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Base SAS Certification Questions Series - Part 5
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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Q13. A raw data record is shown below:

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07Jan2002

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Which one of the following in formats would read this value and store it as a SAS date value?

A. date9.
B. dmonyy9.
C. ddmmmyy9.
D. ddmmmyyyy9.

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Explanation: 

Date9. is the informat used to read this non-standard data (07Jan2002) into a number 15347 (that
is number of days past from the Base date 01Jan1960).

Q14. The following SAS program is submitted:

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date = mdy(mon,day,year); run;
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