Dear Sas folks,
I am preparing for SAS advanced exam. In my preparation i viewed some online questions. Some of these questions i could not relate to the Sas advanced prep guide.
The questions related to topics as:
- ranuni (seed)
- proc sort nodup
- groupformat
- sortedby
My question is: Can i expect questions like this on the exam? Or are these outdated questions?
Or to put my question differently: Are all exam questions solely based on the most recent version of the prep guide?
Thanking you in advance,
Kind regards,
Unito
In my opinion, and I don't have my Advanced Certification, some of those are covered or would be part of Base Certification, specifically the SORT options.
- ranuni (seed) -> Probably advanced, but in general is a function and an advanced programmer should know the family of functions even if it's not covered.
- proc sort nodup -> Base
- groupformat -> I don't know what you mean by this
- sortedby -> Base
Thanks @Reezaand @Cynthia_sas ! After i take the exam i will post my own experiences here.
b.t.w. groupformat is an option you can use in reports to group by the formatted values.
Update 20-7-2017: Passed my exam with a good score. The examples i mentioned did not appear at the exam. I suspect they were present in the previous version of the prep guide and are no longer exam material. Btw. The exam was hard and all questions were new to me.
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