SAS Certified Deployment and Implementation Specialist for SAS Grid Manager 9.4 Practice Exam

SAS Certified Deployment and Implementation Specialist for SAS Grid Manager 9.4 Practice Exam

The SAS Certified Deployment and Implementation Specialist for SAS Grid Manager 9.4 exam assesses the proficiency needed to strategize and implement a grid environment, facilitate grid client functionality, oversee grid systems and high-availability services, and resolve issues with SAS® Grid Manager within a SAS® 9.4 setup.

Who should take the exam?

Candidates should have practical expertise and comprehension in areas such as:

• Analyzing the deployment's implications on the architecture.
  
• Strategizing the deployment process, including fulfilling pre-install requirements.
• Installing and configuring all pertinent licensed SAS software, encompassing the high-availability setup.
• Configuring interactive and batch clients to operate within the grid framework.
• Administering grid operations and monitoring through LSF or Management Console.
• Establishing, administering, and verifying high-availability services.
• Identifying and resolving any deployment-associated challenges.

Exam Details 

• Exam Code: A00-391
• Exam Name: SAS Certified Deployment and Implementation Specialist for SAS Grid Manager 9.4
• Exam Languages: English
• Exam Questions: 80 Questions
• Time: 2 hours
• Passing Score: 65%

Exam Course Outline 

The SAS Certified Deployment and Implementation Specialist for SAS Grid Manager 9.4 Exam covers the given topics  - 

Topic 1: Overview of Grid Architecture

• Review the architecture and design to interpret its impact on deployment.
  

Topic 2: Understand Planning

• Interpret the SAS Architecture hardware and software based on documented diagrams to validate the desired installation architecture.
• Interpret plan file for deployment.
• Describe and validate the preinstall requirements.
• Interpret and validate the information from the SAS Software Order E-mail.

Topic 3: Learn about Software Deployment

• Set up proper load-balancing for SAS server processes for grid.
• Launch, execute and interpret the SAS Deployment Tools in order to install and configure the licensed SAS software including High Availability environment.
• Define grid resources for multiple SAS Application Servers in SAS metadata.
• Successfully deploy Platform Suite for SAS on any supported operating system.
• Interpret and modify LSF and SAS configuration settings and options to provide an optimized and tailored environment based on requirements.
• Perform a deployment with shared binaries or shared configuration folders. 

Topic 4: Understand Grid Client Enablement

• Configure interactive clients to work on the Grid and validate that the observed behavior is as expected.
• Configure batch clients to work on the Grid and validate that the observed behavior is as expected.

Topic 5: Learn about System Management

• Monitor and manage the grid.
• Understand SAS metadata related to Grid.
• Evaluate the status of grid services.
• Add and remove nodes from a grid cluster.
• Configure LSF attributes.
• Understand OS differences that impact LSF (lspassword) especially from a user management point of view.
• Update licenses for SAS Grid Manager and Platform suite.

Topic 6: Understand High Availability

• Demonstrate working knowledge of PSS failover.
• Create, manage, and test High Availability services.
• Troubleshooting
• Identify and interpret log files for troubleshooting problems.
• Fix errors.
• Validate that the grid is properly configured and deployed.