SAS Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

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

Accenture,

4 14864

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

Accenture,

6 11469

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

Accenture,

10 45135

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 9131

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 21282

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 18513

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

Accenture,

4 9386

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 8543

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

Accenture,

3 7228

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 7409

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 17011

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

Accenture,

7 13819

How would you delete duplicate observations?

Accenture,

10 29730

How would you delete observations with duplicate keys?

Accenture,

13 22783


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687


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607


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598


explain about various caches available in data integrator? : Sas-di

568


I have a dataset concat having variable a b & c. How to rename a b to e & f?

563






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580


Can you execute macro within another macro? If so, how would sas know where the current macro ended and the new one began? : sas-macro

686


What is SAS informats?

622


Mention what is SAS data set?

662


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

689


What is the basic syntax of a sas program?

654


What do the mod and int function do? : Sas programming

564


What are the parameters of scan function?

601


What would be the result of the following SAS function (given that 31 Dec, 2000 is Sunday)?

667


What are the special input delimiters used in SAS?

644