Beginner's SAS Quiz

Beginner’s SAS Quiz is for freshers or those who have started learning SAS. This SAS Quiz has multiple-choice questions (MCQs), which will test your basic understanding of the SAS programming language. Try your knowledge on our SAS quiz. There are 8 questions, and you need to score 80% to pass this quiz. You have a total of 160 seconds to complete the quiz which is 20 seconds for each question. So, answer these randomly chosen SAS questions as soon as possible because time is running out.

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1 / 8

Which of the following is not true of SAS date values?

They represent the number of days between the day is stored and a base date.

The base date is January 1, 1900.

They are numeric.

They can be positive of negative values.

2 / 8

In which portion of a SAS data set is the following found?

The name of the data set.
The type of the variable salary.
The creation date of the data set.

Data portion

Descriptor portion

3 / 8

A missing value in SAS should be coded as:

a colon (:)

a semi-colon (;)

a dollar sign ($)

a period (.)

4 / 8

A numeric variable can store numeric values with a maximum of eight digits.

False

True

5 / 8

Suppose you run a program that causes three DATA step errors. What is the value of the automatic variable _ERROR_ when the observation that contains the third error is processed?

6 / 8

What is the SAS function for calculating the mean?

MEDIAN

MODE

SUM

MEAN

7 / 8

At the beginning of the execution phase, the value of _N_ is 1, the value of _ERROR_ is o, and the value variables are set to:

undefined

missing

8 / 8

Which statement about SAS libraries is true?

You refer to a SAS library by a logical name called a libname.

A SAS library is a collection of one or more SAS files that are referenced and stored as a unit.

At the end of each session, SAS deletes the contents of all SAS libraries.

A single SAS library can contain files that are stored in different physical locations.

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Pos.	Name	Score	Duration	Points
1	s	100 %	27 seconds	5
2	saya	80 %	1 minutes 8 seconds	4
3	sneha	75.5 %	2 minutes 24 seconds	4.5
4	Gora	57 %	13 minutes 43 seconds	4
5	Prakash Kumar	43 %	1 minutes 6 seconds	3

Pos.	Name	Score	Duration	Points
1	s	100 %	27 seconds	5
2	saya	80 %	1 minutes 8 seconds	4
3	sneha	75.5 %	2 minutes 24 seconds	4.5
4	Gora	57 %	13 minutes 43 seconds	4
5	Prakash Kumar	43 %	1 minutes 6 seconds	3

SAS Quiz for Beginners

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