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Base SAS Certification Questions Series - Part 3
The Global SAS certification exam is administered by SAS and
Pearson VUE together. There are 60-65 multiple choice
questions in Base SAS certification exam and candidate must
achieve 70% score to pass multiple choice questions in
 110 minutes.
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Q6. The Banks data set has six observations when the following SAS program
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data Allobs;
set Banks;
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do year = 2000 to 2020 by 5;
capital + ((capital+2000) * rate);
output;
end;
run;
How many observations will the Allobs data set contain?

A. 5
B. 15
C. 25
D. 30

Answer of the question is highlighted.

Explanation: 

Here the source dataset "Banks" contains 6 observations and Do Loop will go in 5 iterations (2000,
2005, 2010, 2015, 2020) for each observation and thus creates a total of 30(6*5) observations. Search This Blog

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Explanation: 

DO WHILE statement executes a DO loop while the expression is true. In this case, Do while will
iterate 6 times till N reaches 6 and without output statement N will hold only the value of the
last iteration and that is 6.

For better explanation try following code with output statement. 

Data work.pieces;
do while (n lt 6);
n + 1; 
output;
end;
run;

Here, the DS dataset will have one variable N with 6 observations.

Q9. The following SAS program is submitted:

Data work.sales;
 do year = 1 to 5;
    do month = 1 to 12;
    x+ 1;
    output;
    end;
 end;
run;

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Which one of the following represents how many observations are written to the WORK.SALES
data set?

A. 0
B. 1
C. 5
D. 60

Answer of the question is highlighted.

Explanation: 

Now we have a classic example of nested looping (loop inside a loop). First outer loop of year will
go in 5 iterations. The second inner loop of month will go for 12 iterations for each of the 5 years
thus making it total of 60 iterations and thus dataset will hold 60 observations.
Example 1: Try the above code without any output statement.

Data work.sales1;
 do year = 1 to 5;
    do month = 1 to 12;
    x+ 1;
    end;
 end;
run;

Here, There will be only one observation in the dataset WORK.SALES.

Example 2: Try the above code with two output statements.

Data work.sales2;
 do year = 1 to 5;
    do month = 1 to 12;
    x+ 1;
    output;
    end;
 output;
 end;
run;

Here, There will be 65 observation in the dataset WORK.SALES.

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abhishek singh 1 year ago  -  Shared publicly

 Hello Rajat Sir,

Excellent explanations for all the question. Need to add more stuff.

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Suman Paudel 1 year ago  -  Shared publicly

 
Hello Analytics Team,
I am preparing for base SAS Certi cation, your articles helps me a lot for my preparation.Thanks
a lot for your great effort.
In exam few question about how many observations/variables. I am still confuse and not clear
about those type of questions. Please try to publish articles about , how to resolve and gure out

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