SAS Base Question #84

[jc3992]

data work.roth_ira; start = 1000;
do year = 1 to 30; savings + 5000;
do month = 1 to 12;
int = savings * (.05/12);
savings + int; end;
output;

84. How many variables/observations will come from the below program? Thank you!

[novinosrin]

30 & 5?

If I'm  wrong, i blame it on being tipsy

[Reeza]

Technically it's incomplete and would error out.

[novinosrin]

Btw #84 , where did you get this from?

[jc3992]

I forgot. Maybe the 95 former questions I guess

[Reeza]

Those type of questions are usually from a test dump. The exams have been recently redesigned though and I don't think the old materials will supply coverage for the current exams. 

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@novinosrin wrote:

Btw #84 , where did you get this from?

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[novinosrin]

Thank you @Reeza,So are you sure no more dumps circling around. True merit system has been restored or put into effect.

Ok some relevant fun or laughter 

Paul M. Dorfman

Paul M. Dorfman  

I've met some Advanced Certified folks who would ask questions like how to reorder variables in a SAS data set or seek help with "proc MERGE" ;). Go figure...

Naveen Srinivasan

Naveen Srinivasan  

That's hilarious 🙂

EDIT: I assumed dumps meaning leaked questions, but if the meaning is something to do with practice papers, I beg  pardon 

[Reeza]

Oh there are a lot more dumps circling around, but they're no long as useful. It will be a while again before they are but it's why I test candidates for skills. And I've also had the same response as PMD after hiring...fortunately that was not my responsibility at the time.

[VDD · Accepted solution]

the code @jc3992 has is incorrect;

you have unclosed do block.

if the code was as this

data work.roth_ira; 
start = 1000;
do year = 1 to 30; savings + 5000;
do month = 1 to 12;
int = savings * (.05/12);
savings + int; 
end;
output;
end;
run;

there would be 30 output records

if the code had the end to the do loop before the output like this

data work.roth_ira; 
start = 1000;
do year = 1 to 30; savings + 5000;
do month = 1 to 12;
int = savings * (.05/12);
savings + int; 
end;
end;
output;
run;

there would be 1 record output

[ballardw]

Run the code and see.

Bonus points for seeing the syntax errors before running the code. (especially with a poor code layout style)

And actually without seeing the end of a data step one could make an argument for "can't tell" as there could be more code before a not-shown run statement that affects the number of variables.