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Base SAS Certification Questions Series - Part 1
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.
We are starting a series of articles to help you prepare for this
examination. Covering a few questions in first article of the series
along with their explanation.
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Q1. The following SAS program is submitted:

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JobCategory = 'FA';
JobLevel = '1'; Be the first of your friends to like this
Jobcategory =    Jobcategory || JobLevel ;
run;

Which one of the following is the value of the variable Jobcategory in the output data set?

A. FA
B. FA1
C. FA 1
D. ' ' (missing character value)

Answer of the question is highlighted.

Explanation: 

In PDV(Program Data Vector) first the variables Jobcategory will be created with the length of (2
bytes / 2 characters) executing first statement (JobCategory = ‘FA’).

So, the length of variable Jobcategory  will remain the same within this data step.  So even when
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the third statement is concatenating the "FA" and "1" values, the variable Jobcategory  can't
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