SAS Certified Platform Administrator for SAS 9 Practice Exam

The SAS Certified Platform Administrator for SAS 9 exam validates your expertise in administering the SAS platform for SAS Business Analytics. Earning this certification demonstrates your ability to secure, update, manage users, establish connections to data sources, and administer key functionalities within the SAS 9 environment.

Who Should Take This Exam?

This SAS certification is ideal for IT professionals with a focus on:

• SAS 9 Administration: Individuals responsible for installing, configuring, and maintaining the SAS 9 platform.
• System Administrators (SAS Environment): Managing user access, security, and system resources for SAS 9 deployments.
• Data Center Operations (SAS Focus): Ensuring the smooth operation and availability of the SAS 9 platform within the data center.

There are no formal prerequisites for taking the exam. However, SAS recommends that candidates possess:

• Experience administering server environments.
• Understanding of basic networking concepts.
• Familiarity with SAS software, especially core functionalities.

Roles and Responsibilities

• SAS Platform Administrator: Managing all aspects of the SAS 9 platform, including installation, configuration, security, and user administration.
• SAS System Administrator: Ensuring the smooth operation and performance of the SAS 9 environment within a data center setting.
• Support Analyst (SAS Platform Focus): Providing technical support to users regarding SAS 9 platform access and functionalities.

Exam Details

• Exam Name: SAS Certified Platform Administrator for SAS 9
• Exam Number: A00-250
• Number of Questions: 70
• Exam Format: Multiple-choice
• Time Give: 110 minutes  
• Passing score: 70%

Course Outline

The important domains and their topics that the SAS Certified Platform Administrator for SAS 9 exam covers are: 

1. Securing the SAS configuration

• Secure a SAS platform configuration.
• Update SAS Software

2. Monitoring the Status and Operation of SAS Metadata Servers

• Manage metadata repositories.
• Identify the properties and functionality of SAS servers.
• Configure a SAS Metadata server cluster.

3. Monitoring, Logging, and Troubleshooting SAS Servers

• Monitor SAS servers.
• Administer SAS server logging and modify logging configurations.
• Troubleshoot basic SAS server issues such as server availability.

4. Backing Up the SAS Environment

• Backup and restore the SAS environment.

5. Administering Users

• Manage connection profiles.
• Manage roles.
• Register users and groups in the metadata.
• Give users access to processing servers and data servers.
• Determine when to store passwords in the metadata.
• Manage internal SAS accounts.
• Identify SAS server authentication mechanisms.

6. Administering Data Access

• Register libraries and tables in the metadata.
• Update table metadata.
• Pre-assign a library.
• Troubleshoot data access problems.
• Use the metadata LIBNAME engine.

7. Managing Metadata

• Identify how the metadata authorization layer interacts with other security layers.
• Identify where, how, and to whom metadata permissions are assigned.
• Determine the outcome of metadata authorization decisions.
• Use metadata permissions to secure metadata.
• Create and use Access Control Templates.
• Promote metadata and associated content.