SAS Institute A00-215 Dumps Questions Answers

The PROC PRINT statement is used for printing SAS datasets. To customize the column headers in the report, you use the label statement within the PROC PRINT procedure to assign new labels to variables, and the label option in the PROC PRINT to activate these labels. The noobs option suppresses the printing of observation numbers in the report.

Option B has the correct syntax for what is being requested:

• proc print data=cities label noobs; specifies the dataset to print with the label option to display variable labels and noobs to hide the observation numbers.
• label Name='Employee Name' City='Birth City'; assigns the label 'Employee Name' to the 'Name' variable and 'Birth City' to the 'City' variable.
• run; signifies the end of the PROC PRINT procedure.

Options A, C, and D are incorrect due to syntax errors:

• A uses an incorrect option showlabelse instead of label and noobs.
• C is incorrect because it lacks the label option in the proc print statement which is necessary to actually display the labels, and the labels are being incorrectly used within the proc print instead of in a label statement.
• D has several issues: there is no display statement in SAS, the option noobs should be outside of the proc print statement, and the labels should be defined in a label statement, not within proc print.

References:

• SAS 9.4 documentation for the PROC PRINT statement: SAS Help Center: PROC PRINT

The correct answer is C. The DATA step and PROC PRINT steps ran without errors. In the SAS log shown, there is a clear error in the PROC SORT step because of the use of an incorrect option by ascending Increase which caused the "Variable ASCENDING not found" error. However, the DATA step completed successfully, as indicated by the "NOTE" that follows it, confirming that 56 observations were read from the SASHELP.SHOES data set where Region is Africa. Additionally, the PROC PRINT step also completed successfully, indicated by the "NOTE" at the bottom of the log which confirms that 56 observations were read from the WORK.AFRICA data set, implying the PROC PRINT step executed without issue.

A is incorrect because the error in PROC SORT did not cause the program to stop; SAS continued processing the next steps. B is incorrect because the PROC SORT step did not run successfully. D is incorrect because the PROC PRINT step did not fail; it ran successfully.

References:

• SAS documentation on error messages.
• Understanding the SAS log and error messages.

In the given statement, BirthDate = 15DEC2005’d;, the 'd' denotes a SAS date constant, which is a numeric value representing a specific date. SAS date values are stored as numeric variables counting the number of days from January 1, 1960. Therefore, BirthDate is a numeric variable, making option B correct. This constant does not represent a character string (eliminating A), and the byte size of any numeric variable in SAS is 8 by default, not 9 (eliminating C). There is no syntax error in the statement (eliminating D).

References:

• SAS documentation on dates, times, and datetime values, SAS Institute.