SAS Base Programming Specialist (A00-231) Practice Exam
The SAS Base Programming Specialist exam assesses your proficiency in fundamental data manipulation, analysis, and reporting using SAS 9.4. It validates your skills in:
- Accessing and creating data structures
- Managing data
- Error handling
- Generating reports and output
Who Should Take the Exam?
- This exam is ideal for individuals seeking to demonstrate their fundamental SAS programming skills.
- Ideal for entry-level data analysts, business analysts, or individuals transitioning into data-related careers.
- Those who want to validate their knowledge for potential job opportunities.
- Those looking to gain a strong foundation for further SAS learning.
Exam Details
- Exam Code: A00-231
- Exam Name: SAS Base Programming Specialist
- Exam Languages: English
- Exam Questions: 40-45 Questions
- Time Duration: 135 minutes
- Passing Score: 725 (score range from 200 to 1,000 points)
Exam Course Outline
The Exam covers the given topics -
Topic 1: Understand about Accessing and Creating Data Structures: 20-25%
- Creating temporary and permanent SAS data sets.
- Investigate SAS data libraries using base SAS utility procedures.
- Access data.
- Combine SAS data sets.
- Create and manipulate SAS date values.
- Control which observations and variables in a SAS data set are processed and output.
Topic 2: Learn about Managing Data: 35-40%
- Sort observations in a SAS data set.
- Conditionally execute SAS statements.
- Use assignment statements in the DATA step.
- Modify variable attributes using options and statements in the DATA step.
- Accumulate sub-totals and totals using DATA step statements.
- Use SAS functions to manipulate character data, numeric data, and SAS date
- Use SAS functions to convert character data to numeric and vice versa.
- Process data using DO LOOPS.
- Restructure SAS data sets with PROC TRANSPOSE.
- Use macro variables to simplify program maintenance.
Topic 3: Understand Error Handling: 15-20%
- Identify and resolve programming logic errors.
- Recognize and correct syntax errors.
Topic 4: Learn how to Generate Reports and Output: 15-20%
- Generate list reports using the PRINT procedure.
- Generate summary reports and frequency tables using base SAS procedures.
- Enhance reports system user-defined formats, titles, footnotes and SAS System reporting options.
- Generate reports using ODS statements.
- Export data