Hi:
I'm not sure what you're asking about when you ask about a Data Science "course" -- because we have a SAS Academy for Data Science program that is composed of multiple levels and each level is composed of multiple courses. Here's brief explanation with some links for further investigation.
The SAS Academy for Data Science is a multi-level, multi-course program. In order to earn the certification credential, each candidate must pass 4 exams based on the work in 2 different program levels.
All candidates must compete the Data Curation level and then each candidate can choose their Analytic level:
1) Data Curation Professional program: for this level, you study SAS topics for data curation techniques, including big data preparation with Hadoop. There is one exam to earn this credential.
2) Analytic program:
2a) Advanced Analytics Professional program: for this level, you study predictive modeling, text analytics, experimentation and optimization techniques using SAS/STAT, SAS/ETS, SAS Enterprise Miner and SAS Text Miner components.
OR
2b) AI & Machine Learning program: for this level, you learn to apply AI and machine learning techniques with SAS Viya to understand each step of the analytical life cycle. There are 3 exams to earn this credential.
The SAS Academy for Data Science information page is here https://www.sas.com/en_us/training/academy-data-science/data-science-certification.html . You will see 3 different levels available for purchase on this page:
-- 1) Data Curation level: This level is composed of 4 classes and you must take and pass 1 exam to earn this credential. Here are the details: https://www.sas.com/en_us/training/academy-data-science/data-curation-certification.html .
-- 2a) Advanced Analytics Professional level: This level is composed of 9 classes and you must take and pass 3 exams to earn this credential. Here are the details: https://www.sas.com/en_us/training/academy-data-science/advanced-analytics-certification.html .
-- 2b) AI & Machine Learning level: This level is composed of 5 classes and you must take and pass 3 exams to earn this credential. Here are the details: https://www.sas.com/en_us/training/academy-data-science/ai-machine-learning-certification.html .
Candidates purchase each program level separately. They may purchase the packages in any order, however, they must take and pass all 4 exams (Data Curation exam + 3 Analytic exams) in order to be awarded the Data Scientist credential.
The SAS Academy for Data Science is available in self-paced e-learning format, which is a combination of pre-recorded lectures and demo videos, along with Virtual Lab software access, practice exercises and case studies. In addition exam vouchers are provided for each program level. All of your software access for the SAS Academy classes is available in our Virtual Lab. That means you will need to have an Internet connection to do your practices.
We do have a free trial for the SAS Academy for Data Science. Here is the link to the Free Trial for the SAS Academy for Data Science: https://www.sas.com/en_us/training/academy-data-science/trial.html , so you can review the content to give you an idea of the level of difficulty in the program classes.
Hope this helps,
Cynthia
