SAS Programming Intermediate (Test-Prep for the SAS Associate and SAS Specialist Certificates)

Course Description:

The SAS Programming Intermediate course provides a review of the majority of topics in the SAS 9.4 Base Programming Performance-Based Exam. It addresses the four exam content areas: Accessing and Creating Data Structures, Managing Data, Generating Reports and Output, and Handling Errors.

This course can help prepare you for the following certification exam(s): SAS Certified Specialist: Base Programming Using SAS 9.4.

Learn how to:

• Read, create, and combine SAS data sets.
• Sort observations with the SORT procedure.
• Read delimited data and Microsoft Excel files with the IMPORT procedure and the LIBNAME engine.
• Create variables using assignment, conditional, and sum statements.
• Manipulate data using SAS functions.
• Process data with DO loops.
• Restructure data with the TRANSPOSE procedure.
• Create reports using the PRINT procedure, the FREQ procedure, the MEANS procedure, and the UNIVARIATE procedure.
• Create formats with the FORMAT procedure.
• Create external files with ODS, the EXPORT procedure, and the LIBNAME engine.
• Identify and resolve programming logic errors.

Who this class is for?
SAS users who are interested in a review course before taking the SAS 9.4 Base Programming Performance-Based Exam, part of the SAS Global Certification Program, SAS programmers, DBAs, business analysts., and data scientists.

Introduction
• Specifics about the SAS 9.4 Base Programming Performance-Based Exam.
• Specifics about this review course.
• Review SAS fundamental concepts.
• Using macro variables to simplify code maintenance.

Access and Create Data Structure
• Investigating SAS data libraries.
• Accessing SAS data sets and data sources not in SAS (Microsoft Excel and text files).
• Creating SAS data sets and reviewing DATA step processes.
• Controlling rows and columns to process and output.
• Modifying column attributes.

Manage Data
• Using assignment statements.
• Conditional processing with IF-THEN/ELSE.
• Sorting and combining tables.
• Accumulating subtotals and totals.
• Manipulating data with functions.
• Iterative processing with DO loops.
• Restructuring data with PROC TRANSPOSE.

Error Handling
• Identifying and resolving programming logic errors.
• Examining and resolving data errors.

Generating Reports and Output
• Generating list reports using the PRINT procedure.
• Generating summary reports and frequency tables using Base SAS procedures.
• Enhancing reports with labels, SAS formats, user-defined formats, titles, footnotes, and SAS reporting options.
• Generating reports using ODS statements.
• Exporting data to text and Microsoft Excel files.

Additional Information
• More specifics about the SAS 9.4 Base Programming Performance-Based Exam.
• Additional preparation resources.
• Test-taking strategies.

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