SAS Certification Prep Guide: Base Programming for SAS 9, Third Edition

Book Preface

Audience

The SAS Certification Prep Guide: Base Programming for SAS®9 is for new or experienced SAS programmers who want to prepare for the SAS Base Programming for SAS®9 exam.

Requirements and Details

Purpose

The SAS Certification Prep Guide: Base Programming for SAS®9 helps prepare you to take the SAS Base Programming for SAS®9 exam. The book covers the objectives tested on the exam, including basic concepts, producing reports, creating and modifying SAS data sets, and reading various types of raw data. Before attempting the exam you should also have experience programming in the SAS®9 environment. The book includes quizzes that enable you to test your understanding of material in each chapter. Additionally, solutions to all quizzes are included at the back of the book.
Programming Environments

This book assumes you are running Base SAS or SAS Enterprise Guide software in the windowing environment. You will learn how to write and manage your SAS programs in either the SAS windowing environment workspace or in the SAS Enterprise Guide workspace. If you are not sure which programming workspace you are using, select Help→About from the SAS software main menu. If you are using SAS Enterprise Guide, the About window displays the name “Enterprise Guide.” If you are using the SAS windowing environment, the About window displays the name “SAS for Windows.” Because the two programming workspaces differ, you will occasionally see notes in this book that provide information specific to either SAS Enterprise Guide or to the SAS windowing environment.