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SAS Base Programming Certification Program
The SAS Base Programming Certification (BPC) Program enables you to build your SAS programming skills, giving you the opportunity to earn industry recognition for your knowledge.
The SAS Base Programming Exam tests principles of SAS programming necessary to analyze and present data to solve business problems.
Course Components
This SAS authorized program uses official curriculum and includes:
- 8-evening instructor-led hands-on classes
- An e-learning module for SAS Certification Base Programming, with 180 days license period
- A SAS Base Programming Exam Voucher, valid for one year
Audience
This course is designed for those who want to learn to write SAS programs to accomplish typical data-processing tasks. This course is a prerequisite to many other SAS courses. It combines the ˇ§Programming I: Essentialˇ¨ and the ˇ§Programming II: Manipulating Data with the DATA Stepˇ¨.
Course Content
This course focuses on how to :
- read raw data files and SAS data sets
- write the results to SAS data sets
- investigate and summarize data by generating frequency tables and descriptive statistics
- create SAS data variables and recode data values
- subset data
- combine multiple SAS files
- create listing, summary, HTML, and graph reports.
- read and write different types of data
- summarize data
- perform data manipulation and transformations using SAS functions
- process data iteratively
- use arrays
- understand DATA step processing
- create exception reports
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- read a SAS data set
- read a raw data file
- create a SAS variable through the assignment statement and conditional logic
- investigate and summarize your data
- understand file structures and write system commands to create and access files on your operating system
- use a full-screen text editor
- write DATA and PROC steps
- understand error messages in the SAS log and debug your program
- understand programming logic concepts (IF/THEN logic)
- create a SAS data set from an external file
- use SAS software to access SAS data libraries
- use TITLE statements
- read a SAS data set using a SET statement
- perform a simple merge using a MERGE statement
- use DROP= and KEEP= data set options
- create and use SAS date values
Benefits
This complete package
- supplies you with the tools you'll need to prepare for the SAS Base Programming Certification Exam
- enables you to build your SAS skills to apply in the marketplace, giving you the opportunity to increase your career opportunities and marketability
- enables you to validate your proficiency in SAS programming essentials, data management, and the DATA step.
Pricing
$13,000
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