Hello,   I work in SAS Global Certification.  The post is correct that you must hold must have a SAS Certified Base Programming for SAS®9 exam credential and then take and pass the SAS Advanced Programming for SAS®9 exam.  You can take the exam out of sequence and take the Advanced Programming exam first but you will not receive credit for that credential until you take and pass the Base Programming for SAS 9 exam.     Hope this helps to clarify.     ... View more

Hello,  I would like to address your questions.  You can take the Clinical Trials Programmer without having the BASE certification.  If you were to choose to take the Accelerated version of the Clinical Trials Programmer exam, then you would be required to hold a BASE certification.  For the other exams you mentioned,  those do not require that you hold a BASE certification.  The exam in our portfolio that does require that you hold a BASE certification is our ADVANCED Programmer exam.  You must hold a BASE certification in order to receive credit for the ADVANCED Programmer.  As mentioned,  you must have a current BASE Programmer credential in order to take that Accelerated Clinical Trials Programmer exam.    The Clinical Trials Programming credential covers some of the content that is covered on the BASE Programmer but not all of it and the focus of the questions is on the subject matter of clinical trials.  For many of our credentials, it does help for you to have a solid foundation in BASE programming, we just don't require the BASE Programmer as a hard prerequisite, except for the two exams mentioned.    I would suggest that you check out our certification web site for complete information about all of our exams.  We provide a tremendous amount of detailed information on what is covered on our exams and we also provide good preparation information.    Best of luck to you!    Becky Gray ... View more

Hello,   Michelle Homes is correct.  You should steer clear of the dump sites as a strategy to prepare for the SAS Visual Business Analyst.  Instead,  I encourage you to visit the SAS Global Certification web site to get the latest and most up to date information for this exam. Go to:  SAS Visual Business Analyst   On this page you will be able to download the Exam Content Guide which provides you with all the testing objectives for the exam.  This should help guide your studies.  We also provide some sample exam items.  Finally, the recommended training information is also provided.  From our training site you can also look at a variety of free tutorials and visual analytics is a topic covered by a number of these tutorials.    Hope this information is helpful to you.  PLEASE steer clear of the dump sites!  As my article states:   DON'T:   Post or provide links to unauthorized exam content or materials that could be used to gain pre-knowledge of, or answer, exam questions (this includes posting brain-dump material or any unauthorized publication, copy or representation of exam questions with or without answers). PLEASE NOTE: Engaging in any of these activities violates SAS Global Certification’s exam policies.   Best of luck to you in your studies.     ... View more