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

SAS Interview Questions

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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?

4 15819

How would you include common or reuse code to be processed along with your statements?

PSCI,

5 14789

When looking for data contained in a character string of 150 bytes, which function is the best to locate that data: scan, index, or indexc?

7 19466

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?

16 20191

Code a PROC SORT on a data set containing State, District and County as the primary variables, along with several numeric variables?

3 7841

How would you delete duplicate observations?

9 20351

How would you delete observations with duplicate keys?

6 11930

How would you code a merge that will keep only the observations that have matches from both sets?

5 11729

How would you code a merge that will write the matches of both to one data set, the non-matches from the left-most data set to a second data set, and the non-matches of the right-most data set to a third data set?

2 9706

What is the Program Data Vector (PDV) and What are its functions?

9 17210

Does SAS ?Translate? (compile) or does it ?Interpret?? Explain.

10 24751

At compile time when a SAS data set is read, what items are created?

5 10494

Name statements that are recognized at compile time only?

6 20023

Identify statements whose placement in the DATA step is critical?

11 24662

Name statements that function at both compile and execution time?

1 7059

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Explain the main difference between the sas procedures and functions? : Sas-administrator

1026

How would you include common or reuse to be processed along with your statements?

2328

What are the best sas programming practices for handling very large datasets? : sas-grid-administration

977

How to include or exclude specific variables in a data set?

1077

How would you determine the number of missing or nonmissing values in computations?

1022

Explain append procedure?

1032

what does the run statement do? : Sas programming

1002

Explain input and put function?

1096

How do you debug and test your SAS programs?

1514

How do you use the do loop if you don’t know how many times you should execute the do loop?

1226

I need level 2 to 5 sas using companies in india

2338

Describe the function and untility of the most difficult SAS macro that you have written.

2061

Assuming {et} is randomly drawn from N(0,1) and e0 = 0, generate 200 observations of xt = et − 0.5e(t−1) and draw a line graph of xt.

1847

What are the applications primarily used by business analyst? : Sas-bi

950

How long can a macro variable be? A token? : sas-macro

1163

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