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 15781

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

PSCI,

5 14736

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 19420

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 20084

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

3 7816

How would you delete duplicate observations?

9 20293

How would you delete observations with duplicate keys?

6 11883

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

5 11685

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 9679

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

9 17136

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

10 24681

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

5 10466

Name statements that are recognized at compile time only?

6 19967

Identify statements whose placement in the DATA step is critical?

11 24586

Name statements that function at both compile and execution time?

1 7045

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I am preparing SAS Certified Advanced Programmer for SAS 9 in 2014. If anybody has the latest dumps for this exam, please mail me at dhiman.mukherjee@gmail.com

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Why double trailing @@ is used in input statement?

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Describe a time when you were really stuck on a problem and how you solved it?

2578

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2172

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984

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910

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