Question 1

What is the value stored in the variable x? Data test; name = ’TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES’; b = ’C’; x = INDEX (name, b); Run;

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2
23
6
5

Answer

Correct Option: C

Question 2

What is the use of %INCLUDE statement in a program?

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Includes external files
Includes SAS datasets
Includes variables from other datasets
All of the above

Answer

Correct Option: A

Question 3

What is the SAS data value of 01-Jan-1960?

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21916
1
0
None of the above

Answer

Correct Option: C

Question 4

How many variables will be there in the output dataset totmark? Data totmark; Set scores (keep=name mark1 mark2 ); Total = mark1 + mark2; Drop mark1 mark2; Run;

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2
4
5
1

Answer

Correct Option: A

Question 5

How are numeric and character missing values represented internally in SAS?

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numeric will be represented by blank and character will be represented by .
both character and numeric will be represented as blanks
numeric will be represented by . and character will be represented by blank
numeric will be represented by . and character will be represented by NULL values

Answer

Correct Option: C

Question 6

How does the following macros will resolve? What will be the output in log file? %let one=two; %let two=three; %let three=one; %put &one; %put &&one; %put &&&one;

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two, two, one
two, three, one
two, two, three
two, two, two

Answer

Correct Option: C

Question 7

Which date function advances a date, time or date/time value by a given interval?

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INTCK
INTNX
INTCX
INTNK

Answer

Correct Option: B

Question 8

How many observations will be there in the output dataset TEMP? Data temp; Set test (firstobs=50 obs=450); Run;

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450
401
400
500

Answer

Correct Option: B

Question 9

Which of the following can be used to read numeric values that contain numeric values and commas into a SAS dataset?

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comma. informat
dollar. format
comma. format
w.d informat

Answer

Correct Option: A

Question 10

How many observations will be there in the output dataset person? Data person; infile datalines; input name $ dept $ age; if age le 30; datalines; John Sales 38 Mary Brown Acctng 32 Spielberg Manager 28 ;

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2
3
1
0

Answer

Correct Option: A

Question 11

At compile time when an external file is read, what items are created?

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Program data vector (PDV) and Descriptor portion
Input buffer, Program data vector (PDV) and Descriptor portion
Input buffer and Descriptor portion
None of the above

Answer

Correct Option: B

Question 12

What does the line hold specifier single trailing(@) do when used in an input statement?

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holds the input record for the next INPUT statement to read in the same iteration of the DATA step
holds the input record for the next INPUT statement to read across further iterations of the DATA step
holds the input record for the current input statement to read across further iterations of the DATA step
All of the above

Answer

Correct Option: A

Question 13

What is the output of the following sum statement? X1=9, X2=4, X3=1 Z=sum(of X1-X3);

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8
10
14
12

Answer

Correct Option: C

Question 14

What is the use of PUT function in a DATA step?

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converts character to numeric
onverts numeric to character
writes the values to the output file
None of the above

Answer

Correct Option: B

Question 15

Dataset Temp contains 1 observation and 30 variables. Which procedure can be used to convert it into 30 observations with 1 variable in an efficient manner?

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Proc tabulate
Proc report
Proc transpose
Proc Invert

Answer

Correct Option: C

Question 16

I want to create a 2 way cross tabulation frequency based on Country and Sales using FREQ procedure. From the given options pick the correct code?

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Proc freq; Tables country sales; Run;
Proc freq; Table country sales; Run;
Proc freq; Tables country * sales; Run;
Proc freq; Table country * sales; Run;

Answer

Correct Option: C

Question 17

A SAS code has been executed and it has an error on the 10th line of the code. What will be the value of the automatic variable ERROR?

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0
10
1
11

Answer

Correct Option: C

Question 18

Which procedure can be used to see the descriptor portion of a dataset?

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Proc freq
Proc print
Proc datasets
Proc contents

Answer

Correct Option: D

Question 19

What is the length of variable a ? data temp; a=substr('joshi anand',1,3); run;

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3
11
8
200

Answer

Correct Option: B

Question 20

Find out the error in the following code? Libname output_dir “c:\mydocuments\output”; Data output_dir.test; Infile datalines dlm=’,’; Input name $ total; If total > 50; Datalines; Sharma,50 Thiyaga,90 Ashok,60 Run;

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No Errors
Error in the LIBNAME Statement
Error in the Datalines statement
Error in the infile statement

Answer

Correct Option: B

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