A00-215 Exam Dumps - SAS Certified Associate: Programming Fundamentals Using SAS 9.4

The PROC SORT statement that specifies the sort variable is: BY

The BY statement in PROC SORT is used to specify the variable(s) by which the data should be sorted.

The error messages in the SAS log indicate issues with the treatment of text as a character string. In SAS, character strings must be enclosed in quotation marks. The log shows that 'ABC Inc.' is treated as if it is a variable or an expression, which is causing a syntax error. Enclosing 'ABC Inc.' in quotation marks will correctly identify it as a character string. Therefore, Option B is the correct action to resolve the error messages. This error is evident as the log indicates it was expecting an arithmetic operator, which suggests that the text was misinterpreted as part of an expression.

References:

• SAS documentation on character strings and data step options, SAS Institute.

The resulting WORK.REVENUE data set contains 3 variables. In the provided SAS program, the set statement uses a (keep=) option to keep only 3 variables from WORK.PRODUCTS, which are ProdId, Price, and Sales. The drop= data set option in the data statement specifies to drop the Sales and Returns variables from the output data set. However, Returns was not included in the keep= option, so it won't be part of WORK.REVENUE to begin with. Finally, a new variable Revenue is calculated and included in the data set. Therefore, the final data set contains the variables ProdId, Price, and Revenue.

References:

• SAS documentation on keep= and drop= data set options.

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In SAS, the automatic variable _N_ represents the number of times the DATA step has iterated. It starts at 1 and increments by 1 each time the DATA step loops back to the top. This variable can be used within the DATA step to monitor the iteration count but is not written to the output data set. The other options, A, C, and D, are not automatically created variables that track iterations in the DATA step.

References:

• SAS documentation on automatic variables.

The correct answer is A: Ods excel='c:\report.xlsx' style=analysis;. This syntax is correct for the ODS EXCEL statement in SAS, where you specify the path and filename, followed by the 'style' option to apply a specific style template to the output Excel file. The 'style=analysis' is used to set the output appearance according to the 'ANALYSIS' style template provided by SAS. Option B is syntactically incorrect and does not use the 'style' option correctly. Option C incorrectly places a slash which is not syntactically valid in this context, and Option D misses the equals sign and quotes which are necessary for correct syntax in SAS.References:

• SAS documentation on ODS EXCEL statement: SAS Support: ODS EXCEL Statement