Hi:
The site you posted clearly says that:
"Each chapter includes a quiz on the chapter's contents, and the book includes a free CD-ROM with tutorials, practice data, and sample programs to further reinforce and test your SAS skills."
It says the CD containts tutorials, practice data and sample programs. It does not say that the CD contains a copy of SAS. So if you use the practice data and the sample programs from the CD with your copy of the SAS Learning Edition, then, the 1500 obs limit will apply.
However, I firmly believe that the 1500 obs limit should not be considered an impediment to learning SAS. It is possible to learn the concepts of reading data, writing data, merging data and manipulating data on under 100 observations (even on under 10 observations!). If you are learning grouping, sorting, categorizing and summarizing concepts, than having over 100 obs is useful -- especially if the 100 obs are broken into at least 2 or 3 groups. Hunky statistical analysis (time series, regressions, forecasting, survival analysis, etc) might not do so well with only 100 obs -- but those topics will not be on the Base Certification exam.
cynthia