SAS Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

SAS Interview Questions

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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?

4 16029

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

PSCI,

5 15008

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?

7 19743

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?

16 20827

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

3 7981

How would you delete duplicate observations?

9 20663

How would you delete observations with duplicate keys?

6 12185

How would you code a merge that will keep only the observations that have matches from both sets?

5 11953

How would you code a merge that will write the matches of both to one data set, the non-matches from the left-most data set to a second data set, and the non-matches of the right-most data set to a third data set?

2 9807

What is the Program Data Vector (PDV) and What are its functions?

9 17589

Does SAS ?Translate? (compile) or does it ?Interpret?? Explain.

10 25149

At compile time when a SAS data set is read, what items are created?

5 10694

Name statements that are recognized at compile time only?

6 20311

Identify statements whose placement in the DATA step is critical?

11 25110

Name statements that function at both compile and execution time?

1 7158

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Un-Answered Questions { SAS }

How do you define proc in sas? : sas-grid-administration

1088

What was the last computer book you purchased? Why?

2377

What is a macro routine?

2732

What are the ways to do a “table lookup” in sas?

1033

What is SAS? What are the functions does it performs?

1201

What is the basic syntax of a sas program?

1219

What are symget and symput? : sas-macro

1316

explain the use of % includes a statement in sas? : Sas-administrator

1008

how we can create a FLAG datasets? Ex:-ID age_group no_persons 1 to 10 10 to 20 3 11 to 20 21 to 30 7 21 to 3o 31 to 40 5

2115

explain the difference between alternate key, business key, foreign key, generated key, primary key, retained key and surrogate key ? : Sas-di

1085

for what purpose would you use the retain statement? : Sas programming

1101

Give some examples where proc report’s defaults are different than proc print’s defaults?

1079

What do the put and input function do?

1068

Mention what is SAS data set?

1137

Define run-group processing?

1047

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