SAS Platform Administration for SAS 9

Exam Content Guide

Securing the SAS configuration

• Secure a SAS platform configuration.
• Update SAS Software

Monitoring the Status and Operation of SAS Metadata Servers

• Manage metadata repositories.
• Identify the properties and functionality of SAS servers.
• Configure a SAS Metadata server cluster.

Monitoring, Logging, and Troubleshooting SAS Servers

• Monitor SAS servers.
• Administer SAS server logging and modify logging configurations.
• Troubleshoot basic SAS server issues such as server availability.

Backing Up the SAS Environment

• Backup and restore the SAS environment.

Administering Users

• Manage connection profiles.
• Manage roles.
• Register users and groups in the metadata.
• Give users access to processing servers and data servers.
• Determine when to store passwords in the metadata.
• Manage internal SAS accounts.
• Identify SAS server authentication mechanisms.

Administering Data Access

• Register libraries and tables in the metadata.
• Update table metadata.
• Pre-assign a library.
• Troubleshoot data access problems.
• Use the metadata LIBNAME engine.

Managing Metadata

• Identify how the metadata authorization layer interacts with other security layers.
• Identify where, how, and to whom metadata permissions are assigned.
• Determine the outcome of metadata authorization decisions.
• Use metadata permissions to secure metadata.
• Create and use Access Control Templates.
• Promote metadata and associated content.