https://www.sas.com/en_us/certification/credentials/foundation-tools/base-programming-specialist.html has a lot of information. On SAS Partnernet you can find certification information for Partners. Go to Training > SAS Programming (just scroll down to get to the link) ... View more

The SAS code you write will be the same on the Mainframe when compared to SAS studio, for an introductory course such as the one you are attempting.   Any differences in more advanced work requiring knowledge of EBCDIC (Mainframe) vs ASCII (non-Mainframe) will be something you can look up when you become more experienced.   How to submit the code might be a bit different, but that only needs to be learnt once, the SAS syntax is the important thing at this stage, which is the same across platforms.     Amir. ... View more

Are you registered for the course via your work or elsewhere? If you've purchased the course you should be able to access it via SAS Academics on Demand which will allow you to use EG.   Otherwise, there is no free version of EG. If you want to learn SAS programming, which will work inside EG anyways, the free e-course is also available.   @andreas_lds wrote: SAS University Edition and SAS Enterprise Guide are different products. I don't think, that you can get a licence for SAS EG for free, but i am sure someone will correct me, if this is wrong.   ... View more