Free SAS Institute A00-415 Exam Questions

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Question 1

An analyst is working with a CAS session and needs to save a table permanently in a CAS library. What statement must the analyst append to ensure the data will not be lost when the session ends?

A : The analyst must use the SAVE statement specifying the library: SAVE TABLE mytable TO CASLIB mycaslib;

B : The analyst should save the table as a SAS data set in the DATA step and then assign it a libref using CASLIB statement.

C : The analyst must use the TABLESAVE statement in PROC CAS to direct the CAS engine to save the data: PROC CAS; TABLESAVE / caslib="mycaslib" name="mytable"; RUN;

D : The analyst has to use the CAS Engine's "PERSIST" statement to ensure persistence: PROC CASUTIL; SAVE caslib=mycaslib; persist=true; RUN;

Answer: C

Question 2

When writing a SAS program, you come across a piece of code where you need to assign a condition that checks if a variable, `age`, is not equal to 25. Which of the following mnemonics or operators is the most appropriate to use?

A : age 25

B : age ^= 25

C : age != 25

D : age ~= 25

Answer: C

Question 3

A data analyst needs to load a large dataset into the CAS server to perform data manipulation tasks. To optimize performance and minimize load time, which PROC CASUTIL statement should the analyst use to achieve this?

A : PROC CASUTIL; load casdata="bigdata.sashdat" casout="bigdata"; run;

B : PROC CASUTIL; save casdata="bigdata.sashdat" casout="bigdata"; run;

C : PROC CASUTIL; load data="bigdata.csv" casout="bigdata"; run;

D : PROC CASUTIL; load caslib="default" path="bigdata.sashdat" casout="bigdata"; run;

Answer: A

Question 4

A data analyst is working on a SAS Viya project and needs to read an external CSV file into the SAS Viya environment. The external CSV file is located on a network drive that the SAS Viya environment can access. Which of the following methods would be the best practice for specifying the location of the input data to ensure that the data can be efficiently imported?

A : Hard-code the full network path to the CSV file in the data step.

B : Use the LIBNAME statement with the CAS engine to assign a libref to the network location.

C : Import the data to a local machine and then upload it to the SAS Viya server using the SAS Studio interface.

D : Store the file on a cloud storage service and use PROC HTTP to access it.

Answer: B

Question 5

A programmer wants to accumulate the total sales for each month in a dataset named 'monthly_sales' that has two variables: 'month' and 'sales'. Which DATA Step code properly accumulates the total sales for each month?

A : data totals;set monthly_sales;retain total_sales;total_sales + sales;run;

B : data totals;set monthly_sales;by month;if first.month then total_sales=0;total_sales + sales;if last.month then output;run;

C : data totals(drop=month);set monthly_sales;total_sales + sales;output;run;

D : data totals;set monthly_sales;retain total_sales 0;total_sales + sales;output;run;

Answer: B

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