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With the spring season in full swing, we see new growth everywhere we look. This is a great time to prepare for your own professional growth with a SAS Certification. With your SAS credential in hand, you'll be better able to position yourself for a potential higher salary, promotion or added responsibility. Hear what SAS certified users have to say about the value that their certification has made to their career, and how it has become their key differentiator in the job market. Refer to selected quotes below.

Don't miss upcoming activities, including the annual Certification Exam Fair in July and a programming refresher course, to help you prepare for the Base Programming Exam for SAS®9. And, due to overwhelming responses, we have added more public testing dates for the predictive modeling exam. Register soon – seats do fill quickly.

As always, enjoy your issue.

Sincerely,
Cindy Romig
Editor, SAS Certification News Flash

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This newsletter has been developed for technical professionals interested in SAS certification. Bookmark the SAS Certification Web site for all the latest news and activities with the SAS® Global Certification Program.


Limited time offer! Certification Exam Fair in July
 Register now for the annual SAS Certification Exam Fair, July 1-31. Save 25% on exam fees when you take the SAS programming and predictive modeling exams.

Accelerate your career with the Predictive Modeling Using SAS® Enterprise Miner™ 5.2 Credential
Due to popular demand, we have added several new predictive modeling public test events to the schedule. Refer to the Events section of this newsletter for scheduled dates.

Prepare for the Base Programming Exam for SAS9 with a refresher course
Preparing for the SAS base programming exam and need a review of SAS programming? Register for the SAS Certification Review: Base Programming for SAS®9 course which covers many topics on the exam.

Certification goes on tour in Phoenix
Recently, the SAS Certification program took a road trip to Phoenix, promoting the value of certification to local SAS users. Among its stops was a visit to American Express, where SAS users learned about exam preparation methods and even reviewed sample exam questions.

If you would like to learn more about what the SAS Global Certification Program can do for your company, contact us.

“The training courses and practice exams offered for Base and Advanced Certification … helped me immensely in successfully completing the Base Programmer and Advanced Programmer Certification exams.”
Ragha Srinivasan
Certified SAS Advanced Programmer for SAS®9, MPH, CHES, PMP
Senior Analyst

"Taking the certification exam is company policy, but it became a personal challenge for me. The exam was tough, and the review course offered by SAS was really helpful. I was absolutely ecstatic when I got my results, and glad that all my hard work had paid off."
Tolulope Joseph
Certified SAS Base Programmer
Business intelligence consultant
CompuTek, SAS Alliance Partner member, South Africa

 

   


Look for discounts on prep tools for selected exams
Prepare for the base and advanced programming exams and save when you purchase pre-defined prep tools, bundled together for a discounted price.

Learn how to save on exam fees
Attend a free SAS Certification Web seminar and learn about the program including how to save on exam fees.

Academic institutions save 50% on exam fees
Contact certification@sas.com for more information on this discount


WEB SEMINARS
SAS Certification
July 9

TESTING EVENTS
Predictive Modeling using SAS® Enterprise Miner™5.2

July 11
Dallas

September 26
San Francisco

October 26
M2008 - Las Vegas

December 2
New York

Come visit us at our booth during these events:

PharmaSUG
June 1
Atlanta

F2008
June 2
Cary, NC

Discovery 2008
June 16
SAS world headquarters, Cary, NC

2008 Joint Statistical Meetings
August 3
Denver

NESUG
September 14
Pittsburgh

SESUG
October 19
St. Petersburg, FL

M2008
October 27-28
Las Vegas

WUSS
November 5
San Francisco

More to come!
 

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