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Base SAS Certification Questions Series - Part 4
The Global SAS certification exam is administered by SAS and
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achieve 70% score to pass multiple choice questions in
 110 minutes.
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Q10. The following SAS program is submitted:
Data work.test;
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Author = 'Agatha Christie';
First = substr(scan(Author,1,' '),1 ,1);
Run;

Which one of the following is the length of the variable FIRST in the output data set?

A. 1
B. 6
C. 15
D. 200

Answer of the question is highlighted.

Explanation: 

Here, we need to understand how variables are created in PDV(Program Data Vector). In PDV first
the variables Author will be created with the length of (15 bytes / 15 characters) because of
number of letters between the strings of the assignment statement  Author = 'Agatha Christie';
Since the source variable in the assignment statement  First = substr(scan(Author,1,' '),1 ,1); is Search This Blog
Author, so variable First will have the same length of (15 bytes / 15 characters).  Searc

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Explanation:  SQL in SAS

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Again, in PDV the variable City is created with length of 16 bytes, because the source variable for
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concatenate 'lpswich         ' and 'England'. his/her life time, sometime would
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destination = ‘CPH’;
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      when(’LHR’) city = ‘London’; A tale about  p-value You keep seei
      when(’CPH’) city = ‘Copenhagen’; the term 'p-value' every now and
then, but don't understand what it
    otherwise; really mean...
    end;
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C. Copenhagen Hierarchical Clustering - Usage
D. ‘ ‘(missing character value) Optimization
When should I go for K-Means
Answer of the question is highlighted. Clustering and when for Hierarchica
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of the two i.e. K-Me...
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