SAS Quizzes, Questions & Answers

Statistical Analysis System’s aren't just for sports fans and politics. Statistical Analysis is the science of exploring, collecting, and presenting big amounts of data to discover underlying trends and patterns. Statistics touch almost every area of our lives. If you’re a statistician or just a big fan of numbers and interesting information, these quizzes are right up your alley.

What’s something communication companies use statistics for? How can researchers keep children healthy by using statistics? Can you identify a traditional method of statistical analysis? What is the purpose of econometrics? What is matrix programming? Get to know the world around you a little better by taking these quizzes on SAS today!

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SAS Chapter 1 Basic Concepts

Practice preparing for the SAS certification test.

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 1716 | Last updated: Jun 17, 2024

Sample Question
How many observations and variables does the data set below contain?

3 observations, 4 variables

3 observations, 3 variables

4 observations, 2 variables

Can't tell because some values are missing

Advance SAS Certification Quiz

Practice for the Advance SAS certification exam.

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 391 | Last updated: Mar 20, 2023

Sample Question
Which PROC SQL query will remove duplicate values of MemberType from the query output, so that only the unique values are listed?

Proc sql nodup; select membertype from sasuser.frequentflyers;

Proc sql; select distinct(membertype) as MemberType from sasuser.frequentflyers;

Proc sql; select unique membertype from sasuser.frequentflyers group by member type;

Proc sql; select distinct membertype from sasuser.frequentflyers;

SAS Chapter 9: Introducing Macro Variables

Practice for the SAS advance certification exam

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 714 | Last updated: Jan 30, 2024

Sample Question
Which of the following statements is false?

A macro variable can be defined and referenced anywhere in a SAS program except within data lines.

Macro variables are always user-defined, and their values remain constant until they are changed by the user.

Macro variables are text strings that are independent of SAS data sets.

The values of macro variables can be up to 65,534 characters long.

SAS Chapter 16 Processing Variables With Arrays

Practice for the SAS base certification exam

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 625 | Last updated: Mar 20, 2023

Sample Question
Which statement is false regarding an ARRAY statement?

It is an executable statement

It can be used to create variables

It must contain either all numeric or all character elements

It must be used to define an array before the array name can be referenced.

SAS Chapter 17: Formatting Data

Practice for the advance SAS certification exam

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 246 | Last updated: Mar 20, 2023

Sample Question
Which SAS system option is used to identify format catalogs to SAS?

FMTERR

FMTLIB

NOFMTERR

FMTSEARCH=

Recent Quizzes

SAS Quiz(100% New And Real Time Questions)

SAS QUIZ(100% NEW AND REAL TIME QUESTIONS)

Questions: 20 | Attempts: 464 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2023

Sample Question
The following SAS program is submitted.%let city=delhi;%let no=9;%let mycity=no;%let country=mycity;%put &&&&&&&country;What is written to the SAS log?

Delhi

Apparent symbol is not resolved

Mycity

9

SAS Admin Trivia Quiz

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 310 | Last updated: Mar 21, 2023

Sample Question
I can get templates of the imports and exports for clients on the Deployment Toolkit?

True

False

SAS Chapter 22: Using Best Practices

In our ongoing SAS quiz series, we turn our attention to the different practices and which is the best to use in a given situation. What do you know about IF statements, PROC DATASETS, WHERE statements and more?

Questions: 5 | Attempts: 104 | Last updated: Dec 6, 2023

Sample Question
Placing the subsetting IF statement at the top rather than near the bottom of a DATA step results in a savings in CPU usage. What happens if the subset is large rather than small?

The savings in CPU usage increases as the subset grows larger because the I/O increases.

The savings in CPU usage decreases as the subset grows larger. However, placing the subsetting IF statement at the top of a DATA step always uses fewer resources than placing it at the bottom.

The savings in CPU usage remains constant as the subset grows larger. However, placing the subsetting IF statement near the bottom of a data set is preferable.

The savings in CPU usage decreases as the subset grows larger. However, placing the subsetting IF statement near the bottom of a data set increases the I/O.

SAS Chapter 18: Modifying SAS Data Sets And Tracking Changes

SAS Chapter 18: Modifying SAS Data Sets and Tracking Changes

Practice for the SAS advance certification exam

Questions: 10 | Attempts: 126 | Last updated: Jul 24, 2024

Sample Question
Which type of integrity constraint would you place on the variable StoreID to ensure that there are no missing values and that there are no duplicate values?

UNIQUE

CHECK

PRIMARY KEY

NOT NULL

SAS Chapter 15: Combining Data Horizontally