SASInstitute Programming Fundamentals A00-215 Questions & Answers

• Question 11:

  What step has correct syntax for the CONTENTS procedure?

  A. Proc contents file=sashelp .shoes; Run;

  B. Proc contents lib=sashelp data=shoes; Run;

  C. Proc contents data=sashelp.shoes; Run;

  D. Proc contents sashelp. Shoes; run;

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 12:

  When the following code is submitted, execution fails.

  

  Why does the execution fail?

  A. Multiple executable statements are not allowed in the DO block.

  B. The OUTPUT statement is not allowed in the DO block.

  C. There are two unclosed DO block.

  D. The conditional logic expressions fail for the DO block

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 13:

  Given the following assignment statement:

  BirthDate = 15DEC2005'd;

  Which statement is true?

  A. 15DEC2005 'd is a character constant

  B. BirthDate is a numeric variable.

  C. The byte size of BirthDate is 9.

  D. The assignment statement contains a syntax error.

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 14:

  Which statement is true about the SUM statement?

  A. The SUM statement includes an equal sign.

  B. Multiple accumulating variables can be created with one SUM statement.

  C. The SUM statement ignores missing values.

  D. By default, the accumulating variable is initialized to 1.

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 15:

  How does SAS display missing values?

  A. a period for missing numeric and a blank for missing character

  B. an N for missing numeric and C for missing character

  C. a blank for Doth numeric and character missing

  D. a blank for missing numeric and a $ for missing character

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 16:

  Which two data sets are permanent?

  A. New

  B. Mylib.new

  C. Work.new

  D. Temp.new

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 17:

  Which LIBNAME statement has the correct syntax for accessing SAS data sets?

  A. libname 'c:\sas\data' mydata;

  B. libname mydata 'c:\sas\data';

  C. libname mydata='c:\sas\data';

  D. libname 'c:\sas\data'=mydata;

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 18:

  Which option renames the variable Name to StudentName when reading the ClassRoster data set?

  A. set ClassRoster (rename (StudentName=Name ) ) ;

  B. set ClassRoster (rename (NamestudentName) ) ;

  C. set ClassRoster (renaiae=(Name=studentName) ) ;

  D. set ClassRoster (^name=(StudentName=Name));

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 19:

  What is the default byte size of a numeric variable?

  A. 8 bytes

  Correct Answer: A

  The default length of numeric variables in SAS data sets is 8 bytes.

• Question 20:

  Which PROC PRINT step correctly displays only the first 10 observations in the data set?

  A. proc print data=sashelp.class(obs=l10); run;

  B. proc print data=sashelp.class; obs=10; run;

  C. proc print data=sashelp.class obs=10; run;

  D. proc print data=sashelp.class (oba?10' ) ; run;

  Correct Answer: B