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

SAS Interview Questions

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what is intially documentation in sas?

Accenture,

1 4959

what is option year cuttoff in sas

L&T,

2 7650

what is treatment emergent events and treatment emregent adverse event

2325

what is lifetest

Cognizant,

1 5056

How to read the file names of a text files from a shared drive using SAS?

HSBC, WNS,

1 5128

hi i date is 05sep2005; i want the oupput like 05sep2005:00:00:00 ; how it wil come?

Accenture,

6 10865

what is cummaltive frequency,and varience in proc unviarte

L&T,

1 5282

differnce between 8.2 and 9.1.3

1 4769

what the use of proc glm

Accenture, C Marc,

1 6809

here is a string like chq.2312244%4452- from that i want only special characters in a column. dont use compress. bcoz i have 1.2 billion of records.i want another process to find the values instant from the data.

Cap Gemini, L&T,

2 7896

WHAT DOES A SAS SPECIFICATION DOCUMENT SDS CONTAIN ?

1 4537

in data set200 observation how to take 110,150,170 using sql procedure?

Accenture,

7 12088

hi all, I need the SAS DI DUMP(A00 260) for attending the certification. if any one have, pls provide it.Please Email to vrpotluri@hotmail.com. Thanks - Ramana

SAS,

5382

Suppose there is a SAS dataset with following values - Parent Child A B B C D E F G G H H I and so on….. This goes onto 1000s of observations/rows. Now how do we identify from this dataset Grandparents and Grandchildrens ?

American Express, Barclays,

5 17141

calculate the sum of value using only DATA STEP. data count_; input year name $ value; cards; 2006 xxx 10 2007 yyy 12 2006 xxx 20 2008 yyy 15 2007 xxx 15 ; out put should be like this year name T_value ----------------------- 2006 xxx 30 2007 xxx 15 2007 yyy 12 2008 xxx 15

6 8214

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Describe a time when you were really stuck on a problem and how you solved it?

2483

what is the different between functions and procs that calculate the same simple descriptive statistics? : Sas programming

994

which date functions advances a date time or date/time value by a given interval? : Sas programming

905

What are the difficulties u faced while doing vital signs table or dataset?

2341

Did you used proc test? when?

1982

What is the difference between the proc sql and data step?

1108

I have a SCD Type 2 Dimention for Location In which A Sales Office in Having two Surrogate Keys just because of the change in it's Sales Group. SKey SalesGroup Sales Office BeginDate EndDate 280 SG1 SO1 01APR2000 01APR2010 281 SG2 SO1 02APR2010 31MAR2999 Now while loading the Fact, the Lookup ir returning SKey 280 for records before and after 01APR2010. I am not able to give WHERE condition in the Lookup Properties (TranDate between BeginDate and EndDate). Please help.

2104

How do you define proc in sas? : sas-grid-administration

1032

what do you mean by data staging area? : Sas-di

1065

What are common programming errors committed in sas

1100

what are the considerations when picking a SAS/STAT procedure?

3327

what are the best practices to process the large data sets in sas programming? : Sas-administrator

962

What is the difference between SAS functions and procedures?

1100

Tell e how how dealt with..

2200

what is SAS OPTIMIZATION?

2237

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