SAS Certification Platform Administrator for SAS9 Review (NO EXAM)

The purpose of the course is to briefly review macro topics covered by the SAS Platform Administrator Certification. The goal is to consolidate already-acquired knowledge. The course includes sample applications, exercises, self-study and question and answer sessions. The course is not designed to review every single topics of the test but to revise main contents.

The course does not include the SAS Platform Administrator Certification.

Attendees should have a good knowledge and experience in administering SAS.

Obiettivi

• SAS Platform
• SAS Metadata and the Metadata Server
• Authentication and Administering Users, Groups, and Roles
• Managing SAS Compute Servers and Spawners
• Securing Metadata
• Connectivity to Data Sources
• Monitoring SAS Environment

A chi è rivolto

SAS Platform Administrators who want a support in the preparation of SAS Platform Administrator Certification

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Corso in Aula:	1.0 giorno

Attendees should have a good knowledge and experience in administering SAS

Successful candidates should be skilled in topics such as


• Secure the SAS configuration on each server machine
• Check status and operate servers
• Monitor server activity and administer logging
• Establish formal, regularly scheduled backup processes
• Add users and manage their access
• Establish connectivity to data sources
• Set up and secure metadata folder structures
• Administer repositories and move metadata

SAS Platform

• platform
• deployment administration tasks
• maintenance administration tasks
• metadata administration tasks
• ongoing administration tasks

SAS Platform Architecture Components

• exploring the platform architecture
• operating SAS servers and spawners
• exploring SAS Environment Manager
• exploring SAS Environment Manager service architecture

SAS Metadata and the Metadata Server

• exploring the SAS Metadata Server and metadata repositories
• exploring SAS metadata objects
• implementing a SAS Metadata Server cluster
• backing up the SAS Metadata Server
• backing up the SAS environment

Authentication and Administering Users, Groups, and Roles

• exploring initial authentication to the SAS Metadata Server
• administering users and groups
• using import macros
• exploring internal accounts and internal authentication mechanisms
• administering roles and administrative identities

Managing SAS Compute Servers and Spawners

• understanding SAS Compute Servers
• exploring credential management
• administering server logging

Securing Metadata

• reviewing metadata security
• exploring metadata permissions and ACTs
• customizing SAS folders

Establishing Connectivity to Data Sources

• registering libraries and tables in metadata
• setting up data access

Monitoring SAS Environment

• monitoring a SAS environment with SAS Environment Manager
• reviewing SAS middle-tier architecture
• additional topics about SAS server maintenance