The SAS Certification Prep Guide: Base Programming for SAS®9 prepares you to take the SAS Base Programming for SAS®9 exam. The book covers all of the objectives tested on the exam, including basic concepts, producing reports, creating and modifying SAS data sets, and reading various types of raw data.
The book includes quizzes that enable you to test your understanding of material in each chapter. In addition, the companion SAS Certification Prep Guide: Base Programming for SAS®9 CD-ROM contains sample data and sample programs that enable you to practice your new skills in your actual SAS environment.
The SAS Certification Prep Guide: Base Programming for SAS®9 is for new or experienced SAS programmers who want to prepare for the SAS Base Programming for SAS®9 exam.
This book assumes you are running Base SAS or SAS Enterprise Guide software in the Windows environment. You will learn how to write and manage your SAS programs in either the SAS Windowing Environment workspace or in the SAS Enterprise Guide workspace.
If you are not sure which programming workspace you are using, select Help
Because the two programming workspaces differ, you will occasionally see notes in this book that provide information specific to either SAS Enterprise Guide or to the SAS Windowing Environment. These notes use the following icons to identify information that is unique to these workspaces:
The SAS Certification Prep Guide: Base Programming for SAS®9 includes a companion CD-ROM, which can be found in the envelope inside the back cover of this book.
The CD-ROM contains tutorials that teach you how to operate within the SAS and SAS Enterprise Guide programming workspaces.
After completing Chapter 1 in this book and before continuing to Chapter 2, go to the CD-ROM, and print and go through the tutorial that matches the version of SAS you are using. For each chapter in the book, starting with Chapter 2,
complete the chapter text and summary in the book.
use the sample data and programs on the CD-ROM to practice what you learned in each chapter.
complete the end-of-chapter quiz in the book. You can check your answers by using the answer key in the appendix at the back of this book.
After completing the book, you can take the SAS Certification Practice Exam: Base Programming for SAS®9 at http://support.sas.com/basepractice.There is a fee for this exam.
This is an example of how the general form of SAS code is shown in the book:
For example, in the general form above,
DATA, DROP=, KEEP=, SET, BY, and RUN are in uppercase bold because they must be spelled as shown
output-SAS-data-set, variable(s), SAS-data-set, and options are in italics because each represents a value that you supply
<options> is enclosed in angle brackets because it is optional syntax
DROP= and KEEP= are separated by a vertical bar ( | ) to indicate that they are mutually exclusive.
The general forms of SAS statements and commands that are shown in this book include only the syntax that you need to know to prepare for the certification exam. For complete syntax, see the appropriate SAS reference guide.
Other resources might be helpful when learning SAS programming. You can refer to them as needed to enhance your understanding of the material covered in this book. You can access SAS online Help, documentation, and other resources from your SAS software or on the Web.
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General help | SAS 9: Select Help SAS Enterprise Guide: Select Help |
Online documentation | SAS 9: Select Help SAS Enterprise Guide: Access online documentation on the Web (see On the Web below). |
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Training |
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Certification |
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SAS Learning Edition |
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SAS Global Academic Program |
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SAS OnDemand |
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Knowledge Base |
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The SAS Certification Practice Exam: Base Programming for SAS®9 was designed to help you prepare for the SAS Base Programming for SAS®9 exam. This practice exam was constructed to test the same knowledge and skills as the official certification exam. You can access this exam under the SAS Certification category at support.sas.com/basepractice. Note that there is an additional fee for this practice exam.