SAS Certification Review: SAS 9.4 Base Programming Performance-Based Exam

This course provides a review of the majority of topics in the SAS 9.4 Base Programming Performance-Based Exam. It addresses the four exam content areas: Accessing and Creating Data Structures, Managing Data, Generating Reports and Output, and Handling Errors.

Learn how to

• Read, create, and combine SAS data sets.
• Sort observations with the SORT procedure.
• Read delimited data and Microsoft Excel files with the IMPORT procedure and the LIBNAME engine.
• Create variables using assignment, conditional, and sum statements.
• Manipulate data using SAS functions.
• Process data with DO loops.
• Restructure data with the TRANSPOSE procedure.
• Create reports using the PRINT procedure, the FREQ procedure, the MEANS procedure, and the UNIVARIATE procedure.
• Create formats with the FORMAT procedure.
• Create external files with ODS, the EXPORT procedure, and the LIBNAME engine.
• Identify and resolve programming logic errors.

Who should attend

SAS users who are interested in a review course before taking the SAS 9.4 Base Programming Performance-Based Exam, part of the SAS Global Certification Program

Formats available	Standard Duration (duration can vary, see event schedule for details)
Classroom:	2 days
Live Web Classroom:	5 half-day session(s)	System Requirements
e-Learning:	14 hours/180 day license

Before attending this course, you should:

• Be an experienced programmer with knowledge of the four exam content areas.
• Have taken SAS Programming 1: Essentials and SAS Programming 2: Data Manipulation Techniques or have equivalent experience.

This course addresses SAS/ACCESS, Base SAS software.

This course is appropriate for students who are using SAS 9 software. In addition to Base SAS software, this course addresses SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files software.

SAS 9.4 Base Programming Performance-Based Exam Review

• Specifics about the SAS 9.4 Base Programming Performance-Based Exam.
• Specifics about this review course.
• Review SAS fundamental concepts.
• Using macro variables to simplify code maintenance.

Access and Create Data Structure

• Investigating SAS data libraries.
• Accessing SAS data sets and data sources not in SAS (Microsoft Excel and text files).
• Creating SAS data sets and reviewing DATA step processes.
• Controlling rows and columns to process and output.
• Modifying column attributes.

Manage Data

• Using assignment statements.
• Conditional processing with IF-THEN/ELSE.
• Sorting and combining tables.
• Accumulating subtotals and totals.
• Manipulating data with functions.
• Iterative processing with DO loops.
• Restructuring data with PROC TRANSPOSE.

Error Handling

• Identifying and resolving programming logic errors.
• Examining and resolving data errors.

Generating Reports and Output

• Generating list reports using the PRINT procedure.
• Generating summary reports and frequency tables using Base SAS procedures.
• Enhancing reports with labels, SAS formats, user-defined formats, titles, footnotes, and SAS reporting options.
• Generating reports using ODS statements.
• Exporting data to text and Microsoft Excel files.

Additional Information

• More specifics about the SAS 9.4 Base Programming Performance-Based Exam.
• Additional preparation resources.
• Test-taking strategies.