Hello,
Am planning to attend SAS Platform Administration Certification Exam. Do you guys think that "SAS® 9.4 Intelligence Platform: System Administration Guide" is enough to get me pass? Or do I need to go through other stuff too. Please suggest if anyone already appeared for this certification.
Your response is highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Mike
Hi Mike,
As stated on the SAS Administration certification page, the skills and knowledge that are assessed are that successful candidates should be able to
Furthermore, a suggested pre-requisite for the certification is the completion of the SAS Platform Administration Fast Track course and the course outline is described as:
Reviewing the Platform for SAS Business Analytics
Understanding SAS Metadata and the Metadata Server
Understanding Initial Authentication and Administering Users, Groups, and Roles
Securing Metadata
Establishing Connectivity to Data Sources
Monitoring the SAS Environment with SAS Environment Manager
Managing SAS Compute Servers and Spawners
Exploring SAS Middle Tier
Exploring Ongoing Administration Tasks
The manual you refer to "SAS® 9.4 Intelligence Platform: System Administration Guide" only covers a small portion of what is assessed.
You may find this blog post as a useful guide to SAS Platform Admin Certification https://platformadmin.com/blogs/paul/2012/07/getting-certified/
All the best in your preparation.
Kind Regards,
Michelle
Hi Mike,
As stated on the SAS Administration certification page, the skills and knowledge that are assessed are that successful candidates should be able to
Furthermore, a suggested pre-requisite for the certification is the completion of the SAS Platform Administration Fast Track course and the course outline is described as:
Reviewing the Platform for SAS Business Analytics
Understanding SAS Metadata and the Metadata Server
Understanding Initial Authentication and Administering Users, Groups, and Roles
Securing Metadata
Establishing Connectivity to Data Sources
Monitoring the SAS Environment with SAS Environment Manager
Managing SAS Compute Servers and Spawners
Exploring SAS Middle Tier
Exploring Ongoing Administration Tasks
The manual you refer to "SAS® 9.4 Intelligence Platform: System Administration Guide" only covers a small portion of what is assessed.
You may find this blog post as a useful guide to SAS Platform Admin Certification https://platformadmin.com/blogs/paul/2012/07/getting-certified/
All the best in your preparation.
Kind Regards,
Michelle
G'day Michelle:
This is Tony Nuntasiri from Amerihealth Caritas. I'm planning on taking the SAS Platform Admin Certification exam in Dec.
I was wondering if you can direct me to where I can find practice exams. On SAS website it only has 9 sample questons.
thank you
Hi Tony,
Nice to hear from you! I am not aware of any practice exam book, perhaps someone from SAS education could confirm. My advice would be to either attend the SAS Platform Administration Fast Track course as outlined above or see if you can purchase the course notes. The course in conjunction with the SAS manuals are great preparation material.
Kind Regards,
Michelle
Hi Michelle,
You're FAST ! 🙂
Thank you for your respnse. I'm taking the SAS Platfrom Admin Fast Track course this week to get prepared 🙂
Hope you're doing well
No problem Tony... you caught me when I was online.
Enjoy the course!
Kind Regards,
Michelle
Does this exam has changed the syllabus? SAS Platform admin certification questions and answers can help me to crack the exam.
I wouldn't think it has changed since the post last year. Refer to the links in the post for the certification exam topics and also the SAS Platform Administration Fast Track course.
Kind Regards,
Michelle
Thank you so much for your post..and Great Ans..
I am taking the SAS Platfrom Admin course this week to get prepared.
Great to see the thread has helped you @juliet_scott. Hope you are enjoying the SAS Platform Admin course and all the best for your exam!
Yes, Michelle is correct. The SAS Platform Administration Fast Track course notes can be purchased as a prep guide. And all other resources are excellent. And If you are going only on the SAS Administration documentation, you would also want to review the Security Administration guide as well. Since the exam is updated to SAS 9.4 platform, be aware that this means the middle tier is a part of the SAS platform environment with some questions on it, as well as a few questions on finding SAS resources in the SAS Environment Manager web application, a new administrator tool in SAS 9.4.
Good luck!
Sheila
Sheila,
Thank you so much for your post. I scheduled my exam for Dec.
Tony
Whilst not a replacement for study materials, there is a growing number of SAS Admin questions available under the 'SAS Admin' tag on https://sasensei.com - which will help to gauge one's subject knowledge!
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