Hi, on page 85 of the official SAS specialist prep guide, there is an example showing us how to use firstops and obs option in the proc print step that will override the system options.  There are only 20 observations in heart file. So when they use firstobs=20 obs=30, only one observation is produced, is that a typo because they said to produce the same output (6 observations) or am I misunderstanding the intention of the author?   heart.sas7dbat attached if you want to have a look at the file.       ... View more

Hi, I am reading the official SAS Specialist prep guide, on page 69, talking about error caused by unbalanced quotation marks, there is a tip saying Both SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS Studio add a final line of code to stop unbalanced quotation marks. What does that even mean? I ran the code in SAS studio, nothing happened, no log or output.   is it something to do with the last paragraph saying that submitting a line so that I do not have to manually cancel in SAS studio or SAS EG compared to other SAS apps?   ... View more

Hi, In the official SAS specialist prep guide, page 46 on reading a SAS data set to create another data set, here is the screenshot.     I do understand the purpose of line 2 is to create a library where I can store the MALES dataset. However, there is no file or folder called "Men50" in the   'C:\Users\Student1\cert\' directory.  The book does NOT tell us to create a folder called "Men50" before you use LIBNAME statement to reference it.   So when I ran the code, I got an error even though I can see that MEN50 library was successfully created by SAS. So my question is, we always need to create the folder or make sure it exist in the physical file path before using LIBNAME to create a library for it?       ... View more