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 14237

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

PSCI,

5 13086

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 17312

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 15856

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

3 6759

How would you delete duplicate observations?

9 18106

How would you delete observations with duplicate keys?

6 10026

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

5 10016

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 8642

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

9 14743

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

10 21760

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

5 8949

Name statements that are recognized at compile time only?

6 18244

Identify statements whose placement in the DATA step is critical?

11 21333

Name statements that function at both compile and execution time?

1 6351


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Explain what is data step?

714


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

785


How might you use MOD and INT on numeric to mimic SUBSTR on character Strings?

736


What is maximum number of rows and cols can be handled in SAS?

838


what are sas bi dashboard components? : Sas-bi

646






Differentiate between ceil and floor functions.

644


what is data access? : Sas-di

590


do you need to know if there are any missing values? : Sas programming

535


What are the parameters of scan function?

601


What is SAS informats?

619


What are the applications primarily used by business analyst? : Sas-bi

540


What does the trace option do?

651


What are the special input delimiters used in SAS?

642


If a variable contains only numbers, can it be a character data type?

597


If you could design your ideal job, what would it look like?

2354