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Important SAS Interview Questions and Answers

SAS is a leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. The document provides 17 questions that are often asked in SAS interviews, focusing on topics like SAS functions, reading and writing external files, handling missing values, debugging SAS programs, and more. It aims to evaluate a job candidate's experience with and knowledge of the SAS platform.

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Important SAS Interview Questions and Answers

SAS is a leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. The document provides 17 questions that are often asked in SAS interviews, focusing on topics like SAS functions, reading and writing external files, handling missing values, debugging SAS programs, and more. It aims to evaluate a job candidate's experience with and knowledge of the SAS platform.

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SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest

independent vendor in the business intelligence market. SAS helps customers


improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster.

Important SAS Interview Questions and Answers

1. What areas of SAS are you most interested in?


2. Why is SAS considered self-documenting?
3.  Name and describe three SAS functions that you have used, if any?

1. What do the SAS log messages "numeric values have been converted to
character" mean? What are the implications?
2. What SAS statements would you code to read an external raw data file to a
DATA step?
3. If reading a variable length file with fixed input, how would you prevent
SAS from reading the next record if the last variable didn’t have a value?
4. What statement do you code to tell SAS that it is to write to an external
file? What statement do you code to write the record to the file?
5. If you’re not wanting any SAS output from a data step, how would you
code the data statement to prevent SAS from producing a set?
6. Have you ever linked SAS code? If so, describe the link and any required
statements used to either process the code or the step itself. ?
7. If you have a data set that contains 100 variables, but you need only five of
those, what is the code to force SAS to use only those variable?
8. Does SAS ‘Translate’ (compile) or does it ‘Interpret’? Explain.
9. At compile time when a SAS data set is read, what items are created?
10. Briefly describe 5 ways to do a "table lookup" in SAS.
11. What versions of SAS have you used (on which platforms)?
12. What are some good SAS programming practices for processing very
large data sets?
13. What are some problems you might encounter in processing missing
values? In Data steps? Arithmetic? Comparisons? Functions? Classifying
data?
14. What is the order of application for output data set options, input
data set options and SAS statements?
15. How do you debug and test your SAS programs?
16. What can you learn from the SAS log when debugging?
17. Have you ever used the SAS Debugger?
18. What SAS features do you use for error trapping and data validation?
19. How does SAS handle missing values in: assignment statements,
functions, a merge, an update, sort order, formats, PROCs?

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