SAS Exam questions with complete solutions

SAS Exam questions with complete
solutions

SAS stands for - correct answer ✔✔ Statistical Analysis System



4 data-driven tasks for SAS - correct answer ✔✔ data access, data management, data analysis,
data presentation



file extension for (log file, code, output, dataset) - correct answer ✔✔ .log, .sas, .out, .sas7bdat



3 ways to create sas dataset - correct answer ✔✔ from scratch, from raw dataset, from existing
sas dataset



4 uses for data statements - correct answer ✔✔ create SAS dataset from scratch, create SAS
dataset from raw dataset, check for and correct errors in a dataset, create a SAS dataset from
existing SAS datasets



5 uses for proc statements - correct answer ✔✔ create report that lists data, produce
descriptive statistics, create summary report, produce plots and charts, produce other SAS
datasets



base date for sas dates - correct answer ✔✔ January 1, 1960



the sas variable (name/value) is case sensitive, but the sas varaible (name/value) is not case
sensitive. - correct answer ✔✔ value, name



default length of all sas variables - correct answer ✔✔ 8

, number of digits sas can hold for numeric variable values before converting them to scientific
notation - correct answer ✔✔ 12



keyword used in proc sort to keep dataset in original order - correct answer ✔✔ out



proc sort data = ia.employee out = ia.employee_sorted;

by x;

run;



keyword used in proc sort to remove observations that have repeat values for every variable



example - correct answer ✔✔ nodup



proc sort data = ia.data nodup;

by x;

run;



keyword used in proc sort to remove observations that have repeat values for sorted variable -
correct answer ✔✔ nodupkey



proc sort data = ia.data nodupkey;

by x;

run;



keyword used in proc freq to identify variable(s) to be used in frequency tables - correct answer
✔✔ tables