SAS 9.4 Base Programming — Performance-based exam
Exam Content Guide
Below we provide a list of the objectives that will be tested on the exam.
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Access and Create Data Structures
- Create Temporary and permanent SAS Data sets.
- Investigate SAS data libraries using base SAS utility procedures.
- Access data.
- Combine SAS data sets.
- Create and manipulate SAS date values.
- Control which observations and variables in a SAS data set are processed and output.
Manage Data
- Sort observations in a SAS data set.
- Conditionally execute SAS statements.
- Use assignment statements in the DATA step.
- Modify variable attributes using options and statements in the DATA step.
- Accumulate sub-totals and totals using DATA step statements.
- Use SAS functions to manipulate character data, numeric data, and SAS date values.
- Use SAS functions to convert character data to numeric and vice versa.
- Process data using DO LOOPS.
- Restructure SAS data sets with PROC TRANSPOSE.
- Use macro variables to simplify program maintenance.
Error Handling
- Identify and resolve programming logic errors.
- Recognize and correct syntax errors.
Generate Reports and Output
- Generate list reports using the PRINT procedure.
- Generate summary reports and frequency tables using base SAS procedures.
- Enhance reports with user-defined formats, titles, footnotes and SAS System reporting options.
- Generate reports using ODS statements.
- Export data.
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