Big Data Professional

SAS® Certified Big Data Professional Using SAS®9

For individuals who want to validate their ability to use open source and SAS® Data Management tools to prepare big data for statistical analysis

Successful candidates should be able to:

  • Recognize and overcome big data challenges.
  • Implement critical SAS programming techniques.
  • Access, transform and manipulate data.
  • Improve data quality for reporting and analytics.
  • Apply fundamental statistical techniques.
  • Work with SAS, Hadoop and Hive.
  • Explore and visualize data.

Candidates who earn this credential together with the SAS Certified Advanced Analytics Professional will be accredited as a SAS Certified Data Scientist.

Required Exams

Candidates who earn this credential will be required to pass two exams. Select an exam to see the full content for each.

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