice for the Advance SAS certification exam.

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 220 | Last updated: Dec 14, 2020

Sample Question
Which PROC SQL query will remove duplicate values of MemberType from the query output, so that only the unique values are listed?

Proc sql nodup; select membertype from sasuser.frequentflyers;

Proc sql; select distinct(membertype) as MemberType from sasuser.frequentflyers;

Proc sql; select unique membertype from sasuser.frequentflyers group by member type;

Proc sql; select distinct membertype from sasuser.frequentflyers;

SAS Chapter 13 Combining Data Sets

Practice for the SAS basic certification exam.

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 248 | Last updated: Mar 9, 2013

Sample Question
Which program will combine Brothers.One and Brothers.Two to produce Brothers.Three?

Data brothers.three; set brothers.one; set brothers.two; run;

Data brothers.three; set brothers.one brothers.two; run;

Data brothers.three; set brothers.one brothers.two; by varx; run;

Data brothers.three; merge brothers.one brothers.two; by varx; run;

SAS Chapter 11 Creating And Managing Variables

SAS Chapter 11 Creating and Managing Variables

Practice for the SAS basic certification exam.

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 187 | Last updated: Mar 9, 2013

Sample Question
Which program creates the output shown below?

Data test2; infile furnture; input StockNum $ 1-3 Finish $ 5-9 Style $ 11-18 Item $ 20-24 Price 26-31 if finish='oak' then delete; retain TotPrice 100; totalprice+price; drop price; run; proc print data=test2 noobs; run;

Data test2; infile furnture; input StockNum $ 1-3 Finish $ 5-9 Style $ 11-18 Item $ 20-24 Price 26-31 if finish='oak' and price<200 then delete; totalprice+price; run; proc print data=test2 noobs; run;

Data test2(drop=price); infile furnture; input StockNum $ 1-3 Finish $ 5-9 Style $ 11-18 Item $ 20-24 Price 26-31 if finish='oak' and price<200 then delete; totalprice+price; run; proc print data=test2 noobs; run;

Data test2; infile furnture; input StockNum $ 1-3 Finish $ 5-9 Style $ 11-18 Item $ 20-24 Price 26-31 if finish='oak' and price<200 then delete; totalprice+price; run; proc print data=test2 noobs; run;

Sas Chapter 10 Producing HTML Output

SAS Chapter 10 Producing HTML Output

Practice for the SAS basic certification exam

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 136 | Last updated: Mar 8, 2013

Sample Question
Using the ODS statements, how many types of output can you generate at once?

1(only listing output)

2

3

As many as you want

SAS Chapter 8: Creating Enhanced Reports

Practice for the SAS basic certification exam.

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 184 | Last updated: Mar 8, 2013

Sample Question
If Style has four unique values and you submit the following program, which output do you get? (Assume that all other variables are numeric.) proc report data=sasuser.houses nowd; column style sqfeet bedrooms price; define style / group; run;

SAS Chapter 7: Creating And Applying User-defined Formats

SAS Chapter 7: Creating and Applying User-Defined Formats

Practice for the SAS basic certification exam.

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 219 | Last updated: Mar 8, 2013

Sample Question
If you don't specify the LIBRARY= option, your formats are stored in Work.Formats, and they exist ...

Only for the current procedure.

Only for the current DATA step.

Only for the current SAS session

Permanently.

SAS Chapter 4: Creating List Reports

Preparation for the SAS basic certification exam.

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 240 | Last updated: Mar 7, 2013

Sample Question
Which PROC PRINT step below creates the following output

Proc print data=flights.laguardia noobs; var on changed flight; where on>=160; run;

Proc print data=flights.laguardia; var date on changed flight; where changed>3; run;

proc print data=flights.laguardia label; id date; var boarded transferred flight; label boarded='On' transferred='Changed'; where flight='219'; run;

Proc print flights.laguardia noobs; id date; var date on changed flight; where flight='219'; run;

SAS Chapter 3 Editing And Debugging SAS Programs

SAS Chapter 3 Editing and Debugging SAS Programs

Practice preparing for the basic SAS certification exam

Questions: 11 | Attempts: 572 | Last updated: Mar 7, 2013

Sample Question
As you write and edit SAS programs it's a good idea to

Begin DATA and PROC steps in column one.

Indent statements within a step.

Begin RUN statements in column one

Do all of the above.

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