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| Question | Asked @ | Answers |
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| Describe the types of SAS programming tasks that you
performed like Tables? Listings? Graphics? Ad hoc reports?
Other?
| Oracle | 4 |
| Name statements that function at both compile and execution
time. | Accenture | 3 |
| 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 | 2 |
| How would you combine 3 or more tables with different
structures?
| | 1 |
| What SAS statements would you code to read an external raw
data file to a DATA step? | Accenture | 5 |
| what is picture format? give any one example? | Parexel | 2 |
| What statement do you code to tell SAS that it is to write
to an external file? | | 5 |
| Are you familiar with special input delimiters? How are they
used? | Accenture | 3 |
| what is Business Intelligence? | CitiGroup | 3 |
| What is the order of evaluation of the comparison
operators: + - * /** ()?
| | 2 |
| How would you code a macro statement to produce information
on the SAS log? This statement can be coded anywhere. | | 7 |
| SAS System ? | | 2 |
| If reading a variable length file with fixed input, how
would you prevent SAS from reading the next record if the
last variable didn?t have a value? | | 3 |
| Please, anyone, let me know the style or an example of using
'by='/'by' variable of a PDV(Program Data Vector) | Verinon-Technology-Solutions | 3 |
| What is the Program Data Vector (PDV)? What are its functions? | Accenture | 4 |
| Does SAS ‘Translate’ (compile) or does it ‘Interpret’? Explain. | Accenture | 4 |
| The Lion King is hosting an animal conference. All the
animals in the world attend except one. Which animal does
not attend? | Oracle | 3 |
| 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. | Accenture | 6 |
| how do u test a pros sql(works or not) without executing it? | HSBC | 1 |
| Name statements that function at both compile and execution
time? | | 1 |
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