SASInstitute Programming Fundamentals A00-215 Questions & Answers

• Question 21:

  Which SAS format displays a SAS date as 25JUN2019?

  A. ddMMMyy9.

  B. Date9.

  C. Ddmmmyyyy9.

  D. Dmy9.

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 22:

  Which statement is true regarding a variable?

  A. A character variable can contain alphabetic characters, numeric digits, and other special characters.

  B. A numeric value must be specified in single or double quotes.

  C. A character value cannot exceed 200 bytes.

  D. A numeric variable can contain digits, decimal point, minus sign, currency symbol, and E for scientific notation.

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 23:

  Which statements read the input data set SASHELP. SHOES and create the output data set WORK. TOTAL?

  A. data sashalp.shoes; out work.total;

  B. data sashelp.shoes; output work.total;

  C. data work.total; set sashelp.shoes;

  D. data out=work.total; input sasholp.shoes

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 24:

  Which statement is true regarding variable names?

  A. Variable names are case sensitive.

  B. Variable names are from 1 to 32 characters in length.

  C. Variable names are optional when you create a data set

  D. Variable names can start with a number or an underscore

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 25:

  Given the SAS data set WORK PRODUCTS:

  

  The following SAS program is submitted:

  

  How many variables does the WORK REVENUE data set contains?

  A. 4

  B. 5

  C. 2

  D. 3

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 26:

  Which statement is true when creating two SAS data sets with a DATA step?

  A. Name both data sets in the DATA statement

  B. Use an OUT= option in the WHERE statement to output the observations to the appropriate data sets.

  C. Use a PUT statement to output the observations to the appropriate data sets.

  D. Use a separate SET statement for each data set.

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 27:

  Given the data sets AMERICIAN NATIONAL and results in the data set BASEBALL shown below: AMERICAN

  

  NATIONAL

  BASEBALL

  

  Which DATA step correctly creates the BASEBALL data set?

  A. data baseball; set american (rename=(Team=TeamName)) national; run;

  B. data baseball; set american national; run;

  C. data baseball; set American (rename=(TeamName=Team)) national; run;

  D. data baseball; set national American; run;

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 28:

  Given the program below:

  

  Why does the program fail?

  A. You must use two different DATA statements for HEIGHT1 and HEIGHT2

  B. You cannot output to different data sets

  C. You must include the data set height2 in the DATA statement

  D. You cannot use numbers in data set names.

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 29:

  Given the PATIENT and VISIT data sets and the DATA step shown below: PATIENT

  

  VISIT

  

  How many observations are created in the ALLVISITS data set?

  A. 5

  B. 12

  C. 7

  D. 0

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 30:

  The data set Snacks contains three variables (productName, Flavor, and Price). Given the program shown below:

  

  What is the type and length of SnackType?

  A. Numeric, 8

  B. Character, 7

  C. Character, 8

  D. Character, 5

  Correct Answer: A