SAS Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

SAS Interview Questions

Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What would you change about your job?

Oracle,

2388

What SAS statements would you code to read an external raw data file to a DATA step?

NIIT,

10 28127

How do you read in the variables that you need?

5 10185

Are you familiar with special input delimiters How are they used?

3 16620

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?

6 17442

What is the difference between an informat and a format. Name three informats or formats.

6 53186

Name and describe three SAS functions that you have used, if any?

2 7981

How would you code the criteria to restrict the output to be produced?

9 21481

What is the purpose of the trailing and How would you use them?

8 21154

Under what circumstances would you code a SELECT construct instead of IF statements?

4 15634

What statement do you code to tell SAS that it is to write to an external file?

5 15405

What statement do you code to write the record to the file?

5 11621

If reading an external file to produce an external file, what is the shortcut to write that record without coding every single variable on the record?

4 8595

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?

1 6036

What is the one statement to set the criteria of data that can be coded in any step?

4 16463

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What is the use of stop statement?

1082

I have a dataset concat having a variable a b & c. How to rename a b to e & f?

1285

How might you use MOD and INT on numeric to mimic SUBSTR on character Strings?

1372

Describe the ways in which you can create macro variables? : sas-macro

1067

what has been your most common programming mistake? : Sas programming

1106

what techniques and/or procs do you use for tables? : Sas programming

1066

What is a macro routine?

2723

What is the difference between %local and %global? : sas-macro

1189

name some data transformation used in sas di? : Sas-di

972

What is the basic syntax of a sas program?

1205

what is slowly changing dimension? : Sas-di

1128

Explain the special input delimiters used in sas programming.

1008

What does the RUN statement do?

1304

Describe the function and utility of the most difficult SAS macro that you have written?

2567

What are the new features included in the new version of SAS Programming Language?

1209

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