SAS Interview Questions
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Name and describe three SAS functions that you have used, if any?

Accenture,

4 14862

How would you code the criteria to restrict the output to be produced?

Accenture,

6 11463

What is the purpose of the trailing @? The @@? How would you use them?

Accenture,

10 45124

Under what circumstances would you code a SELECT construct instead of IF statements?

Accenture,

7 12818

What statement do you code to tell SAS that it is to write to an external file? What statement do you code to write the record to the file?

Accenture,

2 9129

If reading an external file to produce an external file, what is the shortcut to write that record without coding every single variable on the record?

Accenture,

7 21276

If you’re not wanting any SAS output from a data step, how would you code the data statement to prevent SAS from producing a set?

Accenture,

8 18510

What is the one statement to set the criteria of data that can be coded in any step?

Accenture,

4 9382

Have you ever linked SAS code? If so, describe the link and any required statements used to either process the code or the step itself.

Accenture,

2 8540

How would you include common or reuse code to be processed along with your statements?

Accenture,

3 7221

When looking for data contained in a character string of 150 bytes, which function is the best to locate that data: scan, index, or indexc?

Accenture,

2 7408

If you have a data set that contains 100 variables, but you need only five of those, what is the code to force SAS to use only those variable?

Accenture,

10 17006

Code a PROC SORT on a data set containing State, District and County as the primary variables, along with several numeric variables.

Accenture,

7 13815

How would you delete duplicate observations?

Accenture,

10 29725

How would you delete observations with duplicate keys?

Accenture,

13 22770


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explain the difference between proc means and proc summary?

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If you use a symput in a data step, when and where can you use the macro variable? : sas-macro

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If you were told to create many records from one record, show how you would do this using array and with proc transpose?

785


what is the difference between: x=a+b+c+d; and x=sum (of a, b, c ,d);? : Sas programming

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data data1; input dt account; format dt date9.; cards; 1745 1230 1756 1120 1788 1130 1767 1240 ; data data2; input startdt enddt total; format startdt date9. enddt date9.; cards; 1657 1834 12300 1557 1758 16800 1789 1789 12300 1788 1345 12383 1899 1899 13250 ; proc sql; create table data3 as select * from data1 as x left join data2 as y on x.dt>=y.startdt and x.dt<=y.enddt; quit; Here, we are getting cartision product. But,I want left join report consisting of this program. It should not get duplicate values. you can modify the program also.

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what is the use of proc contents and proc print in sas? : Sas-administrator

597


explain the function of substr in sas? : Sas-administrator

543


how to change the execute of macro

1657


Name validation tools used in SAS

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How many data types are there in SAS?

618


Describe the ways in which you can create macro variables?

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