topic Re: Copy and Paste/Right Click Disabled in SAS Exam in SAS Certification

Copy and Paste/Right Click Disabled in SAS Exam

ABL1 — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 06:15:13 GMT

Please why is copy and paste disabled in the SAS Studio exam environment? I did my SAS Base 9.4 programming exam yesterday and to my greatest surprise I could not copy and paste using either right click or CTRL C and V. I experienced the same thing when I did my SAS Predictive Analytics Exam using Enterprise Miner. However that wasn't much of a problem because there were other options. It's critical with the performance based SAS programming exam though, because I had to keep typing new code for each question instead of copying and editing my code. That was really time consuming. I have experienced this in two different exam centres.

Re: Copy and Paste/Right Click Disabled in SAS Exam

ChrisNZ — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 21:13:41 GMT

I didn't know that.

@ChrisHemedinger Do you know who looks after exams? At least this restriction should be made clearer before the exam?

Re: Copy and Paste/Right Click Disabled in SAS Exam

Mark2010 — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 13:05:44 GMT

Hi @ABL1 CTRL+C/V is disabled for all deliveries of the exam (PVTC or OnVUE) for security reasons. In Pearson Test Centers (not remote proctoring/OnVUE), right clicking is disabled globally for all exam deliveries for all test sponsor as part of their security infrastructure. We have asked Pearson to remove this restriction for lab exams and they are investigating the possibility of doing so.

The time allowed for the exam was established based on candidates writing all of the code from scratch.

If you wanted, you could save a finished program as a new program (say, save your completed program01.sas as program02.sas, then edit program02.sas).

Re: Copy and Paste/Right Click Disabled in SAS Exam

ABL1 — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 14:05:20 GMT

Thanks for the feedback Mark. I did exactly as you suggested. However, that still cost me some time and did not offer the flexibility of copy and paste whenever required. I think the important thing here is that candidates should know that the feature is restricted before hand to be better prepared. It wasn't a nice experience at all finding out during the exam.